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Today’s weather is fantastic. I had a great flight from Portland to San Francisco this morning. My hotel room was actually ready for me when I arrived about 10:15 am. I had a fantastic lunch and my registration for Cisco Live was nearly flawless.
Currently, I am in an OSPF class and this instructor, Barry, is very dynamic. I am getting a lot out of it! More blogging later! You can get more “realtime” updates by following “av8rgeek” on Twitter.
Our local SAN is an EMC Clariion 300cxi. This is a decent SAN and we have enough space for what we want–save for one thing: Ubuntu iSCSI support.
Not having seen the this link, I didn’t know iSCSI support could be easy. Here it is a year later with LOTS of googling around and still not much data is available. Anyway, I still have to troubleshoot why I can’t seem to mount more than a single path or successfully use multipathing.
I believe part of my frustrations are the fact that I have been doing the process manually for some time. Also, I could not easily automate any part of it because I am not an iSCSI expert by any stretch of the imagination. I am going to see if I can virtualize the machine somehow and run it that way. I would rather try to separate the logging from the network management anyway.
Just a small rant about iSCSI.
–NG
As John Denver once sang, “My bags are packed, I’m ready to go…”
I booked my flight and hotel yesterday in addition to finalizing (as best as I can for the moment) my conference schedule. This is going to be an exciting trip. Those who know me personally already know of my passion for flying and that I have my FAA Private Pilot certificate. However, I have not been on a commercial plane since my honeymoon in 2002. It is going to be an adventure! I’ll try to tweet or blog while I am there. You can follow me on Twitter as av8rgeek.
-NG
I am pleased with my work today. I have the basic config set for the router and switch at a new site I am setting up.
Now, I get to move into the more “advanced” topics of creating two site-to-site VPN tunnels, one to the HQ and one to the Data Center. Creating the VPN tunnels should not be too hard, as long as everything matches. However, getting dynamic routing (I’m using EIGRP) to work is going to be a different story.
I also need to create the correct ACL’s to allow the traffic through the VPN tunnel(s) while restricting the unencrrypted traffic from ever leaking out the same “outside” interface.
There is one more thing. I want to go outside. The weather is sunny and so inviting. Oh well.
I am feeling a bit rusty in my ability to work voodoo on VLANs. I am butting my head against the wall trying to get the VLANs on my Cisco 2811 router to change to up/up from up/down.
Anyone know how to get the protocol of a vlan to go “up”? I’m just plain forgetting it all right now.
–NG
I admit I have been not very effective at keeping up on posts. I am hoping that I can change that with a newly-installed Firefox addon called ScribeFire. Wish me luck!
–NG
“Services for Network File System blah”
Recently, a subsidiary organization hired a contract programmer for a project and needed my support to provide connectivity to the resources on the network. This is all well-and-good and I was able to do that. As part of the package, I created the domain account for the contract programmer. In the user properties, I changed his login abilities to what I thought was to a single server. That was how I read it, anyway.
After about two weeks of troubleshooting why this programmer could not access the server he needed to get to, another IT-type person stumbled onto my “limitation” of where the programmer could log in to. We learned that Microsoft was not clear on this topic and that dialog (sorry, no screen shots) really means “What machine can this user log in from” not “to“. Reader beware.
Today, I attended the Angelbeat IT Conference in Portland, Oregon. I have attended the last few years, but I got a lot more out of it this time. I think this is because of the different role role I play in the IT department than I had at my previous employer. I saw some interesting technologies and am very excited about virtualization. I’m a big fan of VMWare. Cisco has a virtual switch for VMWare that looks promising. If our organization goes down the VMWare path, I want this switch.
Check out Angelbeat at http://www.angelbeat.com
