Category: Hardware
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Mikrotik VRRP – Hardware Redundancy
So working for a datacenter, I hear plenty of buzz words…what good sales guy doesn’t work one in every other sentence? One of those phrases you hear is “concurrently maintainable”. What does this mean? It means you can sustain loss in your infrastructure and still be up. We are talking about hardware redundancy. In our…
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Getting The Network Up NOW…Where’s My Duct Tape?
I’ve got a construction site that that has an omni AP running hotspot and they needed some gear “up” in the MDF ASAP. My wifi had good connectivity in the building until they put up a thousand steel studs and the accompanying materials. I have a wawa(my name for generic Chinese equipment) multi-client bridge hooked…
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Panduit Jack Blocker and Cable Locker
So the Panduit rep was here with one of our customers and he had a few things to show us…he just happens to keep this kind of thing in his pocket ;). He showed us the port blocker and the cable locker. The little port blocker guy is a tiny blue piece of plastic that…
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Ubiquiti Beta4 Firmware
A buddy of mine JJ is running the new beta4 firmware for his UBNTs, so he forwarded me the change log and a couple of initial comments: Here are the fixes for BETA4: – WEP/WPA-TKIP aggregation for Kite/Kiwi radio chipset — fixed – Power control fix — completed – AirView mode fixes, including endless process…
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Mikrotik – How I Control My Videos With PCQ And Connection Limiting
I initially had no QoS on my servers, which I quickly found was a BAD idea! I had tons of users opening tons of connections, which means my server kept becoming unresponsive. Each time a new connection comes in apache spawns a new process and it would eat somehwere around 25MB of ram; so after…
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MUM Newsletter 24
Newsletter is here. The following is covered: MUM news Video news New products New RouterOS New SwOS
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MUM PDFs
MUM Poland PDFs Here’s the new 250GS switch, which is rumored to be less than $100: Indeed it looks like the 750/G, but it is different under the hood. This guy doesn’t route, it will only switch. This guy also runs the SwOS, switch OS. This guy is configured via a fairly simple web interface.…