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Dusty Routers

Posted on 01/08/2015 by Dominik

The best enviroment for network gear is a cooled and clean rack. In the real world it is many times the opposit warm and dusty. Many vendors advise you to clean the fans on regular bases to prevent poblems with the air … Continue reading →

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Network Monitoring #1

Posted on 01/06/2015 by Dominik

This will be the first post of a series of blog posts about network monitoring. Most people that work in IT know the situation when you get a call and someone is blaming you that nothing works and you have … Continue reading →

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Air Console the cable free serial adapter

Posted on 01/05/2015 by Dominik

Most networkers even when they are only do consulting have in their pocket for travelling at least one RS232 serial adapter. Back in the days I had a big pack with many different adapters, crossover serial cables und gender changers … Continue reading →

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DHCP Relay Problem with Avaya ERS5000 SW 6.3

Posted on 01/05/2015 by Dominik

I recently stumbled upon a problem with the Avaya ERS5000 switches. The problem was quiet odd , so I would like to share my expierence and hopefully help somone with troubleshooting this problem. On a given network where a ERS5000 … Continue reading →

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How to Upgrade an Avaya VSP4000

Posted on 01/04/2015 by Dominik

Here is a short overview how to upgrade a VSP4000. The procedure is the same for the VSP8000. First you have to Uplooad the needed files, wich I do here via USB: copy /usb/VSP4K.4.0.0.2.tgz /intflash/VSP4K.4.0.0.2.tgz copy /usb/VSP4K.4.0.0.2_modules.tgz /intflash/VSP4K.4.0.0.2_modules.tgz When you … Continue reading →

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Top 3 RFC

Posted on 01/04/2015 by Dominik

Somitimes the people in the IETF get bored from writing technical RFCs and start to be creative. The publishing date of 1st of April always indictes that the RFC will be fun to read. Here are my personal Top 3 … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2015

Posted on 01/04/2015 by Dominik

Welcome to the Network Autobahn Blog this blog will cover networking technologies and other IT releated contentlike monitoring, cloud, virtulition and everything else that I stumble upon. Hope you enjoy reading.

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