I got my EdgeRouter POE from UbiQuiti EdgeRouter, 5-port Router POE and came with the 24VAC power supply. Because the Ubiquity devices are all using the strange low power POE for which 24VAC is enough they ship the EdgeRouter POE with the 24VAC power supply. As a result the device is useless in powering “normal”… Read More »
Yes our friends from China invented a new type of DDOS attack. The great firewall changed unencrypted traffic that contained 3rd party javascript libraries to DDOS GitHub. There is already a testing tool SRI Test developed and deployed by Gabor Szathmari see for more details his blog To protect my blog I found out that… Read More »
Keeping the installation of your own WordPress blog highly secure is very important. In today’s fast pace discovery of security vulnerabilities you must keep an eye on all the new security threats and update as soon as possible the security to try to cover the new threat. An invaluable tool is the security test from… Read More »
As we know there are big security concerns about the use of SSL3 so a lot of security audits are demanding it to be disabled in all applications that are exposed with a WEB GUI. Disabling SSL3 can be done via the admin console. First SSL is disabled individually on the HTTP listeners of your… Read More »
My Dell XPS 8700 desktop comes with a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. By adding another 2 port Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller I wanted to get a faster connection to the servers. Note that each of the HP Microserver servers has a 2Gbps connection obtained by NIC teaming the 2 port adapters in Linux.… Read More »
Starting with firmware version 1.4 EdgeRouter can be configured in a dual WAN setup using a very simple wizard. Then to configure some port forwarding rules to access the internal web server or VPNs there is a nice GUI setup window. Note that I experienced frequent switches between the main WAN and the backup WAN.… Read More »
Everybody hates Add Servers so all my PC and mobile browsers use AddBlock+, but still I do not want the extra traffic that is done even by using ad blockers. The best solution is to simply block from the EdgeRouter Ubiquiti Networks ERLite-3 EdgeRouter Lite the ad sites. The best guide for this is: EdgeMAX… Read More »
To be able to do several CLI configurations administrator (root) account must be activated. By default EdgeRouter has this account disabled. It seems that even if is activated a firmware upgrade will revert it to the default configuration (disabled). To activate the root account follow the tutorial: EdgeMAX – What is the root account password?… Read More »
As more and more “smart home” devices got installed around the house the need to have 24/7 Internet connection was more and more a necessity. The solution I choose was to have a back-up mobile Internet for the home. To make this completly transparent to the “Internet of things” from the house this backup had… Read More »
I am planning to deploy a test openStack infrastructure, “Minimal architecture example with legacy networking (nova-network)”, on the 2 x Hp MicroServer Gen 8 setup from my home data centre. The nova-network architecture needs at least two nodes and on each node a minimal of two network interfaces must be available. The HP MicroServers have… Read More »