ipstoryboard by Doug Renner, Founder, Peak IP Solutions, LLC

FW: Cisco UCS Link for great training

2011-10-10T19:48:00.000-07:00

Pretty Awesome UCS link courtesy of Brad our UCS “expert”.

http://bradhedlund.com/2011/03/08/cisco-ucs-networking-videos-in-hd-updated-improved/

Brad is on the money here with some super good informative video training on UCS.

Arise and eat

2011-08-13T09:22:00.001-07:00

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!" Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat." http://bible.us/1Kgs19.4.NKJV

Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!

How to Factory Reset Cisco 7940 / 7960 / 7941 and 7961 phones

2011-07-16T22:29:00.001-07:00

Reset the 7940 and 7960 IP Phones to the Factory Default

In order to perform a factory reset of a phone if the password is set, complete these steps:

1. Unplug the power cable from the phone, and then plug in the cable again.

The phone begins its power up cycle.

2. Immediately press and hold # and while the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons begin to flash in sequence, release #.

The Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons flash in sequence in order to indicate that the phone waits for you to enter the key sequence for the reset.

3. Press 123456789*0# within 60 seconds after the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons begin to flash.

If you repeat a key within the sequence, for example, if you press 1223456789*0#, the sequence is still accepted and the phone resets.

If you do not complete this key sequence or do not press any keys, after 60 seconds, the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons no longer flash, and the phone continues with its normal startup process. The phone does not reset.

If you enter an invalid key sequence, the buttons no longer flash, and the phone continues with its normal startup process. The phone does not reset.

If you enter this key sequence correctly, the phone displays this prompt:

Keep network cfg? 1 = yes 2 = no

4. In order to maintain the current network configuration settings for the phone when the phone resets, press 1. In order to reset the network configuration settings when the phone resets, press 2.

If you press another key or do not respond to this prompt within 60 seconds, the phone continues with its normal startup process and does not reset. Otherwise, the phone goes through the factory reset process.

Reset the 7941 and 7961 IP Phones to the Factory Default

Complete these steps:

1. Unplug the power cable from the phone, and then plug in the cable again.

The phone begins its power up cycle.

2. Immediately press and hold # and while the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons begin to flash in sequence, release #.

The line buttons flash in sequence in order to indicate that the phone waits for you to enter the key sequence for the reset.

3. Press 123456789*0# within 60 seconds after the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons begin to flash.

If you repeat a key within the sequence, for example, if you press 1223456789*0#, the sequence is still accepted and the phone resets.

If you do not complete this key sequence or do not press any keys, after 60 seconds the Headset, Mute, and Speaker buttons no longer flash, and the phone continues with its normal startup process. The phone does not reset.

If you enter an invalid key sequence, the buttons no longer flash, and the phone continues its normal startup process. The phone does not reset.

If you enter this key sequence correctly, the phone displays prompt:

upgrading

You are all set to begin the next sequence of fun to see if you can get the phone to do what you were originally attempting.

Cheers,

Doug

www.peakipsolutions.com

Be Thankful

2011-06-27T23:12:00.000-07:00

Be Thankful

servicezoom | June 27, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Tags: thankful | Categories: Motivational Poems | URL: http://wp.me/pJFV1-bF

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,

If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times,

During those times you grow

Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for imporvment.

Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes.

They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.

It's easy to be thankful for the good things.

A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.

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iCloud is Microsofts Strategy... What about Google?

2011-06-13T04:06:00.001-07:00

For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation http://zite.to/jafBel

East Bay Cisco Users Group Thursday at 6pm- Cisco Office in Pleasanton

2011-06-08T06:38:00.001-07:00

Hello all,

We will be having our meeting tomorrow covering the latest in the Cisco, UCS, Datacenter and server world. Scott Afshar, CCIE and general good guy will give us the update. Cisco just became #2 in blade server shipments- find out why. Read to the end for a webinar on Thursday you may be interested in.

As always, forward on to anyone else who might be interested in our group. Sign up at www.ebcug.org on the Register page.

Details of the meeting;

5890 Owens Drive, 4^th Floor
Pleasanton, CA 94588

6pm

http://www.ebcug.org/meetings/index.htm

To see the meetings archive, click here

Please join!

**Our next meeting is Thursday June 9th, 2011!**

Our monthly meeting is always held at 6:30pm on the Second Thursday of the month. The general meeting begins at 6:30 with official commencement of speakers and topics of the evening. Education and networking with your peers are the focus of the meetings.

Food Provided: We will have food and soft drinks, water and tea at 6:00... the meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

You are welcome to join us across the street at Chevy's afterwards for chips & salsa or a drink as we usually head there for a while to catch up and network.

RSVP: drenner @ ebcug.org

Download the iCal Calendar Event: EBCUG-Recurring.iCal

Topic (s) : Cisco UCS Update Thursday June 9^th, 2011
	East Bay Cisco Users Group A long time Cisco UCS and Data Center champion, Scott Afshar will give us an update on all things UCS.
Speakers (s) About the Speaker:	Scott Afshar, Data Center Specialist, CCIE, Cisco Systems. · Come hear the latest on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Find out how and why there are over 40 world records for computing speed held now by Cisco. How the UCS Manager application changes the game for provisioning applications. The immense amount of memory you can put on each server/blade. Scott will cover updates in the Nexus switching system as well and all the advancements in 10GE and Datacenter Ethernet. We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register. Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter. Cisco Press Books General Swag T-Shirts from time to time Free Advice served by many! Pizza to be served... Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite Soda, Tea, Water, etc. What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know. Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.


Time	Food and beverages at 6:00 Meeting will start at 6:30PM

Location	Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA 5890 Owens Drive, 4^th Floor Pleasanton, CA 94588 925-997-6436 cell
**	Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Bonus message!

-----Original Message-----
From: 2011@thetechfirm.com [mailto:2011@thetechfirm.com]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 5:39 PM
To: Douglas Renner
Subject: Free Networking Webinar this Thursday

My colleague, Mike Pennachi is offering a free, (but limited sign-ins) "Network Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks" webinar this Thursday.

Mike and I go go back a ways, and I would recommend any of Mikes sessions for anyone interested in learning. Nice thing about Mikes Webinars is that they are informative and free, no strings attached.

As I previously mentioned, space is limited, so reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/171121129

Enjoy

Tony Fortunato

The Technology Firm

2011-05-25T21:19:00.001-07:00

Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, http://bible.us/Luke18.1.NKJV

Regards,
Doug Renner

Single Number Reach: 925-337-8660
Thrown by Droid!

One from the archives... The original Cisco Terminal Server

2011-05-07T12:52:00.001-07:00

I recently ran across this link posted in the Cisco Alumni email group. It shows the original Cisco Terminal Server product from 1989. Great historical document on how far we have come in telecommunications today.

http://www.kellys.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ciscotermserv030.pdf

Cheers!

Doug

Peak IP Solutions, LLC

VIDEO IP: video.peakipsolutions.com

For Support:

Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

Phone: 925-337-8650 option 2

John 16:13

2011-04-13T20:44:00.001-07:00

And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. http://bible.us/John16.8.NKJV

Regards,
Doug Renner

Single Number Reach: 925-337-8660
Thrown by Droid!

Cisco IOS on Unix training available

2011-04-12T10:14:00.001-07:00

Here is a new way to get hands on experience with the latest cisco technologies in routing and switching…

Cisco Announces a Networking Education Breakthrough with Cisco Learning Labs

IT learners can now access real Cisco labs with both routing and Layer 2 core switching features.

Cisco Learning Labs are powered by Cisco IOS® Software on UNIX and enable critical, hands-on lab experience for future networking engineers interested in attaining Cisco certifications.

Elevate your study program with Cisco Learning Labs today and enjoy the variety of lab bundles for Cisco CCNA®, Cisco CCNP®, and Cisco CCIP® certification preparation.

Cisco Learning Labs are available exclusively on the Cisco Learning Network Store.

Review all lab bundles and pricing information now.

Cheers!

Doug Renner

CEO

Peak IP Solutions, LLC

2011-04-10T09:38:00.001-07:00

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. http://bible.us/2Tim2.22.NKJV

Regards,
Doug Renner

Single Number Reach: 925-337-8660
Thrown by Droid!

CORRECTION: East Bay Cisco Users Group- Thursday 2/10 - Dr. Eugene Schultz - Industry Security Expert

2011-02-07T09:50:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone,

The date was incorrect for this Thursday’s meeting. The date is 2/10/2011. We will meet at the Cisco office at 5890 Owens Drive, Pleasanton CA. We will officially begin at 6:30pm. Sorry for the confusion. The website is corrected.

Doug

From: Douglas Renner
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:30 AM
To: members@ebcug.org
Cc: Roth, Michael; Dan Segovia (dsegovia)
Subject: East Bay Cisco Users Group 2/10 - Dr. Eugene Schultz - Industry Security Expert

Hello everyone,

We have a very prominent security speaker this month. Please forward to others you feel would be interested in this meeting. They can sign up on the email list at www.ebcug.org on the Register page to get our meeting announcements. Read below on this month’s meeting covering Security in Virtualized environments. I encourage you to join us on this important topic.

Thank you,

Doug

drenner@ebcug.org

Please join!

**Our next meeting is Thursday February 10th, 2011!**

Food Provided: We will have food and soft drinks, water and tea at 6:00... the meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

You are welcome to join us across the street at Chevy's afterwards for chips & salsa or a drink as we usually head there for a while to catch up and network.

RSVP: drenner @ ebcug.org

Download the iCal Calendar Event: EBCUG-Recurring.iCal

Topic (s) : Security Risks in Virtualized Environments
	East Bay Cisco Users Group Security Risks in Virtualized Environments.
Speakers (s) About the Speaker:	Dr. Eugene Schultz, SANS Instructor, Security Expert, International Speaker on Security. Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz will speak on issues relating to security in virtualized environments. Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. A Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Gene has also been named to the ISSA Hall of Fame and has received ISSA's Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases. You can read Dr. Schultz's Blog at this link; http://blog.emagined.com/gschultz BIO: http://www.emagined.com/management.php He is a principal at Emagined Security. We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register. Thank you, Doug · East Bay Cisco Users Group drenner@ ebcug.org Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter. Cisco Press Books General Swag T-Shirts from time to time Free Advice served by many! Food to be served... I think we will get some good food for this one… Soda, Tea, Water, etc. Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.


Time	Food and beverages at 6:00 Meeting will start at 6:30PM

Location	We will hold this meeting at Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA 5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor Pleasanton, CA 94588 925-997-6436 cell
**	Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Side Note: We are out of IPv4 Address Space. Check out my blog at www.summitsol.com for a note about it.

Douglas Renner

IP Phone: 925.337.8650 x8660
Unified FAX: 925.337.8630
VIDEO IP: 206.80.17.144
Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com
Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

East Bay Cisco Users Group 2/11 - Dr. Eugene Schultz - Industry Security Expert

2011-02-07T09:30:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone,

Thank you,

Doug

drenner@ebcug.org

Please join!

**Our next meeting is Thursday February 11th, 2011!**

Food Provided: We will have food and soft drinks, water and tea at 6:00... the meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

You are welcome to join us across the street at Chevy's afterwards for chips & salsa or a drink as we usually head there for a while to catch up and network.

RSVP: drenner @ ebcug.org

Download the iCal Calendar Event: EBCUG-Recurring.iCal

Topic (s) : Security Risks in Virtualized Environments
	East Bay Cisco Users Group Security Risks in Virtualized Environments.
Speakers (s) About the Speaker:	Dr. Eugene Schultz, SANS Instructor, Security Expert, International Speaker on Security. Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz will speak on issues relating to security in virtualized environments. Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. A Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Gene has also been named to the ISSA Hall of Fame and has received ISSA's Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases. You can read Dr. Schultz's Blog at this link; http://blog.emagined.com/gschultz BIO: http://www.emagined.com/management.php He is a principal at Emagined Security. We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register. Thank you, Doug · East Bay Cisco Users Group drenner@ ebcug.org Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter. Cisco Press Books General Swag T-Shirts from time to time Free Advice served by many! Food to be served... I think we will get some good food for this one… Soda, Tea, Water, etc. Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.


Time	Food and beverages at 6:00 Meeting will start at 6:30PM

Location	We will hold this meeting at Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA 5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor Pleasanton, CA 94588 925-997-6436 cell
**	Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Side Note: We are out of IPv4 Address Space. Check out my blog at www.summitsol.com for a note about it.

Douglas Renner

IP Phone: 925.337.8650 x8660
Unified FAX: 925.337.8630
VIDEO IP: 206.80.17.144
Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com
Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

IPv6 Update

2011-02-06T23:47:00.001-08:00

* IANA IPv4 Exhaustion

At a ceremony held on 3 February, 2011 the Internet Assigned

Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of

IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in

accordance with the Global Policy for the Allocation of the

Remaining IPv4 Address Space. With this action, the free pool of

available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. To read the full

text of this announcement please go to:

http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted

* World IPv6 Day

Facebook, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), websites

with more than one billion combined visits each day, are joining

major content delivery networks Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) and

Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), and the Internet Society, for

the first global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6.

On June 8, 2011, dubbed World IPv6 Day, participants will enable

IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours.  Cisco, Juniper,

Hurricane Electric, and Bing have also announced their

participation.

http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/

Hurricane Electric's open letter to Hurricane Electric Customers,

Partners and Managers of Interconnected Networks about World IPv6

Day.

http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_Letter_Regarding_World_IPv6_Day.pdf

At Hurricane Electric, every day is an IPv6 day.

* IPv6 Deployment Growth

The global IPv6 routing table has passed 4000 IPv6 prefixes.

Of the 36820 networks in the world running BGP, the number running

IPv6 has increased to 3107, or 8.4 percent.

Source: http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi

Get your own Dropbox account!

2011-01-29T06:09:00.001-08:00

Dropbox has to be one of the best tools I use these days. It is cloud storage and local storage on every device you have. You can save your files into a folder on your PC, MAC, phone or whatever, and they will be synced across all your devices without any intervention. It is great to have files backed up but even better to have them backed up, synced, and available wherever you are. I like to keep my configuration notes for those key cisco asa firewalls and routers, a selection of pictures to show anyone anywhere of my family, and other things I just want available when needed on demand.

Get your account at dropbox by clicking on this link http://db.tt/MOa0r9o.

It will change your life!

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Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com
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2011-01-26T05:54:00.001-08:00

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IPv6 World Day

2011-01-24T11:05:00.001-08:00

IPv6 world day which is scheduled to take place on June 8, 2011. On that date, many major websites will make AAAA (IPv6) records available for their main websites in addition to the existing A records for a 24 hour period. Cisco announced on Friday that they will be participating.

A blog post and detailed description about what is going to happen can be found at http://blogs.cisco.com/news/world-ipv6-day-working-together-towards-a-new-internet-protocol/

Peak IP Solutions, LLC

Google hangs up on their FREE 411 service.

2010-10-17T14:09:00.001-07:00

Well, we do a lot of Unified Communications installs. We have been configuring a redirect for our customers for several years to save them money on 411 calls to the Free Google service. That is the kind of thing we like to do for our clients, save them money… Well, this will create a bit of work for us to redirect them back to the pay for service from their respective carriers. 411 services are now priced around $1.50 to $2.00 per call so we will have to research something else to do.

Here is a link to the NY Times article saying

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/farewell-goog-411/

Cheers!

Doug

Douglas Renner CEO
Peak IP Solutions, LLC

VIDEO IP: video.peakipsolutions.com
Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com

Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

Visit Peak IP Solutions Cisco Solutions Showcase

2010-10-16T11:11:00.001-07:00

Wow, what a great Saturday. We are heading to a Birthday party for a one of my daughters friends today. It is a “Chocolate Party.” Should be fun and caloric.

I invite you all to take a look at our new Cisco Solutions Showcase site. You will find some fresh content on Network Security, Unified Communications and Wireless Solutions. Please click the link below. Feel free to let me know how you like it with your comments.

http://peakipsolutions.ciscointeractive.com

Thank you!
Doug

East Bay Cisco Users Group Tomorrow 6:30pm - IPv6

2010-10-13T18:59:00.001-07:00

Hello all,

The EBCUG meeting is tomorrow night. We will have Owen DeLong from Hurricane Electric covering IPv6 again. We'll call this IPv6 Revisited. As usual, forward this on to others you think might be interested in the topic. If so, please register for the group at www.ebcug.org to receive ongoing email notifications of the meetings. You can also join the LinkedIn group. Read below…

Please join!

**Our next meeting is Thursday October 14th, 2010!**

Food Provided: We will have food and soft drinks, water and tea at 6:00... the meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

You are welcome to join us across the street at Chevy's afterwards for chips & salsa or a drink as we usually head there for a while to catch up and network.

RSVP: drenner @ ebcug.org

Topic (s) : IPv6 Evangelized II
	East Bay Cisco Users Group IPv6. Overview and Essentials Revisited
Speakers (s) About the Speaker:	Owen DeLong IPv6 Evangelist and Consultant Hurricane Electric · Bio: Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist for Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 ready Internet Service Provider. He's also an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council and a senior backbone engineer with more than 25 years of industry experience. In his spare time, he's a commercial pilot and teaches SCUBA diving and CPR/First Aid courses. Owen can be reached at owen at delong dot com. IPv6 Overview and Essentials for the Systems Administrator Owen will discuss the basics of IPv6, the current state of IPv4, the rapid reduction in IPv4 address space and what it means to you. He will also cover IPv6 Addressing methods including SLAAC, DHCP, Static and Privacy issues. Did you know all Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 Servers are running v6 on your network and tunneling with Teredo? Also covered will be Linux addressing specifics and IPv6 configuration without a native v6 backbone available to you. For more information you can visit www.tunnelbroker.net or www.he.net. See you there! Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter. Cisco Press Books General Swag T-Shirts from time to time Free Advice served by many! Pizza to be served... Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite Soda, Tea, Water, etc. If we have time: Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems


Time	Food and beverages at 6:00 Meeting will start at 6:30PM

Location	Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA 5890 Owens Dr Pleasanton, CA 94588 (925) 223-1000 (925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door
**	Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Douglas Renner
Peak IP Solutions, LLC

IP Phone: 925.337.8650 x8660
Unified FAX: 925.337.8630
VIDEO IP: 206.80.17.145
Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com

Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

East Bay Cisco Users Group - IPv6 with Owen DeLong October 14th

2010-10-12T01:20:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

I hope you can make it for our next meeting in Pleasanton, CA this Thursday.

Cheers!

Doug

To see the meetings archive, click here

Please join!

**Our next meeting is Thursday October 14th, 2010!**

Food Provided: We will have food and soft drinks, water and tea at 6:00... the meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

You are welcome to join us across the street at Chevy's afterwards for chips & salsa or a drink as we usually head there for a while to catch up and network.

RSVP: drenner @ ebcug.org

Download the iCal Calendar Event: EBCUG-Recurring.iCal

Topic (s) : IPv6 Evangelized II
	East Bay Cisco Users Group IPv6. Overview and Essentials Revisited
Speakers (s) About the Speaker:	Owen DeLong IPv6 Evangelist and Consultant Hurricane Electric · Bio: Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist for Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 ready Internet Service Provider. He’s also an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council and a senior backbone engineer with more than 25 years of industry experience. In his spare time, he’s a commercial pilot and teaches SCUBA diving and CPR/First Aid courses. Owen can be reached at owen at delong dot com. IPv6 Overview and Essentials for the Systems Administrator Owen will discuss the basics of IPv6, the current state of IPv4, the rapid reduction in IPv4 address space and what it means to you. He will also cover IPv6 Addressing methods including SLAAC, DHCP, Static and Privacy issues. Did you know all Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 Servers are running v6 on your network and tunneling with Teredo? Also covered will be Linux addressing specifics and IPv6 configuration without a native v6 backbone available to you. For more information you can visit www.tunnelbroker.net or www.he.net. See you there! Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter. Cisco Press Books General Swag T-Shirts from time to time Free Advice served by many! Pizza to be served... Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite Soda, Tea, Water, etc. If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton. What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know. Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.


Time	Food and beverages at 6:00 Meeting will start at 6:30PM

Location	Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA 5890 Owens Dr Pleasanton, CA 94588 (925) 223-1000 (925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door
**	Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Douglas Renner CEO
Peak IP Solutions, LLC

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Email: drenner@peakipsolutions.com

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Peak IP Solutions Pillar Partnership Status - Peak IP De-Authorized after picking up Compellent

2010-09-25T11:39:00.001-07:00

Storage is sure a catty business. Seems to be a dogfight in every deal. We surely like our new relationship with Compellent Storage and their fluid data campaign. The product really sings! Features and ease of use seem to be unmatched elsewhere.

In case you are looking at Pillar as a solution, this is how they treated us as a partner when we chose to take on Compellent Storage as another vendor option in addition to our Netapp partnership. We sold about 9 Pillar systems for them to our own customers over about 14 months. You would think they would be happy with our performance. Their answer was to fire us as a partner the day we did a Press Release on our new Compellent partnership. Fact was, we needed replication for our customers and that feature was chronically late and absent from the Pillar feature set.

My statement was that whenever Pillar wanted to sell exclusively through Peak IP Solutions, Peak IP would exclusively sell Pillar. Well we all know that would never happen. In the end they fired us and sent the De-Authorisation Letter attached. The company is poorly run from the top. I even heard that Tako Ventures backed out of funding them and it is all Larry Ellison directly funding them now. With the acquisition of SUN, what is the life of this company now…?

- Doug

..... original email now deleted... it was here.

Pillar Data Systems requested that I delete the email they sent me deauthorizing us as partners. They stated it was proprietary information. I suppose publishing the email firing us as partners was a little bold.

The reality of the situation is, why would any company, especially one whom was said to be the number one partner in the Bay Area, fire a channel partner who is being successful with the product. Even if we were barely successful, we did have their logo on the back of our business cards, we worked with them to bring them into our customer base, we did a lot for them. They simply fired us for adding another product line to our storage solution base. Compellent.

Now, it is very awkward working with our customers who bought Pillar from us. I would do just about anything to move them to a Compellent solution or Netapp or even EMC... After we were "delisted," about $300K in additional storage systems, renewals and expansions were sold DIRECT to our customers by Pillar with no channel partner. Another partner was also introduced to a few customers but in the end they took the business Direct. We were unable to play. And now, we cannot support them. Awkward....

The most akward...., is that we sold one to my church. Yes, they are a big church and have a bunch of VM's, data, and video surveillance. Well, I can't support them now that Big Mike fired us through his ranks.

Hmmm... I remember a guy named Chip who was the head of Marketing there. He was supposed to bring film crews and writers to do case studies of our satisfied customers. Well, he never surfaced. All talk and no action. We were willing to do references and I made the calls to our customers to ask them to participate. They never showed up. Lots of time invested but Pillar never showed up.

This post is LONG OVERDUE! Pillar fired us about a year ago in August of '09. We truly love Compellent and our relationship there however. John Mallory and team are a great crew. The 100% support their partners and channel. The product is truly TOP TIER too. We bought one for our own use internally. Something I was always hesitant to do with Pillar. I am sure glad I never did that. Wow, what a waste that would have been.

Anyway, this replaces the email that used to live in this post. Sorry to have disturbed the Pillar Elite with that part of the message. If you are thinking about carrying Pillar as a Channel Partner, think again. BAD MOVE! I regret it as much as the day I sold my '73 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper Bus. Best car ever!

Cheers!

Doug

Cisco BUG causes BGP Internet instability

2010-09-14T17:24:00.000-07:00

Robert McMillan, Cisco patches bug that caused partial Internet blackout; A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco IOS XR.

InfoWorld Home, 30 Aug 2010 | IDG News Service
http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/cisco-patches-bug-caused-partial-internet-blackout-811?source=IFWNLE_nlt_sec_2010-08-31

Stop the Nonsense! No New 1099 Rule!

2010-09-14T16:16:00.000-07:00

Why is our government trying to stifle our economy and encumber small businesses with useless paperwork?

http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/09/small-businesses-rally-to-fight-1099-rule.html

Enough already! The Democrats AND Republicans aren’t to be trusted anylonger. Time for a new party. The TEA Party. (Taxed Enough Already). Let’s take our country and freedom back and make this country great and strong again!

Douglas Renner CEO
Peak IP Solutions, LLC

Web: www.peakipsolutions.com

www.summitsol.com

FusionStorm's hiring practices costs them 10.9 million

2010-09-14T10:33:00.001-07:00

Cant anyone just do the right thing anymore? I keep hearing about “gray” business practices in my industry. The below url is just another example.

Our country was founded based on the Principles of God as the rock of our nation. With that declining, this sort of stuff is what we are left with. Is it any wonder that our financial system fell flat on its face since God is systematically being taken out of our country’s daily lives. What makes capitalism work is morality. Capitalism without morality leads to excessive greed. Sound familiar in recent years?

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2010/07/19/daily6.html

If businesses and citizens would realize that there is Right and Wrong and listen to their conscience more often, we will be in a much better place.

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