VMware has updated their ESXi platform again, so we’re now one step beyond the 6.5U1 upgrade. It comprises mostly with VSAN improvements and a set of patches for kernel forking issues. After my challenges with updating to VMware ESXi 6.5U1, it’s nice to see an update work correctly the first time. Again, installing this on…
So you might have followed my post about upgrading to VMware 6.5 from 5.5U3 using the console. It’s been a while since then, and those folks over at VMware have updated the platform a little. It’s now at ESXi 6.5 Update 1, and you want to get your system up to date. So let’s get…
Cisco have published a security advisory that looks it could impact quite a few devices out there in your network. The timing of this (late on a Friday afternoon) wasn’t particularly useful for customers on the East of the Atlantic to deal with! cisco-sa-20170317-cmp, (also published as CVE-2017-3881) impacts Cisco IOS and IOS XE deployments…
So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a rather unusual issue. The batch of network cards supplied contained two with duplicate MAC addresses burnt into them. Problems occurred with the two PC’s, but…
