Category: Hardware

Failover Internet on ER-X -Ubiquiti (Ubnt) Edgerouter / EdgeMax

Still a new router to me, and this goes for the language it uses but I’ve striped out the configuration the wizard used to setup fail over internet below, after only a few minor changes (narrow the internal group to the ranges I use, description changes, and group name changes to suit what I’m using) …

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QNAP USB Serial Adaptor

Here’s something I’ve just worked out that is cool. The QNAP NAS’s can have a USB to serial adaptor connected to them and you can SSH into the system and access the client device through the QNAP by issuing the command screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 This has been a huge help as my Windows system always …

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Adaptec RAID controller on VMware ESXi 5.x without a custom build

I’ve built an VMWare ESXi Hypervisor server and my research showed the Adaptec 6805 RAID card as compatible but once I have finished building the system I got to the storage configuration my hard drives failed to appear. Not happy. So my initial Googleing showed that I needed to create a custom installation media, figuring that …

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Cisco Dynamic Name Update

In an enabled user and configure terminal mode enter the below edited details. ip ddns update method dyndns HTTP add http://username:pa55w0rd@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=<h>&myip=<a> interval maximum 28 0 0 0 ! interface Dialer0 ip ddns update hostname hostname.dyndns.org ip ddns update dyndns To enter a question mark you must type ctrl-v before pressing ? Use “debug ip ddns update” …

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