After plenty of hours of trying to figure out why it was that Sun’s native LDAP client wouldn’t talk to my OpenLDAP server I decided to call support. I had been through just about every Google result I could read and still got nowhere. It turns out that when you use the native client you’re [...]
Read morePlease see the update to this post As A Target (Server) The only available iSCSI target software in FreeBSD is the /net/iscsi-target port. This is the iSCSI target from OpenBSD and is absolutely not suitable for production use (or even most non-production uses). Problems I’ve come across: Does not support CHAP. Will not allow multiple [...]
Read moreGot a new storage server, it’s a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included: options iscsi_initiator connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536 to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds (in the range [...]
Read moreI hate it. I didn’t buy it, someone else did and I got stuck “using” it, then selling it. It came preconfigured with a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K RPM drives in it for use with iSCSI. To me that makes no sense. What’s the point of the HUGELY fast drives in something that at [...]
Read moreHere’s my horrible looking summer schedule. I can’t wait for August 15th. Seriously? History of Folk Music?!?! One more semester after this!!! http://www.easymac.org/~uminac/schedule.pdf
Read moreIn a recent battle at work I put a Cisco 2960G up against a Dell PowerConnect 5424. The PowerConnects aren’t bad… They’re cheap, gigabit, and Layer-2. Anyway, I quickly found out that unless you use GVRP, the Dell cannot learn what VLANs are out there. You have to specify allowed VLANS specifically on both ends [...]
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