{"id":180,"date":"2009-01-15T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-01-15T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:38:23","slug":"netlimiter-is-limiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/netlimiter-is-limiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Netlimiter is limiting …"},"content":{"rendered":"

This happened a little time ago, but I’ve been repressing the memory and ignoring the fact that I won’t get eight hours of my life back. Netlimiter<\/a> is\u00a0\u00a0an application that, the website claims, is the “Ultimate Bandwidth Shaper”. And from what I’ve heard from friends, it certainly does a good job at shaping bandwidth. In my case, however, it meant that the little Exchange host I was attempting to connect to a Dell | EqualLogic PS5000XV array was unable to communicate effectively via the Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.07). The only error I was getting was “Target Portal Error” and some Event IDs that were meaningless. Google made a few suggestions, but the solutions ranged from “I disabled the VSS service” (!) to “HP upgraded their array software”. Yeah, right. Or maybe, when I asked the client if they had a firewall in between the host and the array \/ target, I should have asked the next question: “Do you have a bandwidth shaping application in between the host and the target?”. Alas, I didn’t go with my gut and immediately uninstall said software. Instead, I disabled the service and killed any running versions. This made no difference. I changed the IP range and subnet for the hosts and target. No dice. I read all of Google. Nothing. Useful. At. All. On the second day, I uninstalled the software, after MS Netmon monitoring showed some activity between the host and target, but not enough to actually login. So next time you need to ask a client a question, think carefully about what question you’re asking, and what answer you’ll get. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself wasting time chasing pointless error codes. Meh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This happened a little time ago, but I’ve been repressing the memory and ignoring the fact that I won’t get eight hours of my life back. Netlimiter is\u00a0\u00a0an application that, the website claims, is the “Ultimate Bandwidth Shaper”. And from what I’ve heard from friends, it certainly does a good job at shaping bandwidth. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,5],"tags":[795,105,18,104],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equallogic","category-storage","tag-equallogic","tag-iscsi-sucks","tag-microsoft","tag-netlimiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}