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Ping WAN from LAN

Palo Alto Random

(2024-10-10) Problem: Ping WAN interface IP from LAN Solution: Pinging from an internal host to a...

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Ping things from Palo Alto

Palo Alto Random

(2024-10-10) Problem: I want to ping something. Solution: ping host 1.1.1.1

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Hi-Availability - Out of Sync Peers

Palo Alto Random

(2024-09-09) Problem: WARNING: The running configuration is not currently synchronized to the HA ...

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Display configuration in set statements

Palo Alto Random

2024-09-09 Problem xml is hard to read Solution set cli config-output-format set Now when in con...

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Label Maker

War Stories

(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...

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Too Clever For My Own Good

War Stories

(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...

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Unclean

War Stories

Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...

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Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?

War Stories

(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...

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Why Build From Source?

War Stories

Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...

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When Tools Just Work

War Stories

(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...

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Five User Experience Principles

War Stories

Five User Experience Principles Keep it simple. But not simpler. Keep scalability in mind. End u...

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User Environment Churn

War Stories

or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...

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The Tennents Of Buellerism

War Stories

Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...

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The War On Email

War Stories

(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...

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Hardware or Software RAID?

War Stories

The question is usually framed as Is Hardware RAID better than software RAID? Well actually it's ...

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Dave's Tao of Network Documentation

War Stories

This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...

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Notes About Network Attached Storage

War Stories

You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...

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Mixed-Mode Filesystems Still Suck

War Stories

Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FI...

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Mixed-Mode Filesystems Suck

War Stories

Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CI...

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Know who you are paging

War Stories

(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head o...

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