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Well, it's been a little bit since I've blogged anything. Sorry about that. Let's see if I can hit the high points of the last month or so.
World IPv6 Day is approaching. Yep, by approaching I mean it's next week! If you don't know anything about it, click on the link. If you're too lazy to do that, go have some sugar. Basically, World IPv6 Day is when lots of high-profile sites will become dual-stack as a widespread test flight of the protocol. It'll only last for 24 hours, and most of the sites will remove the AAAAs at the conclusion of the test flight. It's scheduled on Wednesday, June 8th from 00:00 UTC to 00:00 UTC on June 9th.
(just for the record, prolixium.com has had an AAAA record for about eight years, at this point)
When taking breaks from studying for the JNCIP-SEC exam, I've gone back to my service provider lab, and implemented some RSVP-TE and interprovider VPNs. Strangely enough, the Juniper Olive makes a great MPLS P router, if you keep Junos below 8.5. I used a Juniper SRX210, Dynamips'ed Cisco 7200 running 12.4(15)T5, and a bunch of virtual machines running Debian GNU/Linux. Here's what it looks like:
Essentially, zat's fxp4.0 can talk to martini's Untrust interface via an MPLS L2 VPN established between ori and asgard. The L3 MTU is a little low (1426), but it works. Also, I started playing with MikroTik's RouterOS, too. It seems like a fully-featured operating system (erm, lacks IS-IS, but is close enough) for low-end CPE or MPLS LERs.
In other news, I just passed the JNCIP-SEC, today. It was a bit harder than I had expected, but I still emerged victorious. For some reason Prometric made me turn all my pockets inside-out (yes, this included my back pockets) before starting the exam. I was wondering if there was going to be a pat down, too. Crazy. Now, I suppose I should register for the JNCIE-SEC, right? I may start studying for the JUCIP-SP instead, since that will serve to recertify my JNCIE-M that expires next year (actually, I think it converts the JNCIE-M to JNCIE-SP). We'll see.
I picked up Anjunabeats Worldwide 03 and Paul van Dyk's Vonyc Sessions 2010, recently. Both compliations are quite epic, and the following tracks are my favorites, so far:
On another topic, I was over a friend's house on Memorial Day, earlier this week. He's got one of the newer 240Hz Samsung LED TVs with that hideous motion interpolation feature (in the form of Auto Motion Plus). I sat through a few minutes of Star Trek Generations, which I've seen over a dozen times, before deciding to see if there was a way of disabling it in the settings. There is, and it looks much better when disabled. I don't get the appeal.. it just makes everything look like a behind-the-scenes version of the fiim. Most Engadget HD readers agree with me.
My once happy Windows Media Center setup (on isis) stopped working, the other day. Apparently one of those lovely Microsoft updates to Windows 7 started causing WMC to die after a minute or two of usage with the dreaded nvlddmkm stopped responding and has recovered message. I couldn't grab a screenshot fast enough, but it looks something like this:
My first stab at fixing the problem was to uninstall the latest batch of Windows updates, which for me were:
It worked until I upgraded the hard disk in the machine, then Windows did some driver fussing and I started receiving the nvlddmkm errors once again. My latest solution is to uninstall all Microsoft updates (excluding security updates, those are nice to keep) including service pack 1. We'll see how well that works out. I'm still using version 183 of the nVidia drivers, since they allow me to use the VGA (ie, non-digital) output for premium channels that are protected by DRM. Newer revisions of the driver require DVI or HDMI output, and an HDCP-compliant monitor, which my 24" Dell isn't. Anyway, upgrading the driver didn't help fixing the original problem, so I'm not missing much.
It's been pretty hot in Charlotte for the last week or two. I'm talking 95°F and hotter for days on end. It seems to be higher than normal for this time of the year.
I think that's about it. I'll try to keep this more updated from now on, but no guarantees!
Hi Tommy, it's just good ol' Microsoft Visio. It's all manually-drawn, unfortunately. There are some neat enterprise apps (heh, $100k+) out there that claim to do this type of thing dynamically, but I've always been disappointed with the results.
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Sorry if it already had been asked but what kind of graphing tool are you using? The result is sure awesome.