bike trip to ooty

So…. I thought of a bike trip after New Year. This time taking my wife on the trip. So I was thinking something short in distance something less than 150 km, then Ooty comes to my mind. Then we both decided to go on a trip from Coimbatore to Ooty. It is a weekend trip, we just decided 3 days before, so no big plans. Since it is the weekend, I know most of the hotels will be booked. So, I searched for decent hotels under 3k. After reading reviews from Tripadvisor and Google I booked Hotel Lakeview. I managed to pay around 2.5k after applying coupons from MakeMyTrip. ...

October 7, 2017 · 4 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Bike trip to Goa

Someone once said “Happiness is a path, not a destination” and I know its very true when i started to travel in bike.I have plans to visit many places in bike for this year and then one of my friend called and we both decided to go Goa for a bike trip. We are 3 person in two bike, a Royal enfield and a Yamaha Fz. We don’t have much plans to do in Goa, only thing we wanted is to go there in a bike. ...

October 7, 2017 · 4 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Network teaming – RHEL7

Introduction Linux Bonding driver The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interface controllers (NICs) into a single logical bonded interface of two or more so-called (NIC) slaves. The majority of modern Linux distributions (distros) come with a Linux kernel which has the Linux bonding driver (bonding)integrated as a loadable kernel module. We can check the bonding module by [[email protected] ~]# lsmod |grep bonding bonding 142537 0 Linux Teaming driver The Linux Team driver provides an alternative to bonding driver. it has actually been designed to solve the same problem(s) using a wholly different design and different approach; an approach where special attention was paid to flexibility and efficiency. The best part is that the configuration, management, and monitoring of team driver is significantly improved with no compromise on performance, features, or throughput.The main difference is that Team driver kernel part contains only essential code and the rest of the code (link validation, LACP implementation, decision making, etc.) is run in userspace as a part of teamd daemon. ...

October 7, 2017 · 7 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Beautiful Budapest

Budapest, otherwise called the Little Paris of Central Europe is one of the celebrated vacationer spots in Europe. This city is comprised of two particular sides, the Buda and Pest, both isolated by the wonderful Danube River. The Buda side is notable with a few historical centers and Roman vestiges, while the Pest is the urban focus of the city and is for business, loaded with clubs, bistros, and markets. ...

October 7, 2017 · 3 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Glusterfs ha storage with Raspberrypi

Overview This post is about how to create a high available redundant storage (Glusterfs replicated volume) from Raspberrypi and a centos server. This is just for fun project, which i am experimenting with my new raspberrypi 2 device. This is not a perfect setup, like i am using a 2 nodes replicated volume without quorom,created brick from ext3 filesystem and on root directory etc.Do not use this setup in production 🙂 ...

October 1, 2017 · 4 min · Vignesh Ragupathy