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TheBrothersWISP 86 – Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability, MTK Indoor, Technology’s Impact



This week Greg, Tomas, Mike, and Wilson get down with the get down. Get ready towards the end, because we go on some nontechnical discussion on technology’s impact on us in our daily lives along with how the technology we facilitate changes people(we go deep bro).

This cast we talk about:
Mikrotik Update: GPEN to GPEN 210M, GPEN to standard ethernet device 100M
Mikrotik CVE-2018-19299 issue(public release in 10 days). Memory leak due to IPv6 crafted packets moving through router – not yet fixed(though reported as such in 6.45beta22).
MUM Austin – Gus’ chicken, live show, Master Pancake Theater
MikroTik 802.11 indoor vs. TP-Link
TP-Link Archer C5400 vs. Tik cAP

*slack updates*
ROS 6.45beta22 fixes Steve’s EAP Radius issues
Remote admin clients –
Greg converted a Cisco 7200 to an ASR9000
Ciena sent me sales engineers, you’ll never believe what happened next
Mikrotik CRS3xx series are going into production for a lot of us – hardware DHCPsnooping, port isolation, DHCP option 82, vlan filtering, STP
Thrift quote of the week “Stacking is not suitable for highly available networks, it is a technology of convenience not of reliability” Stacking vs MC-LAG

Orville season 2 e11 – lasting impressions
Wondering conversation about the impact of technology on life
Putty / WinSCP vulnerabilities – update now
Udemy Complete Networking Fundamentals

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TheBrothersWISP Nick Buraglio’s Top 5 Tips



This week Greg talks to Nick Buraglio about his top 5 tips.

The Tips:

* Be the dumbest person in the room
* Know your network
* Failure is your friend
* Grey is the new black, grey is the new white
* Networking is largely social, technical is an artifact
* Play to strengths

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TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource



This week Greg, Dave, Mike, and the ever elusive Tomas go on some rants!

This cast we talk about:
Unimus update from Tomas
New Weekly Feature
Big Boy Switches
Chi-NOG
LibreNMS PHP Requirement Change
*Slack Updates*
Mike K says use silicore HDPE conduit to pull fiber in underground.
Mike K also suggests the use of fiber enclosures that use standard man-hole covers
Tomas muses over the fact that opensource projects with corprate backers who make money from support always seem to be lacking in documentation.
Tomas says to safely make multiple Mikrotik changes: enable safe-mode, Use an open curly brace, put all your commands in, close curly brace. The commands will be applied after the final brace.
Companies are offering zeroday bounties for Mikrotik routers

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TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future



This week Greg, Dave, Nick, and Andrew Thrift along with his hair, do the thing with the mics. Cox also teases us…we don’t deserve two Andrews in one cast.

This cast we talk about:
Mikrotik newsletter 87
Intel may be purchasing Mellanox (as per Thrift) Tilera–>EzChip–>Mellanox–>Intel
DNS Flag Day anyone?
John Osmon’s 5 tips, send me yours
Ubiquiti Discover Service DoS attack(thanks Chris A)
Polar Vortex is cold
Slack Updates
CRS3xx switches will act as port expanders for CCRs in the near future.
Email Mikrotik to add MC-LAG support to the CRS3XX
Tomas found a smoking deal on hosted servers from Scaleway 22X 2.4 GHz CPUs, 42GB RAM, 400GB SSD ~$75
Tomas still hates nginx webservers
Josh started a #code channel, which is him volunteering to do all ofyour scripting
#conferences channel is getting ready for MUM in Austin
What’s your EDC pocket tool?
BoĊĦtjan doesn’t know what console to get his kid.
Thrift hates Mazda “come at me bro” -haha I would say I hate them, just 1 bad experience
http://exomotive.com/exocet/
https://www.eliomotors.com/gallery/

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TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon



This week Greg talks to John Osmon about his top 6 tips.

The Tips:

1) *BE* the packet (Know how the network works)
2) pcap or it didn’t happen (get proof)
3) don’t confuse network and physical diagrams
4) give back to the community
5) vocabulary — learn others, teach yours. Necessary for communication
6) lab it / break it — you don’t know it until you see how it behaves when broken

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