Posts Tagged ‘switch’
TL;DR The WiFi coverage in my house wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be, and I’ve heard lots of good stuff about Ubiquiti UniFi gear, so I’ve installed one of their Lite Access Points, and it seems to be working well. Background I first came across Ubiquiti kit as part of the bizarre […]
Filed under: Docker, networking, review | 1 Comment
Tags: Access Point, AP, POE, review, router, switch, Ubiquiti, UniFi, USG, wifi
Conventional wisdom says that high performance networking needs inflexible hardware based on application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). That same conventional wisdom says that software implemented networks – aka Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – are slow, particularly if implemented on top of the convoluted networking stack in Linux. Snabb Switch defies that conventional wisdom by putting […]
Filed under: networking, The Stack | Leave a Comment
Tags: Neutron, NFV, OpenStack, Snabb, switch
Facebook have announced their own switch design, codenamed ‘Wedge’, saying that it’s already being tested in their production network. In many ways the switch is unremarkable; it uses the same Broadcom Trident II merchant silicon ASIC that most other high end ‘white box’ top of rack (TOR) switches use, and it uses Linux on a […]
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Tags: ASIC, Facebook, OCP, open compute, osh, SDN, switch
OpenWRT on TP-Link TL-WR2543ND
If you want to dive straight into install instructions then head over to the TP-Link TL-WR2543ND article on the OpenWRT Wiki. Why? When my son smashed the screen on my iPad 2 I think he also damaged the WiFi antenna. I had to be just about be sitting on top of a 2.4Ghz hotspot to get […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 802.11a, firmware, gigabit, OpenWRT, router, serial, switch, TL-WR2543ND, TP-Link
This is the first post in what will be (at least) a three part series. I’m also planning to look at the Quick2Wire board(s) and Gertboard. The ladder board (sold by Tandy for the bargain price of £5.99) is designed for Gordon at Drogon’s ladder game[1], but can be used for various other purposes – basically anything […]
Filed under: Raspberry Pi | 3 Comments
Tags: board, GPIO, Ladder, LED, makers, project, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, review, RPi, switch
KVM mort
This isn’t a post about the KVM Hypervisor, which I believe is alive, well and rather good. This is a post about keyboard, video and mouse switches. At both home and work I have multiple machines, and monitors with multiple inputs, so all I need is a KM switch to share my keyboard and mouse […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: digital, displayport, DVI, HDMI, keyboard, KVM, monitor, mouse, switch, USB, VGA, video
Excessive network?
Yesterday the kids got a hand me down TV from their grandparents, which caused me to do a bit of reconfiguration of things in their play room. The HomePlug adaptor in the garage had died a few weeks back, so I’d swapped it for the one connected to their little used X-Box 360. Anyway, to […]
Filed under: technology | 3 Comments
Tags: adsl, HomePlug, network, router, switch
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