To customize the data provided by snmpd, you may add an snmpd.conf file using /usr/bin/snmpconf. As root or using sudo, execute this command:

/usr/bin/snmpconf -i

You will then see a series of text menus. Make these choices in this order:

1. Select File: 3 (snmpd.conf)
2. Select section: 5 (System Information Setup)
3. Select section: 1 (The [typically physical] location of the system.)
4. The location of the system: type text string here — such as “server_room”
5. Select section: f (finish)
6. Select section: f (finish)
7. Select File: q (quit)

Notice you have created an snmpd.conf file with creation date of today: ls -l /usr/share/snmpd.conf

Next, the default SNMP configuration in Snow Leopard limits unauthenticated access to the system contact info.

Open and edit  /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.

So I moved a Wordpress blog from a Windows IIS install over to an Apple OS X 10.6 Apache install and ran into a couple of errors when trying to upload images via the Wordpress media manager.  First error was the “Unable to create directory” message and it basically came down to the setting under Miscellaneous config screen had migrated the Windows IIS C:\… path setting.  So by changing that to “wp-content/uploads” resolved the first error message.

Second set of error messages were the “Is its parent directory writable by the server?” and “The uploaded file could not be moved to error”.  These were resolved via SSH to the Apple OS X Server and doing a chmod 755 on /library/webserver/documents/{your site name}/wp-content.  After that do a chmod -R 777 on the uploads directory within the wp-content folder.

This resolved my issues and allow me to once again upload images via the Wordpress media manager.  Below are the step-by-step instructions I followed.

1. Log into WordPress.
2. Go to your Settings and then Miscellaneous config screen.
3. Examine the directory parameter for uploads. It should be “wp-content/uploads”.
4. Remove the leading and trailing slash “/” if they are there.
5. make your wp-content folder 755
6. inside wp-content create a new folder called “uploads”, make it 777

First thing I noticed was that it’s impossible to tell the difference between the two models from the outside as the Apple model number and the FCC ID are the same on both units.

The both disassemble to same way, you have to first peel the gray rubber base off the bottom to expose the five small screws.

Once the screws are removed the bottom lifts right off exposing the metal housing.

First remove the white plastic housing that covers the LED lights.

Lifting the metal housing off exposes the circuit board, I then gently removed the wireless card as to not have to remove the three antenna wires.

Out comes the circuit board for closer inspection, I looked up the exposed chips only to determine they were flash ram and dram chips. On closer inspection I noticed that the metal housing covering the Broadcom chip could be carefully lifted right off.

Inside on the AAE Non-Gigabit (100MB) version was a Broadcom BCM5325 Family Chip. Looking up the specs on this chip reveal the following specs:

The Broadcom BCM5325 device is a highly integrated solution. It combines all of the functions of a high-speed switch system -including packet buffer, PHY transceivers, media access controllers, address management, and a nonblocking switch fabric -into a single 0.18μ CMOS device. It complies with the IEEE 802.3, 802.3μ, and 802.3x specifications, including the MAC control PAUSE frame and auto-negotiation subsections, providing compatibility with all industry-standard Ethernet and Fast Ethernet devices.

This device contains five full-duplex 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet transceivers, each of which performs all of the physical layer interface functions for 10BASE-T Ethernet on Category 3, 4, or 5 Unshielded Twisted-Pair (UTP) cable and 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on Category 5 UTP cable.

• The highest level of silicon integration achieved for a five-port 10/100 Ethernet switch device
• Fourth generation switch on a chip
• Enables a new generation of lower cost 10/100 switches in much smaller form factors
• Utilizes field-proven industry-standard 10BASE T/100BASETX Fast Ethernet transceivers -lowering overall system interoperability and reliability risks

Now on to the AAE Gigabit Version.

Same disassembly procedure, first the gray rubber base, five screws, remove the plastic bottom, lift off the metal housing, gently remove the wireless card to expose the circuit board.

Overall the boards look similar with closer inspection revealing some differences with the newer model looking refined and clean.

Removing the metal housing covering the Broadcom chip reveals that the AAE Gigabit Model is using the Broadcom BCM5395 Family chip.

Searching for specs turned up the following info:

BCM5395 Features

• Complies with IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u, IEEE802.3ab standards
• 5 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-Sense RJ45 ports supporting Auto-MDI/MDIX
• All ports Support Full/Half Duplex transfer mode for 10/100Mbps and Full Duplex transfer mode for 1000Mbps
• Port-based and MAC-based VLAN
• IEEE 802.1Q-based VLAN with 4K entries
• Port-based rate control
• Port mirroring
• Compact field processor (CFP)
• 512 rules
• Filtering, classifications, remarking, and priority actions.
• Priority modification on egress
• DOS Attack Prevention
• Loop detection for unmanaged configurations with Broadcom’s patented LoopDTech™ technology
• CableChecker™ with unmanaged mode support
• Double tagging
• IEEE 802.3x programmable per-port flow control and back pressure, with IEEE 802.1x support for secure user authentication
• 4K entry MAC address table with automatic learning and aging
• 128-KB packet buffer
• 128 multicast group support
• Jumbo Frame support up to 9728 byte

So clearly the older non-gigabit model does not appear to be software upgradeable to the new gigabit features. : (

With our previous problems with patch cable sensitivity with Link-Speeds the CableChecker feature of the Broadcom BCM5395 Family Chip caught my attention. Below is was I was able to find on Broadcoms website.

CableChecker, unlike traditional TDR-based cable diagnostics, can detect cable and connector problems without having to disconnect the cable from the other end and interrupt live traffic, enabling it to run while the switch is passing packets.

Below are the circuit board rev markings for both models.

Both boards taste the same also…

Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Error Code: 0xC0000064

Finnaly notice that under active directory the user account did not have any UPN login information configured (username@somedomain.local).  I entered their login name and selected the domain information from the drop down.  I was then able to get the iPhone to connect via IMAP.

Results after the break

• First test Denver International Airport runway taxiing: Good signal strength (5 bars) – SMS works good, voice quality good.
• Interstate 70 driving towards mountains: Good signal as would be expected along a major interstate.
• Into the foot hills and everything still looks good: SMS with office back in Tampa.
• Halfway to Eagle-Vail Colorado, stopping for some Starbucks: Signal strength good except inside the Burger King (Kids wanted Transformer toys, just what we needed).
• Back on I70 and signal strength is good, call quality good.
• Arrived at Beaver Creek, signal strength is good, call quality is better then I expected, SMS working like a champ, Edge still Sucks! WiFi to the rescue…
• So I took the iPhone to the top of Centennial Lift in Beaver Creek an altitude of 10,200 feet, placed several voice calls and emailed a photo taken from the top without any problems.
• On the way down via the chair lift I received a call without any problems other than some wind noise.

So in prep of setting the computer up at the users desk I joined to the Domain and logged in as the user to setup Outlook, etc. – So I launch InDesign to do some more testing and as it is loading “starting up service registry” it crashes, details show msvcrt.dll as the offender. I went so far as to uninstall and reinstall CS3 which takes a while, with the same results. I log in as the administrator on the computer (the user that originally installed it) and it worked fine. So I downloaded Microsoft’s (Sysinternal’s) RegMon with no real red flags there I downloaded FileMon. As I ran FileMon I noticed right before it started to create the Adobe Dump file that it was going through printer files. So I checked to make sure that I had a printer installed on the machine (some programs don’t like when there is no printer installed on the machine) and found that is was set to our connected copier by default. For ShiGrins I changed the default to the AdobePDF printer and restarted InDesign – Magically it launched without any problems.

I rebooted and tested again and again and it seems to be working now, even after I set the default printer back to the one it was originally.

Event ID: 2274
Source: W3SVC-WP

ISAPI Filter ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\bin\stsfltr.dll’ could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a AMD64 processor architecture. The data field contains the error number.

After searching and searching and not finding much that specifically addressed this, started digging in more and found that Sharepoint Services 2.0 had been installed on the server. Sharepoint Services 2.0 runs in 32bit emualtion mode and it appears that it was conflicting with OWA running in 64bit.After going into to add/remove programs and removing Sharepoint Services 2.0 immediately after I was able to get a Exchange 2007 OWA login to appear in the browser. Then tested with IE7 and FireFox and was able to login with multiple user accounts.

Your message has encountered delivery problemsto the following recipient(s):

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html
554 TRANSACTION FAILED

Sent: (message data)
Received:554-: (RLY:CH) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html554 TRANSACTION FAILED

With AOL there is a lovely report spam button that you can use when you feel that a message you receive is a spam email message. If you get enough complaints then you will start getting these return messages when you send to any of the aol.com domains. The person in question had a virus on their PC an so they were blacklisted by aol. I was surprised to be greeted with absolutely no hold time when I called their postmaster phone number (888)-212-5537. It has been a while since I picked up a phone to contact AOL and I must say the experience was overall a good one. The representative was extremely helpful. The IP address that the client had did not show in their records so the representative provided me with an email address that will return the IP address that AOL is seeing. If you sent an email to ipconfirm@postmaster.aol.com, then you will get a response back with the guilty IP address. You will have to send the email to the ipconfirm address from the computer that the emails are being returned to or through the email server that they are being returned to. The representative at the number was nice enough to go ahead and remove it from their list, but suggested setting up a feeback loop going forward. The feedback loop will kick you an email anytime they get an email you send that one of their members designates as spam. This can be very helpful if you have a mail server and have one party that is sending out spam mail.

More AOL Email Troubleshooting tips can be found at the following URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/trouble/

Try this:
- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer

To check autotuning is disabled repeat the above but type: netsh int tcp
show global

This worked for me when all other fixes and work-arounds did not.

Hope it helps someone else!