NOCtools – A Mixed Bag of Tools and Utilities for NOC Engineers
NOCtools is a mixed bag of tools and utilities that are useful for NOC engineers. This project originally started out as a way to highlight and utilise our OSS_SNMP library (a PHP SNMP library for...
View ArticleFor OpenVPN Fans – Optimising for GE Networks
I came across this article today which discusses OpenVPN optimisations for Gigebit Ethernet networks. http://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Gigabit_Networks_Linux It also shows the phenomenal...
View ArticleNOCtools and OSS_SNMP Get Support for Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol
NOCtools (a mixed bag collection of tools and utilities for NOC engineers) and OSS_SNMP (a PHP SNMP Library for People Who HATE SNMP, MIBs and OIDs) have just gotten support for Multiple Spanning Tree....
View ArticleBird / Quagga with MD5 Support for IPv4/6 on FreeBSD & Linux
Over in INEX we run a route server cluster which alleviates the burden of setting up bilateral peering sessions for the more than 80% of the members that use them. The current hardware is now about six...
View ArticlePastebin Alternatives
Pastebin has been a valuable tool for years – to the extent that pastebin it has entered the common lexicon of sysadmins, network engineers and developers. There are, however, a few notable...
View ArticleUseful RIPE Database Links
Some very useful RIPE database links that I was recently shown include: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split ftp://ftp.ripe.net:/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt...
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Querying Cisco MST Port Roles via SNMP with OSS_SNMP
OSS_SNMP is a PHP SNMP library written by myself for people who hate SNMP. After a customer migration from PVST to MST (Multiple Spanning Tree), I have added a number of MST functions / MIBs to...
View ArticleOS X Built-in tftp Server
Turned out to be very useful during a recent RMA maintenance window: sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpd The default tftp file path is...
View ArticleNagios Plugin to Check Extreme Networks Devices
Over at INEX we’ve embarked on a forklift upgrade of the primary peering LAN using Extreme Networks Summit x670’s and x460’s. As usual, we need to monitor these 24/7 and we have just written a new...
View ArticleA Brief History of IXP Manager
For another INEX project, I was asked to put together a timeline for IXP Manager – an open source application for managing Internet eXchange Points. Reproduced here: IXP Manager was originally a web...
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