LinITX.com is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the Best Wireless Category at the ISPA Awards 2014 The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) Awards is the UK’s longest running internet industry awards now in its 16th year. Congratulating the nominees, Multithread’s Managing Director Richard Gould said “We supply …
Read More »HowTo: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter performance testing
The EdgeRouter Lite from Ubiquiti promises excellent performance for a great price. So what performance can you get out of it ? We tested two things: 1) a typical routed configuration, including NAT, and stateful firewalling. 2) IPSec over a routed connection. Here are the headline figures: (tests using iperf …
Read More »HowTo: IPv6 over PPPoE on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite 3-Port EdgeMAX Router
The new 1.2.0beta2 version of the EdgeMAX software on the EdgeRouter Lite has the following entry in its changelog: [PPPoE] Add IPv6 settings for PPPoE client interfaces, which allows a PPPoE client interface to work with IPv6 address So how does that work and how can we use it ? …
Read More »RouterOS v6.1 released
MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.1 What’s new in 6.1 (2013-Jun-12 11:50): pptp, l2tp – fixed crash when tunnel mru was too big and fragmented ip packet was received; hotspot – fixed problem when after upgrade hotspot html directory was empty; ipv6 nd – dns dynamic-servers were not …
Read More »MikroTik RouterOS version 6.0 Released.
MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.0 What’s new in 6.0 (2013-May-17 14:04): ipsec – added /peer passive option which will prevent starting ISAKMP negotiation and signifies xauth responder/initiator side; RouterBOARD – default wireless config now includes password – serial number; lte – support YOTA WLTUBA-107; console – fixed …
Read More »RouterOS v5.25 and v6rc14 released
MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v5.25 and v6rc14 Here are the main changes: What’s new in 5.25 (2013-Apr-25 15:59): web proxy – speed up startup; metarouter – fixed occasional lockups on mipsbe boards; wireless – update required when using small width channel RB2011 RB9xx caveat: update remote end/s …
Read More »MikroTik Cloud Core Router availability and pricing
MikroTik have just announced the details of the Cloud Core Routers. There are 2 models, both are based on a Tilera CPU, one with 16 cores and the other with 36. The 36 core model also has 4 SFP ports. Cloud Core Router CCR1036-12G-4S 36 core CPU 1.2GHz clock per …
Read More »MikroTik MTCNA course
Our next MikroTik MTCNA course is running in November from the 20th to the 22nd. Location: Claydon Country House Hotel, nr Ipswich The Course This training course will provide you with the skills to configure a MikroTik RouterOS Routerboard as a dedicated router, a bandwidth manager, a secure firewall appliance, …
Read More »Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor Mini IP Camera – 720p H.264
We are adding products to our range all of the time, and one of the latest to arrive is the Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor Mini IP Camera. This Camera has a maximum resolution of 1280 x 800 and can stream using H.264 encoding. You can buy it here: Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor …
Read More »RouterOS v5.21 released
The latest RouterOS stable version has been released. Of particular note are the SSTP high CPU fix, SMB shares from RouterOS can now be mounted from Linux, and the UPS monitoring over USB should be working again. What’s new in 5.21 (2012-Oct-12 08:25): route – fix dst-prefix filtering did not return …
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