Category: Mikrotik
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Monitoring Utility Power On The Cheap With Mikrotik
I was thinking while running the other day. How could one monitor utility power at a POP (Point Of Presence) without forking over your standard $200 for a monitoring device. So this is what I came up with: Supplies: DPDT 12V Relay – I used two SPDTs, cause I had them lying around Cat5 Patch…
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Mikrotik RB250GS – 5 Port Gigabit Switch
This little Mikrotik has the same form factor as the 750/750G. It is a 5 porter that I was able to get your standard gigabit speeds through…nothing remarkable there. So why should I buy one? First, they are shipped to your door for around $40. Not a bad price for a small managed gig switch.…
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Mikrotik Presentation – Leap Of Faith
So I will be doing a presentation at this year’s MUM 🙂 I know you guys will all be spellbound and dumb struck with amazement…or possibly brain damaged from long term exposure to me…hehehe. But, I want to add some audience participation in a different kind of way. There was a movie that came out…
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Windows Port Knock Application
****The application now accepts DNS names and will correctly resolve them when knocking…rejoice!**** I’ve been getting a lot of false positives from virus scanners: IE Virustotal This is a known issue with all autoit compiled scripts. They are NOT infected, it’s just that Autoit code has been picked up by virus scanners at one point,…
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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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Mikrotik Duplicate MAC
I’ll name no names, nor will I allow them to comment their guilt on this article. 😛 Here’s the setup: As you can see he has a point to point from site 2 to a sector over on site 1. He then has a point to point on site 3 pointing to an omni on…
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Mikrotik MUM 2010 Announced In Phoenix
So it has finally been posted. The MUM will be Sept 30th – Oct 1st in Phoenix, Arizona. I plan to attend, and I’m going to try and get an exhibitor’s booth! I really just want to meet and greet, but I also plan to have tshirts to hand out. Hopefully I’ll have some other…