Goodbye MX200 and MX300. Hello Spark Room Kit and Room 55!

A few EoS/EoL announcements that you might need to be aware:

MX200G2:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-mx-series/eos-eol-notice-c51-739931.html?emailclick=CNSemail

MX300G2:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-mx-series/eos-eol-notice-c51-739932.html?emailclick=CNSemail

The recommended refresh will be Spark Room 55 or Spark Room Kit.

CE8.3:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-mx-series/eos-eol-notice-c51-739933.html?emailclick=CNSemail

You should start moving to CE 9.x, a lot of good stuff in the latest release:
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/endpoint/software/ce9/release-notes/ce-software-release-notes-ce9.pdf

P40 camera related bundle:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-quick-set-series/eos-eol-notice-c51-739957.html?emailclick=CNSemail
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-quick-set-series/eos-eol-notice-c51-739956.html?emailclick=CNSemail

Telnet is missing in High Sierra

I haven't update this blog for quite some time, with a lot of good excuses, such as spending time with the kids, moving to a new team, working on the final year of my LLB degree, etc.  Still I want to find some time to share what I have learnt in my every day life.  I've just got an issue with my MBP after upgrading to High Sierra.

I love to press the upgrade/update button every time I have a chance to, and as I am so busy lately I haven't done it in the earliest possible time.  I decided to do it yesterday and I just wanted to telnet to a switch in my home to change some configuration, and I've got this unbelievable error:

-bash: telnet: command not found

The telnet client is gone!  Although there are many workarounds to get it back, such as using another client like SecureCRT, or change everything to ssh which is more secure, etc.  I still like to do it with my terminal as it is handy.  So this is what I have done to bring it back.

Download inetutils here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/

I have downloaded inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz to my MBP. 

Untar and unzip it:
tar zxf inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz 

Build from source:
./configure
make
sudo make install

Verify it:
which telnet

And you should see telnet is built and installed in /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/telnet

And now you get your telnet back!