Finally ran "poweroff" on my trusty old #ultrasparc #server 🥰
It did good for almost 20 years with #linux. Probably would have run for a while longer but the IDE system disk started to fail. All the important stuff was a on separate raid that got migrated to a boring x86 VM.
But now I can experiment with it a bit more as it's not in any production use anymore.
Had to wait for October. It just felt wrong to do it under #suntember
#sunmicrosystems #selfhosting

#snoop on #Solaris uses the following syntax to capture TCP packets with the FIN, SYN, or RST flag set.

snoop -r -d ${INTERFACE} 'ip and tcp and (tcp[13:1]&1=1 or tcp[13:1]&2=2 or tcp[13:1]&4=4)'

Where TCP flags are in the 14th byte and:
- FIN is the 1 (LSB) bit
- SYN is the 2 bit
- RST is the 4 bit

Remember to start counting at 0, so 14th byte is byte 13.

We want one byte.

`tcp[<start>:<length>]`

The `-r` flag says not to resolve names.

The `-d` flag specifies which interface to snoop on.

In my experience, the `ip` and `tcp` keywords are needed to be able to use the `tcp[13:1]` expression.

#suntember

Happy 69th birthday to Andy Bechtolsheim, founder of #SunMicrosystems, and driving the start of art of hardware, and now especially networking, for nearly 50 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim #Suntember ends
Andy Bechtolsheim - Wikipedia

OTD 1993: #SunMicrosystems ships 1,000,000th computer. http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/unix/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Oct/SunFlash:-58.02-Sun-Ships-Millionth-Sun-Computer #Suntember Customer was Fujitsu; pictured is the Fujitsu S-4/10, their rebadge of the SPARCstation 10. https://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/work/0020.html
Founders of #SunMicrosystems, 1983(?) and 2006 (at CHM). Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy. #Suntember
OTD 1995: "Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)" by John Ousterhout of #SunMicrosystems Laboratories. Prescient, written at the peak of SMP & threading idealism. https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf #Suntember
OTD 1994: *SunExpress to put Catalog on Internet* #SunMicrosystems #Suntember
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SunExpress, Inc., the direct marketing subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced at UNIX Expo that it will put its comprehensive catalog on the Internet. For the first time, Internet users will be allowed immediate access through the World-Wide Web to the industry's most complete information resource on SPARC, Solaris and Sun-ready aftermarket products for enterprise computing.
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OTD 2001: #SunMicrosystems announces Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" with 16 to 72 processors. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/24/sun.startcat.server.idg/index.html #Suntember
CNN.com - Sun Microsystems' high-end Starcat server to shine - September 24, 2001