All of these were shots I took while in Hawaii during the morning. I really enjoyed getting out before everyone was up and taking either my A6300 or just my iPhone and getting some shots in the morning. There seemed to be something magical in the morning that kept me out there and just shooting away. These are some of my favorites. I have some panos that I will be uploading also that look absolutely beautfiul I believe.
For my wife’s birthday we went down to San Diego for the day. This was just a day trip and we were just going around using the trolley for transport. We did an escape room while we were there and also did an urban adventure quest that took us through old town and into Little Italy area. Really some areas, these are a few shots made with my iPhone. No post processing just some fun shots with no real purpose or reason.
I started this project a couple of weeks and decided to go around and document the dairies in the area. Where I live has been a dairy area for a long time, but as they build more houses more and more of the dairies are leaving and becoming housing. I thought it was important and kind of cool to document what was left and some of the different diaries that were here.
A few weeks ago I had the honor(paying for) running in the Disney Star Wars Half Marathon and 10k. As all Disney races it was a fun time and I really enjoy these races. Here are some shots I took with my iPhone while running around and having a good time.
Spent New Years in Big Bear no snow fell, but there was plenty on the ground. The child and I went out and played in the snow and took some shots of the new car out in the snow. Here are some shots taken with the IPhone 6+ while we were out playing. Had a good time throwing snow at each other.
Off of Sierra Avenue and the 15 we went on our annual hike with my dad. Here are some shots from the hike. Nice hike and the day was nice. There is a bit of graffiti at the spot, but it is still a nice hike.
Went for our annual Holiday Disneyland trip and it just so happened that season of the force was going on. Had a bunch of really cool Star Wars models out for display. Below are some of the pictures that I took while walking around the Disneyland attractions.
Went to Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago for the Rock N Roll Half Marathon and for my wife to have her last fun time before she went in for surgery. We ended up staying at the Mandalay Bay resort and had a good time. Here are some of the shots from the weekend.
Dear Subaru:
This past week I purchased a brand new Subaru Outback. Unfortunately this process was not without it’s issues and problems. First off let me say that I had researched the Outback for a few months, my Father in law had one and I knew what I wanted. I had browsed the Subaru.com site and knew what features I wanted along with what colors and interior. So when I went looking I was looking for a very specific car:
A red Subaru Outback with Black Leather Interior, with Moonroof and Keyless Entry.
This car was difficult to find I ended up looking at all of the Southern California Dealerships and talking to all of the different internet departments at them. Some of the dealerships wanted me to custom order my car and wait until February to get it. Others wanted me to purchase site unseen a car that was close to what I wanted that they had coming in the next couple of weeks. I didn’t like any of those options.
Then the Internet Manager from Singh Subaru called and helped me out. We spoke on the phone for several minutes and I explained what I was looking for. He said I don’t have that on the lot, but I have found one that I can bring in. He said let me get back to you once I have secured the car and that it can be delivered. About an hour later he called and told me was able to secure the car and asked when I could be down. I said I will be there in an hour, he said no problem I will have the car onsite when you get here. My wife and I drove down to their dealership through traffic and everything and were very excited to see the car. When we got there we found out two things:
At this point I politely told the Sales Manager that I felt we had been lied to and that there was a lack of trust on my part. He told me how he had been working on the deal all day long and that he couldn’t possibly do something like have the car on the lot without a deal in place. He also said that the Internet Manager was wrong and on and on he went. I responded with he hadn’t been working on this that long since I had only been talking to the Internet Manager for 2 hours. However at this point my trust had been violated and I decided to leave with my wife.
During this time I had received an email from Sierra Subaru in Monrovia. As I was leaving Singh I called them and asked to make sure the car was in stock and on the lot. Michael Conquilla told me the car was there and that he would be there waiting. My wife and I drove over there which required about another hour. We got there and the car I wanted was sitting right out there in the front of the lot with a sign on it that said “Reserved for Joe Jenkins”. That brought a smile to my face and made me happy. I went into the dealership and met with Michael, over the next hour we did a test drive and came to a deal on the car and my trade-in. A couple of hours after that I was leaving the lot with my brand new Outback that had everything on it I wanted and was exactly the right color.
Lots of accolades for Sierra Subaru and I would highly recommend them if you are in the market for a new Subaru.
I write this letter just so you know how some people are treated and some of the shenanigans that were pulled. If no one tells you what goes on then there isn’t a way for you to know.
Thank you for your time,
Joseph Jenkins
Since I ran into this issue and wasn’t really able to find anyone posting on this I thought I should put something together for anyone else that runs into it. I had an issue with a stack of 3750x switches where there was unicast flooding to all of the ports in the same VLAN. While doing research I came across suggestions of asymmetric l2 routes and timeout values for the arp tables and tcam table overruns. My issue turned out to be none of these, the arp timeout values where all increased and that didn’t solve the problem. My network if farily simple with a collapsed core and l2 asymmetric routing wasn’t the issue. The tcam tables were different not being overrun on this switches as it can handle 8K arp entries and I am no where near that.
So what did that leave me with? An issue where the ARP tables of all members of the stack were not getting updated in a timely manner. As seen below with the following command:
remote command all sh mac add count | i Total
Switch : 3 : (Master)
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Total Mac Addresses : 152
Total Mac Addresses : 585
Total Mac Addresses : 39
Total Mac Addresses : 381
Total Mac Addresses : 384
Total Mac Addresses : 22
Total Mac Addresses : 28
Total Mac Addresses : 178
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 6402
Switch : 1 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 152
Total Mac Addresses : 585
Total Mac Addresses : 162
Total Mac Addresses : 22
Total Mac Addresses : 39
Total Mac Addresses : 381
Total Mac Addresses : 384
Total Mac Addresses : 28
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 6418
Switch : 2 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 152
Total Mac Addresses : 585
Total Mac Addresses : 165
Total Mac Addresses : 22
Total Mac Addresses : 39
Total Mac Addresses : 381
Total Mac Addresses : 384
Total Mac Addresses : 28
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 6415
Switch : 4 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 152
Total Mac Addresses : 585
Total Mac Addresses : 39
Total Mac Addresses : 381
Total Mac Addresses : 384
Total Mac Addresses : 22
Total Mac Addresses : 28
Total Mac Addresses : 140
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 6440
After many hours of troubleshooting with TAC, they finally came to the conclusion that we were hitting bug:
CSCut64281 Ports on Member of the stack takes long time to learn/age MAC addr
This was only evident in the 15.1x code train, this issue didn’t exist in 15.0 which is why some of my older switches weren’t seeing it. Only the brand new shiny ones I had installed last year. The fix was finally available in the last couple of months in 15.2.(2)E3. I finally finished testing the release on some slightly non prod switches and then decided to roll out to my campus, now I am seeing the following in the upgraded switches:
Switch : 3 : (Master)
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Total Mac Addresses : 142
Total Mac Addresses : 536
Total Mac Addresses : 44
Total Mac Addresses : 70
Total Mac Addresses : 30
Total Mac Addresses : 21
Total Mac Addresses : 27
Total Mac Addresses : 150
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 7151
Switch : 1 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 142
Total Mac Addresses : 535
Total Mac Addresses : 44
Total Mac Addresses : 70
Total Mac Addresses : 30
Total Mac Addresses : 21
Total Mac Addresses : 27
Total Mac Addresses : 151
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 7151
Switch : 2 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 142
Total Mac Addresses : 534
Total Mac Addresses : 44
Total Mac Addresses : 70
Total Mac Addresses : 30
Total Mac Addresses : 20
Total Mac Addresses : 27
Total Mac Addresses : 150
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 7154
Switch : 4 :
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Total Mac Addresses : 142
Total Mac Addresses : 535
Total Mac Addresses : 44
Total Mac Addresses : 70
Total Mac Addresses : 30
Total Mac Addresses : 21
Total Mac Addresses : 27
Total Mac Addresses : 146
Total Mac Addresses : 0
Total Mac Address Space Available: 7156
While not perfect it definitely seems to be a lot better than the previous reports. I keep looking for the bug to be posted on Cisco’s site, but it is still private at this point.
Joseph Jenkins 