Re: OT - Small DNS appliances for remote offices.
Well, if they ever manage to get them into production, I'm hoping to talk my boss into buying some of these. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fitlet/ We'd just need to figure out a rackmount bracket of some sort. Hide them in the case of our previous gen hardware maybe??? Screw them to a cheap rackmount shelf??? Failing that, I've pointed out that we could afford to put a Raspberry Pi in every one of our sites for less than we paid for the last batch of dns servers.
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
It'd be nice to know if NDT was not accurate as well. Anyone tested it? We've been using it for a few years. On my laptop that runs linux I get fairly consistent results (around 935Mb/s up and down right now) over a 1Gig routed link (a couple routers and a firewall in between.) On the Windows boxes I usually see a 100 to 200 Mb/s drop on the upload side. The last time I checked, you can compile a commandline version of the client. I seem to remember the commandline client not taking quite as bad a hit on the tests compared to running it on linux, but it's been a while since I tried it. For us it's been way more accurate than the various speedtest servers our customers insist on trying. A while back I switched from compiling my own kernel and NDT to using perfSONAR-PS (http://psps.perfsonar.net/). I like that they've got live-cd and net-install versions. If nothing else it's useful for pointing out the difference between a local network issue and Internet Suckage.
Re: juniper vpn
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, james jones wrote: If you are using the SSL VPN and you should just be able login via the web site. It does require the Suneerrr Oracle JRE plugin. I'm using a 64-bit Debian install. The version we have here mostly works. Unfortunately Network Connect is the one thing that doesn't work. There is a nice script and instructions at http://mad-scientist.net/juniper.html that does the job for me. If I remember correctly, it'll ask you where you keep your JRE if it can't find the 32-bit version when it starts.
