RouterOS 7.1Beta5 Tip

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Common ISP outage causes

Over the years I have been able to narrow the most common reasons a service provider goes down or has an outage. This is, by no means, an extensive list.   Let’s jump in. Layer1 outages Physical layer outages are the …

Mikrotik adds btest.exe back

If you are looking for a way to bandwidth test from a PC through to a Mikrotik, here is your solution. https://mt.lv/btest It supports RouterOS version 6.43 and newer. Advice from Mikrotik:Please remember that Bandwidth Test uses a lot of …

DNS shotgun for DNS testing

DNS Shotgun is capable of simulating real client behaviour by replaying captured traffic over selected protocol(s). The timing of original queries as well as their content is kept intact. https://dns-shotgun.readthedocs.io/en/stable/key-concepts/

Server Tip from a non-server guy

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