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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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VoIP And Codecs
I received a question via email that was roughly as follows: “I currently use Vonage VOIP to provide voice and fax lines to remote construction sites via VSAT satellites. The problem is that each port requires a lot of bandwidth (90 kbps). Is there a solution that would require much less bandwidth (@20 kbps) per…
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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…
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OSPF Across Ubiquiti Radios
Forum thread is here. My boy JJ turned me on to some issues he’s been having with the UBNT radios. It seems they are pac-manning some of the multicast traffic traversing them. As you all know OSPF communicates using multicast by default. If you set your interfaces to non broadcast multi access(NBMA), then it uses…
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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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Bridging an L2 Segment Across The Internet Using Mikrotik
So what happens when your coworker has a DVR at home that can stream video, but it can stream it only to the local subnet? Well, if like us, you need to watch the world cup, then you get creative. Mikrotik to the rescue! We are going to use Ethernet over IP tunnels to connect…