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 This **sponsored** podcast has us talking to Vladimir Kelman(CTO Kwikbit), Travis Carter(CEO US Internet), and Justin Miller about Kwikbit’s new 60Ghz radios! This week we talk about: This cast we talk about: Outdoor – 90 horizontal/40 vertical beam 128 antenna elements 1500′ range Adaptive resource allocation? RSTP Why RESTful API Kwikbit tools? k60x $499 … Continue reading The Brothers WISP – NEW Kwikbit 60Ghz Radios →

Greg talks to Tony Owens a lifelong technical sales leader. This week we talk about: Technical sales Consultitave selling Learning to be a manager Learning to be a leader Age = respect Pattern interrupt Showing vulnerability in your job People will rescue you, they want to save you Upfront contracts 3 seconds of guts Sandler … Continue reading Greg Talks 15 – Technical Sales, Vulnerability In Selling, Selling Techniques →

 This week Greg, Mike, Thomas, Tommy, and Andrew Cox talk for 2 HOURS about all sorts of things. This week we talk about: **Cambium Deal Link** Ole made a great first ansible playbook – it updates his unimus version! Greg has ansible playbooks for updating catalyst switch IOSs Greg has a playbook that connects … Continue reading The Brothers WISP 112 – UBNT Payment Gateway, Automation Layering, MTK netPower16P →

While there are existing ways (SNMP/SMS) to run scripts on RouterOS via external means, I’ve been meaning to show off a system I built based around Telegram Messenger – as it’s a relatively common one, and has a flexible API for interfacing with. I began this with the older MikroTik 4096 character variable limit in … Continue reading Making your router talk – MikroTik and Telegram Bot Scripting →

Greg talks to Justin Burdine. This week we talk about: IT in Hollywood New post Covid handshakes. Working from home tips: have a dedicated space, follow normal routine, dress for work, voip phone, vpn via router, take some laps. If you need noise try music or podcasts, videos are pretty distracting. The Last Leg on … Continue reading Greg Talks 11 – Hollywood Dreams, Post-Covid Handshake, Media →

 Bob Beck shares his experience of participating in the OpenBSD project. He patiently discusses aspects of the project he likes and enlightens us about the some of the methodologies OpenBSD use to root out bugs in the OS / general Eco System. Thanks Bob. Join the patron only slack at http://patreon.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if … Continue reading Bob Beck Interview on OpenBSD, libTLS, LibreSSL with Tom Smyth at EuroBSDCon 2018 →

 This week Greg,Tomas, Nick, and Tommy talk about networking and listen to traffic driving by Tomas’ house. This week we talk about: – George A had a cheap SM OTDR he likes…I wonder if he still does? – Use caution with cambium 3000s and it looks like 4.4.2 firmware is “pretty good” so far. … Continue reading The Brothers WISP 101 – Cheap OTDR, UBNT Data Collection, IPv6 Tracing →

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a pair of MikroTik Audience devices to put through their paces. The Audience is a new device from MikroTik, and perhaps one of the first I’ve seen that is specifically targeted to a home environment, with the stylish exterior designed not just to be a wireless … Continue reading MikroTik Audience – review and teardown →

 This week Greg, Mikey, and Tomas do a lot with a little, and at the end we get a patented Mike rant in place of the normal Tomas one LOL This week we talk about: Warshipping WISPAPALOOZA 2019 Mikoritk trolled us with the “new hardware found in new NPK file”…thanks Obama ROS v7 alpha … Continue reading The Brothers WISP 98 – Warshipping, LACP Hashing, Switch Port Security →

 This week Greg, Tomas, and almost Tom Smyth(but not quite) catch up on a month’s worth of stuff. The show is complete with a Tomas rant(your life is now complete). This week we talk about: Greg is looking for a reasonably priced OTDR Lightning hitting a tree can take out your fiber PHPIPAM for … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 92 – IPAMs, Verizon Cust BGP Leak, Linux TCP DoS →

 This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and Alex fail at using Zencastr for the first time. We have failed back to the old audio…it is a sadness. 🙁 This week we talk about: Zencastr Feature Request Doc Ubiquiti v Cambium Ubiquiti LTU UniFi Certification ChiNOG NANOG Dan was having unifi APs with wireless backhauls not … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 90 – Ubnt Vs Cambium, Ubiquiti LTU, Nobody Sees The Same Internet →

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 Greg Sowell, Justin Miller, and Justin Wilson get a live demo of 6 BGP peers loading on a CCR1016 running a build version of router OS version 7. We give all the details we have on the inner workings of the new engine. 3.5 million routes in around 3 minutes and the UI didn’t … Continue reading Mikrotik ROS V7 BGP CCR Performance – Leaked Video! →

 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 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 86 – Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability, MTK Indoor, Technology’s Impact →

 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 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Nick Buraglio’s Top 5 Tips →

 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 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource →

 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, … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future →

 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 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon →

I’ve seen a few posts recently in the MikroTik forums and MikroTik Subreddit about the confusing nature of creating native (wirespeed) vlans on the CRS range of hardware and wanted to put together a template that gives you a good idea of how these work, and what the configuration of a few different port types … Continue reading RouterOS Bridge and Vlan Configuration for CRS devices on v6.43.X →

 This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and the coolest kid I know in VA, Miller, take it to the mat. This cast we talk about: CEPH and ZFS Open media vault Dynamic SIP server location DNS SRV “Tubes” book PDF? AT&T charges for RFO Certifications? DNS Flag day What bandwidth bursting be used for other … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 81 – CEPH/ZFS, Charging for RFO, Dynamic SIP Servers →

Recently I was doing some work for a hotel that supplies a ‘Smart TV’ device with Netflix and other functions in every room. These rooms are in turn all connected to a hotspot network and the TV’s all needed to be given internet access. As this was (as sometimes occurs) an unexpected addition to the … Continue reading Automatic bypass of hotspot devices based on MAC Address →

 This week Greg talks to Colin Z about his top 5 tips. The Tips: Colin Z 1) Look at things in terms of a Link Budget. 2) 6 dB delta to make a noticeable difference. 3) Follow basic grounding practices (R56 is a good reference). 4) Plan for outage. 5) Document what you can. … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Colin Z →

 This week Greg, Mike, and Dave do the first cast of the new year…time to start out on the wrong foot 😉 This cast we talk about: UBNT vs. Cambium Lawsuit Update Centurylink outage Mikrotik NAT (as it pertains to SIP and RTP) Broken Greg fav things: hAP AC^2, pickleball, your mom’s house podcast/Harmontown … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 80 – Favorite Things 2018, SIP Tshooting, Centurylink Outage →

 This week Greg and Tommy C(TCent to his fam) talk about their top 5 tips. The Tips: Tommy C 1. Have a test bench: I read somewhere “everyone has a test network, not everyone has a production network” I have been able to pull off so many changes/upgrades to our network just because I … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Tommy C and Greg →

 This week Greg and Mike do an after Thanksgiving update. This cast we talk about: Ubiquiti 0% financing Mikrotik newsletter 85 MUM USA in Austin April 4th-5th Mikrotik BGP Tests? Happy Birthday to Miller IBM picks up RedHat Airspan acquires Mimosa *Slack Updates* Jeff – Huawei US distribution raised prices and documentation is behind … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 79 – Ubiquiti Financing, MUM Austin, Slack Catchup →

 This week Greg, Andrew Cox, Andrew Thrift, Dave, and Nick Arellano choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Generate ACLs for country based filtering Route filter for North America Mikrotik grey hat hacker asking for donations. New logo challenge…what do you guys like? Don’t use RB1100 ports 11-13; on pcie interface which causes … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 78 – MTK Grey Hat, RF E Asymmetric Horns, Supermicro HW Hack? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: IPv6 follow-up: enable ipv6 in MTK, then issue “/system default-configuration print” to see default ipv6 firewall rules Steve’s IPv4/IPv6 Network Aggregator Cambium is going to sell outdoor cat5 Greg’s USB boost converter … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 77 – Cambium Cat5, 4011 BGP, All-In-One or Nah? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik renames release channels DHCP Snooping Ubiquiti CPEs with public IPs stop responding to admin access, but pass traffic…why? Tool to aggregate IPv4/IPv6 routes – thanks Steve! Mikrotik newsletter 84 RB4011 RB4011 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike do a quick cast to kick off the Labor day weekend…it sure feels like working trying to listen to these things, though… This cast we talk about: SECURE YOUR ROUTERS!!!!!!!!! Ignite net new firmware TBW IPv6 podcast Nicks notes on IPv6 All of the pickles Sangoma acquires Digium … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story →

Nick, John, Miller, Tommy, Mike, and Greg talk about the various reasons to do IPv6 or not, some of the hurdles to implement, and use cases. We also discuss: Business case for IPv6 Islands of knowledge Consumer vs Enterprise Dual stacking P2P addressing Subnet sizes Subnet sizes to deliver to customers Prefix delegation via DHCP … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6? →

 This week Greg, Dave, Mike, Miller and Andrew Cox totally bro out and talk about manly things…and at the end Greg feels all the feels, so use caution if that’s not your thing 😉 This cast we talk about: Dragonwav’s annoucement Bare minimum to protect your Mikrotik Greg Trains on Ciena Metro E Kit … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 74 – Protect your tik, Ciena Metro E, Unresponsive Customers →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike trade our favorite recipes. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik 4011 first look Mikrotik 4011 second look Wireless Wire MTU Issue – regular wireless l2mtu of 1600 Mikrotik selling CWDM muxes and optics Mikrotik coinhive crytpojacking More botnets taking advantage of winbox holes up to version 6.42 Mikrotik … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 73 – Mikrotik 4011, security, MTU, cheap fiber tools →

 This cast we talk about: NEWS: Cambium launches the e700 outdoor WiFi AP NEWS: RF Elements gets hornier Mikrotik have found a bit of focus on LTE, HOORAY! NEWS: Mikrotik: RB450Gx4 and hEX S new products + discuss the inevitable refresh of Omnitik AC, Dynadish, Netmetal Mikrotik switching – State of Play 1H2018 Ham … Continue reading TBW 71: Where oh were could Greg be? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike get jazzy. Can you notice the better audio? This cast we talk about: Mikrotik LHG60 available around 15th of this month stagnation in vendors vs wireless in emerging markets Caching on https USAC – FCC subsidized telecom costs for govn’t organizations UBNT starts looking into AirMax MPLS issues … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 70 – LHG60g, Vendor Stagnation, Why Ham? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike have some real talk, bro. This cast we talk about: Follow up from last week: Calix G.fast and Coworking space software Nexudus VoIP phones that don’t feel cheap Mikrotik 6.43rc17 – w60g – added 4th 802.11ad channel (CLI only); Mikrotik part of the VPNFilter botnet Mikrotik Hex-S – … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 69 – VoIP Phones, Mikrotik Hex-S, Centralized Vs Distributed DHCP →

 This week Greg Dave from PennyTone choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Who is using G.fast; what are you using and how well did it work? LibreNMS with Centos Brick. PHP conflict due to auto update Security onion security collection Flow collection / elastiflow with elasticstack and nfsen/ndfump(Nick B.), ntop(Tom S). Co-working … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 68 – G.fast, Security Onion, Co-working spaces →

 This week Greg, Mike, and Tomas catchup for the first time in ages! This cast we talk about: New mimosa radio – was it 24Ghz? Mikrotik MUM EU hardware waplte Unimus has blog/mass change pushes 10Gb unifi gateway Cloudkey version 2 hits FCC Mikrotik winbox port vulnerability from 6.29 to 6.42 xLEC Stuff FB … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 67 – 10G unifi Gateway, New Mikrotik Hardware, 24Ghz Mimosa →

 This week Greg, Alex, Miller, and Tomas all sit down and talk on day one at the 2018 Baltimore MUM. Thanks to our sponsor for this cast Sonar.Software. A simple yet feature rich customer billing platform. This cast we talk about: Some of the new CRS devices wAP60G tweaks Mikrotik Hardware Help support us … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP66 – Mikrotik MUM 2018, wap60G, Mikrotik Hardware →

 This week Greg, Mike, Wilson, Miller, and Tomas discuss the chick pea, it’s neither a chick, nor a pea. This cast we talk about: chinog in may Wispamerica very soon OpenVPN isn’t so hard Mikey 😉 Unimus has some US MUM vouchers, so bother Tomas about it. Siklu has 70/80Ghz 10Gb wireless link Link … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 65 – OpenVPN, Siklu 10Gb, VAR’s Design →

 Greg, Wilson, Andrew Cox, and Mike put all those other sucker MCs to shame. This cast we talk about: Slack updates CHR virtio-scsi driver/CHR additions in recent RC Virtual routing ASICs to CPU routing, and back to ASICs What does your network lab look like? Upcoming events Help support us by becoming a patron! … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 64 – CHR/Virtual Routers, MUM Spec, Your Lab →

 Join Tomas, Mike, and Greg as we roll the D20, and forage through our bag of holding. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik updates wap-60g hap-ac2 cap-ac Newsletter 80 USB-powered MT Getting a network coach. Account manager vs. sales vs. sales support vs. sales engineer The boring company’s flame thrower Help support us by … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 63 – Mikrotik NL 80, Network Coach, Sales People →

 The two best looking brothers Greg and Mike chat about networkie type things. This cast we talk about: Google devices disrupting home wifi Ubiquiti Unifi Dimmers Mikrotik hAP ac2 – AC wave 2 gear How many routes have you gotten on a CCR? IPv6 again… EDNS Help support us by becoming a patron! Keep … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 62 – WiFi Broadcast Storms, Large BGP Tables, Unifi Automation →

 Andrew Cox, Mike, and Greg(who has a cold{sorry}) talk about some of their favorite things from 2017. This cast we talk about: Meltdown/Spectre IPv6 464XLAT What do you want to see in 2018? What is your favorite piece of gear of 2017? Deals with other ISPs to sell their service? Playlist of interesting WISP-related … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 61 – Meltdown, IPv6, Favs Of 2017 →

During my day job we use some MikroTik CHR deployments for (among other things) VPN session termination. The CHR’s are easy to spin up, offer a wide variety of VPN types, and for low traffic sessions can support upwards of 10,000 sessions on a single device. In the event of an outage though, you would … Continue reading Scriptlet: Bulk VPN connections on MikroTik with connection rate limiting →

 We have Greg(I’m so sick of seeing this guy) and Tomas working it out. This cast we talk about: Thoughts on firewall appliances – Joey A. BCP38 Reverse Path Forwarding QoS in the network – where and when Where to rate-limit clients PPPoE Design Considerations Help support us by becoming a patron! Keep contacting … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 59 – Firewalls, QoS, Client Limiting →

 This week Mike and Greg throw mad shade at the haters…or perhaps they just talk about networking stuff. This cast we talk about: Feeback ignitenet switch “meshlinq” – 4(1Gb) and 2.5Gb uplink + trill + 48V DC in netbox for dc documentation/ipam Ubiquiti AmpliFi Teleport – VPN router for travel Thoughts on ibill.io Thoughts … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 58 – Meshlinq, Netbox Doc, Ibill.io/Splynx Impression →

 This week Mike and Greg fight the after Thanksgiving nap to chat about the things. This cast we talk about: New Intro Unimus 1.4.0 released Ubiquiti nanostation AC passes FCC Mikrotik submits an AC cAP to the FCC Wispa drops new videos on youtube from wispaplooza Thoughts on customer mikrotik controller platorm? – Contact … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 57 – Indoor AC, Hosted Mikrotik Control, Choosing ISPs →

 Greg and Brandon review one of the affordable Komshine fusion splicers straight from China. *The audio has a deep hum – sorry guys* They discuss: Stripping and cleaving fiber The fusion process Fusion machine setup Fusion machine maintenence Visual Fault Location Please support us on patreon.com/thebrotherswisp! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Fusion Splicing A Beginners Guide →

 This is a compilation of Millennium and BrinkNetworks.com talking to us from Wispaplooza. They discuss: OTDR terms OTDR operations Jirous dishes State of 11Ghz Please support us on patreon.com/thebrotherswisp! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

 Miller, Mike, and Greg talk a bit about what and who they saw at this year’s show. This cast we talk about: -Sessions Fiber Friday Master Monday -People Too many to name -Gear Netonix Bridgewave Carbon Fiber Towers Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 56 – #Wispaplooza 2017 Wrap-up, Gear Talk →

 This cast we talk about: Baicells Sponsorship Microcom Sponsorship Baltic Sponsorship Tower Coverage Sponsorship Sponsors need to signup a time for Wispapalooza between Tuesday and Wednesday – holler at Mike Long path BGP advertisement filtering As per the UBNT investor day, they have no plans to play in the CBRS range Thoughts on recent … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 55 – BGP Long Path Protection, Ubiquiti Investor Thoughts, Sonar Acquires WispMon →

 This special cast we have Sakid and Dmitry from Cambium along with, Wilson, Mike, Greg, and special guest Brian Gray. What is Cambium at a glance, what is the difference between PMP and ePMP, what is Elevate and how is it being used in the real world. Brian Gray speaks openly and extremely honestly … Continue reading TheBrothesWISP – Cambium Elevate Real World Experience →

 Greg, Mr. Wiiiillllsssoooon, Tomas and Mike chat nicely about all vendors great and small 😉 This is the newer, friendlier TBW hehehe. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik newsletter 78 UBNT UAP‑AC‑SHD Outdoor Boxes Tomas Unimus Updates CBRS Rules Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 54 – Mikrotik Newsletter 78, Ubiquiti UAP‑AC‑SHD, Outdoor Boxes →

 Greg, Mike, and Miller do the thing with the talking and the laughing. This cast we talk about: Hurricane Harvey BGP Looking Glasses Route Servers CLI Ransomware Thermal Inversions Mike moves cables on his B5cs google dns servers under atttaaaaacccckkkk! Mikrotik wAP60 hit FCC Rain fade calculations Rain fade link 2 Chassis-based Radios Keep … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 53 – Hurricane Harvey, BGP Looking Glass, Thermal Inversion →

 Greg and Mike go down the tangent hole, and have a good time doing it. This cast we talk about: Ubiquti Front Row Ubiquiti UCRM Bridgewave has 10Gb AES 256 80ghz link BGP for redundant customer connections WISPAPALOOZA Calendar Midwest IX is looking for a sales leader Dragonwave Bankruptcy 100G switches Unimus Beta licenses … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 52 – Ubiquiti UCRM vs Aircontrol, BGP to Customers, 100Gb Switch →

 This is a special cast with Thrift dropping some knowledge bombs on: Wilson, Mike, and Tomas. This cast we talk about: New chips Mikrotik is using in the CRS3xx line. In particular, these two: CRS317 and CRS326 Here’s a bit of information on what Marvell’s eBridge functionality means Here’s a bit on Carrier Ethernet … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Special – New MT Chips and Bridging / wireless and UI design →

 We have the lovely Greg, the sleepy Tomas, and the sassy Mike. We talk the talk, though it’s too hot for anyone to walk the walk. This cast we talk about: RF elements link calculator for horns Ubiquiti blocking cambium elevate code Native VTLAN on a trunked port doesn’t seem to work on VMWare … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 51 – UBNT Signed Firmware, New FCC Spectrum, VMware Vs Native VLAN →

 It’s Greg, Tomas(of course), and Miller catching up on a few network related thing-o’s. This cast we talk about: UBNT switch through the FCC, has built in wireless UBNT ONT NanoG Note – Cambium ePMP exploit out/update fools Mike and company do a DNS video Cambium Elevate on MikroTik MikroTik new bridging in 6.40rc … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 50 – Elevate On Mikrotik, New Mikrotik Bridging, iBGP Full Mesh Or Nah →

 Greg grills the Slovakian Robot(Tomas) on some random things. This cast we talk about: Some automation getting started tips(plink, expect scripts, ansible) Success stories from Unimus thus far Speed and quality of services to customers PPPoE VPN issues Tomas worked out Favorite thing you are watching on TV right now Keep contacting us: contactus … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 49 – Mesh Networking, Get Started In Automation, Customer Service →

 This go around we have Greg, Mike, Andrew Cox, and David Attias from PennyTone do the thing where we talk about the stuff. This cast we talk about: High density wifi with Mikrotik? ATT buys Vyatta from Brocade Dual band Mikrotik Groove through FCC MUM Videos Cambium change in support policy. Ignitenet Metrolinq 2.5Ghz … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 48 – Vendor Licensing, Small Dual Band Devices, 2.5Gb Metrolinq, VoIP →

 Greg Sowell, Justin Miller, Tomas Kirnak, Alex Hart, JJ Boyd, and Justin Wilson field AMA Mikrotik questions from the crowd at the 2017 Denver MUM. Bask in brilliance and rapier wit. This cast we talk about: What would you have done differently starting a WISP Routing vs Bridging DHCP vs PPPoE MPLS/VPLS complexity vs … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 47 – MUM 2017 Panel – Routing vs Bridge, PPPoE vs DHCP, Starting Advice →

 The few, the faithful, Tomas, Mike, and Greg beat you over the head with opinion and speculation(everyone’s favorite). This cast we talk about: Tier system for classifying ISPs High Frequency Trading /8 transfers of IPv4 **Reminder, climb smart/safe and go home alive** WISPAPALOOZA 2017 registration now open Cambium Networks cnPilot R190W RFC New Mikrotik … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 46 – Tiering Standard, HFT, Mikrotik RFC Flagship Router →

 This cast we had Greg, Tomas, Tom, Mike, and Miller talking shop. Tom’s rants were even kept just below 10 minutes 😛 This cast we talk about: OpenBSD6.1 Released Routing panel at Denver MUM – may25th and 26th Unimus 0.3.3 GPS sync NTP server RB953GS-5HNT-US has hit the FCC Ubiquiti U-installer Riverbed picks up … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 45 – Upcoming Denver MUM, AU Data Collection, FIOS Gig →

We will be doing a panel surrounding routing with Mikrotik. It’s an open forum so if you don’t give us questions, then it’s going to get pretty boring, pretty fast. If you have questions, and won’t be able to attend, or are to shy to ask out loud, send them to us on facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or … Continue reading TBW Goes To MUM – Denver 2017 →

 This cast Greg is out of town so forgive the barking dogs please(I’m not just talking about Mike). We have Greg, Mike, and Tomas catching up on a LOT of hardware…like a lot a lot. This cast we talk about: FS.com’s CWDM/DWDM education FS free shipping/no tax from North American warehouses Inmates build PCs … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 44 – Mikrotik EU MUM Announcements, Unifi In-wall, News →

 This cast we have Tomas, Miller, Mike, and Greg chatting it up. Greg is rocking his old robo mic, so let us know if the quality improved. I know my “P”s were a little harsh, I’ll put my pop filter back on. This cast we talk about: Upgrade your Cnpilots if they are running … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 43 – UBNT/Mikrotik Exploits, UBNT Airmax AC Gen2, WISPAmerica Wrapup →

 This cast Tom, Tomas, Mike, and Greg do some deep thinking…you may have believe that if it were anyone but us. This cast we talk about: Youtube TV AWS S3 Outage – Human Error Cloudflare leaking info SHA1 encryption collissions possible, but not practical – 110 years of single-GPU computations. FCC Form 477 filing … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 42 – Youtube TV, AWS Outage, FCC Form 477 →

This week we have a QUICK cast with Tomas, Andrew Cox, Mike, and Greg. This cast we talk about: Unimus additional support for devices Siklu does 60-80Ghz – no real details yet Aaron Hausken‎ creates a rpi config to visually show dude status SIAE Microelettronica Where do you find your new employees? Keep contacting us: … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 41 – Siklu 60-80Ghz, SIAE Microelettronica, Finding Employees →

Tomas and Greg shoot the poop in a quick and dirty episode. We talk about : Licensed backhaul comparrison Upcoming Licensed Link show Unimus adds Telnet – “I told you so” Jimmy puts an AP on his drone for site surveys Anyone use Radwin PTMP? DWDM cheaper than CWDM at fs.com – CWDM 80km 10G … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 40 – Licensed Backhaul List, DWDM vs CWDM Pricing, Fiberstore Switches →

This week we only have the best looking brothers: Cox, Miller, and the fairest of them all Greg. We talk about: Unimus 1.1.1 portal update Chinog07 in May NANOG69 – DC – Feb 6-8 Mikrotik cAP Lite – 2 cases w/ 3d print files Mikrotik CSS326 – 24XG 2X10Gb – SwOS Mikrotik CRS106 UCRM pCells … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 39 – Mikrotik Gear, UCRM, pCells →

Wow, has it been a while…we’ve MISSED TWO SHOWS!!! Some of you even noticed 🙂 Greg, Andrew COX(sorry about the slip sir), Tomas, Miller, and Mike play catchup for the last month of videos. There’s a lot of hardware chat, get some. This week we chat about: WISPAmerica 2017 – Memphis Midwest-IX STL and new … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 38 – Hardware Catchup – Mimosa, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti →

Greg, Mike, Tomas, and Tom ramble about a lot of things…we inadvertently spend a lot of time musing over Mikrotik and the mysterious version 7. This week we chat about: Unimus was at London MUM – update us CCR1009 hardware change-no switchchip/more throughput hAP lite new design/color wAP Lte Cavium chips (better CCRs?) EdgeMax SFP+ … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 37 – London MUM 2016, Hardware, Mikrotik Bugs, INOG/IPv6 →

This week has Greg, Mike, and Tomas(just before he caught a flight), doing a little news updating. We spoke a lot about telecom providers acquiring each other, and why we think it may be happening(spoiler alert, we complain about it hehe). We also talk a little about hardware and security. Topics include: Trango hidden root … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 36 – Telecom Mergers, Hidden System Accounts, Brocade, hEX →

Greg, Mike, Miller, and Tom talk about the show in general and some of the presentations. We ask the question “Can anyone have too much Tom in their life?” Keep contacting us ! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact (at) thebrotherswisp.com Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Greg, Mike, Miller, and Tom talk about some of the hardware at this year’s Wispalooza; and yes Miller…we talk about LTE hehehe. This cast we talk about: LTE Siklu\Vubiq LTU and other UBNT gear RF Elements Amarillo Wireless IPTV Mikrotik IgniteNet Mimosa BrightWiFi Cambium Networks Mimosa Final Thoughts Keep contacting us ! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact … Continue reading Wispapalooza 2016 – Hardware Wrapup →

Greg, Tomas, and Alex do their best to pretend WISPAPALOOZA didn’t happen(since they were the only ones who didn’t get to go). This one is less news and more conversation/speculation. This cast we talk about: Budapest MUM Unimus in open beta Blocking ICMP Using wireshark with Mikrotik Packet Sniffer Using prefix-length in your route filters … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 35 – Blocking ICMP, Wireshark/Mikrotik Packet Sniffer, Open Compute Networking →

Greg, Tom, Tomas, Alex, and Andrew Cox talk about soooo many things. We get in a spirited debate about who uses Mikrotik and the ease of interface vs how marketing plays into the decision making process. It’s pretty amazing I gotta say. Warning, the end of days may be upon us…Tomas actually promoted QuickSet hehehehe. … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 34 – 10Gb Wireless, Mikrotik Vs Ubiquiti Marketing/Use-case/User Experience, Breaches And DDoS →

Greg, Tomas, and Miller talk a little shop. I do mean little, because this one is short and sweet. Topics Include: MUM Budapest free vouchers WISPAPALOOZA Rebook Scam Arstechnica testing some small routers Ethical BGP Hijacking? Electrical pole attachment – mimosa blog Favorable AF11FX review UBNT EdgePoint Keep contacting us! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact (at) thebrotherswisp.com … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 33 – News, Ethics Of BGP Hijacking, UBNT EdgePoint, Electrical Pole Attachment →

Greg, Andrew Thrift, Mike, Tomas, and Tom talk routing platforms today…those other than Mikrotik that is. We talk about quite a list of things including: OpenBSD OpenBSD ripe presentation SecurityRouter – Gui/CLI packaged OpenBSD PFSense OpnSense CloudRouter – Feature list – PacketPushers podcast on CR FreeRTR Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Nokia (Alcatel Lucent) – SAM Cisco Juniper … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 32 – Alternative Routing Platforms →

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Alex, Tomas, and Greg join today’s cast…Mike showed up to say bye. We go down the rabbit hole like always, but mostly we talk about: We talk about: Unimus 0.2.0 release Google fiber going wireless Mikrotik link calculator International hAPs in US DFS – dynamic frequency selection – mandatory in ROS 6.37 Education – college(to … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 31 – Google Fiber Going Wireless, hAPs and Supply Chain, Education →

This go around we have Greg, Mike, Cox, Tomas, and a little Miller. We go down the rabbit hole like always, but mostly we talk about: Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG UBNT hiring PF Sense engineer FAA Tower Regulations 50′-200′ New Mimosa Firmware WISPA Elections Fail2Ban Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

***Warning*** Greg has mic issues, so please forgive the quality. It will be repaired for the next show Greg, Alex, Tomas, Mike(only for a moment unfortunately), and guest Quincy talk today about: Purchasing old towers Mikrotik changes(the good and the bad) Mikrotik CapsMan Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Greg, Mike, Tomas, and Tom talk about Unimus, Tomas’ new backup application for Network equipment. It’s dead simple, so you no longer have an excuse NOT to have proper backups for your infrastructure. It’s the “up and running in less than 10 minutes” system! Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Mike, Miller, and Tomas(how sad, no Greg) talk about staples, wireless headsets, new Mikrotik ROS releases, New Mimosa, new IgniteNet, and SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

My good friend Greg was asking about how to store data to files onboard a MikroTik device so I thought I’d elaborate here with some information and examples. Before we get started, some things to note: While you can fetch and read the contents of any file, you are limited to working with 4096 character … Continue reading The basics of reading and writing files in RouterOS →

The following script can be run in terminal (or via any automation tool that can login to your MikroTik devices via SSH) and checks for any duplicate script ‘jobs’ and kills them. I wrote this after noticing a few of my scripts that use fetch would hang periodically and leave multiple jobs open. #kill duplicate … Continue reading Scriptlet: Halt MikroTik scheduled scripts if multiple instances are detected. →

Mike, Greg, Miller, and Tomas talk about the recent Ubiquiti exploit(stuff happens, right), and some best practices for securing your network. Mike gives some indepth details on what happened, and we talk about ways to mitigate. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Greg, Miller, Jeremy Austin, a little bit of Mike, Cox, and Tomas talk about monitoring and demo just a little of what NetXMS can do. We talk about what/how we monitoring now, and how we all wish we had a Tomas to build a system for us. Topics include: NetXMS Tomas’ NetXMS instructional videos What … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Monitoring With NetXMS →

We are back peeps! Greg, Mike, Justin Miller, Justin Wilson, Alex, Tomas, and Tom chat about a few important things, and a lot of everything else. We gave a shout out to a few new people we’ve met, but please forgive me for forgetting a few(looking at you forestry service guys and Costa Ricans). Topics … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 27 – US MUM 2016, Switches, Upcoming Events →

TD of Pebkac.io – At the time of writing, Mikrotik’s current CHR build is 6.35rc49.

While purported to work in a Hyper-V VM, there are no instructions I could find at the time to get one up and running in Microsoft Azure (with ARM).

Knowing that it should be theoretically possible, given Azure utilises a hypervisor with the same origins as Hyper-V, I went down the rabbit hole.

Spoiler alert, Mike has some new recording equipment, so let’s see what he does with it. Mike, Wilson and Miller went to WISPAmerica 2016 in Louisville, KY last week. We came out with six interviews that are of far better quality than last fall in Vegas. The show just started a week ago and we … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – The Guys Go To WISPAmerica 2016 →

Mike(Mom), Tom, Tomas, Justin Miller, and Alex talk about how much they wish Greg was no this cast…but alas, he is not. Some of the things discussed: WISPAPalooza video interviews WISPAPalooza in general Cambium ePMP ICANN Mimosa B11 AirFiber NxN Docker NetXMS The Dude SDN\OpenFlow\Performant Networks\Bonding\ etc. New TBW formats Other stuff I probably forgot … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 25 – Wireless Gear, Monitoring, SDN →

Andrew Cox, Mike(Mom), Tom, Tomas, Justin Miller, and Greg talk about the meaning of life and how routing makes it just a little bit better. I point out in the video that MTK donated money to, yet another, children’s hospital. I know they did this quietly, but people doing good things for a good reason … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 26 – Mikrotik Newsletter 70, Switches, upcoming conferences →

Quote the Mike Hammett: “I apologize for the mess. It took us an hour to get started due to hangups on Greg’s end… enough to where he used up all of his time. Then I realized I had to manually control the camera (maybe at my own direction?). Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Alex Hart and … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 24 – The lame one without Greg →

Mike(Mom), Tom, Tomas(over achiever brother), Andrew Thrift(good looking brother), JJ(mad scientist brother), Alex(the normal one), and Greg(so bald it hurts) talk about life, love, and routers…mostly routers. Some of the things discussed: CCR1072 Mikrotik bugs Mikrotik new revision system with incremental bug fixes AirfiberX Unifi AC Mikrotik Cloud Hosted Router Here’s the video:(if you don’t … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 23 – CCR1072, airfiberx, UBNT Gear, Mikrotik →

Mike, Miller, Tom and Greg went to the US MUM(well, Mike didn’t) and we have a little chat about it. Some of the things discussed: New MUM Hardware. Greg’s thoughts on said hardware. Mike’s IX midwest-ix Miller’s IX rva-ix OpenBGPd – openbsd bgp routing. BIRD – linux routing. FastTrack – fastpath with connection tracking. Greg’s … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 22 – 2015 MUMs →

Mike and Wilson went to WISPAmerica 2015 and did a quick live event talking about everything new they saw. Quick input from Scott. Some of the things discussed: Telrad Mimosa Mike is giving away SFPs lulz. Lots-o-random things inbetween. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Mike and Wilson went to Wispapalooza and did a quick live event talking about everything new they saw. Joining in on the call was myself(Greg), Miller, Tom and JJ. Some of the things discussed: RF Elements Antennas New Unifi Controlling everything Ubiquiti Rocket X5 Lots-o-random things inbetween. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 20 – 2014 Wispapalooza →

Today I’m giving you the task of reviewing and improving a small script I’ve written, and one of you will win a free Level 4 RouterOS licence.  Background: I had need of a script to find the interfaces associated with any default routes in order to create matching firewall entries, and it had to work … Continue reading Scriptlet: Find Default Route Interface Names (and a free licence!) →

Hi Guys, today i’ll show you how to manage the Mikrotik Queue Tree to limit the total bandwidth (for. example you can split a 20Mbps DSL to 4Mbps per 5 users) In my example i’ll limit upload+download=20Mbps First of all we need to mark the packets to be traced in the queue: /ip firewall mangle … Continue reading Queue Tree Mikrotik to limit total bandwidth →

So juuuust after the 2014 US MUM, Greg Sowell, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, Tom Smyth, JJ Boyd, and special guests Thomas, Wayne, Gabe, Drew, and Brian join us. Thomas is a genius engineer/instructor from Slovakia who currently works for RF Elements. The audio is a little wacky since we recorded from Tom’s phone, but hopefully … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 19 – US MUM 2014, New Gear, Impressions →

It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop. Some of the things discussed: GPON airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox! New Mimosa gear Observium monitoring tools Cacti monitoring tools … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 18 – GPON, GAON, AirFiber, New Mikrotik, New Ubiquiti, Mimosa →

Hi guys, This is my second article and I wanted to raise the difficulty level of my tutorials! We work a lot with Asterisk PBX and MikroTik and we’ve encountered a problem when we have 2 internet connection with a MikroTik using WAN failover, our Asterisk PBX would stop working when the primary connections fail; … Continue reading MikroTik Scripting: Failover Routing for Asterisk PBX →

Hi guys, This is my first post here, I’m a Network Engineer who works a lot with Mikrotik devices and Server Administration and you can see more of my posts on my website. I found this blog some time ago and was invited to contribute with some of my own scripts that may help others! Today i’ll show … Continue reading Mikrotik Script: Alert on queue tree limit exceeded →

I’ve been playing around with v6.13rc12 over the last week on a CRS125-24G-1S and have put together a an example script for provisioning the unit with a user-vlan and an admin-vlan that are trunked back via the SFP port. I’ve been waiting for a long time to have a usable and readable switch chip config … Continue reading CRS Basic Vlan Configuration →

Contained in this post is a free copy of my 2013 QoS tree (compatible with v6.0) for anyone to do what they want with, I only ask that if you republish this you include a link to this post. It is intended to work on a per-interface basis; with you specifying the WAN interface and … Continue reading The Mother of all QoS Trees – v6.0 →

Janis M. from MikroTik was kind enough to point me to a copy of his presentation from the Russian MUM which I feel is an incredible helpful document and well worth a read by all of the current CCR users out there. I would highly encourage anyone running (or thinking of running) CCR’s on their … Continue reading CloudCoreRouter and RouterOS v6.x (linked post) →

I was recently looking for a simpler alternative to something like RANCID to periodically backup all our MikroTik configs. RANCID is great and all, but I didn’t really need the diff copies of each file, and I was plenty happy just knowing that I have a .backup and .rsc file for each router I manage. … Continue reading Gmail + Google Drive + MikroTik scripting = Automated Backups Folder →

I was looking for a way to do a quick summary of the utilisation of my DHCP/PPP pools and stumbled across a helpful little script. This was originally found on the MikroTik forums and posted back in 2010 written by dssmiktik, and surprisingly enough it works perfectly on even v6.0 with no changes required.

I found myself having to review some VoIP traffic related queries this week and while viewing a few packet captures realised there wasn’t and easy way to see what traffic was being tagged with different DSCP values. I googled around for a little while and found that you can actually add a DSCP column to … Continue reading Enabling DSCP (ToS) Display Column in Wireshark →

Update: Yes for those of you who did double-takes, this is/was an April fools joke 🙂 Some exciting new changes announced! What’s new in 7.0: *) dude – 5.0 package released for PPC and CCR platforms *) ppp – LNS/LAC support added *) ppp – CoA updates now supported for all ppp services *) openvpn … Continue reading RouterOS v7.0 released (april fools joke) →

In todays episode of “why is this $thing not working?” This access point won’t power up. I shook it and heard an odd sound.. Custard?  That’s nasty. And so ends the life of an access point.

This one was somewhat spur of the moment, so we didn’t have the whole crew. JJ, Tom Smyth(obviously Irish), and myself(Greg). Some of the things discussed: New MTK Gear(CCR109, mAP, CCR1016-12S-1S+, CCR1072, CAPs Manager) AirFiber5 RIPE ARIN Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Just a quick post to show an example of day to day usage of RouterOS scripting. Goal: We had to change the src-address for a bunch of radius-server listings across 40 MikroTik devices, to match a new pptp-tunnel address. What would’ve been a pain was that the address is different on each device. Solution: Create … Continue reading Script Fu – Changing RADIUS server source address →

Thanks to Mike Hammett for Sharing this with me. For anyone dealing with lots of ethernet connections, be that PoE runs up towers or 48 port switches providing to office desks, hotel rooms etc, we’ve all had to test and troubleshoot connection issues. These can range from physical connectivity problems like: – Cable run too … Continue reading Pokethernet – The swiss army knife of cable testers →

While needing to update a bunch of routers with new SSL certificates for the hotspot config the other day, I realised there is currently no way to import a certificate in RouterOS via a scripted function (at least not that I’ve discovered prior to v6.3). As such I set out to find a way to … Continue reading Replacing Hotspot SSL certificates with a script →

We had the whole crew! JJ, Justin, Andrew, myself(Greg), and a special guest Bryon Jeffers from Missouri. Bryon did radio work for years, and now owns and operates a WISP. He is also heavy into Ham(I prefer bacon). Some of the things discussed: School E-Rate Program JJ’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) Codec2 FDMDV FreeDV BGP … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 16 – Ham Radio, WISP Business Ideas, SDRs →

It has been ages since we have casted, so it was obvious that we had a lot to say…over 2 hours worth of stuff to say. We covered a lot of ground, so hang on to your britches. This episode we had Andrew Cox, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, and myself Greg Sowell. Topics include: Thoughts … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 15 – New UBNT, Tools, Catching Up →

The following is a short but useful script which allows your system note to output recent info regarding router health and/or other details you might be interested in. Special thanks to Werner Venter for showing me the  ‘Cool Console‘ script which was modified and extended upon for this post.

Given v6.0 stable is now upon us I’ve taken some time to collate some of the posts I’ve been familiarising myself with over the last few weeks to understand the major changes that have been implemented in this release and how to best upgrade and make use of these. I’ve tagged some videos and forum posts … Continue reading Study guide: Moving up to RouterOS v6 →

I’ve been wanting to pickup one of the Apple USB to Ethernet adapters for a while now, and as well as trying it with a bunch of mobile devices I had a change to plug it in and give it a try with my RB751G. As you can see the device is detected instantly (Tested … Continue reading Apple USB Ethernet Adaptor + RouterOS = Success →

Just a quick apology to those I’ve been slow to get back to or had to turn away over the last couple of weeks. I’m finally back to being able to use 2 hands for typing now so should be getting back into the swing of things! Please feel free to email me at admin@mikrotik-routeros.com … Continue reading Back from cracked camp. →

In this one we have Greg(I have to apologize for my extreme tiredness in this one. I was on the tail end of a looooong sleepless week hehehe), JJ, Justin Wilson, and a new guest Justin Miller. I met Miller at the Vegas MUM and he’s been kicking around with us ever since. He is … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 14 – Airfiber Installs With Miller →

As more and more people switch to netbooks; the ability to provision Operating Systems and boot iso’s over the network becomes highly useful. It has become quite common to see CD/DVD ROM drives removed altogether in mobile and even some desktop machines. Installing and booting machines using RouterOS as the bootp/tftp server is quite a … Continue reading RouterOS as a PXE (Net Boot) server →

Looks like they have a decent lineup scheduled…any of you guys going?

This is an email conversation between JJ, Greg, Mike, Andrew Cox, Andrew Thrift, Justin, Tom, and others. I thought you guys might find this interesting. We have been working on a mast site ( revisiting it since ) our Work on spacing out the Antennas last year, I was wondering about your opinions.. on Sectors… … Continue reading Antenna Recommendations For Mikrotik →

In this episode we have Myself(Greg Sowell), Justin Wilson, and special guest Tom Smyth. Tom is a trainer/consultant from Ireland. He is, quite frankly, insane. Inspite of, or more likely because of, his insanity he is also a lot of fun. Even though it was 3AM for him he stuck it out and had a … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 13 – Meet Tom →

This is Justin and Greg just having a quick chat about nothing in particular…just the way I like it 😉 We talk a little about: Elastix MagicJack CCRs A little about the AU MUM…I need my ANDREWS! BFD MTK cable diagnostics Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

My (Andrew Cox) presentation from the MikroTik User Meeting in Sydney is now available online via TikTube.com You can watch it over there or view it embedded here. AU12: Scripting for fun and profit

This script comes from the final slide of my recent MUM presentation on RouterOS scripting It allows you to assign a data limit to trial hotspot users and: a) have them kicked offline upon reaching this limit b) create a temporary user to stop them from being able to log back in again This is … Continue reading Add a data limit to trial hotspot users →

Justin, JJ and Greg talk about Justin’s trip to Wispapalooza and the Ubiquiti World Conference 2012. Andrewwww we miiiiissssss yyyyyooouuuuuu 😉 The glorious links!!!! Wispapalooza Ubiquiti World Conference EdgeMAX ArcWireless new CPE and APs Cambium Some of the topics touched are: AirMAX V2 Nanobridge HP UniFi Justin is a celebrity 🙂 Fast roaming on APs … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 11 – Wispapalooza →

JJ, Justin and myself talk about: The CCR – Additional MUM info on the CCR: – – Winbox and config – – ROS V6 info related to CCR New hardware RB2011UAS-RM, RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN, 2.4Ghz Metal AP/CPE, 2.4Ghz miniPCI, and SXT G-5HnD: – Greg’s list – Justin’s list ROS V6 notes: – Greg’s list – Justin’s list … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 10 – MUM 2012 →

JJ, Justin and Greg speak this week. We also have Rick Harnish of WISPA talk to us about what WISPA is as well as upcoming events:WISPAPALOOZA in Vegas. We also started the first part of our tower series. In the first part we speak about: Safety equipment -what are your favorite brands —DBI SALA – … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 9 – Rick Harnish →

1. Download Notepad++: http://www.notepadplusplus.org 2. Install Notepad++ 3. Download file RouterOS Syntax-Highlighter and extract the notepad++ xml file within. 4. Open Notepad++ 5. Click Language > User-Defined > click Import button. Import the xml file you unzipped. 6. Close and reopen Notepad++ 7a. Open an .rsc script, and syntax highlighting will be visible. 7b. Alternatively open any … Continue reading ROS Syntax highlights in Notepad++ →

This go around we have Greg, Andrew Cox, JJ Boyd, and surprise guest Andrew Thrift. Thrift is our pal from New Zealand. He is a network engineer with a wide range of experiences, though we only really grilled him about his MPLS experience with Mikrotik and about where he buys his hair products. BTW when … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 8 – Andrew Thrift →

I don’t know if the followup is intended to be to the submitter via email or a reply in the forum thread however it seems a good idea to allow quick submission of confirmed issues. Can’t see any official post on the forum noting when it came about, but if you have any experience using … Continue reading MikroTik forum adds bug reporting →

Andrew was out sick for this one so it was just JJ, Justin and Greg. We tried out google huddle this go around and I have to say it was a success 🙂 We talked about: JJ read the airfiber manual…why would any self respecting man read a manual? We talk briefly about the Latvian … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 7 – Airfiber – Latvian Mikrotik Videos – Mikrotik Basics →

I found this to be a very interesting read/listen (depending on your language you may want to enable the subtitles) to some of the history of MikroTik Also if you follow the video you’ll find the official MikroTik YouTube channel.

We have the whole crew on deck again. We talk mostly about hardware in this one including: Toughswitch Ubiquiti mFi My ramblings about mFi Mikrotik RB2011LS-IN My ramblings Andrew digging up some hardware info on Mikrotik 10Gb Google glass (Glasses we were talking about with skydivers) SPIRAL CUT HOTDOOOOOOOOOGS! Here’s the video:(if you don’t see … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 6 – RB2011LS-IN →

It’s been out over 2 months now and I’ve been running it on a test home router for 79 days personally so I figure it’s about time to make you all aware of just some of the new features in RouterOS v6.0beta1 Certificate upgrades: The built in certificate functions now allow creation of self signed … Continue reading RouterOS v6.0beta1 new feature review →

This was spotted today in the Mikrotik Wiki’s supported hardware list. Brand Model Rate Connector/Cable Type Wavelength Tested with Works/Doesn’t MikroTik RB SFP3401 10/100/1000 RJ45, Cat6 – RB2011LS-IN Works. Available in Q3! MikroTik RB SFP5602D-53 155M~2.63G Bi-Di LC, MM 1550/1310 RB2011LS-IN Works. Available in Q3! MikroTik RB SFP5602D-35 155M~2.63G Bi-Di LC, MM 1310/1550 RB2011LS-IN Works. … Continue reading Routerboard 10Gbps capable hardware coming soon? →

Bit of a late addition by me, but the BrothersWISP most recent podcast addressing WISP security is now online. Topics covered are: Securing your border router Securing towers Securing clients Securing administrative machines I wasn’t able to be present for this one due to work commitments (not Diablo 3 thanks Greg :-P) but will … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Podcast #3 →

TheBrothersWISP Podcast 2 is now out, head on over here for the video and discussion: Topics covered are: Airfiber ToughSwitch Titanium antennas Aircams Unifi Pro Mikrotik RB2011L-IN This is a pretty long one, we won’t hate you if you want to skip through to the bits you’re interested in 🙂

Just a couple of quick screen shots of the new “Quick Set” mode available in some of the newest releases. As you can see the dropdown box top left lets you select the mode for the device and puts all the basic configuration options in one place. AP mode:   And CPE mode: The addition … Continue reading Quick Set Preview →

  Greg and I have started a new podcast series. The idea is to include chats about pretty much whatever seems interesting at the time. This one was quickly after the PL MUM so Greg and I talked about some of the hardware that was announced, along with future predictions for MikroTik gear. Topics include: … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Podcast #1 →

Announced less than 24 hours ago at the Warsaw MUM, comes the first (and hopefully not the last) MikroTik shot at high end routing. Update 2012-07-16: Tilera has made a press release confirming their processors will be used in the CCR-1036. You can read the full thing here.   Mikrotik CLOUD CORE Router CCR-1036 36 … Continue reading MikroTik Cloud Core Router: CCR-1036 (Updated) →

MikroTik supports exporting NetFlow traffic data via /ip traffic-flow, which can be read using free or paid software. This guide shows you how to setup ntop (a free option) on a fresh CentOS 6 (or RedHat) install and assumes you have setup a CentOS 6 server that has a connection to the internet.

New toys you say?   Noticed this little gem in the MikroTik wiki this morning while reviewing Queue Types. Note: Starting from v5.8 there is new kind none and new default queue only-hardware-queue. All RouterBOARDS will have this new queue type set as default interface queue only-hardware-queue leaves interface with only hw transmit descriptor ring buffer which acts as a queue … Continue reading Queue outside please! →

IPv6 prefix delegation support comes to PPPoE in RouterOS version v5.10* so for those of you ready to jump onboard this release, here’s my attempt at a best-practice way to set it all up. IPv6 has been around in RouterOS for a while now, but the specific feature that was introduced is called “DHCPv6 Prefix … Continue reading IPv6 over PPPoE – RouterOS v5.10 →

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 … Continue reading Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS →

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 … Continue reading MikroTik new product announcements – October 2011 →

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 … Continue reading Las Vegas →

For anyone who’s interested, I’ll be doing my MTCWE training before MUM USA (Las Vegas) 2011 and attending the conference, looking forward to meeting some of you there!

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 … Continue reading Welcome to the jungle, mind all the bugs. →

A quick scriptlet I whipped up for a friend tonight to allow them to retrieve an IP addess from a specific PPPoE interface. Handy for updating DynDNS entries among other things. :local wanip [/ip address get [/ip address find where interface=pppoe-wan] address]; :set wanip [:pick $wanip 0 ([:len $wanip]-3) ]; #whatever you want to do … Continue reading Scriplet: Grabbing PPPoE IP Address →

Subnetting:   Given my general lazyness in all things requiring pen and pencil; I like many others am prone to using a subnet calculator in day to day network building. That and when you think about it.. which is more likely to be correct, a computer with static algorithms or a coffee-fueled network administrator adding … Continue reading Subnetting and Serial over SSH →

So I’m sitting in a hotel in Brisbane after having had a fun filled week of all things MikroTik. Highlights: I’m now a fully qualified MTCNA. Meeting Normis, Janis and Arnis. Seeing the new RB751N (pics later on).   All in all the meeting was great and I’m sure we’ll see presentations (my favourites were … Continue reading MUM Australia – April 2011 →

For any of you aussies following this site, don’t forget to register your attendance for the Mikrotik User Meeting (first one ever in Australia). Note that Duxtel will also be doing Mikrotik training the week before and after! – Link here

There have been a number of improved netwatch scripts listed on the mikrotik wiki in the past however many of these are hard to understand, broken or both. I had a request from an associate to assist them finding a solution to fall over VPN traffic from one link to another in the event of … Continue reading Improved Netwatch-style script. →

This has been mentioned and posted in a couple of places now however I’d like to post a copy here also in the event that anyone else has further suggestions on improvements for the script, or any further questions. Although I don’t use it much myself, many Mikrotik users would be familiar with the “user-manager” … Continue reading Adding automatic rate limits to user-manager accounts. →

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for what you choose to do with this script and/or what damage you incur. It uses features of RouterOS in ways I have to assume they were not intended so user beware. I wrote a little script today that allows very simple load/bandwidth testing. Some suggested uses: – basic testing … Continue reading Simple RouterOS http load/bandwidth tester →

Came across an interesting (yet to be verified) bug today. The info: RouterOS v4.10 running on x86 server Site runs both a hotspot and PPPoE server on the same interface. Users can decide to login via the captive portal (which most do) or for those who understand and wish to use a pppoe connection, they … Continue reading Bug spotting – PPPoE and Hotspot →

For those of you who missed it, the most recent Mikrotik User Meeting (MUM) was on just a few days ago in the USA. Videos of the presentations (which are all very interesting) are available on tiktube and I would highly recommend you check out Greg Sowell‘s presentation on Troubleshooting. http://tiktube.com/?video=369 Greg has also just … Continue reading MUM 2010 – Phoenix →

Please note this guide assumes some basic knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 address space. Many of you may know of the impending doom that surrounds the IPv4 network and lack of remaining IP ranges. The question is, how many people are actually doing anything about it? Given the slow take up worldwide I thought it … Continue reading IPv6 and Mikrotik – Using 6to4 →

I’ve been following the progress of an online contact (http://twitter.com/slampt) who’s currently working on converting his house, car and bike to all support access via an RFID chip he had implanted in his hand. It’s not specifically network related but incredibly cool (IMHO) nonetheless. Click through to see a video of him having the RFID … Continue reading Crosspost – RFID enabling your life. →

In the state of Australia I currently live in, there are 2 major ISP’s – Internode and Adam Internet. Being a typical nerd and living with other typical nerds we of course have 2 ADSL connections, 1 to each of these providers which are shared out amongst the house. However each of these providers have … Continue reading Freebies in SA (or How to download IP address lists to a Mikrotik) →

Recently I’ve had 2 RB450’s come across my desk as “dead” units. 1 was the victim of a power surge, the other had just stopped working at some point. As these were both going to visit the bin otherwise, I claimed both units in the hope that I might be able to use my limited … Continue reading The death and resurrection of an RB450 →

In preparation for some IPv6 testing of our hotspot systems, I’ve come up with the following temporary authentication method for dual-stacked users. Seeing as the login redirect goes via an IPv4 webserver, if enabled IPv6 traffic passes by the hotspot unhindered. This is my work on enabling the IPv6 side of things when a user … Continue reading Mikrotik Hotspot Authentication for IPv6 dual-stacked clients →

Having received one of the first RB1100’s to arrive in Australia, I can sum all my thoughts on it in 5 words “better and cheaper than cisco”. However seeing as that’s just my opinion, I’ll elaborate a little further on why exactly the RB1100 rates so high in my mind.

I’ve been offered an RB1100 to review which I’ll be receiving later this week. The RB1100 is the successor to the RB1000 with more than double the ports and some unique features.. more on this later. Expect a review here sometime over the weekend when I’ve had a bit of a play 🙂 Greg Sowell … Continue reading RB1100 review coming soon. →

The short of it I’ve had a few times where I’ve wanted to make a secure tunnel between 2 locations but have only had connections with dynamic IP addresses to work with. Sure it’s easy enough to setup a dynamic dns script for each router, but how about getting one to connect back to the … Continue reading Using a dynamic dns name for a VPN server →

Current version: v1.5 If you have any questions you can also email me: admin ( at ) mikrotik-routeros ( dot ) com Summary I wrote a usage tracking script based on the original Automated Billing Script The way I run it is using a routed Mikrotik box setup to pass everything through transparently then I generated … Continue reading Automated Usage Script – without usermanager →

This is my ongoing work at using multiple ADSL services and the Mikrotik PCC rules along with some inbound mangling to allow a single router to load balance traffic across as many non bonded links as required.

I am the user known as omega-00 on the mikrotik forums (see here) and as always am happy to be of assistance in all mikrotik related matters. I can be contacted via the email address listed in my forum profile or alternatively send an email to: admin at this domain dot com (if you can’t … Continue reading Consultant for hire →

If you are a regular listener or visitor to everything TBW, you already know about WISPAPALOOZA 2017. If not, go learn about it here. I thought a good topic to throw out some tips and tricks for first-time visitors as well as regular attendees. WISPAPALOOZA is held at the Rio in Las Vegas. Unlike many other … Continue reading Vegas tips for WISPAPALOOZA →