>I do auto download on the updates, but Iinstall them myself – normally late at night. Last thing I want is a bad patch killing my network and a critical server.
This is what I was referring to. I don't want to spend my nights updating Windows. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]>wrote: > I do auto download on the updates, but I install them myself – normally > late at night. Last thing I want is a bad patch killing my network and a > critical server. > > > > Hardware firewall – or something dedicated to firewalling. Windows > firewall sucks – not very configurable and gets in the way when you don’t > want it to, and won’t move out of the way when you do want it to. > > > > Avira is fantastic and we’re migrating all of our commercial stuff to it > (paid version). Have had more than one instance now of a suspicious file on > a customer’s pc that we upload to www.virustotal.com and Avira was the > only one that picked up on it being a bad file. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Ihnen > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:10 AM > > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation > > > > Do you recommend turning on automatic updates? > > > > Software or hardware firewall? > > > > Do you have an antivirus recommendation? I use Avira free (I hate paying > for antivirus). It's the best I've used. > > > > Greg > > On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Jason Hensley wrote: > > > > I don’t mind Windows Servers – have been running them for many years for > all critical web hosting, RADIUS, mail, etc. Key to Windows servers is > configuration and lockdown – only run minimal services, good firewalling, > don’t overload, etc. > > > > Are you running Dude on x86 ROS or on an RB? > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:51 AM > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation > > > > I've only rebooted mine for upgrades and enabling/disabling ntp/routing and > such. I hate having Windows servers to support, it may just be me but I feel > they always cause more problems then they solve - ESPECIALLY in time. > > I really hate the storage issues, though. Backups have to be done manually > - keep that in mind! > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Oh, I remember now. Dude from time to time would just stop responding for > no real reason and we had to bring down the router to get it going again. > We had it running at that time on a router that wasn’t critical, but became > real inconvenient to reboot. It got to the point that it was becoming a > daily thing so we dropped it on RouterOS and went back to WinXP. If I go > back to RouterOS it will be on a dedicated RouterOS system just for Dude. > > > > We never figured out what was going on with it when it would quit > responding – worked with Mikrotik support a little bit on it but we weren’t > interested in spending much time on it – we just moved on to a different > setup. That has been a couple of years ago so things may have changed since > then. We also would lose all history when we restarted RouterOS, but I > think that was because it was not configured correctly, or because we were > running it on an RB433. At any rate it probably wasn’t a big deal to work > around / fix if we had spent some time on it but I just decided to move it > back to an XP box and go on. > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:32 AM > > > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation > > > > Web interface is on mine, ROS 3.30 Dude 3.6. I check it with my Droid X > from time to time. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wish I would remember. I’ll try to look / think back and see. It may have > to do with the web interface, but maybe not. Ug! J > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:28 AM > > > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation > > > > What features? It's the exact same application. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I had issues with Dude on RouterOS, but for the life of me I can’t remember > what they were. I don’t think it was performance – had more to do with > features available or something like that. I know I moved off of RouterOS > back to an XP machine. > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:53 AM > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation > > > > Use RouterOS? > > On Oct 19, 2010 8:46 AM, "Paul Hendry" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > We have been using the latest beta version of the Dude to > > monitor bandwidth on some devices and have hit a slight snag. It seems > > that when the SQLite back-end database hits 2GB it will no longer run. > > File system is NTFS so it shouldn’t be an issue from that point of view. > > Anyone know what the issue is likely to be and any possible work > > arounds? > > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > > > Paul Hendry > > > > Technical Director > > > > > > > > Skyline Networks & Consultancy Ltd > > > > Unit 6C - Woodside Commercial Estate, > > > > Woodside, > > > > Thornwood, > > > > Epping, > > > > Essex > > > > CM16 6LJ > > > > > > > > Tel: 0845 004 0404 > > > > Mob: 0783 492 1803 > > > > Email: [email protected] > > > > Web: http://www.skyline-networks.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is > > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > > sender. 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