Rancid is a collection of perl bits which are able to login to various network devices and extract their configurations.
The price of an HP Jet Direct 635n has finally come down enough to get one for the house.
Why would I use an EX4200 as an L2 switch?
LACP allows you to run network traffic over multiple interfaces between a single source and multiple destinations.
Setting up a (brand new) Juniper EX2200c (the 12 port fanless version of the EX2200) to use LACP with a Mac Pro.
I have a FreeNAS machine which has 4 ethernet ports on it. I’d like to setup LACP so I can get more than 1 Gbit of traffic on/off the NAS. In order to do this, I need to make some changes to both my FreeNAS machine and my switch.
Quick note on what I had to lookup when I needed to reset a Dell MD3000i to factory defaults. This process assumes you have the proper cable already (it looks like a headphone jack on one end and an rs232 on the other).
Many operating systems use the EUI-64 algorithm to generate IPv6 addresses. This algorithm derives the last 64 bits of the IPv6 address using the MAC address. Many see this as a privacy problem. The last half of your IP address will never change, and with MAC addresses being somewhat unique, the interface ID becomes close to a unique “cookie” identifying your system.
I got an oppertunity to upgrade my Cisco 2960G switch to something supporting SSH keys (12.2(58)SE2). I wanted to know how the process compares with my Juniper EX switches.