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This week we have Greg, and Mike cozying up for a fireside chat.

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This week we talk about:

MTK 6.47.8 – *) arm – improved system stability;

MTK beta 7.1b3

!) added new experimental wireless package “wifiwave2” for ARM devices with more than 256 MB of RAM (CLI only);

*) chr – added support for SR-IOV

!) added support for “Cake” and “FQ_Codel” type queues;

*) routing – added “route”, “routing table”, “route rules” and BGP configuration migration from RouterOS v6 after upgrade;

How are you alerting on MikroTik BGP session status changes?

Big Mikrotik throughput? Hardware to support it?

Fortinet sd-wan orchestration – if thrift is here

DC move: no access, interfaces not provisioned, routing not working, servers full of brick dust, BCM not functioning…but we got there in the end LOL. What would I have thought if I wasn’t a former employee?

Mike’s DC with pricing listed

What methods are you using to ensure your customers are being good Netizens?

pickleballs for xmas

shure mic or xmas

robot vacuum

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This week we have Greg, Nick A, Justin Miller, and Mike for a rather chill conversation.

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This week we talk about:

Valve Index VR Rig

ubnt 60ghz air fiber

Netonix 14 port PoE with 2 SFP+ ports

Posed by anonomous in the Slack; why does MTK stick with the 2.5 dBi antennas wen everyone 4-6 on their AC kit?

Hitting VirusTotals API with automation

Downdector wants ~$24k a year for access to their API…yeah, nope!

What happened on Youtubes Nov 11th global outage…I can’t find the answer? Nanog list had post of “blocked by CORs policy.”

DDoS with Fastnetmon mitigation.

wiki.js.org

My first outage since leaving the old job(fiber cut at my MDU).

Incident response

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This week we have Greg, Nick A, Nick B, Tommy C, and Mike…a packed house! We did have some audio issues on this one, so expect a little noise; sorry folks!

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This week we talk about:

Automation for deploying CyberArk Conjur…was that ever a pain in the butt.

downdetector has an enterprise version with an API…let me see if I can get access.

Border6 and other route optimizers.

Would you run all open source routing (FRR) sans Cumulus or VyOS? How risk averse are you…how much time do you have to dedicate? Have I just gotten too old?

What happens when a community on the web disappears: geocities.

Role transition and being OK with that.

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This week we have Greg and Miller have some real talk LOL.

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This week we talk about:

Our very own Simon Green on a wirelive podcast.

ServiceNow uses Ansible to create VMs in VMWare

Ansible creates certificates and applies them to F5 load balancers

Zach created a remote poller install via Ansible

Edge-core AS5916-54XKS; 48 SFP/SFP+ and 6 QSFP28 ports for around $20K

Ubiquiti selling direct in Mexico

Business wise: what do you want to be known for “Expensive, but worth it”.

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This **sponsored** podcast has us talking to Vladimir Kelman(CTO Kwikbit), Travis Carter(CEO US Internet), and Justin Miller about Kwikbit’s new 60Ghz radios!

This cast we talk about:

Outdoor – 90 horizontal/40 vertical beam

128 antenna elements

1500 foot range

Adaptive resource allocation?

RSTP

Why RESTful API

Kwikbit tools?

k60x $499 2x 2.5Gb and 1Gb

k60 $299 2 Gb

LACP?

Indoor

k60i $209 3x 1Gb

500 foot range at full throughput

64 antenna array

Kwikbit Edge GUI management/link planning

non-technical install

zero touch install

GUI design tool?

Certificate based management protection

Qualcom chipsets

Up to 8 clients

Single antenna tile

Mesh-like capabilities

Manufactured in USA

Full monitoring access via SNMP and API

Kwikbit.com for more info!

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This week we have Greg, Mike, Tommy C., and Thrift getting down with the get down.

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This week we talk about:

Ansiblefest coming this week

About RB3011 port speed mismatch on same switch and flapping with v 6.46+.

Thrift will do news corrections

CCR2004 tentatively stable on 6.48beta40 – Chad and Joe both report good stuff so far.

fq_codel & cake rumors

Netpower Lite 7R & CSS610 – A new switch chipset appears

Synology DS920+ SAN – about to plug it in LOL

Backblaze

Datacenter Tips and tricks – a newbie guide

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This week we have Greg, Mike, Tommy C., and Miller using some new video technology!

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This week we talk about:

Simon from Sonar will be a guest; what questions do you have?

Nvidia purchases ARM for $40B

Cradlepoint sells to Ericcson

H.266 video compression promisses to use 50% less bandwidth – thanks for the tip Mike

Major windows security hole plugged for AD; update ASAP if you haven’t already.

ROS 6.47.4 gives more u-nii-2 support, fixed CRS3xx IGMP and STP issues.

Thrift spotted in the newsletter the line “the network will be upgraded to a 100 Gbps data transfer rate, using MikroTik devices that will be released soon.”

Mikrotik hAP AC3 non LTE $99 – ARM based CPU, should we chance it? Bonus pirate video on the product page.

Mikrotik CSS610-8G-2S+IN Marvel Chipset $100 for 2x SFP+ ports!!!

Mikrotik 3011 has known switch chip issue where a mix of port speeds isn’t allowed. 1Gb devices with 100Mb devices result in port flaps.

Small indoor UPS that if drained requires no interaction to get it back online?

Ubiquiti asks for your input

Chad reminds us why fire code exists for our cabling; ” If your cabling, equipment or holes are listed in the fire investigation report, the ensuing insurance suits will do everything possible to have someone else pay.”

Time off in IT; different perspectives from around the world.

Looks like I’ll be mentoring some College Students.

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This week we have Greg, Mike, and Tommy C. keeping you in the know.

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This week we talk about:

Nick A found a $1,800 PTZ camera in the beta store – 22x optical zoom full PTZ

Mikrotik Net Power Lite 7R – now with 100% more video

Mikrotik HA router scripts(heartbeat link with config sync and peer failure detection) – thanks for the link Landon

100% uptime to customers

Moving DCs…time to register for my ORG/ASN/IP

More Zhone complaining

In automation config pushing is so boring…what’s interesting?

Self Service troubleshooting.

Toilet potatos

Tommy’s failure story

Is Level 3 Down?

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This week we have Greg, Mike, and Sean Scarfo talk about our greatest failures(PS, Greg has many more LOL).

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This week we talk about:

Mikrotik CRS3xx initial Bridge Port Extender support added – 802.1BR

Mikrotik CCR2004s – a few reports of lockups

Wireguard release in beta

More L3 HW offload

NLNOG Ring – shared shells to test from

Pretty looking glass server – hyper glass

FB WISP Talk Poll: Unexpected results – pole1 – pole2

Our failures: sharing stories about our biggest oopsies.

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This week we have Greg and Mike; just like old times

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This week we talk about:

Mike’s Zhone Issues

College hacking contest – how fun would that be.

Using public resovlers 8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.2, 1.1.1.1. Should you have some language in your contracts?

VoIP system API – 3cx doesn’t have a native, but there are 3rd parties.

Yealink phones have a rest API

Yealink CAs

Cisco Devnet reserved labs have direct access only via anyconnect client *but why*

Do any of you use Cisco ACI?

Netonix 1.5.5 bug where you have to reapply over the top with the same firmware

The random 4011 lockups continue…*sigh*

Mikrotik V7 routing documentation…a bit more anyway

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