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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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?
Boštjan 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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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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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 than online video streaming services in effort to improve end user experience in a practical sense.

Slack Updates
Austin MUM – record a little brothers wisp podcast?
Andrew Thrift is now prepared to answer all of your Fortinet questions.
Jeremy has found success with receiving and processing is abuse notifications at abuse.io
NV2 for 802.11ac is broken on Mikrotik ARM kit, so avoid it.
Thrift is pushing for a standardized API with Mikrotik.
802.11 beaconing with additional SSIDs
When you think an optic may be running too hot, you can try wrapping fiber around a pencil
Tomas wants unimus feedback “If you aren’t using it, what are your reasons?”

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