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It's been awhile since I've blogged anything, so here are some updates.
dax is the FreeBSD server that powers this website, and routes IPv6 traffic for my network. I bought a new server from the nice folks at Voxel in the hopes that it would fix the instability that I've had to deal with over the past 2-3 years. Unfortunately, while the new server is quite fast, it still suffers from the same instability. There's no doubt in my mind that it's a serious FreeBSD bug. Can it be reproduced? Nope. Do I know what's causing it? Nope. Yeah, that means it'll probably never be fixed.
Anyhow, the new server has some nice specs.:
I don't really use the GigE to even a fraction of its potential, but it's still nice to have for those oh-so-fast file transfers every once and awhile.
So far, 2010 has been a very stressful year at the office. I've been put in charge of quite a few projects, and I've had to say "I don't have time for…" way too often. Although, I'll take projects over being on call, any day. I don't miss that about my old position on the operations team, not one little bit.
Although I'm not the lead on the project, one of the big ones that's made some headway is a national IPv6 deployment. Our department has been given four bits shy of an ISP allocation, and I've developed a hierarchical addressing plan that is flexible and precise. Utilizing more than half of the block we've been given, the plan allows for unimaginable growth as well as offering the ability to pinpoint the exact location (down to the floor in any building!) of a particular address. Well, if everyone uses it that way, then it'll work. The routing design I developed for IPv6 is also much simplified compared to its IPv4 sibling.
The plan is to deploy IPv6 nationally across the network by the end of 2010, and hit a few users and servers along the way. I think it's doable, but time is certainly short.
I managed to snag the JNCIE-M certification at the end of September. It basically means I probably know how MPLS works, and can configure routers to forward packets.
I just noticed that the paper has the old logo, instead of the new one. I like the old logo better, anyway.
I'm a little surprised I passed, but considering everything I had configured was working five minutes before the end of the exam, I guess I'm not too surprised. Supposedly I'll get a plaque in a few weeks. I guess I'll keep that at my desk at work.. or maybe not, because then everyone will keep asking me Junos questions.
Let's see, what else?
Well, I'm getting over a cold. I had to take Thursday and Friday off, since I was sneezing my head off, and didn't want to infect anyone. I ended up working the majority of both days from home, though, since there were meetings I couldn't afford to miss, a boatload of documentation that needed writing, and some Perl scripts that needed modifying before Monday.
This prompted my boss to send me an e-mail:
Ok no problem, feel better Mark. By the way, for most people, taking a sick day means that they will stay at home and rest, not work. ;). Hope you have a great weekend and feel better soon!
Well, Monday would have been unbelievably painful if I hadn't worked. Such is life.
I finally fixed all of my Twitter applications to use OAuth. Finally.
What else.. I picked up yet another Juniper SRX210 on eBay, so I could play with the chassis clustering (HA) feature.
It's still a bit clumsy, even with Junos 10.3, but seems to work as advertised. At least I don't get "Scheduler Oinker!" errors anymore when the fabric comes up.
Lastly, between every other fueling, I've been trying to see how high I can get my fuel efficiency, when driving around Charlotte in my non-hybrid vehicle. I've come up with the following for my driving moods:
By "old lady" type of driving I mean going the speed limit, accelerating very slowly, and driving without the windows open if I'm on the highway (does this really help?). It's really annoying, since I can't drive in the passing lane at all. I don't think I'm doing too badly, considering the engine is rated for 21 city and 30 highway. My "driving around Charlotte" essentially consists of me driving to work, to the pool, then home, every weekday. On weekends, it's usually miscellaneous errands.
And, I think that's it!
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Congrats on passing the JNCIE-M Mark! That is quite an accomplishment! All the best!