In this one we have Greg(I have to apologize for my extreme tiredness in this one. I was on the tail end of a looooong sleepless week hehehe), JJ, Justin Wilson, and a new guest Justin Miller. I met Miller at the Vegas MUM and he’s been kicking around with us ever since. He is the brains for the largest WISP in Virginia and he is kind enough to share some of that grey matter with us.
We talk about:
Ubiquiti’s AirFiber
Mikrotik CCR installs
Sensor Ninja, JJ’s new project.
Interstate sealed batteries.
A little bit about Ubiquiti mFi experiences.
Wilson talks about Bitlomat. New AP/CPE equipment.
As always, let us know what you guys think!
Also, I LOVE this freeze frame preview of Miller’s face bwahahahaha…good times.
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AirOS V Firmware Revision History
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Supported products
* Bullet M2/M5/Titanium
* Rocket M2/M2 Titanium/M3/M365/M900/M5/M5 GPS/M5 Titanium/M6
* NanoStation M2/M3/M365/M5/M6
* NanoStation Loco M2/M900/M5
* NanoBridge M2/M3/M365/M900/M5
* AirGrid M2/M5/HP/HP New
* PowerBridge M3/M365/M5/M10
* PicoStation M2
* AirRouter/HP
* PowerAP N
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Version 5.5.4-Service Release (March 13, 2013)
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New:
– New: Data rate module: Alternative data rate algorithm option
– New: WEB UI: Audio option for Antenna Alignment Tool
– New: WEB UI: “Feed only – 3dBi” option for antenna type (AirGrid and NanoBridge models only)
Improvements:
– airMax: Improved performance in PtMP scenarios
– airMax: Lower latency in Long Range PTP mode
– airMax: Voice performance/latency improvements in PtMP scenarios
– QoS: Map commonly used VoIP TOS values (0x68, 0xb8) to Voice queue
– Speed test: Improved timeout/errors handling and reporting
– TFTP recovery: Reset configuration to factory defaults when executing TFTP recovery mode without need to hold Reset button for 15sec and upload firmware image
– airView: Update certificate
– WEB UI: Show if custom scripts are present on device
– WEB UI: Show signal strength from remote radio in Station information window (airMax mode only)
– WEB UI: Show Station TX/RX bit rate statistics
– WEB UI: Disable WEB UI while airView is running
– WEB UI: Automatically redirect to HTTPS port when running Speed test
– WEB UI: Make MAC addresses in Main page easily selectable
– WEB UI: Add help text for UBNT/Advanced settings pages
– WEB UI: Improved FW update failure messages
– WEB UI: Do not offer to apply configuration changes if there are no any changes made
– WEB UI: Latitude/Longitude setting validation
– WEB UI: Interface Language update: French translations
– WEB UI: Interface Language update: Lithuanian translation
– Stability: Check filesystem on boot
– Stability: Memory leak protection for less than 1MB of RAM
– Stability: HW watchdog in u-boot
Fixes:
– Fix: airMax: Radio is transmitting when operating in airView mode (AP mode only)
– Fix: airMax: Long range PtP mode: AP gets stuck at 81Mbps rate and transmit throughput goes down
– Fix: airMax: Sometimes AP locks up when applying configuration changes (possible fix)
– Fix: airSync: Rocket Titanium airSync Slave doesn’t connect to airSync Master
– Fix: airSelect: Default airSelect announce count set to 30
– Fix: airView: airView does not start when Device Name contains comma symbol
– Fix: airView: M900/M3/M365/M6 products does not scan full frequency range
– Fix: Detect Ethernet loopback on defective device and bring Ethernet interface down
– Fix: Sometimes M Series devices hang during reboot (except Titanium)
– Fix: Change Max MTU to 2024 bytes on both Ethernet interfaces
– Fix: Returning from Test mode does not revert some configuration changes
– Fix: Redirection issue when enabling/disabling HTTPS
– Fix: Satellite signal bar is centred under IE
– Fix: During upgrade disable default route if DHCP client is configured
– Fix: DHCP fallback IP isn’t set
– Fix: Memory leak in Main page with IE8/IE9 (session timeout implemented)
– Fix: Low power mode fix for newer revisions of NanoStation M5
– Fix: Device discovery issue when DMZ port is enabled
– Fix: Cannot switch from Advanced to Simple Configuration mode when network role is Router
– Fix: Auto Channel does not follow channel plan for Canada (Rocket Titanium)
– Fix: OSPF and other unregistered multicast traffic transmit problems in PtMP
– Fix: Skip EAP security certificate date validation if device date is before certificate start date
– Fix: Do not send discovery/ARP requests through bridge ports
– Fix: Enable busybox option to prefer IPv4
– Fix: UPnP: Router should accept “PORT FORWARD” requests from LAN side only
– Fix: Sometimes station can’t associate when switching from open to WPA security
– Fix: Enable DFS when choosing country Austria
– Fix: Disable “Block Management” option for WAN in default configuration (AirRouter, AirRouter HP, PowerAP N)
Regulatory updates:
– Enable DFS for Germany upper band (5.8GHz) channels
– Update New Zealand allowed frequencies for 5GHz
– Update Chilean allowed frequencies for 5GHz
So first I want to say thanks to Tom Smyth for talking to me about all of the new cool stuff. Unfortunately the video I recorded dropped his audio(the app updated on convienently broke) X( . Hopefully he will pop on with me later and bullchive some more.
They dropped the presentation PDF quickly this year, so lets have a look, shall we 🙂
So they kept going on about this CCR thing…whatever that is about. They said a few new things about it like:
I’m not sure that is a bonus…or I suppose it is.
Then they talk about some SXT stuff, which is great, I love the SXTs.
These have been announced, but I haven’t talked about them sooooo:
RB951G-2HnD
This has the same form factor as the 751 routers, but has a more powerful CPU and more RAM. I’m assuming these will replace the 751s?
RB260GS
Blah
I like everything about this save for SwitchOS…just not a fan.
SFPs
This is a crazy good price for new optics!
RB911G
RB912G
RB912 Outdoor Enclosure
This looks AWESOME. I would say this is direct competition with the Ubiquiti Rockets. I’m willing to bet I can make a bracket that will let you mount this right on a Ubiquiti antenna 😛
SEXTANT G
Features the new 911 inside.
R11E-2HND
R11E-HPND
RB14EU
This has 4 slots for the new miniPCI-E cards as well as slots for 3G cards…a lot of power in a single card.
SXT HG
This looks like a cool new radio for distance P2P as well as client connections.
SXT SA
Sector SXT.
Groove52
2 or 5GHz.
Cloud Core Switch – CRS
Soooo they finally put out a real switch, or is it a router? Since it runs routerOS I’m going to say it’s a router(not really, it is a switch people). Thanks to Andrew for bursting my bubble by telling me that it has a 600MHz AR9344 CPU. I think this was a brilliant move on their part, but what I’m really waiting for is the price.
I can imagine purchasing one of these to terminate A sizable chunk of P2Ps I have. Now we ask the question…will they make a version that has 12 SFPs and 12 copper or 24 SFP with 2 coppers?
Right now I’m content with just the 24 copper 🙂 I also want to see a shot of the rackmount version.
CCR with SFP+
I think no one is surprised by this one, and everyone has been patiently waiting on it. As version 6 becomes more mature I think distributors will have a heck of a time keeping these on the shelf. This will make a terrific border/core router.
I’m still entirely open to Mikrotik sending me free samples…especially of the new CRS switch 🙂
While decommissioning some old routers, I need to transfer an IP address to an ASA on a subnet. Unfortunately the ASA’s don’t allow you to do this. The standard “ip address X.X.X.X Y.Y.Y.Y secondary” doesn’t work.
I did a quick google and this beautiful bastard had the solution, static ARP with proxy-arp.
Figure out what the existing MAC is on the interface by issuing;
1 | show interface |
Then use that mac address along with proxy ARP for your secondary IP:
1 | arp DMZ 192.168.3.3 0000.1111.2222 alias |
Wwwweeeeeeeeeeee
What’s new in 6.0rc11 (2013-Feb-22 09:17):
*) ppp – made MPPE encryption work on tilera;
*) sstp server – added option to force AES encryption;
*) fixed router crash on heavy traffic with sierra lte modem on boards with 32MB RAM;
*) CCR stability improvements Grab it while it’s hot CCR’ers!
What’s new in 5.24 (2013-Feb-19 15:29):
*) l2tp – fixed problem with reconnects when it added multiple ip addresses;
*) wireless – fixed AES encryption speed issues (upgrade suggested);
*) lcd – changed gamma, which gives greater contrast
*) fix reboot when running on third party hypervisors;
*) ppp client – fixed possible loss of configuration after reboot for some modems;
*) fixed wifi led order on “SXT Lite5”;
What’s new in 6.0rc10 (2013-Feb-11 14:37):
*) sstp, ipsec – respect CRLs;
*) certificates – for certificates marked as trusted=yes,
CRL will be automaticly updated once in hour from http sources;
*) fixed ppp family interfaces – show it’s status (bug introduced in rc8);
*) p2p matcher fixed
*) includes new RouterBOOT version for Cloud Core Router
Looks like there is a new router boot version for my CCR buddies.
What’s new in 6.0rc9 (2013-Feb-08 08:15):
*) ospf – fixed Summary-LSA prefix length check for OSPFv3, was not
accepting valid LSAs;
*) certificates – fix broken certificate handling (bug introduced in rc8) in all related programs;
*) fixed – bgp tcp-md5-key crash on CCR;
*) fixed interfaces list sometimes showing up empty;
*) fixed – ip addrs could be inactive for some types of interfaces which are added as bridge ports and disabled;
Note for Cloud Core Router users: after upgrading, please also upgrade the RouterBOOT with the console command “/system routerboard upgrade”
Grab it while it’s hot CCR owners!