Archives
- August 2020 (1)
- October 2019 (2)
- September 2018 (1)
- June 2018 (1)
- April 2018 (3)
- January 2018 (2)
- December 2017 (3)
- August 2017 (2)
- July 2017 (1)
- February 2017 (1)
- January 2017 (5)
- September 2016 (2)
- January 2016 (1)
- November 2015 (1)
- September 2015 (2)
- October 2014 (1)
- April 2014 (1)
- March 2014 (2)
- December 2013 (1)
- November 2013 (1)
- October 2013 (3)
- September 2013 (2)
- July 2013 (3)
- May 2013 (2)
- March 2013 (2)
- February 2013 (2)
- January 2013 (1)
- December 2012 (5)
- November 2012 (5)
- October 2012 (4)
- September 2012 (3)
- August 2012 (7)
- July 2012 (8)
- June 2012 (2)
- May 2012 (2)
- April 2012 (4)
- March 2012 (1)
- January 2012 (1)
- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (1)
- October 2011 (2)
- September 2011 (1)
- August 2011 (3)
- July 2011 (4)
Author Archives: Adam
Remote Cisco Router Change Safty Net
In the networking world you have a lot of opportunity to break things and take down entire buildings, WAN links, etc. Even less risky changes can result in a short break in connectivity while routing protocols re converge and so on. Because we often don’t have physical access to both sites while we are making WAN changes there has to be some type of worst case scenario prevention method. This is it: When making changes to WAN links in particular I always like to make the change to the far side first and obviously have to if there will be … Continue reading
MySQL Date Time Filename Backup
I recently setup a system to manage our companies IP addresses. This was an open source PHP application that ran in Apache and used MySQL for its database. Since I typically don’t have time to manually run a backup (and why would I want to do something the hard way anyhow?) I decided it was time to automate the task. The first issue was what to name the backup files. I wanted at least a few weeks history worth of backups in case something bad was done in the database… Obviously, I could not have 30 files with the same … Continue reading
Notepad++ Regular Expression Find and Replace
When scripting or manipulating text data I prefer using notepad++. It’s easy to use, includes syntax coloring for just about anything, folds code nicely and even supports regular expression find and replace features. I have been using if for years but just recently have come to love the program even more. When using find and replace in the past I stuck mostly to the basics. From time to time I would use a regex to search and then replacing everything that was found. Notepad++ goes well past this. To explain I will show an example. I was working with tabular … Continue reading
PHP Mac Address Validation and Formatting
I have been working on a small php app to perform a network scan and fill a database with the discovered information. The issue is that, depending on what you perform the scan with, the MAC addresses are in a number of different formats. This PHP functions validates a MAC and returns false if its not valid or a variety of formats depending on your needs! If anyone has any thoughts on improving this function feel free to let me know and I will post the updates.
Our RSS Feed