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Manipulating OSPF Path Selection With Cost
My good friend JJ asked me a question the other day about OSPF path selection. It was something like “I have a redundant network and I want to adjust cost on an individual route…how do I do that?” Seems pretty straight forward, right?…not exactly. Cost is the metric OSPF uses to judge a path’s feasibility.…
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Web Power Switch III
Digital Loggers, Inc. sells the Web Power Switch III. So this little guy has 10 outlets and 8 of which are controllable. You can log into it’s web interface and selectively power on or off ports. You can setup multiple user accounts that have access to only specific ports. It has an auto ping setup…
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Mikrotik IP Packing
Mikrotik has, since at least version 2.8, a protocol built into ROS that will allow you to aggregate packets as well as do come compression. I had installed version 5 on a test machine and was poking around when I happened across this. From what I understand this may or may not work across all…
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Mikrotik V5.1 Released
Looks like a small round of bug fixes. I would expect this to happen for the next month or so =) *) ipsec – fix SA lifetime display when timezone offset does not equal 0; *) ipsec – now default DPD interval is 2 min for new configurations; *) webfig – make bandwidth-test work; *)…
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V5 Is Live!
What’s new in 5.0 (2011-Mar-31 11:33): *) route – fixed cause of crashes when handling multipath routes; *) route – fixed limit on maximum active IPv6 route count, was causing issues with more than 2000 active routes; *) ipsec – added command kill-connections under remote-peers; *) ipsec – fix responder side phase2 negotiation problem which…
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Cisco RPS (Redundant Power Supply)
If you have Cisco switches you may have noticed that there is a little plate covering something on the back. This something would be the RPS port. Cisco has a few devices, RPS’, used to backup your standard power. If the power supply in your switch malfunctions, the RPS will kick in and provide power.…
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New 2011 Mikrotik Products
This is fresh off the press from the Budapest MUM. RB435G This appears to be your all in one tower solution. The documentation says 4 sectors and one backbone, though I would think you could do ring completion with this unit. Two backbones, heading in either direction while running 3 120 degree sectors. You could…