Who Uses the 55:4e:20 MAC OUI?
I set up a new secondary ISC DHCP server yesterday, as an interim solution while I get round to fixing a dead server. The easiest short term fix was to spin up a VM and […]
Software
Apple Working Hard to Improve Siri?
That’s right, in the face of strong competition from “Google Now” (home of “Ok Google”) and Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s software developers are working hard to add features and improve Siri’s capabilities and responses. After all, with […]
Is NETCONF Ready for Prime Time?
This week a colleague of mine (also a script junkie) was writing a change script to create a VLAN. In this case he was adding the VLAN to a Cisco FabricPath domain, and he observed […]
The ‘f’ Script – Finding IPs Anywhere
I think I mentioned in a previous post that I had written a script to catalog IP addresses, and I promised to describe it in more detail, so here we are. This is a tool […]
Easter Eggs and Software Design
Happy Easter, if you celebrate such things, and Happy Sunday if you don’t. Filled with the kind of happy optimism that can only be brought about by flashback-triggering visions of an oversized rabbit who excretes […]
iTerm2 Tips for Network Engineers
Now that I’ve joined the hipster gang and have a MacBook Pro, I’ve also had to adjust my habits in terms of terminal program. On Windows I’ve been using PuTTY for years as my default […]