Author: cooperlees

Microsoft NPS Server + Juniper JUNOS VSA

A lot of companies run Microsoft’s Active Directory AAA infrastructure. A nice add on to AD (apart from my favorite ‘Services for UNIX’) is the Network and Policy Server (NPS). Using this RADIUS server with any radius speaking client is a nice addon that allows the majority of Network infrastructure to use AD as it’s authoriative [ View Post… ]

Lame Network Joke

tcp packet walks in to a bar and says “I want a beer”, barman says “you want a beer?” and tcp packet says “yes, a beer”   An RTP packet walks into a bar through the wrong entrance.  The barman says “You’re not getting any special treatment”   A multicast packet walks into a bar [ View Post… ]

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion + ATEN UC232A USB to Serial Adapter

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.plist ‘ 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 [ View Post… ]

Telstra 3g vs. Vodaphone 3g Latency

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 [ View Post… ]