The Perils of the Secure Mantrap
A number of years ago, I visited Telehouse in London’s Docklands. Telehouse, if you don’t already know, is a huge data center colocation facility and, for my purposes, was also the home of LINX, the […]
2014
Inside Juniper EX Virtual-Chassis Console Connections
I mentioned before that I would cover a way to determine which EX chassis console you were connected to within an EX virtual-chassis, even if you didn’t have individual member host-names, or have not implemented […]
Juniper EX VC – Global Host-name Versus Member Names
In my previous post I mentioned that there might be some reasons why having individual hostnames on Juniper EX virtual-chassis members might cause some issues for you. In this (short!) post, I’ll outline a couple […]
Moving RSS Away from Feedburner
This is a heads up that I am moving my RSS feeds away from Feedburner. I’m feel (and I’m hardly alone in this) that Google Feedburner is just an abandoned product at this point and […]
Go Home, Dropbox – You’re Drunk
or… Drop(The Ball)Box – How To (Mis)handle An Outage Late on Friday (January 10, 2140), Dropbox apparently experienced a service outage. If I am to believe the noise on Twitter, it was a globally-impacting unavailability […]
Juniper EX Virtual-Chassis Host-Name
Let’s assume that you are creating a Juniper virtual-chassis switch using, say, three EX4200s. Should you configure a host-name that represents the whole VC, or should you have names for each individual member of the […]