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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.

Latest posts

  • Guess Where I Am :)

    Guess Where I Am 🙂

    I should be on a boat…a rather large boat. I’m on a cruise fools! I’ll be out and away from a PC for a week.

  • Mikrotik 5.0beta1 Released

    The updates are thus: *) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.32.5); Terrific! *) ssh is now completely rewritten (supports connection forwarding, only DSA keys); Sounds like fun. I hope they retained the ability to do ssh tunneling through the MTK. *) added support for SSTP protocol (PPP over TLS); This is the SSL VPN we’ve…

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    Automatic Bogon Updates

    As most of you are security minded people out there, you already know what Bogons are. If not, here is what wikipedia has to say about it. It’s basically addressing that no packets should be addressed from. Steve-o clued me into the Team Cymru bogon project. In a nutshell what they do is setup a…

  • LearnMikrotik Training April 19-22nd

    LearnMikrotik Training April 19-22nd

    Looks like Steve over at learnmikrotik is holding some training classes April 19-22nd. If you are looking to get certified, pop over and have a look.

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    Mikrotik IPSec When One Side Is DHCP

    I’m lazy and thus I’ve just updated my VPN training video with the new info. Pop on over and see the nifty little script that makes it all happen. 🙂

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    Painfully Embarrising IT – Oh The Shame…

    So I got a comment about a netflow collector a while back called scrutinizer by a company called plixer. This looks like a decent enough product, but that’s not what caught my eye. They had a link to some videos by “Mix Master Mitch”. This is some of the most painfully embarrassing IT stuff I’ve…

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    Trixbox Cheat Sheet

    I found this great cheat sheet a while back. It has tips on trixbox specifically and asterisk in general.