About the Site
Submitted by TimBruce on Wed, 2007-01-17 17:40.The purpose of this web site is two-fold:
1. The first is a place that can serve as a reference for some of the things I've done...basically I want to document my network configuration and applications for myself. This is to help me as I troubleshoot additional problems or configuration changes (either because I've done something and things aren't working quite right or an application upgrade or patch has changed something). This also can serve as a "model" when I'm working on other people's systems and troubleshoot their problems.
About Me
Submitted by TimBruce on Sat, 2006-04-01 16:49.Welcome to my web site on computers. I'm working to add more content as time allows.
Currently, I'm a part-time student at Marylhurst University in the Masters of Business Administration program.
For fun, I enjoy working on my computers, reading a good book, watching a good movie or listenting to music. My musical taste runs more torwards Country and Western, although I do listen to some Rock & Roll or folk on occassion.
I live in Aloha, a suburb of Portland, Oregon.
Second Network Address on same NIC
Submitted by TimBruce on Mon, 2009-05-25 11:32.Sometimes you need to bind a second IP address to a Network Interface Card. Maybe you need access to another network temporarily or you just need to fix something that comes with a default address not on your network.
From Linux, you can execute the following command:
ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.5.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
This will add a second IP Address to your eth0 network interface.
How Domain Name Services can help Database Recovery in a Disaster
Submitted by TimBruce on Thu, 2009-03-12 22:29.Murphy walks among us. You know Murphy, the famous "optimist" who helps make every bad situations even worse? Well, after a disaster has occurred is not the time to figure out how and where you need to recover your data. Sure, we practice (ok, hopefully we practice!) recovering our database(s) from tape or disk. And during our testing we restore it into a test database or, if we’re lucky enough, into a test server. Great, but how does the application connect to the recovered database if we’ve run into a massive hardware (server) failure?
IP Addresses....or Who Am I?
Submitted by TimBruce on Tue, 2008-10-28 22:18.For computers to talk on a network, they need a unique address. The most common type of address is an Internet Protocol, or IP, address. The address consists of a network portion and a device (computer) portion. I use the term "device" only because it could be something other than a computer, like a printer. It isn’t critical to understanding IP Addresses that there is a separate network portion and a separate device portion, but it does become important when you to want to understand how data moves across your personal network and across the internet.
