Networking

How to monitor your home internet connection — and prove it to your ISP

How to monitor your home internet connection — and prove it to your ISP

The video call freezes, the game lags, the trading terminal reconnects. A speed test five minutes later shows 500 Mbit/s and everything looks fine. You call your provider, they “see no issues on the line”, and suggest restarting the router.

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Are your network config backups actually working? Oxidized + Zabbix

Are your network config backups actually working? Oxidized + Zabbix

Oxidized is the de facto open-source tool for backing up network device configurations. It logs into switches, routers and firewalls — Cisco, Juniper, MikroTik, Fortinet, HPE/Aruba and dozens of others — downloads the running config and stores every version in Git. When a device dies or someone breaks the config, you have the last known good version and a diff of what changed.

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