Networking

Once again LinITX were in attendance at the European venue for MikroTik’s User Meeting.  Each year it gets larger with MikroTik stating that it was nearly the largest event so far, at approximately 1200 attendees. Ron Touw usually contributes to the meetings with a technical presentation and/or delivers Training in …

Ubiquiti have renamed the existing UACA (Ubiquiti AirMAX-Certified Admin) and UUCA (Ubiquiti UniFi-Certified Admin) training courses. But this is not just about a simple re-branding.  Ubiquiti have announced that instead of the training being equipment specific, it will be more orientated towards the typical roles encountered in ‘Enterprises’ and ‘Carriers’. …

If like myself, you are becoming tired of the Microsoft adverts within current versions of Skype, copy/paste this into your Mikrotik Router’s CLI (if it is providing you with your DNS Service). /ip dns static add address=127.0.0.1 name=ad-emea.doubleclick.net add address=127.0.0.1 name=ads2.msads.net add address=127.0.0.1 name=msntest.serving-sys.com

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 …

MikroTik announced today “The RB951Ui-2HnD is a wireless SOHO AP with a new generation Atheros CPU and more processing power. It has five  Ethernet ports, one USB 2.0 port and a high power 2.4GHz 1000mW 802.11b/g/n wireless AP with antennas built in. It has a 600MHz CPU,128MB of RAM and …

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 ? …

Once again we are proud to be holding another MTCNA (MikroTik Certified Network Associate) Training course. Come along to the Best Western Conference Hotel in Claydon (nr Ipswich) on Monday 15th July 2013 and over the three days learn about how to do the following list of topics with a …

A typical wireless broadband provider/WISP usually has multiple radios, each with their own POE connection. Here’s a way of providing Gigabit POE with the ability to power cycle individual radios: For Gigabit POE we use a MikroTik RouterBoard Gigabit Passive PoE Injector:   Each POE injector plugs into the main router …

We’ve still got a few places left on the MTCRE (MikroTik Certified Routing Engineer) Training course. Come along to the Best Western Conference Hotel in Claydon (nr Ipswich) on Monday 29th April 2013 and over the three days learn about how to do the following list of topics and more, …

Does this sound familiar? “We have multiple internet lines to our office with some spare capacity and we want to sell internet services to our local area as we know they don’t have good internet from the xDSL mainstream providers. What items do we need to put such a system …