Comments for Roller Network Newspipe http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress News, Announcements, and Status Updates Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:43:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on More Atom Dedicated Servers by Alex http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/more-atom-dedicated-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Alex Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:43:47 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=457#comment-927 FYI, if you haven't had a chance to play with the new IPMI Atom boards, the IPMI supports IPv6. However it appears to only really work with DHCPv6 or RA+autoconfiguration. I crammed a static ip with /64 mask into it but can't set the default v6 gateway. However it was reachable locally on the LAN from other machines in the /64. Since I'm segregating IPMI connectivity from the OS' I'll probably set up a restricted DHCPv6/RA announcement on the IPMI vlan on the switch. Probably means it gets it's own /64 and goes through some hardware to provide DHCPv6/RA. I've been emailing SM about it and some other now resolved issues (boards came with IPMI firmware 1.29, SM gave me as-of-yet-unreleased 1.30), but so far no comment on static IPv6 assignments in the IPMI config. FYI, if you haven’t had a chance to play with the new IPMI Atom boards, the IPMI supports IPv6. However it appears to only really work with DHCPv6 or RA+autoconfiguration. I crammed a static ip with /64 mask into it but can’t set the default v6 gateway. However it was reachable locally on the LAN from other machines in the /64.

Since I’m segregating IPMI connectivity from the OS’ I’ll probably set up a restricted DHCPv6/RA announcement on the IPMI vlan on the switch. Probably means it gets it’s own /64 and goes through some hardware to provide DHCPv6/RA. I’ve been emailing SM about it and some other now resolved issues (boards came with IPMI firmware 1.29, SM gave me as-of-yet-unreleased 1.30), but so far no comment on static IPv6 assignments in the IPMI config.

]]> Comment on AT&T Fiber Installation, Part 1 by Roller Network http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2010/01/att-fiber-installation-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Roller Network Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:10:57 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=539#comment-703 Since AT&T is the ILEC in our area it will actually carry the Sprint circuits. Verizon is unique in that they have separate fiber assets originally installed by Brooks Fiber in the 1990's which were later acquired by MCI. In our old location we also had SAVVIS, but we disconnected it because it was too expensive and did not have any IPv6 support. Verizon still hasn't figured out how to get their circuit to work yet, so this is "plan B" that we mentioned back in December in <a href="http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/colocation-hosting-delays/" rel="nofollow">this post</a>. Since AT&T is the ILEC in our area it will actually carry the Sprint circuits. Verizon is unique in that they have separate fiber assets originally installed by Brooks Fiber in the 1990’s which were later acquired by MCI. In our old location we also had SAVVIS, but we disconnected it because it was too expensive and did not have any IPv6 support.

Verizon still hasn’t figured out how to get their circuit to work yet, so this is “plan B” that we mentioned back in December in this post.

]]> Comment on AT&T Fiber Installation, Part 1 by Loren M. Lang http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2010/01/att-fiber-installation-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Loren M. Lang Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:41 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=539#comment-700 Will this provide native IPv6 connectivity similar to what Sprint is now offering? And will this be a redundant multi-homed Internet connection supplementing what you will be getting from Sprint and/or Verizon? Will this provide native IPv6 connectivity similar to what Sprint is now offering?

And will this be a redundant multi-homed Internet connection supplementing what you will be getting from Sprint and/or Verizon?

]]> Comment on The List by What’s next? Read “The List” – Roller Network Newspipe http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-523 What’s next? Read “The List” – Roller Network Newspipe Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:03:01 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?page_id=526#comment-523 [...] The List [...] [...] The List [...]

]]> Comment on More Atom Dedicated Servers by Roller Network http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/more-atom-dedicated-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Roller Network Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:54:14 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=457#comment-506 No, haven't seen that yet, thanks for the heads up! IPMI is a nice addition to free the need for a separate serial console server. No, haven’t seen that yet, thanks for the heads up! IPMI is a nice addition to free the need for a separate serial console server.

]]> Comment on More Atom Dedicated Servers by Alex http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/more-atom-dedicated-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Alex Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:48:06 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=457#comment-483 FYI, if you haven't already seen it, there is a new Supermicro atom board with dual Intel GIGE NICs, and 4GB ram support and their IPMI 2.0 in full remote console glory. I'm seeing about $320 for the board in their chassis with the 80+ certified PSU and no RAM or drives. http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y FYI, if you haven’t already seen it, there is a new Supermicro atom board with dual Intel GIGE NICs, and 4GB ram support and their IPMI 2.0 in full remote console glory. I’m seeing about $320 for the board in their chassis with the 80+ certified PSU and no RAM or drives.

http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y

]]> Comment on Verizon Delay by Verizon FOC Update – Roller Network Newspipe http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/09/verizon-delay/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Verizon FOC Update – Roller Network Newspipe Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:22:01 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=140#comment-143 [...] We were notified on December 10 that the circuit was finally ready to be turned up. However, during the process of assigning point-to-point addresses to the link, we discovered that it was out of Sacramento again. That means it was provisioned incorrectly, just like back in September. [...] [...] We were notified on December 10 that the circuit was finally ready to be turned up. However, during the process of assigning point-to-point addresses to the link, we discovered that it was out of Sacramento again. That means it was provisioned incorrectly, just like back in September. [...]

]]> Comment on More Atom Dedicated Servers by Alex http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/more-atom-dedicated-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Alex Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:58:53 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=457#comment-141 I love these things, esp. with 80+ rated PSUs. Hope they make an ION based SuperMicro mainboard to bump up the available ram. I love these things, esp. with 80+ rated PSUs. Hope they make an ION based SuperMicro mainboard to bump up the available ram.

]]> Comment on Verizon Soon? by Verizon FOC Passed – Roller Network Newspipe http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/12/verizon-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Verizon FOC Passed – Roller Network Newspipe Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:06:56 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=436#comment-132 [...] Verizon FOC date (as previously mentioned) passed without any changes. We’ve requested an [...] [...] Verizon FOC date (as previously mentioned) passed without any changes. We’ve requested an [...]

]]> Comment on Outage Notice Nov. 22, 2009 by Roller Network http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2009/11/outage-notice-nov-22-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Roller Network Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:20:40 +0000 http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/?p=421#comment-100 The 9355 series is quite small, even the largest one is smaller than a standard 4-post cabinet. If you order it with the input transformer you're really just ordering an external transformer since there's no space inside, but we have plenty of utility space outside the UPS room to add the input transformer if needed. We have two bypasses; the standard UPS wrap around plus the external bypass on the parallel tie cabinet. We closed the tie cabinet bypass in this instance. Of course they couldn't duplicate the problem after the fact, and they said it should have just switched to battery, but the only reason it would report DC link over/under voltages other than a hardware fault is if the neutral reference was lost. They looked at our generator transfer switch to see if it's switched neutral (it's not), so there isn't an explanation yet. The EPROM values and event logs were pulled and will be sent to engineering for review since it dumped the load. The 9355 series is quite small, even the largest one is smaller than a standard 4-post cabinet. If you order it with the input transformer you’re really just ordering an external transformer since there’s no space inside, but we have plenty of utility space outside the UPS room to add the input transformer if needed. We have two bypasses; the standard UPS wrap around plus the external bypass on the parallel tie cabinet. We closed the tie cabinet bypass in this instance.

Of course they couldn’t duplicate the problem after the fact, and they said it should have just switched to battery, but the only reason it would report DC link over/under voltages other than a hardware fault is if the neutral reference was lost. They looked at our generator transfer switch to see if it’s switched neutral (it’s not), so there isn’t an explanation yet. The EPROM values and event logs were pulled and will be sent to engineering for review since it dumped the load.

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