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» IT Support
A funny thing happened the other day
I've just been trying to bridge two network interfaces on one of our storage machines. I made sure the right modules were loaded, changed /etc/conf.d/net so that bridge_br0 included the right interface names, but whenever I brought the interface up and started dhcpcd, all I got was a UDP storm, which made our Cisco router light up like a Christmas tree.
Imagine my embarrassment when I realised I'd forgotten to enable the spanning tree protocol! I added "stp on" to brctl_br0 and everything was fine.
True story
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 15:05, More)
A funny thing happened the other day
I've just been trying to bridge two network interfaces on one of our storage machines. I made sure the right modules were loaded, changed /etc/conf.d/net so that bridge_br0 included the right interface names, but whenever I brought the interface up and started dhcpcd, all I got was a UDP storm, which made our Cisco router light up like a Christmas tree.
Imagine my embarrassment when I realised I'd forgotten to enable the spanning tree protocol! I added "stp on" to brctl_br0 and everything was fine.
True story
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 15:05, More)
» How nerdy are you?
None of us are even half way close - Mr and Mrs Cullen FTW
I put myself about on a 5 on the geek scale. I'm a Warhammer painter/player, programmer/physicist etc. etc. which gets me the 5 points, but I am *not* a LARPER or RPGer, trekkie, medieval reenactor etc. (although I think I'd probably like to be) which is why I miss out on 4 of the other available points.
But what is the last point (I hear you ask), to take a fairly big geek all the way up to 100% on the scale?
Breed a dog, make it look nice, give it a massively stupid name, go to Crufts.
I mean FFS, these loonies make all of us on B3ta look like James Bond.
Just thinking about how much money/time they waste on dog bothering make me feel almost justified in the huge amounts of money I spend on toy plastic soldiers and paint.
(Mon 10th Mar 2008, 12:32, More)
None of us are even half way close - Mr and Mrs Cullen FTW
I put myself about on a 5 on the geek scale. I'm a Warhammer painter/player, programmer/physicist etc. etc. which gets me the 5 points, but I am *not* a LARPER or RPGer, trekkie, medieval reenactor etc. (although I think I'd probably like to be) which is why I miss out on 4 of the other available points.
But what is the last point (I hear you ask), to take a fairly big geek all the way up to 100% on the scale?
Breed a dog, make it look nice, give it a massively stupid name, go to Crufts.
I mean FFS, these loonies make all of us on B3ta look like James Bond.
Just thinking about how much money/time they waste on dog bothering make me feel almost justified in the huge amounts of money I spend on toy plastic soldiers and paint.
(Mon 10th Mar 2008, 12:32, More)