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For the first time in what probably amounts to a few years I actually got excited about something at work.  After a meeting of more important people than myself it was reported that a big project that originally called for 6 TB of storage was going to need 100 TB.  I thought & probably said […]

First the good news…with the great help of a friendly bloke at SKT, TB and myself had our own little Alexander Graham Bell/Thomas Watson moment this evening.  We were able to talk to each other over two VPN phones.  We had tried this previously but I was unable to overcome some design challenges of having multiple phones on the same network in […]

We’ve got a doozy of a task in front of us.  We are losing a member of our team that has had the highest level of clearance for over four years.  That’s right…a whole heap of passwords have to be changed now.  Its going to be ugly.  Routers, switches, firewalls, servers, service accounts, sql accounts, […]

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto’s always been; when it’s right, it’s right.
How’s that for the worst intro to a post ever? I did manage to take this afternoon off and partake in a little socialization in the Power and Light district of KC. I hadn’t been down […]

The call for routing experts is no longer needed.  Friday night I posed the brain buster from the previous post in a Cisco forum looking for answers.  It took all of an hour to have an answer…a rather obvious one at that.  The reassuring part is that I was on the right track Thursday night […]

I’ve got a real brain buster on my hands.  Its a real brain buster for me anyway!  We have two routers: a Cisco 1721 and a Cisco 2620.  Right now the 1721 is doing policy based routing to route traffic from a certain IP address (1.1.1.2) out a different internet link.  If I put the […]