30 Jun
It looks like the blogs about a product called ScaleOut State Server has caught some attention here. I have also commented on this blog entry. I am not complaining about the bandwidth being used just be the errors is causes on the Cisco. My original blog on this topic is below.
Bad Hop Count
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30 Jun
Found an issues with my companies external DNS yesterday that I would be curious to know how long it has been a problem. Our external DNS for my website had 5 name servers listed on the root DNS servers, 2 out of these 5 did not work. So theoretically all pages loads could have been […]
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29 Jun
Looks like the Net Neutrality bill has been rejected on pretty visible political lines. Check out this article. As far as I can see this movement doesn’t have much chance as long as republications are in control of both branches of congress. Maybe if there is a swing in the Democrat/Republican numbers this fall we […]
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28 Jun
I retook a look at the settings that I in place before for shaping traffic going out a particular interface on our Cisco 7609. I wrote about is in a past post which can be viewed here. This policy was a hard policing of traffic from certain subnets going out on interface that was limited […]
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27 Jun
I have a question to pose to everyone and I will give my take. What is redundancy? If you use the term redundant and datacenter in the same sentence how true is the statement. If you have two web servers that are load balanced but both of them point back to one database is that […]
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27 Jun
I am a father of two, one a toddler and one a new born so it will be quite a while yet until they are in school but I am already thinking about it. The last time I moved one of the big considerations was the school district I was moving into. A parent always wants to […]
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26 Jun
I have been doing some research on what settings would most optimize my Cisco aironets. One of my major questions has been should I run one or two dipole antenna and what should the setting be. My first thought it why not just use one antenna because the way the aironets work is they can […]
Posted in Wi-Fi by: chris.super
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26 Jun
I am trying to keep up on the latest information with this Net Neutrality battle. I already got my first good article from my new Washington Post rss feed on the issue of Net Neutrality. This article had a look of good cut through the crap info. View it Here Even though there are extra […]
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24 Jun
One thing that I don’t think Network Admins do enough is backup their configs. Most Sysadmins backup their servers, you back up your important documents on your laptop. How many people backup the configs on your network gear. Granted their is less of a risk with a switch or router because they don’t have hard […]
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24 Jun
I like most people in the IT industry are always looking for the best way to keep up on the latest thing. I try to use RSS feeds to keep up on what I can but a lot of the time you just get junk and end up deleting most of them. So this weekend […]
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