New blog!
I've been meaning to do this for a while - however never got around to it. It's about time I found somewhere to put all those little things you encounter on a day-to-day basis however never seem to...
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Ixia IxNetwork Packetloss Duration
Problem When testing convergence times packet loss duration is a useful attribute to have. One implementation is to use a static packet rate for example 1000 frames per second and note the number of...
View ArticleSquid3 Upstream Proxy with HTTPS
Problem Using squid as a proxy is useful in a situation where a lab does not have internet access, however sometimes it is necessary to use an upstream proxy. In my case my proxy is bridging two...
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Cisco 9971 IP Phone with FreePBX / Asterisk
Introduction So I finally bothered to get it working - a cisco telepresence series 9971 IP phone with the following capabilities: Extension to extension calling (Ok, any phone system can do this)...
View ArticleVMware vCenter 5.5 database size
Problem I hit a problem with a vCenter server (linux appliance) I look after where I simply could not log into the vCenter client. Upon investigating the vpxd service was not running, and looking at...
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ESXi - vCenter connection behind NAT.
Problem I've recently had the requirement to put a NAT router performing NAT overload between an ESXi server and it's respective vCenter server. According to VMware this is an unsupported configuration...
View ArticleSky ADSL Broadband with a Cisco router
Problem Consumer routers suck, plain and simple. Personally I'm used to the rich features Cisco routers provide. Of course, I am biased, however it seems a common goal to get broadband connections...
View ArticlevCenter Network Automation with PowerCLI
Problem Ever needed to migrate VMs between vCenter servers but been tied down due to VM networking? Hopefully the solutions provided here will help alleviate the problem. If you've got a large vCenter...
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Useful PowerCLI / PowerShell Snippts
Unlike my usual Problem / Solution posts, this post will be updated with helpful PowerCLI pieces I've found during my time picking apart the PowerCLI cmdlet reference! Get Total Host Info (CPU /...
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Re-imaging Cisco Access Points
Problem Every time I need an access point and pick one up it always seems to be on the wrong version to what I need. Not just wrong version in terms of code, but version as in lightweight (controller...
View ArticleModifying Transmission plugin settings in FreeNAS (CLI)
Problem FreeNAS makes an excellent NAS system, and one of the reasons for this is the capability to integrate plugins for particular features rather than having separate servers. These plugins run in...
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Cisco 897 tinkering
Introduction Usually these blog posts are about me solving a problem. And this is no exception, however I'm afraid I'm going to throw a bit of opinion in here as well this time. So, what's this all...
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Cisco IOS SSL WebVPN
Problem You're away from home, but want to grab something from your file server, perhaps you want to change some configuration on a box? How? Well, you could port forward everything you need but that...
View ArticleCisco DMVPN @ home
Problem You're a bit of a networking nerd, you've got a Cisco router at home but perhaps you also have one at your parents house...maybe a friend has one as well and eventually you've got a whole load...
View ArticleBulk NTP Configuration for vCenter'd ESXi hosts
Problem You've got a vCenter environment with many ESXi hosts, and for some reason they've not been set up correctly to the point where the time differences are massive across the board, no consistency...
View ArticleCode / syntax highlighting in Ghost
Problem As I write more and more of these posts I realise that I am using snippets of code here and there more and more frequently. Ghost (the CMS this blog runs) has support for some code insertions,...
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"Standard / basic" cisco home router configuration
Introduction So, you're a bit of a Cisco nerd, and you want to deploy a cisco router at home, fantastic! Perhaps you've got a bit of Cisco background, CCNA/P or this may be from scratch but what does a...
View ArticleCisco ACI bits 'n' bobs
Introduction I'm fairly new to ACI, and am coming across new things all the time. Here I will provide quick bits and pieces of things I find which are useful to know and have documented. Content Erase...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Customisation
Problem ESXi is a fantastic piece of kit, allows you to do all sorts! As such, me, and others like me have a tendency to try and get it to run on everything from a Cisco UCS to the kitchen toaster....
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6.0 SNMP Config
Problem SNMP is cool, but it's a bit of a ball ache to get working in ESXi. We need to configure all of our options and as far as I can see you can't do it using the GUI. So, here's how to do it using...
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