Category Archives: F5

Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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Free Geek

Posted on August 7, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

http://www.freegeek.org/ Wow. Why didn’t I know you people existed before Jessica came and visited for the weekend? It sounds like SPC LaRue was right. $i *do* have a massive array of bots out there. For some value of $i. Hey, … Continue reading →

Posted in F5, feds, FIPS-201, government, Hardware, Networking, NIST, peering, Personal Identity Verification, security | 1 Comment

I crack myself up

Posted on July 27, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier
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The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD 1.00.00

Posted on July 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m leaving myself some room for bug fixes. It works for us in house. I would love to help others to give it a try. especially those who could benefit from making nearly immediately answered queries to the NIST’s NVD … Continue reading →

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Spinning up a telco with Asterisk

Posted on June 10, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Back in 2010 our family moved to an island in an archipelago in the very top left of the US’s continental 48. Before moving, we did some research regarding high speed network access. There are a number of ISPs in … Continue reading →

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Vacation Tasks

Posted on June 1, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, I’m taking vacation this week and next. Here’s a (partial) list of tasks that are left to do: Visit BC for NANOG 55 Work with Threshold Communications to verify interop is working as well as it seems to be … Continue reading →

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Ohai! It looks like I’m back online!

Posted on May 28, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m working on my disk array today. The plan is to take the data off of a 6-disk RAID-6 and put it onto three 4-disk RAID-4s.

Posted in debian, F5, Free Software, linux, lvm, storage, virtualization | 7 Comments

software bridge loops suck, too

Posted on February 15, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I didn’t realize that I had two of my machines attached to openvpn from the same l2 segment. It caused a network outage for about 24 hours. Sorry for the downtime folks. I believe that if I turn on stp … Continue reading →

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Dear fellows of the SJCARS

Posted on February 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’ve got a project I could use some help with.  If you’ve got some tuits to spare, I’d love to talk with you about the plan.  Perhaps I’ll post something to the blog… [edit 20120212T2025] blogged. http://sjcars.org/blog/2012/02/12/hardware-what-wants-deploying [Edit 20120213T0026]

Posted in amateur, asterisk, colliertech, debian, F5, Free Software, Hardware, linux, Networking, perl, quagga, Telephony, traffic shaping, washington, wheezy | 2 Comments