Broadcom

Since one of the requirements for my current project is having NIC redundancy, I didn’t get around looking at the available " adapter teaming" (or adapter bonding) solutions available for Linux/SLES. First I tried to dig into the Broadcom solution (since the Blade I first implemented the stuff uses a Broadcom NetXtreme II card) , but found out pretty soon that the basp configuration tool, which is only available on the Broadcom driver CD’s shipped with the Blade itself, pretty much doesn’t work. ...

OK, I’m sitting now again in train (hrm, I get the feeling I’ve done that already in the last few days - oh wait, I was doing that just on Monday) this time to Berlin. My boss ordered me to attend a workshop covering the implementation of Shibboleth (for those of you, who can’t associate anything with that term - it’s an implementation for single sign-on, also covering distributed authorization and authentication) somewhere in Berlin Spandau (Evangelisches Johannesstift Berlin). ...