Dancing Naked on the Bed

Well it’s been an interesting week for me.  After upgrading the IOS on my core router, the immediate issues were gone and I could go back to focusing on normal issues.

Unfortunately, I’d not been feeling well since about that time.  Throat was dry and scratchy and made me cough.  Baby started to cough late at night, too, to the point it seemed like he was having trouble breathing.

We got those coughing fits under control and both he and I went to the Urgent Care the next day.  We found out that both of us had a sinus infection with bronchitis. 

IOS Upgrade

According to Guy Almes, “There are three kinds of death in this world.  There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.”

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been forced to upgrade and downgrade the IOS for my core switch several times because of a bug in the code.

I’ve been on pins and needles the entire time since at any time a simple interface reset would cause the switch to reboot, bringing my entire network to a screetching halt.  Obviously that is not a good thing, but all I could do was wait on Cisco to come through with a new IOS that should fix the bug.

Writer’s Block

Apparently I still have writer’s block.  It’s been almost two weeks since my last post.  I’ve gone thru several events that should have stirred the creative juices from a 13th wedding anniversary to more network troubles to a camp out with the Webelos and Boy Scouts.

I got zip.  Nada.  Nothing.

Not that interesting or fun things didn’t happen.  There’s been plenty.  But my motivation to share them has waned.

I am busy and am wondering if perhaps this blog is not worth the time and effort it takes to keep up.  Perhaps I’m just lazy. 

I don’t know.  I’m going to try and continue for the time being.  Maybe I can re-light a spark of inspiration from something.

How do you all do it?  What motivates you to continue?  How do you fit blogging into your daily/weekly routines?

Buggy

A while back I posted about Undocumented Features.  Well Cisco recommended we upgrade the IOS on our core router to see if that would alleviate the bug. Our old IOS was version 12.2(33)SXH5.  The new one was 12.2(33)SXH7.

We did the upgrade last Thursday but it seemed to not fix anything. I still saw the”static NATs” building in the translation table.

Oh well. I figured at least we’re at a new rev. We’ll just have to troubleshoot some more to find the true problem.

Cue the next day. At lunch we were working on configuring our new wireless controller. The last bit of configuration we needed to do would bounce the port-channel interface between the controller and the core router.

We had permission to do this during lunch because it was Friday and there are always fewer people online. Besides, we were only affecting the wireless network in one building. What could go wrong?

Well the high resurfaced in a big way. When the port-channel interface bounced, it rebooted the entire core router!

Twice…

Busy

I’ve been pretty busy this week. Work and home has kept me hopping.

I hurt my back over the weekend, so skipped Tang Soo Do class all week. Nothing serious, just tweaked some muscles.

Nor really been in a writing mood, either. My really 13th anniversary is Monday, so my wife and I are heading to the Villas @ World Golf Village without the kids, so perhaps I’ll have a few tales from that experience to share.

Also, I got a new phone @ work. A Samsung Captivate. Pretty cool! It’s got that new Swype keyboard. I’ve done this entire post from my phone in only a handful of minutes and a couple of typos!

More to come soon!