BGP.guru

BGP.guru

A Nerd blog.

10 Sep 2015

Running Smokeping on Jessie

I recently went thru the process of upgrading most of my virtual machines from Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie. One of the changes that affected quite a few things was the upgrade from Apache 2.2 to 2.4. One of the packages that is affected by this change is smokeping.
05 Sep 2015

Nagios Logs, Handy One-Liner

Nagios is an amazing network monitoring tool, and its logs are a greppable goldmine of information. Most of us aren't able to convert timestamps into local dates on the fly.
01 Aug 2015

Working with ARINs Route Registry

This blog post provides a general overview of Internet Routing Registries. If your network does not use IRR objects, you should have enough information to create your own after after reading this post.
12 Jun 2015

Removing Stubborn Trash Items

For one reason or another, I recently ended up with a draft blog post stuck in my OS X Yosemite Trash. I have no idea how this happened, but after reading 5 or 6 blogs and forum posts I was thoroughly frustrated with trying to find 'the Mac Way', and fired up the CLI:
31 May 2015

SSH Pubkeys with Cisco IOS 15

One of the new features of IOS 15 that I'm most excited about is the ability to use RSA public key authentication. This works on both switches and routers.