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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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  • Mikrotik Newsletter 25

    The PDF can be found here. Highlights: 411AR Built in B/G card with MMCX connector. Also has a minipci slot for an additional card, which is a nice add. They are making a strong run at translating their documentation into the wiki. It looks like a great first offering, and I look forward to this…

  • Mikrotik Beta5.2 Released

    Changelog here. I’ll highlight the interesting bits: What’s new in 5.0beta2 (2010-Apr-30 11:35): *) added wireless distance setting, removed ack-timeout; *) improved 802.11 operation for outdoor distances; This is terrific. Ubiquiti has had a slider for this in their GUI for a while now. You slide it to your distance and it automatically adjusts ack…

  • Mikrotik V4.9 Released…My Head Is Spinning

    This is the 3rd version release in what seems as many weeks. Change log is here. *) fixed problem – some of the bridge ports stayed invalid after reboot; I assume this is why the update was rushed out 🙂 *) console – added ‘/port remote-access export’ command;

  • Mikrotik 4.8 Released – Ditch That Buggy 4.7!

    Here’s the change log. 4.7 had some major DHCP bugs and was quickly pulled, so grab your 4.8 while it’s fresh. *) fixed problem – WinBox crashed while opening VAP interface; *) dhcp server – fixed possible inactive dhcp server in case of many dhcp leases with address-pool enabled (broken in v4.7); *) dhcp server…

  • Run Linux On Your RouterBoard
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    Run Linux On Your RouterBoard

    Anthony, who accomplished this hack, was kind enough to let me repost it here. It seems he has found a way to run Debian linux on his RB433AH, and he was kind enough to show us all how it is done. “Basically the technique is to netboot the router off a vmlinux-initramfs image I constructed…

  • Mikrotik V4.7 Released

    Another riveting change log 🙂 *) fixed problem – wireless packet bridging with nstreme enabled sometimes was very slow on RB1xx, RB5xx and RB4xx; *) fixed problem – ipv6 traffic was not bridged if ipv6 package was not enabled; *) ‘/user active’ now lists type of api connections as ‘api’ *) fixed getting interface stats…

  • Mikrotik Dude V3.6 Released

    Hey there my peoples. I’m back from vacation with an update on the dude. If you are unfamiliar with the dude, it is a free monitoring tool that can build weathermaps of your network with links between devices. It will do icmp monitoring and syslog collection(I still prefer cacti, but this is pretty easy to…