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There was a recent comment asking for some additional information about the limitations of port mirroring on the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. Once I started writing my reply I realized that it was probably big enough to stand as it's own … [Continue reading]
It would seem there are a lot of folks out there looking for the recovery floppy disk that can be used to recover a defective installation of a Nortel VPN Router 1700, 2700 and 5000. I believe this disk will also work with previous models such as the … [Continue reading]
In my previous post it was mentioned that several features in the 5.0 software release for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 now require an Advanced License similar to the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 series. A great many hardware manufacturers … [Continue reading]
In June 2008 Nortel released software code v5.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. While I haven't had the opportunity to load the v5.0 software yet I thought I would just throw out some of the new software features and new hardware options. I … [Continue reading]
The folks over at CentOS released v5.2 on Tuesday June 24, 2008. I've been running six different HP Proliant DL360s over the past 24 months acting as a public WiFi Hotspot portal servers. The solution has been met all my expectations and almost … [Continue reading]