Solution: freesco (free Cisco - I guess?) Issue: When I am working on some topology design and especially when using AD... I like to have my development area segmented from anything else that it may impact. On my laptop I use DHCP on either em1 or wlan0 with your standard 192.x.x.x address. To segment my development I use a "Host-Only" network, which has changed a bit with VMware Workstation 8 for Linux (not sure about the Windows version). They now offer Host-Only and another option "LAN Segment". I'm not sure what the limitation for these LAN Segments are. But I currently have 3 configured. I like this option as I believe it will be extremely useful testing cluster configs (for the LLT networks). When I use freeSCO - I do the following: download the freeSCO source and untar it (currently 0.4.3) Create a virtual machine using "Other Linux 2.2.x Kernel" and 512 MB (proceed with defaults for the remainder) remove the hard disk, USB, pri...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.