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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

  • TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox

    TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox

     This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik renames release channels DHCP Snooping Ubiquiti CPEs with public IPs stop responding to admin access, but pass traffic…why? Tool to aggregate IPv4/IPv6 routes – thanks Steve! Mikrotik newsletter 84 RB4011 RB4011…

  • TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story

    TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story

     This week Greg, Dave, and Mike do a quick cast to kick off the Labor day weekend…it sure feels like working trying to listen to these things, though… This cast we talk about: SECURE YOUR ROUTERS!!!!!!!!! Ignite net new firmware TBW IPv6 podcast Nicks notes on IPv6 All of the pickles Sangoma acquires Digium…

  • TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6?

    TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6?

    Nick, John, Miller, Tommy, Mike, and Greg talk about the various reasons to do IPv6 or not, some of the hurdles to implement, and use cases. We also discuss: Business case for IPv6 Islands of knowledge Consumer vs Enterprise Dual stacking P2P addressing Subnet sizes Subnet sizes to deliver to customers Prefix delegation via DHCP…

  • Protect Your Network From Mikrotik Exploits

    Protect Your Network From Mikrotik Exploits

    Attacks on older versions of Mikrotik have stepped up recently. You can easily protect your network from such attacks in a couple of simple steps. 1. Update your Mikrotik to a new version that isn’t affected system package upgrade 2. Disable any unneeded Mikrotik services ip services dis 0,1,2,3,4,7 3. Add firewall rules to protect…

  • TheBrothersWISP 74 – Protect your tik, Ciena Metro E, Unresponsive Customers

    TheBrothersWISP 74 – Protect your tik, Ciena Metro E, Unresponsive Customers

     This week Greg, Dave, Mike, Miller and Andrew Cox totally bro out and talk about manly things…and at the end Greg feels all the feels, so use caution if that’s not your thing 😉 This cast we talk about: Dragonwav’s annoucement Bare minimum to protect your Mikrotik Greg Trains on Ciena Metro E Kit…

  • TheBrothersWISP 73 – Mikrotik 4011, security, MTU, cheap fiber tools

    TheBrothersWISP 73 – Mikrotik 4011, security, MTU, cheap fiber tools

     This week Greg, Dave, and Mike trade our favorite recipes. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik 4011 first look Mikrotik 4011 second look Wireless Wire MTU Issue – regular wireless l2mtu of 1600 Mikrotik selling CWDM muxes and optics Mikrotik coinhive crytpojacking More botnets taking advantage of winbox holes up to version 6.42 Mikrotik…

  • TBW 71: Where oh were could Greg be?

    TBW 71: Where oh were could Greg be?

     This cast we talk about: NEWS: Cambium launches the e700 outdoor WiFi AP NEWS: RF Elements gets hornier Mikrotik have found a bit of focus on LTE, HOORAY! NEWS: Mikrotik: RB450Gx4 and hEX S new products + discuss the inevitable refresh of Omnitik AC, Dynadish, Netmetal Mikrotik switching – State of Play 1H2018 Ham…