TheBrothersWISP 23 – CCR1072, airfiberx, UBNT Gear, Mikrotik

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

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TheBrothersWISP 22 – 2015 MUMs

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 MUM Presentation – using BGP to build QoS.
RoMon – MTK layer 2ish management protocol.
Lots-o-random things inbetween.

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Scriptlet: Find Default Route Interface Names (and a free licence!)

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 with RouterOS v6.

This script searches through any default route (dst-address=0.0.0.0/0) and adds it to an array so long as the interface can’t already be found in the array. I don’t often use arrays in MikroTik so the first version has a search function that doesn’t loop through the array, but instead just converts it to a string again to run the find command (Line 8)

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