Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsI need to connect an EC2 instance to a Cisco VPN server for various reasons. It turns out that this isn’t a trivial task. EC2’s use a custom 2.6.16 kernel, so it’s guaranteed to not match the headers included with your distro.
There’s an entry on the Rightscale Blog about how to successfully compile kernel modules for EC2’s. [...]
On a whim, I did a search for some PoE switches on eBay. I wanted to see what use Catalysts are going for these days.
I was shocked. You can pick up a 24 port 3500 for under $300. For under $2,000, you could potentially get a switch, a server and a handful of phones and [...]
Yesterday was the big switch upgrade. We replaced our old Extreme Alpine 3808 with a stack of Cisco 3750’s. Here are the obligatory before and after shots:
We have three 3750’s for the workstations and two 3750G’s for our servers (yup, finally gig to all the servers). It’s all PoE as well. The 3750’s all use [...]
