Networking, system administration and more
Networking, system administration and more
NOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. While looking at the Juniper vMX documents recently, I noticed that support has now been added for Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-62-generic (see Table 2). Since I personally prefer using Debian over RHEL systems, I […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. Juniper has provided an updated copy of the i40e module to resolve the “PF reset” issues that occur on vMX routers when using SR-IOV. The new driver release is version 2.4.101. IMPORTANT: At the time […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. Recent releases of the Juniper vMX (18.1 onwards) support dual routing engines when using KVM as the virtualisation technology. One or both of the routing engines do not need to be configured on the same […]
Read moreWhen attempting to install a Juniper vMX router (release 18.3R1-S1.4) on a newly installed Centos 7.2 host I got the following error: When I checked the supported machine types with /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -machine help everything looked fine, pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0 was listed as the default: The error gmem.c:489: custom memory allocation vtable not […]
Read moreIf Active Directory is out of sync, you can force a pull or push replication event from a domain controller. Push (push all changes from the domain controller to other domain controllers): Pull (pull all chnages from other domain controllers to this domain controller): Explanation The CLI flags are: /A: […]
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