Tag: network

Thanks to Mike Hammett for Sharing this with me. For anyone dealing with lots of ethernet connections, be that PoE runs up towers or 48 port switches providing to office desks, hotel rooms etc, we’ve all had to test and troubleshoot connection issues. These can range from physical connectivity problems like: – Cable run too … Continue reading Pokethernet – The swiss army knife of cable testers →

IPv6 prefix delegation support comes to PPPoE in RouterOS version v5.10* so for those of you ready to jump onboard this release, here’s my attempt at a best-practice way to set it all up. IPv6 has been around in RouterOS for a while now, but the specific feature that was introduced is called “DHCPv6 Prefix … Continue reading IPv6 over PPPoE – RouterOS v5.10 →

This is a bit of a different post based on some configuration I did just recently to enable the bridging of a Virtual Switch between 2 ESX hosts. There is an VMWare option for this called a “VMware vSphere Distributed Switch” however this requires one of the higher end licencing packages so isn’t available on … Continue reading Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS →