Richard Fairclough

Network Engineer and part time sysadmin hack (yeah I love teaching unix guys to tcpdump & write iptables rules).
Juniper & Arista fanboi.

aka javelin

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@caskings Sure, in this specific case it's a vendors cloud based management platform. Would love to hear a conversation saying please give us your SNMP community so we can poll away ;)

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

Sigh "could you please supply SNMP details so we can monitor the cloud" no that isn't how it works. Mean while minutes later they are clearly thinking I'm stupid as still trying to get to the bottom of finding those magical SNMP details.. Sure. Good luck with that one.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@vByronM Noooo love opengear. Have been able to fudge and kludge my way out of many dark holes with opengear doing funky things. Major downside is bricking remotely and why so damn slow when arm CPU are so cheap and powerful.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@mountainrescuer Don't forget the usual well if the DR systems are there doing nothing why can't we put nonprod and UAT over there. What do you mean I can't have instant DR now?

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@JuniperNetworks Hi team, Sky ATP portal out outbound emails are failing SPF checks. Mimecast is introducing a hold delay on mail delivery. Makes it hard to get your OTP within 10 min timeframe.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@EVE_NG_TEAM Tried to give you money but bare metal install failed three times and trying to deploy ova just sits in verifying.
At 11:54pm guess I'm giving up. Suggestion next time to remove the licence input requirements and let me do it later.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@danroweuk @HtamNet @gregfoletta @Marbell28 @ioshints And wait for them to say use stretched VCF.. which needs stretched layer2 for the management domain. Stretched l2 to get rid of it. Doh!

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@mountainrescuer How much do you think a duck that big eats?
#fatteningitupforlateryum

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@networkjanitor Now that is shaving.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@BradSearleAU @JuniperNetworks Har Har they like me more. I got 6 eggs 😝.
That said it was just fun to get something in the mail.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@networkjanitor Haha the hair.
Suspiciously looks like a rats tail.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

It's 2020 and people still test their port connectivity via telnet.
"I can't telnet to the RPC ports 49k-65k".

Sigh.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

Thanks @JuniperNetworks for whatever this covid care package is :).

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@mountainrescuer @ccieby30 As bad as people writing JunOS. Gah

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

Hey @ReadingEggsAus need to update url requirements now you are using CloudFlare as it has changed DNS lookups and being blocked on url filters. #tcpdumponasunday

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@chsjuniper More than once found a Juniper device with no config but someone forgot about rollback.
Zeroise always.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@networkjanitor Definitely. Butter, real butter that is, is a must.
Nothing like having to lick the stream of buttery Vegemite goodness running down the back of your hand. #maybenotsomethingtodoinpublic

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

@networkjanitor Plenty of sunshine through the smoke haze.

[Richard Fairclough @RFairclough]

Twice in one day @TurnbullMalcolm motorcade have zoomed past me. I feel like there might be some stalking going on.... Off to the DC to hide.