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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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    Cisco ASR9006 Pasting To CLI Issue

    If you are repeatedly getting errors like “Invalid number(-117) sent as ASCII value to command-line process from VTY/TTY, refreshing prompt.” when pasting, to an ASR9006 with RSP440s, it’s likely due to the serial port configurations. Ensure you have your serial terminal set to: 8 data bits No parity 2 stop bits It’s the stop bits…

  • TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource

    TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource

     This week Greg, Dave, Mike, and the ever elusive Tomas go on some rants! This cast we talk about: Unimus update from Tomas New Weekly Feature Big Boy Switches Chi-NOG LibreNMS PHP Requirement Change *Slack Updates* Mike K says use silicore HDPE conduit to pull fiber in underground. Mike K also suggests the use…

  • TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future

    TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future

     This week Greg, Dave, Nick, and Andrew Thrift along with his hair, do the thing with the mics. Cox also teases us…we don’t deserve two Andrews in one cast. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik newsletter 87 Intel may be purchasing Mellanox (as per Thrift) Tilera–>EzChip–>Mellanox–>Intel DNS Flag Day anyone? John Osmon’s 5 tips,…

  • TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon

    TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon

     This week Greg talks to John Osmon about his top 6 tips. The Tips: 1) *BE* the packet (Know how the network works) 2) pcap or it didn’t happen (get proof) 3) don’t confuse network and physical diagrams 4) give back to the community 5) vocabulary — learn others, teach yours. Necessary for communication…

  • Making a custom 3rd tail light for a Jeep!

    I made a custom 3rd taillight for my wife’s Jeep for Christmas this year. Enjoy “the making of” video! Let me know what you guys think!

  • TheBrothersWISP 81 – CEPH/ZFS, Charging for RFO, Dynamic SIP Servers

    TheBrothersWISP 81 – CEPH/ZFS, Charging for RFO, Dynamic SIP Servers

     This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and the coolest kid I know in VA, Miller, take it to the mat. This cast we talk about: CEPH and ZFS Open media vault Dynamic SIP server location DNS SRV “Tubes” book PDF? AT&T charges for RFO Certifications? DNS Flag day What bandwidth bursting be used for other…

  • TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Colin Z

    TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Colin Z

     This week Greg talks to Colin Z about his top 5 tips. The Tips: Colin Z 1) Look at things in terms of a Link Budget. 2) 6 dB delta to make a noticeable difference. 3) Follow basic grounding practices (R56 is a good reference). 4) Plan for outage. 5) Document what you can.…