Stephen Reese

Problem with RAID volume larger then 2TB on Dell workstations

I ran into a interesting issue this weekend. I was setting up a RAID volume on a Optiplex and Precision workstations, which have three 1.5 Terabyte (TB) drives. I tried creating a single large RAID 5 volume but the Intel Matrix storage manger (8.5.2) would not set …

Using session-monitor to span ports as an aggregation tap

Like most I do not have the funds to purchase a $1000 port aggregation tap for my IDS to monitor traffic so instead I just used a 2950 Cisco Switch: ! interface FastEthernet0/1 switchport access vlan 100 duplex full ! interface FastEthernet0/2 switchport access vlan 100 duplex full ! interface FastEthernet0 …