Network Operations
Internet Service provider topics, Network operations, and other topics. Some topics include Mikrotik, Cisco, Arista and other configurations.
Globe Ed Network Fundamentals
https://www.globed.net/courses/back-to-networking-basics In this Networking Basics Workshop we will be learning the following: REFERENCE MODELSETHERNET STANDARDS AND SPECSTRANSMISSION METHODSTOPOLOGIES NETWORKING DEVICESIPV4 ADDRESSINGHEX CONVERSIONCISCO ROUTER AND SWITCH BASICCISCO ROUTER AND SWITCH CONFIGURATIONLAYER 2 SWITCHING LAYER 3 ROUTINGLAYER 3 ROUTING USING L3 SWITCHING RECORDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP WILL BE SENT TO ALL THAT REGISTER – Even to those that … Read more
Harvestore WISP Install
Over the years many MidWestern WISPS have fashioned ways to use Harvestore silos for broadcast locations. With the help of one of our good clients, who did most of the work designing this, we were able to install a very solid structure on the top of a silo. Please note. These photos were taken before … Read more
DDoS attacks in high bandwidth bursts
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes or less, with attackers repeatedly inundating the same companies with floods of data — including one … Read more
Pentagon transfers 175 million IP’s
As of January 2021, the Pentagon transferred 175 Million IPv4 addresses to a new and unknown Florida based company named Global Resource Systems, LLC. This came as a bit of a shock to the internet community for the following four reasons….
Mikrotik IoT KNOT application examples
Many of you are getting familiar with The Internet of Everything (IoT). This naturally leads to the question “What can I do with it?”. Mikrotik has put together a PDF of some real-world examples of how you can put their products to use in the IoT space.
Tower take down photos
Sone tower work we did in Cincinnati 14 years ago. Taking down an old MCI tower.
Musings of an ISP engineer Part 1
-Mondays are for emergencies leftover from the weekend. Try not to schedule meetings or things that can’t be fluid. -Customers lie, even when they don’t do it intentionally. They can’t help it. -Sometimes you have to ask your questions in different ways. The more educated the person you are asking the question to, the more … Read more