Monthly Archives: February 2009

CSM Probe Status of ???

February 20, 2009
By Aaron Conaway

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. switch#sh mod csm 7 probe name TCP80-PROBE detail probe          ...

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Fail Actions on CSM Serverfarms

February 20, 2009
By Aaron Conaway

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 connection through the CSM? Remember how the CSM works? ...

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VLANs on Linux

February 19, 2009
By Aaron Conaway

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 Linux was installed), so I wanted to consolidate the...

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Renesys Analysis of SuproNet Announcement Debacle

February 18, 2009
By Aaron Conaway

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 107,780 updates per-second. This peak occurred at 16:30:54 UTC,...

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Unix Epoch + 1234567890 = Next Friday

February 3, 2009
By Aaron Conaway

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 will kick in (Oh, look.  A squirrel!) right before,...

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