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So long and thanks for all the fish: PC Engines apu platform EOL (in 2024, but still)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/24

It was great while it lasted, so be sure to order within the next 12 months as  [Wayback/Archive] PC Engines apu platform EOL:

PC Engines apu platform EOL
The end is near ! After a long production run, AMD will accept last orders for the SOC used in our apu2/3/4/5/6 boards by end of June 2023.
apu phase-out We will do a life-time buy for a quantity of the AMD SOC and some other key components. We are willing to schedule customer shipments through end of June 2024. There is a 26 week lead time on the AMD SOC, expect limited supply until late 2023.

First ordered, first served. Binding orders may be required for large quantities.
New products ? Despite having used considerable quantities of AMD processors and Intel NICs, we don’t get adequate design support for new projects. In addition, the x86 silicon currently offered is not very appealing for our niche of passively cooled boards. After about 20 years of WRAP, ALIX and APU, it is time for me to move on to different things.
Thank you ! I would like to thank all of our customers for their business, and sometimes patience.

–jeroen

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Some links on configuring MikroTik equipment as multiple switches (or even routers) using RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/13

MikroTik switches and routers are very flexible to configure, as everything is done through [Wayback/Archive] RouterOS settings.

This means that given enough ports, you can split a physical switch into logical switches. This can be very convenient when you run multiple networks without VLAN.

Earlier this week, I already wrote about Torching a specific port on a MikroTik switch or router running RouterOS which involved turning off hardware acceleration off for specific ports in order to have the flow through the underlying switch chip prohibiting torch and filter features.

For splitting noticing which ports are connected to which switch chip is also important: splitting works best if you can configure each logical switch to exclusively use network ports on one switch chip.

This post was to both research how to configure this, and if my MikroTik devices would allow for hardware acelleration.

Here are some links that should help me with configuring (via [Wayback/Archive] mikrotik split switch in two – Google Search):

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, Hardware, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, RouterOS, routers, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Torching a specific port on a MikroTik switch or router running RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/11

On most recent [Wayback/Archive] RouterOS configurations of MikroTik Routers and Switches, running [Wayback/Archive] Torch a port will show zero traffic when they are part of a bridge configuration. The same holds for the Packet Sniffer.

The reason is that these bridges have hardware acceleration turned on, which makes all traffic go through the switch chip instead of the device CPU. Torch works on the CPU level, so won’t show hardly any traffic except for some configuration stuff (depending on the combination of switch chip and CPU type).

This is not documented in the Torch documentation, but it is documented in the Packet Sniffer documentation.

Further reading:

–jeroen

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In some countries @archiveis redirect their domains using http-302 which can have trouble with multi-WAN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/12

From [Wayback Archive.is blog — Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to…:

Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to “archive-ph”, and will this affect saved bookmarks at any time in the future?

Anonymous

This is temporary and only for some countries. All 7 domains work, so you do not need to change the bookmarks.

In The Netherlands all Archive Today domains redirect to archive.ph using a HTTP 302 redirect.

This caused trouble at my home location, but not at my brother, so I searched for local issues.

In the end, it was because I have dual WAN as network load balancing at home.

TL;DR

Modifying the routing table so traffic for 54.37.18.234 goes to WAN1 was my solution.

Finding the destination address

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Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/05

I tried the solution in [Wayback/Archive.is] Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox (remove the some 30-40 unused machines from the network overview), but it didn’t matter: since Fritz!OS 7.x, the Fritz!Box 7490 UI is just very very slow: each page takes 10+ seconds to load.

Hopefully I can get rid of these and move to pfSense based hardware eventually.

–jeroen

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