The 2920 series switches from HPE/Aruba has a special feature that no other switches in the old ProCurve/E-Series line-up has; dedicated stacking interfaces. On other HPE switches, stacking merely facilitates “simplified” management, by allowing you to manage any switch in the… Read More ›
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Cisco Switch Not Responding to Ping? – Cisco Networking Series Part 2
If you’re anything like me, you like to get things up and running fast. And this means doing a bare minimum configuration of a new switch so you can get to testing connectivity as soon as possible. So, what do… Read More ›
Setting up NTP on Cisco Switches – Cisco Networking Series Part 1
This is more for my own reference than anything else, but what follows here is a short tutorial on how to get NTP up and running on your Cisco iOS device. First we need to get DNS working for the… Read More ›
Setting up NTP on HP Switches – HP Networking Series Part 3
This is a short guide on how to set up NTP time synchronisation on HP Network devices. I’ll be covering SNTP settings in this guide, as well as some of the niftier things that aren’t in the manuals but still… Read More ›
Using the reload command with HP Switches – HP Networking Series Part 2
When configuring network hardware over the network itself it’s very easy to issue a command that breaks the network connection to the switch, requiring you to visit the switch and connect to it with a console cable to fix the… Read More ›
How to set up STP on HP Switches – HP Networking Series Part 1
Setting up Spanning Tree on HP switches is really easy, after you’ve done it a couple of times, but getting it configured can seem like a daunting task for beginners, espcially in a production network. Here are some simple steps… Read More ›
Professional Rack Installation = 8 Hours of Labeling
DELL Server im Rack Originally uploaded by BlaM4c Last week I spent close to 8 hours printing and applying labels to different cables in a packed and live rack. And it didn’t help that the rack runs our virtual servers,… Read More ›
More Bloody Printers
Today I got into another argument with a network printer. I installed a new computer at a remote location, and they had their own Samsung network printer that I had to connect manually. Most people that aren’t familiar with Samsungs… Read More ›
Computer Names
Recently I started thinking about computer names, and more so how you name them, and how my naming conventions have evolved over the years I’ve been involved in the industry. When I started doing home computing on such a level… Read More ›
Peculiar Network Problem
This Monday I was called out to fix a computer that couldn’t get on-line. I quickly discovered that the problem wasn’t with the computer itself, but with it’s wired connection. The computer was wired as follows; Control Room: Computer <->… Read More ›