Metauser: August 2009 Archive

August 2009 Archive

Cult I say, Cult!

August 31, 2009 Posted by mitch | media, politics | 0 Comments

I've attempted, very poorly I might add... to put to words what I think of our current political situations... With listening to George Orwell's 1984 on my drive home for the last week, I've been making comparisons to today's world and the one imagined by Orwell... and the certain similarities are alarming to be honest. Anyway, I came across an article entitled: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult. And, I believe it describes how I've felt for some time... but I believe it manages to remain "fair" and "balanced".

Juniper J-Series and EX Switches - LAG

August 23, 2009 Posted by mitch | juniper, work | 0 Comments

So, I ran into an issue that didn't seem to be really documented anywhere that I could find anyway.. and it has to deal with a LAG (Link Aggregation Group) between a J6350 (any J-Series would be similar) and a stack of EX4200T switches in the DMZ for a company I'm doing some consulting for. The J6350 has an additional uPIM of 8x1gige ports on it, and I had taken two of them and connected them to two interfaces on the EX switch. I had created three zones on the J6350, one for the Internet drop or Untrust, a second for the Core network or Trust zone, and the third being the DMZ zone. I setup policies permiting the Trust and DMZ zones to access the Untrust zone, and the trust zone is allowed to access the DMZ zone. The DMZ zone is routed on the J6350 for ease of managing access between the different VLANS. This is where the point of confusion came. Zones need the connecting interface added to their zone, and I had been thinking that adding the LAG interface (ae0.0) to the zone would work... It wasn't. Once I added the virtual vlan interfaces (vlan.100, vlan.101, vlan.103 and vlan.190) everything worked as it should.