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Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS

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This is a bit of a different post based on some configuration I did just recently to enable the bridging of a Virtual Switch between 2 ESX hosts.

There is an VMWare option for this called a “VMware vSphere Distributed Switch” however this requires one of the higher end licencing packages so isn’t available on the free or basic packages, but there are many different uses you might have for this,  from simply creating a temporary bridge while you migrate servers to a remote host, or in my case, creating a bridge network across 2 hosts that use a RouterOS vm as the gateway/firewall for the servers. Continue reading Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS →

MikroTik new product announcements – October 2011

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Live here at Las Vegas, Normis has just finished announcing the new products; some new and exciting info about the RB2011 as well as more details on known models.

RB2011:

 

– Low cost series
– Rackmount or Desktop
– 5xGigabit, 5x100Mbit
– SFP/USB/WiFi models
– Available December

Model Table

L LS US US2HnD
Type Board Board Desktop Board
SFP – + + +
USB – – + +
Wireless – – – +
Serial – – + +
LCD – – + +
New product descriptor lettering:
RM – 1U Rackmount models
IN – Indoor/Desktop models
For example RB2011-US-2HnD-IN (Red labeled box up the top) or this RB2011L-RM
Currently 7 variants planned to release gradually from December to February

Greg has some more details on other offerings (SXT 6 Pack, RB751, RB1100AH, Groove 2.4) over on his post here.

Las Vegas

real-life

Roller coasters – check
Indoor Sky-Diving – check
Meeting new faces at MUM – check
Acquired MTCWE certification – check

I hear rumor that some new products will be announced tomorrow morning along with some new revisions to the RB2011 (not yet released).

Attended the load-balancing workshop this morning which both confirmed my ideas about how PCC should be used but also went into detail on a few new concepts such as, using the MPLS Traffic Engineering features for bandwidth based load balancing over multiple links. As usual these slides + video will be available on tiktube.com when the MikroTik guys get back home.

 

Welcome to the jungle, mind all the bugs.

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After discussion on the unofficial MikroTik mailing list, I’ve decided to create a bugtracker for helping keep a list of known outstanding MikroTik bugs.

I would’ve hoped that MikroTik could do something like this themselves to help out those of us relying day to day on the ability to keep a network running, however until such time I feel I (as well as others) am forced to take these alternative measures.

Those of you who are interested in contributing are welcome to join and/or follow at http://bugs.mikrotik-routeros.com

I’ve included a basic guide to using the bugtracker here: http://www.mikrotik-routeros.com/?page_id=228

Please feel free to comment and make suggestions.