Category: Mikrotik
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Mikrotik Blatantly Steals Design For Omnitik
Mikrotik is soon to ship a new all-in-one outdoor A/N routerboard, the Omnitik. While the product seems original, I’ve unfortunately obtained photographic evidence that leaves little doubt that the design is not original. Here is the Omnitik: Here is the carelessly pilfered original design: A side by side of the shame follows: Undeniable in this…
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Mikrotik Newsletter 32
The PDF can be found here. Omnitik The omnitik is now going to be released. It is a cute little mimo omni outdoor radio, but also has a 5 ethernet ports. The only downside(and only an opininon) is that it is an A/N radio. I would like to see a B/G version. I would love…
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Mikrotik Newsletter #31
The PDF can be found here. This is one pretty light…they are really just pimping a couple of the new products: The Grove5Hn($69) and the Grove A-5Hn($89). The specs are: 400 Mhz Atheros 32MB of RAM for the standard and 64MB for the A version 64MB of flash n 5GHz 802.11a/n 1×1 MIMO with N-male…
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Mikrotik V5.3-5.4 Released
I lumped these together because they were released within two days of each other 🙂 These are really just bug fixes, no real feature additions. What’s new in 5.4 (2011-May-27 13:18): *) webfig – do not try to open many windows if first open was blocked by browser; *) RB4xx ether1 port flapping fixed; What’s…
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Block RFC-1918 Spoofed Traffic
A general rule of thumb in a service provider network is to block RFC-1918(private addressing) address space. You want to block this incoming from your upstream providers also, but generally filtering it in your network is a good idea. You will also want to block any traffic coming from your provider sourced from your address…
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Wireless Transparent Bridging With WDS
WDS(Wireless Distribution System) is a means to transparently bridge wireless APs. What exactly does transparent bridging mean? A transparent bridge is basically turning your wireless links into an ethernet cable. It takes anything put into one side and spits it out on the other. This is great for connecting two locations. This is often used…
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Manipulating OSPF Path Selection With Cost
My good friend JJ asked me a question the other day about OSPF path selection. It was something like “I have a redundant network and I want to adjust cost on an individual route…how do I do that?” Seems pretty straight forward, right?…not exactly. Cost is the metric OSPF uses to judge a path’s feasibility.…