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  • Friday Feedback

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    Networking This week has had a few successes. I was able to upgrade one node to 10 Gbit/second and to hand it some more disk. Everything seems to be working. More upgrades are slowly happening. Physical, OpenVSwitch, OVN, Oh My. Physical networking has many different levels. The easiest, which most people deal with, is Level2…

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    Post Schedules The current scheduling is that I post once per day, unless Ally takes Tuesday Tunes. Monday: Ally — Food Tuesday: Chris — Tuesday Tunes Wednesday: Ally — Politics, From Behind Enemy Lines Thursday: Friday: Chris — Friday Feedback, Ally — Prepping Saturday: Sunday: I’m trying to do at least one Legal post per…

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    Indicators We took my daughter’s care up to have work done on it. The auto shop is a local business doing great work. While there, we got into a discussion with a young lady. She made the statement that she might be trading in her car sooner if the economy improves after the election. I.e.,…

  • Filler

    I’m exhausted. I’ve been pulling fiber for the last two days. All part of an infrastructure upgrade. Normally, pulling cable in a modern datacenter is pretty easy. This is not a modern datacenter. The original cable runs were CAT6 with RJ45 connectors. When the cables were installed, the installation had to be nondestructive. No holes…

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    Nerd Babble “Switch in the wrong direction…” oh my, that does sound bad. We use VLANs for isolating network traffic. Our switches will happily forward all VLANs as on all ports. So a tagged VLAN on port 1 will be transmitted to port 2, if port two responds with an answer on the VLAN. It…

  • Issues update

    Issues update

    Three steps forward, 2 steps back, we should be stable. Nerd stuff: We upgraded our infrastructure, again. We moved from a copper to a fiber backbone. Server links are now up to 25Gbit/second. Everything went smoothly until we started our final tests. It appears that the new switch defaulted ports in the wrong direction. This…

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    Personal It has been difficult for me since my Father passed. It isn’t that I interacted with him that much, it is that the safety net is gone. In addition, it turns out that my brother is pretty darn evil. This is as close as I’ve come to talking about his actions in public. In…

  • Friday Feedback

    Friday Feedback

    Another week. What is your favorite childhood food? That dish that takes you back to a happy childhood memory. Politics The New York Times, a “newspaper” and “trusted media source” was out there downplaying the second assignation attempt on Trump. They do such a good job of lying. Kamala should take lessons from them. They…

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    Wednesday was a good day, sort of. I was able to shut down my K8S cluster. The amount of grief this new fangled thing has given me cannot be overstated. Bluntly, most of the issues could have been resolved by throwing more money at the problem. K8S does work for large infrastructure solutions. The sort…

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    This week has given me closure on several small projects, all working together to get the right results. In the old days, each device on the Internet had its individual IP address, today, most devices share their IP address with thousands of other devices. Instead, entire locations hide behind a single IP address. This is…