Deus Ex Machina

Going to be brain-dumping most of my knowledge and opinions on IPv6 into my new site: http://ipvsix.me

So it turns out that if I want the newer firmware for IPMI to properly read sensors on the board and not have critical alerts that are fake, I have to factory default the IPMI config.

Here, have an awesome GIMP job.

I bought their Atom X7SPA-HF mostly because it was a kick-ass board with IPMI. I found that it allowed you to even get to IPMI over IPv6, however only using DHCPv6 or Router Advertisements.

Using my ASUS ION Atom in the colo with Ubuntu 10.04 server and FreeSwitch.
Have FreeSwitch listening on IPv6 only (forced IPv4 to use localhost).
Tested Linphone and SIP Communicator as soft-phones and successfully registered over IPv6.
Looking into hardware phones that are dual-stack, like from Moimstone.
Need to make sure that calls can be placed and received.
Need to look into an IPv6 based STUN server/whatever for users behind IPv6 firewalls.
Need to make sure that video works on calls.

Felt like adding my $0.02 regarding the most recent kernel update.

After finally rebooting to make it take effect, I noted the following issues:

- Drobo connected over USB no longer recognized or able to be mounted; same for my phone.

- Graphically issuing a reboot led to my desktop logging out and sitting at the login splash screen. Using the reboot option on the login splash screen did nothing. Had to drop to console and issue C+A+D.

- Audio device was no longer detected.

Booting on previous kernel resolved all issues. Hopefully there is an update soon.

Picked up an Intel 40GB SSD for my home workstation's Ubuntu installation. The 1TB drive with 10.04 has been throwing errors, and well, I haven't played with SSD yet, and the Intels have a good rep. Installation of Ubuntu 10.04-64bit took like no time. And even updating the system took like 10 minutes. Boot time...is horribly awesomely fast. @3s, system is up and loading graphics. @8s Ubuntu is automatically logged in and all of networking is up. Configured up the work VPN and then the broker VPN, and both are quite stable.

Going to use my last unused machine in the colo as a FreeSwitch IPv6 only SIP PBX, slightly open for people to register and use to contact eachother.

Maybe some other VoIP protocol, but definitely IPv6 only. Reg'd open-sip.net today.

Been slowly working on learning how to build, deploy and manage Eucalyptus clusters. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 for all the installations since it provided the easiest installation option, which is right at booting from CD.

Here are some shots of the cabinet this site and a few others are housed in. Mostly for my personal projects, I also let friends put their servers in here for fast speeds and getting gear out of the house. Click on the photos for full resolution.

Rear:

Front: