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I've got an old #cisco #ASA 5512-x laying around that I figured might come in handy some day.

My brother recently sent me an article to a fellow who got #opnSense running on it, and of course I had to bite.

It was almost too easy! I tracked down an ancient VGA to IDC connector, installed it on the motherboard, and then changed the BIOS around to boot from a thumbdrive. OpnSense installed without issue, and BAM I have a 7-port gigabit router with a #xeon processor, 8GB of DDR3 and a 128GB SSD.

I haven't tested yet, but supposedly these bad boys can push *almost* full line speed.

Not too bad for free! It appears these can be had online for under $50 all day long.

The European Parliament tells staff to use Teams, Cisco, and Signal.

With fears rising about the security of online communications, the European Parliament emailed all its staff on 13 February recommending which tools to use.

The endorsement of Signal could be considered a snub to rival direct-messaging apps such as Whatsapp, Messenger, and Telegram.

mediafaro.org/article/20250213

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So, these tools #cisco were telling us we can use to monitor and manage energy use are natural language based, ie they use #LLM and #AI to produce those reports. I asked if, given the 10x power requirement claim they opened the session with, we can disable the natural language component and just use manually written queries?

“Thank you for your feedback, we’ll look into it…but as AI becomes more efficient that shouldn’t be necessary in the future” 😂

Wow, #cisco reckon a #Google #LLM driven web search consumes ten times more electricity than a traditional Google search 😳

Given how much they’re pushing #AI themselves, I think it’s significant that they didn’t say “AI search”, but LLM. Can’t tarnish the product your colleagues are trying to flog in the next room

(I’m in a datacentre sustainability session, btw)

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@fosdem #FOSDEM ask: If you have any #Cisco #SPA500 series #VoIP phones you don't need any more or might be cycling out of use over the year, please get in contact with us / me.

We have had fixed phones at a few key locations this past weekend and want to expand the use of static phones. So an upper bound of maybe 50-60 phones would be very useful to us accounting for all devrooms and for a few spares.

Edit: Retoots explicitly appreciated.

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Coincidentally, there was another way to get #Cisco IOS version info. However, it required the target router to have at least some IP #multicast functionality running on any interface.

The trick here was to to use a little known DVMRP debugging message wrapped in IGMP, which should really never be relayed across router interfaces. This debugging capability was employed by the even lesser known mrinfo debugging tool. The entire mechanism was specified in a long-expired, never finished #IETF Internet-Draft, but the code for it ended up in all Juniper and Cisco routers. A paper contains some additional detail: dataplane.org/jtk/publications