Archive for 2011
32- and 64-bit PL2303 drivers for OS X 10.6 are available here.
You'll need to modify, as root, the '/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents/Info.plistĀ ' file after installing the driver to suit the USB manufacturer and device ID. For the ATEN UC232A, examples below appear to work for it (for me in 10.7).
To obtain the IDs, Wayne Roberts (who informed my via the SAGE-AU mailing lists), used 'USB Prober.app' which comes with the developer tools/XCode.
Modify the current lines of the XML:
[text]
# <key> can be the Hex values as 'Vendor'_'Product', Wayne thinks this is more cosmetic however.
<dict>
<key>0557_2008</key>
<dict>
----
# <idProduct> and <idVendor> should be the decimal of the respective values, as per USB Prober.app
<key>idProduct</key>
<integer>8200</integer>
<key>idVendor</key>
<integer>1367</integer>
[/text]
Once you've done this, either restart the machine or run 'kextunload' and 'kextload' on ProlificUsbSerial.kext and it should show up as /dev/tty.usbserial.
** If you have installed the UC232A Drivers, either rm or mv the 'UC-232AC.kext' before the reboot to avoid conflicts **
Tags: 107, aten, lion, mac, os, screen, serial, uc232a, usb, x
Posted in g33k, tech |
The new air is much better looking !
- Spaces (10.6) vs. Mission Control (10.7)
Tags: air, apple, mac, macbook, new, thunderbolt
Posted in g33k, work |
So a co-worker and I spent some time playing around with JunOS 11's (I believe it came in with 11 - correct me if wrong) reth's ability to now be LACP interfaces, as well as just plain redundant. It was not immediately clear how the switch was required to be set up in order to facilitate this new, awesome feature.
- This was used with a ex4200 virtual chassis cluster and SRX Chassis Cluster -
Here is how we got it happily working (assuming you have a chassis cluster up and running):
SRX Config:
set interfaces ge-2/0/0 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-2/0/1 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-2/0/2 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-2/0/3 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-11/0/0 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-11/0/1 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-11/0/2 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces ge-11/0/3 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
set interfaces reth1 redundant-ether-options redundancy-group 1
set interfaces reth1 redundant-ether-options lacp passive
EX Config:
set interfaces ge-0/0/0 ether-options 802.3ad ae1
set interfaces ge-0/0/1 ether-options 802.3ad ae2
set interfaces ge-0/0/2 ether-options 802.3ad ae1
set interfaces ge-0/0/3 ether-options 802.3ad ae2
set interfaces ge-1/0/0 ether-options 802.3ad ae2
set interfaces ge-1/0/1 ether-options 802.3ad ae1
set interfaces ge-1/0/2 ether-options 802.3ad ae2
set interfaces ge-1/0/3 ether-options 802.3ad ae1
set interfaces ae1 aggregated-ether-options lacp active
set interfaces ae2 aggregated-ether-options lacp active
Now we have LACP bandwidth and redundancy - Either the switch or SRX can die, in theory.
* Have not tested the failover yet - But will before this set up goes to production - Will update the post *
Tags: australia, chassis, cluster, ex, firewall, ict, junos, lacp, networks, north, redundant, reth, router, srx, switch, sydney, virtual
Posted in g33k, juniper |
Ever wondered why 3G from Vodaphone is so crap? I did, so from Central station I did a ping test on each network one after another. Here is the difference between the latency to an AARNET connected host @ ANSTO. The results speak for themselves.
Vodaphone:
--- 137.157.8.5 ping statistics ---10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet lossround-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 97.773/663.878/1901.235/612.384 ms
Telstra:
--- 137.157.8.5 ping statistics ---10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet lossround-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 88.699/96.234/141.846/15.256 ms
I think Telstra is worth the extra money ...
Tags: 3g, latency, ping, shit, telstra, vodaphone
Posted in g33k |
I think the plastic clips would hurt ...
Yes, you are looking at a flogger crafted from cat-5 wiring. (Internet cable, in other words.) It sports a D-ring for easy hanging. This will satisfy your inner - or outer! - geek for sure. š Each tip is firmly wired in place and secured with bonding glue. Packs quite a sting, and will leave such distinct marks! This baby is bound to make your sub /beg.
Source: esty.com
Posted in g33k, humour |
Want mplayer2 (the newer fork of mplayer) that uses ffmpeg goodness to play all the latest avi's with funky codecs and mp4 hidef goodness. Some Openindiana contributors are building a lot of friendly packages in the oi-sfe repo.
[plain]
sudo pkg set-authority -O http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10002 oi-sfe
sudo pkg refresh --full
sudo pkg install SFEmplayer2 SFEgccruntime
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P.S. Need to manually install SFEgccruntime as it was a forgotten dependency - This will be fixed I have been informed.
P.P.S - ALSO I have only tested and is only expect to work on OI_148
Tags: 11, mplayer, mplayer2, openindiana, opensolaris, sfe, utilities
Posted in g33k, solaris |
I love ipadm. It rocks. Much needed for Solaris and derivatives. I seem to keep forgetting the dam new ipadm commands tho. So I wrote this script to help me set up new SolarisĀ machinesĀ and thought I would share.
[bash]
#!/usr/bin/bash
INTERFACE=$1
ADDRESS=$2
GATEWAY=$3
V6AUTO=1
errorCheck()
{
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: $@"
exit 69
fi
}
# Handle Args
if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
echo "ERROR: Invalid arguments"
echo "Usage:nt$0: INTERFACE ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK GATEWAY/DEFAULTROUTER"
exit 1
fi
ipadm create-if $INTERFACE
errorCheck "Unable to create-if $INTERFACE"
ipadm create-addr -T static -a local=${ADDRESS} ${INTERFACE}/v4static
errorCheck "Unable to set static v4 on $INTERFACE"
if [ $V6AUTO -ne 0 ]; then
ipadm create-addr -T addrconf ${INTERFACE}/v6addr
errorCheck "Unable to set v6 autoconf on $INTERFACE"
fi
if [ $GATEWAY != "" ]; then
route add default $GATEWAY
errorCheck "Unable to set default router to $GATEWAY"
else
echo "!--> Not setting gateway as none was set ..."
fi
echo "--> Finished setting $ADDRESS on $INTERFACE with $GATEWAY default route ..."
[/bash]
Tags: ipadm, ipv4, ipv6, openindiana, opensolaris
Posted in g33k, solaris |
"What is that? Can you mute it?"
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7AaTVMXA0&w=480&h=390]
"It dosen't do that."
Tags: lecture, old, school, typewriter
Posted in humour |
If you did not see all the biggest hits of the 2010 KFC Big Bash here they are - Awesome stuff. I do love David "The Canon" Warner's hit out of Tasmania off Hilfy ...
FoxSports Top 10 6's 2010 KFC Big Bash
Tags: 10, 6, bash, big, kfc, six, top
Posted in sport |
So I am a very large geek, and proud of it. It hurt to walk past a cupboard at work knowing there was 30+ Cisco PIX 501 firewalls sitting in there collecting dust. One day it dawned on me, I wonder how crap internet would be sitting behind 30 of those slow ass god awful to use and configure firewalls. So here are the results:
Network Diagram
(Click for larger image)
Sample PIX 501 conf:
[plain]
hostname fwX
password cisco
enable password cisco
domain-name cooperlees.com
ip address inside 10.N.0.1 255.255.255.0
ip address outside 10.N1.0.2 255.255.255.0
interface ethernet0 auto
interface ethernet1 100full
route outside 0 0 10.N1.0.1
nat (inside) 1 10.N.0.0 255.255.255.0
global (outside) 1 interface
access-list outbound permit any any
access-group outbound in interface inside
access-list ping_acl permit icmp any any
access-group ping_acl in interface outside
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Video of the Results
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlwzZZp8tM&w=640&h=390]
Thanks to Jason Leschnik, Anthony Noonan, Kyle Seton and Chris Steven for their assistance.
Tags: 3.0, 501, address, levels, netscreen, network, pix, screenos, skype, speedtest, translation
Posted in cisco, g33k, juniper |
