Avleen Vig

Biography

Avleen Vig is a Systems Administrator at Google. He has been a Unix advocate for most of his professional career and enjoys being a part of various high-tech communities, writing new articles and encouraging the growth and development of junior geeks. He maintains several open source projects and enjoys spending his spare time with his family or fixing and improving cars.

Articles

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Network Filtering by Operating System
Publish Date: Feb. 16, 2006Some operating systems are better networking citizens than others. Depending on your network, you may want to prioritize traffic from certain machines over traffic from other operating systems--especially when the latest Windows worm strikes. Avleen Vig shows how to use pf, altq, and Squid on FreeBSD to shape your bandwidth with respect to the systems you run. Preventing Denial of Service Attacks
Publish Date: Jun. 24, 2004If you have servers on the public Internet, you're likely vulnerable to external Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. (You may be vulnerable to accidental internal attacks, too.) Fortunately, you can limit their likelihood and severity. Avleen Vig discusses strategies for diagnosing and defending against DoS attacks.