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How to change a network interface name on CentOS 7

Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123…], but these names do not necessarily correspond to actual hardware slots, PCI geography, USB port number, etc. This introduces a unpredictable naming problem (e.g., due to undeterministic device probing behavior) which can cause various network misconfigurations (e.g., disabled interface or firewall bypass resulting from unintentional interface […]

Web server benchmarking tools for Linux

As far as web server performance is concerned, there are many different factors at play, e.g., application design, network latency/bandwidth, web server configuration, caching, hardware capability, server load, etc. To compare and optimize web server performance under such a wide array of factors, we often perform load test (or stress test) using a web server […]