Category: Networking
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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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Automatic Bogon Updates
As most of you are security minded people out there, you already know what Bogons are. If not, here is what wikipedia has to say about it. It’s basically addressing that no packets should be addressed from. Steve-o clued me into the Team Cymru bogon project. In a nutshell what they do is setup a…
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Painfully Embarrising IT – Oh The Shame…
So I got a comment about a netflow collector a while back called scrutinizer by a company called plixer. This looks like a decent enough product, but that’s not what caught my eye. They had a link to some videos by “Mix Master Mitch”. This is some of the most painfully embarrassing IT stuff I’ve…
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Install NTOP On Your CactiEZ Server
NTOP is a netflow collector, or it can be used to promiscuously sniff on a port. I do prefer flow viewer, but for those of you that prefer an easier, friendlier interface, here’s how you install NTOP. Set your repository up for dag: rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm Then install ntop: yum install ntop You will need…
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Mikrotik Class Video – Routing
It took me 3 months to knock this out…I’ve been busy, what do you want from me? hehe ;P This video covers: The concept of routing Static routing Concept of RIP OSPF and its implementation BGP and some of its options Here are the class slides:. Here’s the audio version of the presentation: I’ve got…