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Ohio LinuxFest 2010

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:15:23 +0000

The eighth annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 10-12, 2010 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes all Free and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone interested in learning more about Free and Open Source Software. I’ve attended [...]

Installing pfSense on a Nokia IP120 firewall

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:30:39 +0000

I was recently toying with an old Nokia IP120 firewall and discovered that pfSense would run quite well on this old hardware. pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long [...]

ProCurve 5406zl Issue Rears Its Head Again

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:35:35 +0000

Monday morning. 7am. Reading e-mail. I get the “new mail” notification from Outlook and glance down in the bottom right corner of the screen to look at the preview. The e-mail is from RANCID, and I can see from the preview that a change has been made to a core switch at one particular location. [...]

HP Networking Tech Day – Part 3

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:17:31 +0000

Note: This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Also see Part 1 and Part 2. S-series Overview Day 2 of HP Networking Tech Day started out with Gary Kinghorn and Aman Garg presenting the S-series. The S-series includes the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System and Core Controller. TippingPoint “secures 30+% of the Fortune 1000″. HP [...]

HP Networking Tech Day – Part 2

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:00:55 +0000

Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Also see Part 1 and Part 3. Emerging Network Standards Continuing on, Paul Congdon was up once again, this time to discuss vSwitches, Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB), and Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregation (VEPA), and give us a live demonstration. Note: If you’re like me and new [...]

HP Networking Tech Day – Part 1

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:29:01 +0000

Note: This is Part 1 of a three-part series. Also see Part 2 and Part 3. The first day of the HP Networking Tech Day in Roseville, California, was quite a busy day. Our group of bloggers, accompanied by Halley Bass of Ivy Worldwide, assembled in the hotel lobby and made our way over to [...]

HP Networking Tech Day: A Quick Review

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:30:32 +0000

This past Monday and Tuesday, five bloggers — Greg Ferro (@etherealmind), Andy McCaskey (@axmc), John Obeto (@johnobeto), Alex Williams (@alexwilliams) and myself (@jlgaddis) — converged on Roseville, California, home of HP’s networking headquarters, to spend a day and a half with HP employees and bloggers at the HP Networking Tech Day. Disclosure: The event was [...]

HP Networking Tech Day is here

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:30:24 +0000

A few weeks ago, I mentioned the first HP Networking Tech Day event. Well, it’s finally here! A handful of us bloggers have converged (heh, pun) in Roseville, California, home of Hewlett-Packard’s networking division: Greg Ferro (@etherealmind), Andy McCaskey (@axmc), John Obeto (@johnobeto), Alex Williams (@alexwilliams) and myself (@jlgaddis). Today and tomorrow, we’ll be on site [...]

Free CCNP TSHOOT Webcast

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:30:20 +0000

On August 31st, Cisco Press and Pearson IT Certification will be conducting a free CCNP TSHOOT webcast to demonstrate a troubleshooting scenario that is like what you might see on the Cisco CCNP TSHOOT exam. Kevin Wallace (author of the CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide and Network Troubleshooting Video Mentor) will take you, step-by-step, [...]

HP H3C Products Warranty Information

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:20:28 +0000

For HP customers who have grown used to the lifetime warranty on ProCurve products, it should be noted that the “A Series” products do NOT come with a lifetime warranty, with the exception of the fixed-port switches. A key selling point for HP ProCurve is their lifetime warranty, so be sure to check out the [...]