Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:09:03PM +, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > First-aid kit. Definitely yes. And let me suggest that while buying an off-the-shelf kit will probably suffice for most uses, there is one a la carte addition that I strongly recommend: Quikclot. It's (relatively) expensive. It'

Re: internet in the box

2013-03-11 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Mar 8, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Philip Lavine wrote: > Has anybody set up a Cellular front end (LTE or 3G) access to the Internet > and a WiFi backend supporting 150 devices. > I need to provide temporary Internet access (7 days) to a convention center > room that is about 2000 square feet. > Stoo

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:32:50 -0400 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:18:07 +0300, Aaron Glenn said: > > > Very grateful for any cluebats you are able to spare on this > > (marginally off) topic. > > Haven't seen it mentioned yet, so > > I have found that at my age, if

GEOip location issue

2013-03-11 Thread Dennis Burgess
Got a new block from ARIN, no location found on it, so yahoo etc defaults to netherlands looks like. Anyone have the proper method to go about fixing things like this one? Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition

Re: GEOip location issue

2013-03-11 Thread Shishio Tsuchiya
Dennis How about check of each of GeoIP and request of correction to them? NANOG: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP JANOG: http://tools.bgp4.jp/index.php?GeoIP (Japanese but some information added) Regards, -Shishio (2013/03/11 13:22), Dennis Burgess wrote: > Got a new block from ARIN, no

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Smith
Everyone else's comments plus, A phone with a camera. You can use it to "look" at singlemode fiber without damaging your eye to know if there is a laser coming your way. Mike On Mar 10, 2013, at 1:18 AM, Aaron Glenn wrote: > Greetings My Ten Thousand Closest Friends, > > I have a requiremen

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Mark Foster
I keep a couple of RJ45 line joiners, a short crossover cable (for dealing with older gear that doesn't auto-MDIX, can be extended with a longer eth cable and one of the line joiners) and when I was dealing with fibre a lot, appropriate line joiners for the interfaces I used (SC-SC, LC-LC, ST-ST) o

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
You need to consider cases where there is an actual power failure. yeah, a real one with dark centre, UPS and mains down, room is silemt except for a few alarms here and there, and you are scrambling to find/fix problem. what will you need ? (obvious things like flashlights, multimetre, screwdriv

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Matt Taylor
There's one thing which no one has really mentioned, but it's "bitten" me a few times personally. * Torx screwdriver set. You'll never know when you run into an "aged" server which has scsi disk's and it requires a torx screwdriver to take out the screws without threading it. Also, a simila

Re: What do you have in your datacenters' toolbox?

2013-03-11 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matt Taylor" > Also, last year on NANOG - similar (huge) thread: > > http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-February/046106.html Ah, *there's* my thread. The head is here: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-February/045491.html Cheers,