NetworksAreMadeOfString

Not really a NAMOS sort of a post but it has to be done!

I’ll be upgrading as soon as the DVD is down and I hope lots of others do too.

With the summer fast approaching I’ve noticed that the temperatures in the Server room have been increasing. I’ve yet to turn the AirCon units on as that would use way more power than I’m prepared to use when the weather is still mild. All that aside I thought it best to start monitoring temperatures across [...]

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When I setup an Asterisk system for my home telephony it was configured so that if the main phone didn’t pickup after a certain amount of time then Asterisk would proceed to ‘call’ all the phones in the house.
Yesterday someone enquired as to how this is acheived because there appears to be some confusion [...]

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This self made rack cabinet reminded me of the days of ONIMOS and I quote:
“Where else would you find a switch and server racked up with a piece of 2×4, an ADSL modem dangling from a coathanger rail by its power cable, a £600 Wireless Access Point secured to a wall with masking tape.”
mon.itor.us is [...]

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This months updates have meant that a lot of my servers now have outdated packages. Bandwidth isn’t really too much of problem when it comes to my RHEL servers as they sit on 100mbit connections in Telehouse and Texas, however all my home and office based CentOS servers sit on a mixture of 2Mbit [...]

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This link dump is geared towards stuff that made today a hell of a lot easier to get through:
Splunk is software that indexes and allows you to search all your server logs from any application in real time.
MRTG which was originally for Routers (Hence Multi Router Traffic Graph) can be an invaluable tool for monitoring [...]

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Anyone travelling through Reading may have at some point seen the unsecured wireless network called NAMOS. Well thats me.
The Network isn’t totally insecure, the Access Points sit behind a Juniper NS5GT and all web / IM / mail is piped through a BlueCoat Security Appliance. I noticed that the client stats were increasing and I [...]

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I was at a loss of what to do with this domain and it occured to me that the site that spawned this domain OurNetworkIsMadeOfString used to be a sort of blog. To be more precise I guess it could be described as a chronicle of the things we did whilst I was at Uni. [...]

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