Monthly Archives: March 2012

MAC Address Lookup Tool Database

I decided that rather than use somebody elses lookup tool for checking MAC addresses against vendors, I’d put my own on line! The first task was to find the list, which was quite straightforward: http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt When you look at the … Continue reading

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FreeBSD LAG setup with port-channel

I needed more bandwidth to the network for our storage server, so as FreeBSD now supports LAG, we might as well use it. First job is to configure the switch with a port channel. We are using a Cisco 2960G … Continue reading

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FreeBSD iSCSI Server (target)

Part of the new central storage setup is to enable the server to be an iSCSI server or target so our clients can be iSCSI initiations to connect in and use the storage. The main reason is to facilitate the … Continue reading

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