Remember December 16th ?
Well, here we are again. As of the March 18th, the packet loss, flapping BGP sessions, etc is back. I guess the whole game starts over again.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Server Racks for Mervue
eBay is good for many things. We bought 7 full height racks on eBay. With 5 KVM's, tons of power and network cabling and a a lot of shelfes fit in the racks, this definatly was a bargain.
We made a day trip out of it, rented two Ford Transit vans and collected the racks in Dun Laoghaire ourselfes today.
We made a day trip out of it, rented two Ford Transit vans and collected the racks in Dun Laoghaire ourselfes today.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
CeBIT
After many years, I managed to get to CeBIT again.
With 25% less companies showing their products and 20% less visitors it actually turned out nicely.
It was bearable, no rush, no stress and yes, your feet still hurt at the end of the day.
The important tasks for myself was to find some WDM fiber gear, some gear for licensed microwave links and maybe somebody who manufactured CPEs in a quality acceptable for us.
It looks like I've succeeded in all those tasks. Happy days.
A few notes:
- AVM launched their lab firmware for the Fritz!Box Fon WLan 7270 with IPv6 (Yay !)
- TP-Link doesn't even know what IPv6 is, or practically denies the fact of their knowledge.
With 25% less companies showing their products and 20% less visitors it actually turned out nicely.
It was bearable, no rush, no stress and yes, your feet still hurt at the end of the day.
The important tasks for myself was to find some WDM fiber gear, some gear for licensed microwave links and maybe somebody who manufactured CPEs in a quality acceptable for us.
It looks like I've succeeded in all those tasks. Happy days.
A few notes:
- AVM launched their lab firmware for the Fritz!Box Fon WLan 7270 with IPv6 (Yay !)
- TP-Link doesn't even know what IPv6 is, or practically denies the fact of their knowledge.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Power issues continue
Most of the power got restored last night, but it seems that today, the south of the county is on. I've seen brief power cuts north of the bay, but anything near of Clare is gone for a while now.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Galway International Rally, wireless and gale force storms
The Rally is on again. They haven't been fortunate with the weather.
A shed-roof was blown onto the street and delayed one of the stages. In Moylough a tree fell into the powerlines and onto the street covering half of it. Around Monivea a couple of trees fell into the telephone wires and onto the street. The weather is quite inconsitant with dry spells, lashing rain and hail taking each their turn.
On top of all of that from mid day and on most of Moycullen and Menlo had no power. Roscommon seems to have random power issues, too. Our network has been keeping up so far, with only one base known to be damaged for sure, but looking at what's to come over the weekend, we might be unfortunate to see more down the road.
A shed-roof was blown onto the street and delayed one of the stages. In Moylough a tree fell into the powerlines and onto the street covering half of it. Around Monivea a couple of trees fell into the telephone wires and onto the street. The weather is quite inconsitant with dry spells, lashing rain and hail taking each their turn.
On top of all of that from mid day and on most of Moycullen and Menlo had no power. Roscommon seems to have random power issues, too. Our network has been keeping up so far, with only one base known to be damaged for sure, but looking at what's to come over the weekend, we might be unfortunate to see more down the road.
Friday, January 16, 2009
MPLS and RouterOS 3.19
With the release of RouterOS 3.19 and the last bugs fixed that affected us in the MPLS code, we've actually completed most of the change in the core network.
The changes to VPLS circuits on the core links has added another 15% bandwidth and cut latency into half or better.
The changes to VPLS circuits on the core links has added another 15% bandwidth and cut latency into half or better.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Mikrotik RouterOS 3.18 release
The long awaited RouterOS 3.18 release came out today.
Part of the features, I was looking for was number one on the changelog list "*) IPv6 address auto-configuration: added recursive DNS server option;", but also various fixes in mpls-test and routing-test.
So, we'll start upgrading the lab-routers and DOH !!!! .. Instead of adding rdns advertisements, RA doesn't work at all. No IPv6 autoconfiguration. Let's see how the tests progress, but this is very bad already.
Part of the features, I was looking for was number one on the changelog list "*) IPv6 address auto-configuration: added recursive DNS server option;", but also various fixes in mpls-test and routing-test.
So, we'll start upgrading the lab-routers and DOH !!!! .. Instead of adding rdns advertisements, RA doesn't work at all. No IPv6 autoconfiguration. Let's see how the tests progress, but this is very bad already.
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