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Mikrotik Graphing Tool
You guys know I love me some Cacti. I also enjoy the dude. Cacti is especially great for long term retention of graphs. If you don’t have a monitoring tool available, or you are simply in a pinch, then you can use the built in Mikrotik graphing. You can enable the graphs by going to…
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MUM 2K10 Freebie
Looks like they will be giving away the RB250GS that I reviewed here. At least they will to the first 200 users. Get in there and claim your switch.
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Cisco – VPN Issues From A 6509
I’m doing IPSec tunnels from a 6509 at a remote facility to an ASA. The tunnel would establish, traffic would send from the 6500 to the remote client, the remote client would answer, but it would never go back through the 6500…strange. I noticed that the ASA said that the connection was using NAT traversal,…
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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 Newsletter 27
The PDF is here. RB711: They are announcing the RB711 which has a built in N card. This board is also missing the power port and the serial port. It runs at 400Mhz with 32MB of RAM. There is also an “A” version of the board that kicks it up to level 4 license and…
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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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Ubiquiti 900Mhz Announced And Others
My boy JJ tipped me off to this. It looks like UBNT has finally announced their 900Mhz Airmax line. They’ve got a locostation and a 120 degree sector to go along with it. Since this is MIMO, they are saying that you can get between 20Mb and 100Mb through these guys. I think most people…