I Hate Firewalls
After spending most of the day extensively testing the new resilient firewall setup with no problems, we went to move in into production just after 5pm thinking it would take 45 minutes or so. However thanks to some bizzare compatibilty problem between our HP Procurve 4000 switch, and the shonky BT supplied Cisco routers, it turned in to a packet loss nightmare. We ended up having to bypass the Procurve switch which has the unwelcome side effect of breaking the high availability cluster unless you put up with around 50% packet loss.
Tomorrow I need to shout at BT a lot, faff around with various duplexing settings, and try to find another way to connect to rooms at opposite ends of the site without using fibre as we seem to have run out of media converters.
I need beer.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Good plan, I think I’ll have a beer as well :)
March 7th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
in my expert opinion, i’d say you need to replace your network flange…
works every time..
March 8th, 2006 at 9:17 am
we just need 1.21 Gigawatts and we can send him back to the future.
March 8th, 2006 at 10:57 am
It’s the inter-oscillating spingle-spangle nut and a lack of steam pressure, I can tell!
March 8th, 2006 at 11:08 am
dont tell me you’re a back to the future fan Matt..??? unbelieveable… dont meet many others…
March 8th, 2006 at 11:17 am
I thought that *everybody* was a back to the future fan?
March 8th, 2006 at 11:47 am
i spent last weekend in London and managed to fit in watching the whole trilogy! Great Scott!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
I’ve not seen any for a while, they were on Sky a few Xmas 04, so I think I saw all three about 4 times. ACE!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Check out that 4×4! That is hot..
March 8th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I nearly bought 1 and 2 in tesco *7 quid each* but I resisted.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
infact.
just bought the trilogy from play, 16quid, boomargain!
March 8th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Hello? McFly?
Everyone is a BttF fan……………..