Posted in Development, Infrastructure, Networking on Apr 22nd, 2009
Another post in a series designed to help Future-Howard work out why things have broken.
If you install Java 6 Update 13 and then try and log into Cisco SDM 2.5 it will fail. The SDM console will not load.
I found I had to go back to Java 6 Update 6 (available at the Java [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Networking, Virtualisation on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m looking for help here.
The image (click to embiggen) you see here is a screen capture of one of my virtual machines suffering some form of graphic corruption. It should look like this. This happens often enough now that it is seriously irritating. I can make it go away by closing VMRC and [...]
Posted in Development, Games, Networking on Dec 4th, 2007
In my last post, you discovered my obsession for generating statistics on my network usage and my use of MRTG to draw pretty little graphs. Writing that post got me thinking about my Counter-Strike server, and what data I could usefully graph from it. A bit of Googling led me to this [...]
Posted in Networking, Software on Dec 3rd, 2007
The image on the left is just one of the graphs generated automatically for tracking the data usage on my home network. (Click through to see more stats.)
That particular graph shows the usage of my ADSL connection over time; green is downloaded data, while the blue line shows my uploads. It is [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Infrastructure, Networking on Dec 1st, 2007
I keep needing to do this – so once again to help my future self:
When you have a number of public IPs being translated through a router to an internal address space, a router’s dynamic translation can get full. I’ve got an 877W, and it seems that a combination of running BitTorrent and a [...]
Posted in Infrastructure, Networking, Tech Support on Jun 27th, 2007
Noooo! One of my ReadyNAS devices died today. Based on the “hot component” smell and the fact that nothing lights up I’m hoping that it’s just the PSU/mainboard that fried, and that all my disks with their lovely XRAIDed data are intact.
I’ve sent a trouble ticket to support, but since they’re now owned [...]
Posted in Networking on Mar 14th, 2007
I’m experimenting with Windows XP Embedded at the moment and the development studio it installs relies on the MSDE (assuming you don’t already have a SQL Server). I’d set it up so the MSDE based component database was on a virtual machine, and was running the Target Designer on my local “real” machine. [...]
Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet, Microsoft, Networking, Software, Tech Support, Virtualisation on Mar 4th, 2006
We recently had the need to simulate a routed environment with low bandwidth/high latency links between remote sites. To achieve this I used m0n0wall – a free software router – running inside Microsoft Virtual Server on multiple virtual NICs. Here’s how to get it up and running…
Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet, Microsoft, Networking, Software, Virtualisation, Work on Feb 17th, 2006
Thing the first:
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 does not support teamed NICs on the host.
This bit us on the arse earlier this week when we teamed the NICs on the hosts of our virtual environment. As a result, although we could RDP to the host desktop, all our guest machines dropped off the network. [...]