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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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  • TheBrothersWISP 5 – Future Proof Your WISP and Fiber Terminations

    TheBrothersWISP 5 – Future Proof Your WISP and Fiber Terminations

    This week we have Andrew, JJ, Justin and myself(Greg) on the call! Brothers Unite! We are talking about future proofing your WISP. What equipment we choose Why we choose it Techniques we employ     We speak about fiber optic cable. How we terminate Where we use it why we use it     We also give…

  • Memories Of A Cabling Fiasco

    Memories Of A Cabling Fiasco

    So back in the day I worked for a company called UCS. I won’t go into the poor employee moral or the way we were treated…I’m taking the high road. What I will talk about is a particularly bad night…err early morning. So we had a lot of old cat3 50 pair running through the…

  • TheBrothersWISP 5-29-12 Podcast – Monitoring and Backup

    TheBrothersWISP 5-29-12 Podcast – Monitoring and Backup

    We discuss what we use to monitor our equipment, what we use to backup and thoughts on training. Go over and have some funzies watching. We also now have direct audio podcast feeds!

  • Mikrotik V5.17 Released

    What’s new in 5.17 (2012-May-28 12:34): *) files – fixed problem when directories disappeared after reboot on usb or sd flash; *) webfig – make QuickSet scan list work in Firefox v12; *) webfig – fixed problem in QuickSet when changing country or channel-width in AP mode would enable NV2 protocol; *) webfig – fixed…

  • Mikrotik RB951-2n
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    Mikrotik RB951-2n

    This is the 750 formfactor but has built in B/G/N wireless. 300MHz CPU 1.5dBi 3W power draw 32MB RAM B/G/N wireless MSRP of $45 I’ll personally be buying and using these pretty extensively…depending how good the reception is. I’ve no doubt you guys will be doing the same 🙂

  • TheBrothersWISP 5-22-12 Podcast – WISP Security

    TheBrothersWISP 5-22-12 Podcast – WISP Security

    We talk loosely about WISP security, bonding multiple connections across the internet, and Ubiquiti open lower frequency channels. Jump on over and have a listen 🙂

  • Convert CIDR Addresses For Use With Mikrotik Firewall
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    Convert CIDR Addresses For Use With Mikrotik Firewall

    CountryIPBlocks has a method to easily grab the CIDR blocks for various countries. They have methods to put these in formats for Cisco and such…though they don’t have one for Mikrotik. So, I wrote a lil program that will create address lists with firewall rules or just firewall rules based on these address blocks. What…