Category Archives: Networking

Compiling the Realtek RTL8111 driver on XenServer

By Martin Guppy | Published: March 3, 2010
I have been using Citrix XenServer for a short while now and it has become my virtual(is/iz)ation solution of choice. Things were going great until I started to have problems after upgrading… It seems my onboard Realtek network interface (Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)) was not [...]
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New lease of life for our D-Link Wireless Router

By Martin Guppy | Published: September 3, 2009
Since upgrading our wireless network with our new Netgear RangeMax Next Wireless-N Router Gigabit Edition (see my post ‘Belkin Wireless Router is just rubbish‘ explaining our upgrading path), our humble D-Link DIR-300 Wireless G Router seemed to be doomed into a life of gathering dust along side many other bits and pieces that I may [...]
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Belkin Wireless Router is just rubbish

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 24, 2009
For a while now we have been configuring our network to suit our needs – we have a wired segment for our main server and client PC’s and we have 2 small computers we use for all our multimedia – one is currently hooked up to our HDTV and the other is in the process [...]
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