Stop that Annoying Blinking (on activity) LED on Intel Wireless
Posted in Networking, Open Source, Technology on May 27th, 2013
It’s amazingly simple: echo “options iwlwifi led_mode=1” >> /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf reboot Done and done…
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NIC Teaming Intel Pro/1000 PT Adapters in Hyper-V 2012
Posted in Microsoft, Networking, Technology on Mar 27th, 2013
These instructions will be similar (if not identical) for core versions of server 2012 and 2008R2, but don’t quote me: Download (http://downloadcenter.intel.com) and install (http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-016040.htm) the latest drivers for your particular NIC from Intel. On each host, identify the indices of the adapters you want to include in the team (c:\progra~1\intel\dmix\cl\prosetcl.exe Adapter_Enumerate) – assuming 2 and […]
LACP on 3750X to Increase Available Bandwidth for CentOS 6 NFS Server
Posted in Networking, Open Source, Technology, Virtualization on Mar 24th, 2013
I’m using a CentOS 6 box for HA NFS storage behind a cluster of VMware ESXi boxes. I want to make sure those ESXi hosts aren’t fighting over a single 1Gbps Ethernet interface. Bonding 6 interfaces (3 x Intel Pro Dual-NICs) should do the trick… On 3750x: Configure switch ports (for me, that’s gi1/0/25 – […]
Cisco WCCP + Squid (on CentOS) for Transparent Web Proxy
Posted in Networking, Open Source, Technology on Mar 22nd, 2013
First Thing First Get your WCCP-capable Cisco device setup as your internet router – I’m using a C3825 ISR running 15.1(4)M6…if you’re not using the same, your mileage may vary… Configure CentOS Deploy CentOS (6.4 at the time of writing) using the method of your choice – I used the minimal install, which is very […]
Install IOS with Web-Based Dev Mgr (.tar) via TFTP
Posted in Networking on Jan 31st, 2013
Just figured I’d put this here for future reference if I find myself needing to push an IOS + Web-Based Dev Mgr to a device via TFTP in the future: Please the IOS + Web-Base Dev Mgr file in the root of the TFTP server Connect to device and hop into enable mode Issue the […]
Add ASA 8.4(2) with ASDM to GNS3 on Windows 7
Posted in Networking, Technology on Dec 9th, 2012
Download the ASA 8.42 files (asa842-initrd.gz and asa842-vmlinuz) for GNS3 from a reputable source (I got mine from http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l010dd0c1nayf0d) Open Edit -> Preferences -> Qemu and click the ASA tab Enter an Identifier name – I used “asa842” Enter 1024 in RAM Enter the following for Qemu Options: -vnc none -vga none -m 1024 -icount auto […]
Installing GNS3 on CentOS/RHEL 6
Posted in Networking, Open Source, Technology on Aug 1st, 2012
Login as root and run the following (accept all dependencies): yum install python python-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel libXext-devel gcc-c++ libXrender* PyQt4 PyQt4-devel qt qt-devel qemu-img libvirt Note: You need to pay attention to the output from yum as the availability of the required packages can’t be guaranteed – you might need to enable some 3rd-party repos and/or […]