TekHelp training, day 1
Free food in the dining halls is always nice. The first night of TekHelp training went well. Nick and Luke did a nice overview of the registration process. I think the TekHelps understand our reasoning for all the registration requirements, and the benifits they will provide.
Nick and Luke explaining the registration process and proxy settings
A bunch of the staff sat in the corner of the room hacking away on various things on our laptops
The staff seems to be surviving the ordeal of training fairly well.
Michael (my gunn) and Lawrence snapping photos
All this week we have been working like crazy to get the filters ready. Thanks to the swifty support of telecom we have make excellent progress. The filters are running in Bond Hall, with live management IPs. Mr. Router Man is ready to give us the live IP addresses that the filters will need for production. We are going to make a try at getting them in the networking loop this weekend. Nick and I had a very nice experience testing the filters on Thursday. After they were installed we were able to send data through them on the test network. You get a very odd feeling when you are plugging your laptop directly into ports on a brand new Cisco router. Redundancy seems to work nicely, but we were experiencing up to 3 second delays for the failover to happen. Reading the ifconfig man page specifies that the default timing for CARP notifications is 1 second. The algorithm for detecting a failure of the master interface is 3 times the advbase + advskew settings. So 3 seconds would make sense. I’m pretty sure we can tune the notifications to be quicker.