I must be bored since I’m posting again. A colleague asked me to change the failed value of a TCP probe today. It was no big deal, but, when I looked to see the status of the change, I noticed interesting stati of the RIPs.…
Month: February 2009
I’ve talked about probes and stuff on the CSM, but I never mentioned what happens to the connections to a server that fails. That is, if I’m connected to server A in a cluster and that server suddenly commits ritual seppuku, what happens to my…
My home network has a Linux box running IPTables as it’s center point, and, since there are four networks, it has 4 NICs and 4 cables into the switch. I kept running into problems with the NICs (they would reorder depending on what flavor of…
Earl Zmijewski of Renesys has an analysis of the SuproNet incident that took down a good bit of the Internet on Monday. From the blog: This single Czech provider announcing a single prefix caused a huge increase in the global rate of updates, peaking at…
I’m kind of an obsessive-compulsive when it comes to numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…), so I’m fairly excited about next Friday (..6, 7, 8, 9, 10…) when Epoch time reaches 1234567890 at 18:31:30 on 13 February(…11, 12, 13, 14, 15…). I’m sure my ADD…