It has been about two years since I have visited a specific rack closet, and took pictures. Several days ago I have visited the same rack closet, and took some new pictures. You can tell time went by 😉
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In a given place, an AirPort has been connected to the Internet. A Linksys router was added, however, it does not support acting as repeater, however, hidden, there is the ability to act as a WDS master. The secret is based on the following steps, using the default firmware: 1. Setup Linksys for WEP, setup…
When I’ve created my setup (displayed below), I took into account the possibility of disconnection, or process fall, and I’ve left pppd to deal with it, by trying to connect just as it has fallen down. It was a good solution for the scenarios where there is a temporary, short timed disconnection. It fails to…
In my post just below, I have defined a set of tests to verify the possible cause of the tg3 problem. It had nothing to do with autoneg, and was fixed in RHEL 4 Update 4. That 32bit installer works correctly. One last thing to test – rebuild the installer initrd, and replace tg3 module…
My new Linux server-to-be will require some remote monitoring and process keepalive going there. It’s that I’ve noticed nscd (which is required, when dealing with hundreds of LDAP based accounts) tends todie once a while. I’ve also made a mistake once, and managed to kill all SSH daemons, including the running ones. I am happy…
Well, the results weren’t for the hang, but were for the long while since it was last rebooted. Usually it’s around 2+ month between reboots, my desktop, and it leaves you with tons of questions as to what might happen when you actually boot up. Well, it never happens when you want it, or have…
And my “lab zone” needs to be packed up. I’ve closed the lid of some of the computers in the lab, and piled them up. Got about 27 computers, some of them in working order, without counting my “Production” (yeah) computers, 6 computers acting as servers, two desktops and one laptop. Two additional laptops I…
