The E450 has a potential of 20 internal disks, none of them labeled in any particular order (ctd numbers) and it was a pain to configure most of them as a big stripe.
Here’s the md.tab I created, note the u02 section showing how to string 7 disks (slice 2 is the whole disk) all together. […]

At work a while back, we had hundreds of K of ICMP going to our router and we couldn’t figure out why. We threw a sniiffer on our network and take a look at the enclosed and censored screenshot. Notice the part in the yellow box and the 5 second intervals. I […]

More and more people are getting on the web. More and more people are gaining experience with computers. We have not seen yet what people with 30 years of experience with the web are like. No one has 30 years of experience with the web. There are no retired, 62 year […]

I had a flaky network problem where high loads (fast downloads from tux.org or sun.com) would cause a hang or complete drop of all network connections on the box. Originally, I had plugged in two CAT5 cables hoping that it would be one of the gbit ethernet ports but that had no effect.
When the […]