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TheBrothersWISP 78 – MTK Grey Hat, RF E Asymmetric Horns, Supermicro HW Hack?



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 errors and slowness
Ken had to downgrade to 6.40 to get his LTE card working
RF Elements asymmetric horns
RB4011 vs CCR1009 BGP load time
Optimizing throughput for CCR1072 – bgp / route filtering / queues / firewall rules – accept known first etc
Bloomberg Supermicro report rebuttal
Thoughts on Cisco IOS-XR “first impressions”
Play AM radio using your web browser
Libssh authentication bypass on Cisco
Protecting customers from themselves: what do you block?
IPv6 channel is active – Did the internet birth trolls?

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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:
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 5V to 24V for PoE
RB4011\RB1100AHx4 BGP?
Highlights from Mikrotik slack:
Check CPUs in system resources cpu to see utilizaton on all cores.
Jeremy says to check if scripts are still running head to system scripts jobs.
Ole says 1036 takes 45 seconds to reboot and start passing traffic.
Thrift says Tilera MDE (Multicore Development Environment) only supports up to the 3.3 kernel, so they are stuck there moving forward.
Jason Wilson shared that the Russian MUM has opened up an iPhone app.
Dan discovered that once customers connected to a remote network with the Cisco anyconnect client they pulled a new DNS server and it caused issues.
VoIP Phone IPSec
Tomas’ Thoughts: At what point does having services separated out bring benifit vs the all-in-one solution?

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TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox



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 Wireless
Mikrotik 60 GHz SXT
BaseBox 6
WISPApalooza
Amazon S3 bucket vs dropbox or box

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TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story



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 Inc
Unifi super high density deployment radios – Arena / Conference Hall
Tracking down TCP resets, a hashing story
Tower training over at ISPSupplies
Issabel Asterisk GUI Dave said is horrible…so why am I linking it?

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TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6?

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
AAAA and IPv6 DNS
Hotspots and IPv6
SLAAC
Various address types
Neighbor tables
ICMP in IPv6

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