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Inside Greg’s Brain

Networking gear, Ansible playbooks, and a podcast on the side.

Mikrotik tutorials, Ansible Automation Platform deep-dives, and conversations that chase the story behind the person.

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  • Blizzard Updates Via BitTorrent Only

    Blizzard Updates Via BitTorrent Only

    Blizzard used to attempt BitTorrent first, and if that failed, they would do direct download. As of their newer updates, the only method to download updates is now via BitTorrent. If you happen to be using my draconian torrent filter here, then your WoW users can no longer download updates! I’ve created a little exception…

  • Mikrotik Layer3 Gateway Load Balancing

    Mikrotik Layer3 Gateway Load Balancing

    This is a topic I’m increasingly receiving questions on, so it seems time for a quick post about it 🙂 *EDIT – turns out it is not such a quick post :P* I say Layer 3 in the heading because I’m talking about load balacing at the network layer, not at layer 2 (bonding). The…

  • Cacti Template – Tripplite SNMPWEBCARD
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    Cacti Template – Tripplite SNMPWEBCARD

    This will graph most of the important bits about your tripplite UPS via the optional SNMPWEBCARD. I put thresholds in for temperature and output source. The file is here:

  • Reset Windows Passwords Offline

    It’s been ages since I’ve had to do this, but for those of you in need, check out this bootable iso. You pop it in and follow the on screen prompts which will quickly allow you to clear or change any local windows account. Use at your own risk, though 🙂

  • RouterOS v5.0rc4 Released

    Well, RC4 dropped yesterday and here is what they have to say about it: *) radius – fixed Disconnect and CoA response signature generation; *) winbox – make double click work in text fields again; *) winbox – allow to drag windows outside of main one to the left; *) winbox – make some settings…

  • Cacti Polling Issues – OID Not Increasing

    I’ve run into this a couple of times and finally fixed it…err…well…bypassed it. Some devices don’t properly respond to snmpwalk requests. Net-snmp will return the following error: Error: OID not increasing: Net-snmp has a command line parameter that will ignore this “-Cc”. Though you run the risk of having an object loop indefinately when you…

  • MUM Colombia 2010 Live

    MUM Colombia 2010 Live

    You guys can browse over to here and watch the Colombian action live. Hopefully you guys can speak Spanish…cause I can’t under stand a word of it.