Lame Network Joke
cooperlees 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…
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JUNOS Chassis Cluster Node Connectivity
If you are unfortunately working on a JUNOS chassis cluster that does not have the out-of-band management patched (fxp0) then you must use an alternate way to connect to specific…
JUNOS AppSecure now on Branch SRXs
So application identification / firewall / secure has made it way to the branch. This is awesome news. So I have managed to obtain a 30 day trial to see…
MiToken + Junos Two Factor Radius Authentication
Do you have Junos devices? If you do, excellent choice. Do you have MiToken? Once again, love your work there. If you don't have MiToken, it's a plug-in to the…
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…
New MacBook Air + Lion – spot the difference
The new air is much better looking ! Spaces (10.6) vs. Mission Control (10.7)
Juniper SRX Chassis Cluster + LACP Redundant Eth Interfaces
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…
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…
Cat5’O Nine Tails
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…
mplayer2 (and other goodies) on OpenIndiana (possibly Solaris 11)
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…