September 2011
0 posts
Liberty to Sam (re: the chick he was holding): No, Sam! Don't dance with it!!
Sam to his mother: Mom, can I dance with the chicken?
Sep 1st
August 2011
3 posts
Setting Up Tftpd on OS X The Right Way
As a network engineer it is pretty hard to get around tftp. Sooner or later we end up needing some sort of tftp server on our laptops. One of the benefits of OS X is the BSD subsystem which contains a lot of these kinds of tools out of the box. In fact, OS X does ship with a tftp server and most of the tools you can find will be some sort of GUI interface to configure this built-in tftp server. ...
Aug 24th
2 tags
AnyConnect Licensing
With Cisco’s recent end of life announcement for their traditional IPSEC VPN client, I’ve heard a lot of groaning about the cost of moving to the AnyConnect model. Folks this really isn’t that bad. If you are merely replacing the functionality of the IPSEC client for your current users then you will likely only need the Essentials license which will cost you a few hundred dollars...
Aug 23rd
72 notes
July 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Arin Puckett: Editing VM Annotation Notes via... →
Nice post by Arin on creative use of the vSphere PowerCLI to make the lives of server admins a little easier in larger VMware environments. arinpuckett: Yesterday, a few of my fellow co-workers approached me with a problem. They asked if I would be interested in figuring out a way to update the Notes: field within the annotations section on the summary tab of each VM we have in our server...
Jul 8th
19 notes
3 tags
Using ROMmon to Recover startup-config from NVRAM
We had a supervisor die in a core switch today. (Alas! He served us well…) Incidentally, an unrelated issue with CiscoWorks meant that I did not have the fresh, readily-available backup config that I have come to take, all too much, for granted. A quick look through my console logs (I keep a local log of everything I ever do. Remind me to post on that later.) revealed that my last...
Jul 6th
15 notes
June 2011
2 posts
WatchWatch
Carousel
Jun 12th
Jun 10th
May 2011
8 posts
May 31st
May 26th
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 14th
May 7th
May 2nd
1 note
April 2011
5 posts
Apr 27th
Apr 26th
Apr 5th
2 notes
Apr 1st
Apr 1st
March 2011
9 posts
Mar 25th
Mar 19th
Mar 19th
Mar 13th
Mar 13th
Mar 12th
Mar 11th
Mar 9th
I am declaring email bankruptcy. Select all. Archive. Sorry to do this, but if it was important then please do hit me again.
Mar 2nd
February 2011
2 posts
Angry Birds Freemium Model: When you upgrade from Android to iPhone, it will cost a dollar to get the HD experience. ;)
Feb 24th
Feb 17th
January 2011
1 post
Jan 19th
December 2010
2 posts
Dec 9th
Dec 4th
November 2010
5 posts
“TAC Engineer: Could you resend those passwords in plain text? Me: Those are in...”
Nov 19th
Nov 12th
Nov 5th
Nov 1st
Nov 1st
October 2010
4 posts
Oct 29th
Oct 26th
Oct 16th
I didn’t realize you could use php to upload to DropBox. Really handy. http://bit.ly/9tqsxg http://db.tt/hAOtIlY
Oct 11th
September 2010
3 posts
4 tags
Rapid UCS VLAN Configuration with Regular...
As of version 1.3(1), UCS supports up to 512 VLANs. Getting that number of VLANs configured and ready for use, however, can take time. The user interface to add VLANs in UCSM currently only allows for adding one VLAN at a time. Below I describe a method for adapting an existing switch VLAN configuration to the UCS. To add VLANs via the CLI, we can SSH to the 6100 cluster and issue commands that...
Sep 27th
Sep 24th
Sep 13th
August 2010
7 posts
“Me: Do you like the baby? Samuel (Age 2): Yeah. Me: What’s his...”
Aug 28th
Aug 28th
His name is Jonathan Ezekiel.
Aug 28th
Aug 23rd