Category: Networking
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How To Setup A Backup Radius Manager Install
Radius Manager is a product from DMA softlabs that acts as a radius authentication system for your wireless or hotspot clients. I personally use it for my hotspot clients in Mikrotik. The point of this article is to show you how to add some redundancy to your configuration. The software is licensed via a MAC…
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Cisco BGP Prepend All Routes – The Lazy Way
One man’s lazy is another man’s efficient. I’m the most efficient guy you know 😛 Prepending is adding your AS number to BGP NLRI multiple times to make a set of routes look further away and thus less preferred. Without Prepending: Router# show ip bgp 1.1.1.0/24 BGP routing table entry for 1.1.1.0/24, version 555663701 65001…
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Broadband Communities Summit Day 2
FTTX Hardware Greenfield install = “Brand new” building. Easier install as you can drop cabling before the walls go up. Brownfield install = “Existing structure”. Harder/more costly to retrofit. Some things that may be tricky with condos are that each unit is owned property, so there are legal concerns with running through/around. No such thing…
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Broadband Communities Summit 2014 Austin, TX
I’m here at the BCS in Austin. It technically started Monday, but the meat and potatoes starts today and runs through tomorrow. I’m going to try and post some periodic updates about what I see/do. This summit is mostly about FTTX, what with 3 carriers offering FTTH here in Austin. I’m hoping to walk away…
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Cisco DHCP Snooping With Mikrotik Version 6
I’ve written an extensive article here about Layer 2 protection on wired networks. I would reference this first for full details. In a nutshell DHCP snooping prevents a user from acting as a rogue DHCP server. It also builds a binding table that can be used with ARP inspection to prevent man in the middle…
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TP-Link TL-SG Series Switches
One friend of mine recently asked what everyone was using to do AP aggregation. Another buddy of mine instantly chimed in with TP-Link…the kid is always talking about some TP-Link switches. Tom hasn’t steered me wrong yet, nor has he missed an opportunity to serenade me either, so I decided to give them a try.…
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Border Router QoS Script For Mikrotik
******UPDATED 1/16/2014 – overall update, V6 support****** ******UPDATED 1/17/2014 – added some additional xbox one ports****** I’ve been using a derivative of this script successfully for quite some time now. In the past I’ve charged for it, but since I’ve had so little time for you guys lately I decided to hand this out for…
