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Submission + - Ask Slashdot : Management software for small independant ISP?

Vorknkx writes: I work in a small ISP. Most of our customers have cable modems but some of them are using Canopy or Ubiquity products. To manage all that, we're using a number of programs and solutions not necessarily made for such a task that are kept up to date simply using copy and paste. We have an Access database for all our internet customers, an Excel document for our wireless users, The Dude to monitor every user and a custom-made web application to monitor traffic. Needless to say, we're starting to hit the limit and juggling between all these programs is a complete pain. Is there some kind of all-in-one solution that would allow us to eliminate all the copy and paste while keeping the same functionality?
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An anonymous reader writes: Computerworld asks: What will happen if big advertisers declare AdBlock Plus a clear and present danger to online business models? Hint: it will probably involve lawyers.

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Comment Re:Half way solution: GPS (Score 1) 167

NTPD isn't good enough for me -- bad weather on the Internet has caused my server to loose synchronization one too many times,

Your NTP setup is misconfigured if this is the case.

The NTP daemon has many algorithms built in to measure jitter (how "off" a clock is from what NTP thinks is the realtime) and factors in network delay as well. (Run ntpq -p to see a list of time servers that your NTP client is accessing and their associated jitter/delay/offset values.)

NTP's primary job is to poll various time servers, figure out which ones are good and use that data to set your clock. This so called "bad weather" you refer to should not be a problem for NTP if it is setup correctly.

As others have mentioned in this thread, you should set up one or two primary NTP servers that probe external servers (preferably from the pool.) and then have your interval servers probe those site-local time servers.

Thomas

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