Network Development Team

As per recent communication on ITSS-A we are now in a position to resume FroDo upgrades with a configuration workaround available to fix the L2VPN annexe instability issue seen on a small number of sites. The following schedule lists the … Continue reading →

Dear ITSS, It is our intention to upgrade all of our Odin HPE 5510 FroDos in September. This will be moving the firmware from R1311P02 to R3506P11. We are not upgrading the DCDIST/HPE 5940 FroDos, we do not expect new code … Continue reading →

This blog post is an expansion on the previous post about Tawny OWL to give timescales. The upgrade of the FroDos to re-route OWL traffic from the current system to the new one (called Tawny) is roughly a two stage … Continue reading →

FroDo Comware Upgrade We would like to announce a staged upgrade of the version of Comware running on our HPE 5510 and 5940 FroDos. This blog entry aims to answer the majority of questions that this work will raise. Please, … Continue reading →

This blog post hasn’t spun out of any particular instance, but I sometimes get the feeling that clicking the “Mark as SPAM” button in a mail client isn’t completely understood by everyone, which isn’t surprising as everything that follows is … Continue reading →

From both my last post and my colleague Rob Perkins’ previous post, you’ll see that we’ve had some fun and games recently with updating the software on the FroDos provisioned on the HPE 5940 platform. Whilst these FroDos represent a … Continue reading →

Odin 5940 FroDo Comware Upgrade (reattempt) We would like to announce a staged upgrade of the version of Comware running on our HPE 5940 FroDos for those that were not completed last time around. This blog entry aims to answer … Continue reading →

This is a continuation of the series of posts examining the inner workings of eduroam and in particular Linux’s involvement in it. I had originally intended for this to be a post on both logging and monitoring. I now realize … Continue reading →