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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...

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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...

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PGAdmin4 on M1 Mac fails to connect

Trying to connect PGAdmin 4 (pgadmin4-7.2-x86_64.dmg) on an M1 Macbook to a remote Postgres server using SSH tunnelling and SSH username/password auth and you get: Unable to connect to server: Failed to decrypt the SSH tunnel password. Error: 'ServerManager' object...

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