Misc Coolness

While I don’t do much with MPLS (other than just order it and have someone else deal with its complexities) and don’t use Cisco’s ANA Networkvision, I found this doc on fault managing MPLS neworks interesting. MPLS crapola includes: BGP neighbor down, MPLS black hole, broken LSP, MPLS tunnel down (or flapping), and pseudo wire down.

While talking to my friend Chris about some ideas I had for Debian packages, he pointed me to a cool project called CheckInstall. This little tool looks awesome, especially considering I’m not that familiar with Debian’s way of doing things. Once your ‘make install’ is done, CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware’s installpkg, “rpm -i” or Debian’s “dpkg -i” as appropriate. According to the website, this script leaves copy of the installed package in the source directory so that you can install it wherever you want.

Hmmm…cool or dangerous? I’ll have to look at how exactly it operates and see if it really does everything necessary to make a “proper” .deb package.