One of the locations I look after has a stack of 16 Cisco switches that I manage remotely via the Internet. These switches often undergo some very complicated reconfigurations for certain customers of the site and from time to time I have found myself locked out via Telnet and have had to visit site with …
Category Archive: Networking
Networking information
Oct
16
NetworkManager and /etc/network/interfaces
Ever wondered how to manage interfaces declared in /etc/network/interfaces with NetworkManager? I recently updated an Ubuntu desktop remotely, and to my horror she hadn’t re-appeared after 5000 pings, that’s longer than a disk check. When I got back in front of the machine I could see she had rebooted just fine, but I had to …
