Brett and Mindy’s Wedding

October 12, 2009

So, this weekend Jessi’s best friend Mindy got married. She asked me to come and take photos, so I did. Here are some of my favorites photos after a bit of post processing…

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JunOS Olive Demonstration

October 4, 2009

As a follow up to my JunOS Olive tutorial, I made a demonstration video that shows Multicast functioning via OSPF to another Olive and an ImageStream VM.

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Interested in trying out JunOS? Can’t afford to build a real Juniper lab? Sounds like you need some Olives. No, we’re not talking about the green fruit commonly seen in a martini glasses across the nation. Olive is the codename name given to JunOS software running on something other than a Juniper router. It can either run on a PC of similar specifications to a Routing Engine, with no forwarding hardware (or PFE) attached, or inside a Virtual Machine (VM). If you took a Routing Engine out of a Juniper router and booted it in a blade server chassis, it would effectively be an Olive.

This guide is to help you run Olive inside vmware to create a virtual Juniper router lab. You can also extend your lab to dynamips (Cisco Emulation), or other router VMs that you may have. My screenshots will be from VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X, but should work perfectly well, possibly even better (since you’ll be able to setup multiple interfaces) on VMWare Server. At some point, I would like to test using VMWare ESXi as well.
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Mostly Rabbit Photos

September 16, 2009

Jessi got a rabbit a few weeks back, and we took it out back to get some cute photos of it. I also decided to take a couple photos of a sunflower that ended up growing under one of our bird feeders…

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Mail Server Relay Testing

September 15, 2009

As you may know, I am not big in the server world, even less into mail servers. They make me sick. But, today I found a nifty little tool you can use to test your mail server against many different types of relay attempts. Best of all, its dead simple. From your servers console, telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org. Here is the output from me testing the server I host my email and this site on.
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