James McDonald

Extend your LAN across the WAN on a Shoestring

I was given a Surface Laptop which was a member of a Domain but only had a non administrative login. To gain admin access I needed line of sight to a Domain Controller but that access was on the Corporate LAN a 1000+ kms away. VXLAN VXLAN is an encapsulation...

Wyse 3040 running Ubuntu – Reboot is Finicky

Rebooting Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS install on a Wyse 3040 frequently results in a shutdown not a reboot. Linux wyse1 5.15.0-82-generic #91-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 14 14:14:14 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Running Ubuntu 22.04 on Wyse 3040 I found the best chance of...

Cisco 2960 commands

TFTP Server for Windows https://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/free-tftp-server Backup config to TFTP server copy running-config tftp://10.19.20.30 Set an interface to defaults !-- in config mode config t default interface gi1/0/18 Output Interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1...

Unable to query OPcache status when running wp-cli

You are running wp-cli and see this error message: Unable to query OPcache status: array_key_exists(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, bool given. This error is thrown when opcache_get_status( true ) is called and returns false because opcache is disabled...

Manual Labtech removal

https://advyon.com/how-to-manually-remove-the-lts-service-for-labtech/ Just in case the link above ^ goes away Manually make changes on the machine Changes have to be made at four different locations on the local machine in the following order. 1. Services.msc...

Replacing SFP’s in Cisco 2960x Switches

I have 3 Cisco ws-c2960x-24pd-l switches on a site with SFP+ slots (10GB) The switches were relocated when the business moved to another factory. The old factory must of had single-mode fibre links because the switches had SFP-10G-LR-S SFP+'s which are single-mode...

Cisco Router Wake On Lan

Haven't confirmed this to work yet but leaving here so I have a reference for later In the Cisco enable prompt Router# tclsh proc WakeOnLan {broadcastAddr macAddr} { set net [binary format H* [join [split $macAddr -:] ""]] set pkt [binary format c* {0xff 0xff 0xff...