Ubiquiti publishes detailed data sheets for all of their products, but it’s hard to find all the information you need in one place for comparison purposes. That’s the purpose of this article. First Generation Access Points It can be confusing to distinguish between the generations of UniFi access points; you have to look at the […]
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Most business-class switches and routers support monitoring via SNMP. The main barrier to implementing SNMP monitoring is that so many parameters can be monitored, and it can be very hard to isolate the most important parameters. This example shows how to monitor the status of a specific port. Note that the term “port” includes link
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You probably have at least a few business-class switches and routers silently do their job, year after year. Network devices can be so reliable that we configure them once, and then forget that they exist. However, forgetting them is a really bad idea, since they require regular OS or firmware updates to patch vulnerabilities, and
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Google Cloud SQL recently introduced the capability for an instance to have an IP address within the private address space of your VPC network. Previously, all Cloud SQL instances had IP addresses within the address space of the public Internet. Obviously, the public IP was a security and privacy concern, as well as a potential
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