Category: Hardware
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The Brothers WISP 120 – Mikrotik Updates, Time Off In IT, One Tip For Students Heading Into IT
This week we have Greg, Mike, Tommy C., and Miller using some new video technology! **Sponsors** Sonar.software Cambium ePMP Bundle **/Sponsors** This week we talk about: Simon from Sonar will be a guest; what questions do you have? Nvidia purchases ARM for $40B Cradlepoint sells to Ericcson H.266 video compression promisses to use 50%(More)…
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The Brothers WISP 112 – UBNT Payment Gateway, Automation Layering, MTK netPower16P
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(More)…
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The Brothers WISP 110 – Online Certs, New CCR 2004, AU/NZ Vs US ISP
This week Greg, Mike, and Andrew Thrift talk about the new hardware, and speculate on what’s next. This week we talk about: *Cambium Sponsor Deal* Cisco offering online testing for certs…who’s next? (Greg hopes it’s Red Hat LOL) Winbox 3.23 ctrlC and ctrlA work! MTK CCR2004-1G-12S-2XS CRS326-24G-2S+IN desktop switch hAP AC3 Speculation on new(More)…
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Cisco ASR 9000 Power-module failure condition raised
We were recently doing some chassis replacements and I got my final ASR 9000 chassis in. We were able to successfully upgrade it and were letting it do its customary hardware burn in when we notice some odd messages hitting the log: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Nov 8 13:44:57.220 CST: pwrmon[381]: %PLATFORM-PWRMON-2-MODULE_FAILURE : Power-module 0/PS0/M0/SP failure condition raised RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Nov…
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DIY USB Powered Fiber Tester
Using a cheap TP-Link media converter you too can make a portable fiber tester. The SFP cage allows you to swap optics to fit whatever fiber you’re trying to test. This particular media converter ships with a 9 volt wall brick, but fortunately it’s happy to run the SFP cage off of a 5V usb…
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ASR9000/IOS-XR OSPF Fun With MTU
I’m going to start by saying IOS-XR has some pretty cool features, I mean just look at the addition of “commit”. It does, however, have some quirks that can confound you, especially when you are migrating from one architecture over to the ASR9000 series. In particular, I’m going to look at the OSPF implementation. Here’s…
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Cisco ASR9006 Pasting To CLI Issue
If you are repeatedly getting errors like “Invalid number(-117) sent as ASCII value to command-line process from VTY/TTY, refreshing prompt.” when pasting, to an ASR9006 with RSP440s, it’s likely due to the serial port configurations. Ensure you have your serial terminal set to: 8 data bits No parity 2 stop bits It’s the stop bits…