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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

  • Unimus Fails To Discover ASR9000 IOS-XR Routers Via Telnet

    It appears that Unimus has an inter-connection timeout of 250Ms, and when telnetting to a Cisco ASR9K it needs to be adjusted to something more like 1 second. It seems that when a telnet session is opened to cisco via the discovery mechanism(trying to figure out if telnet is open), then instantly tries another connection…

  • TheBrothersWISP 88 – White label PCI Compliance, EDC Backpack, Basic Business Router Config

    TheBrothersWISP 88 – White label PCI Compliance, EDC Backpack, Basic Business Router Config

     This week Greg, Tomas, and Dave talk about how we are getting into beach shape…or perhaps we just talk tech 😉 This week we talk about: White label PCI compliance scanning. Unimus is awesome – mass config push Mikrotik try catch block *Slack Updates* What’s in your backpack. Aside from the common Some things…

  • Mikrotik MUM 2019 Austin After Movie

    Mikrotik MUM 2019 Austin After Movie

     Help support us by becoming a patron! <==join our Slack team! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

  • TheBrothersWISP 87 – Confluence RCE, BGP On Various Kit, Configuring Edge Switches

    TheBrothersWISP 87 – Confluence RCE, BGP On Various Kit, Configuring Edge Switches

     This week Greg, Tomas, Mike, Wilson, and TOM SMYTH get all Irish up on it. Tom and I go on some deep tangents, prepare thy self. This cast we talk about: Confluence RCE in all but latest v6 versions wpa3 vulnerability GPENs will have water proof enclosures V7 we saw was an internal alpha…

  • Bridging all VLANs Into/Through A VMware ESXi VM
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    Bridging all VLANs Into/Through A VMware ESXi VM

    Recently I was assisting with a Preseem server configuration. These boxes want to be bridged in the traffic path. If you want to do this in an ESXi VM, this can be a little obtuse. As per this VMware link, setting the VLAN to 4095 will instruct the vswitch to pass all VLANs through unmolested.…

  • TheBrothersWISP MUM USA 2019

    TheBrothersWISP MUM USA 2019

     This is recorded from a random conference room at the US MUM, which we get kicked out of after 10 minutes…LOL. Enjoy what’s there 🙂 This cast we talk about: Stuff at the MUM, duh. Help support us by becoming a patron! <==join our Slack team! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp…

  • Mikrotik ROS V7 BGP CCR Performance – Leaked Video!

    Mikrotik ROS V7 BGP CCR Performance – Leaked Video!

     Greg Sowell, Justin Miller, and Justin Wilson get a live demo of 6 BGP peers loading on a CCR1016 running a build version of router OS version 7. We give all the details we have on the inner workings of the new engine. 3.5 million routes in around 3 minutes and the UI didn’t…