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Okay, it really isn't a Dads and Grads sale (I LOATHE that kind of marketing), but it is my second entry in three days. That has to mean something.
Well, it will mean something when it is an actual entry.
I've been working like a madman lately. We have been implementing all this new hardware for a proposed online business offering, and getting the infrastructure in place for this has been daunting. Typically, the deadline is yesterday. As part of it, I have installed and configured several new switches, including some redundancy config across multiple virtual networks (VLANs). The biggest job, however, has been configuring a new highly available firewall cluster with intrusion detection. I've been working alot of hours just getting that off the ground. Yesterday was kind of a culmination. I got the cluster up, on all networks, and passing traffic for the first time. This allowed me to migrate some services on our current "general purpose" border firewall cluster to the new B2B cluster.
Yes, that felt pretty good.
There's still alot more work to do, but I feel like I have a pretty good handle on it. The only thing that can be categorized as a wildcard would be the IDP. I need to configure it for all of this new stuff, and that promises to be a lengthy process, with some pitfalls along the way.
Also, been working with our MS guy on trying to get this stupid Windows Cluster to work. I could take off on a long, and fairly typical, Microsoft rant here, but I won't. What's the point? We all know it's fundamentally broken...that doesn't mean we can ignore it. I will always remember what a friend and coworker, Jeff Younker, once said: "All operating systems stink. Some stink less than others." He's a bright guy. I see that he's currently working at Ofoto. Jeff, if you are reading this, hope you are having fun!
Gonna keep this one short. Got more work to do this afternoon, and a busy weekend ahead. In the meantime, I posted some pics of the girls and I on a hike at Love's Falls. Check it out!
Seriously, we have retired some stuff, but in almost every case it is so dated that it is unusable in any kind of current architecture. In those cases I have to pass everything off to accounting, and then they deal with it.