systemd progressed the Linux PID 1 situation adding many feature and capabilities. But, as always, with features and capabilities, comes complexity. One thing I and many co-workers have found difficult…
Amazon Link Disclaimer: I get no royalites or anything here - Just had coworkers ask me about it So since I'm no systems guru and am now working on a…
IPv4 addressing on links is no longer required to route IPv4. What you say?? Yes, you can stop IPv4 addressing your point to point links with Legacy IP and route…
I found that jool has very good tutorials, but all the commands to get going are hidden in these large tutorials. Here are the steps I took to get it…
I often use a lot of PyPI CLI tools. Here is an example of how to get them easily installed and kept up to date via Ansible on Ubuntu >=…
Recently a teammate and I have come across a frame forwarding issue with ECMP on a hardware ASIC in a device I work on where the use of Flow labels…
Ever have to update/merge a PR on BitBucket with Mercurial? I couldn't find documentation anywhere, so doing so here: hg up BOOKMARK_NAME hg merge -r REV If EDITOR is not…
Especially because: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/47320a652e872003f3dd3a9db4243067b09dd316#diff-c6a3fa0ad7b17f8e32f340835a4e5353 :)
So, every now and then on a PR I need to rebase and fix things so I can retest etc. - I always forget this so blogging it to remember.…
Recently @ Facebook we found that we required IPv6 access to TACACS for auth (AAA) for the majority of our production Network Equipment. Tacacs+ (tac_plus) is an old daemon released by…
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