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Ever been locked out of the console on an HP ProCurve switch? The switch still operates perfectly, you can still send SNMP set/get’s, but no CLI session…? There are a variety of reasons for this to occur, from having too many open telnet sessions, to a hung console session. You can try sending “break” or [...]

I have a new manager at work, and he requested an overview of the TC’s (technical consultants) in his group. Here’s my reply:

3 years of service at HP ProCuve
8 years industry experience as a network engineer/consultant/architect/team lead
Customer/client list / initiatives (too long/too boring/too private to list)
At the end of the list of information, there was [...]

This press release cracks me up. From the article:
“When the games are being viewed online by millions of people, and a millisecond makes the difference between gamers’ winning and losing their competition, having a ProCurve network that is both powerful and dependable will be a major advantage at the WCG.”
I guess that low latency, wirespeed [...]

I get many requests from engineers that work with ProCurve devices looking for configs that utilize our HA and load balancing features such as MSTP, VRRP, and OSPF. I’ve posted some core/distribution configs here based on 5400zl’s and edge configs based on 3500yl’s. I’ll be posting more configs soon, as our MSTP implementation is changing [...]

The good gent over @ Still Secure has an interview with Paul Congdon over at his blog. Paul’s a great guy to have a conversation with if your into networking/security, and want to know where its going. It’s available as a podcast.

Many of you may have noticed that when a Windows client with 802.1x auth on a wired interface logs off, the 802.1x session does not. This behavior is different from the 802.11 dot1x process which allows seamless transition from machine auth, to user + machine auth, then back to machine auth after a user logs [...]