Loadbalancing with Mikortik
Tomas Kirnak has a great presentation on load balancing and Mikrotik. The PDF is available for direct download here: https://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/US12/tomas.pdf
Network Operations
Internet Service provider topics, Network operations, and other topics. Some topics include Mikrotik, Cisco, Arista and other configurations.
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 resources. If you want to test real throughput of a router, you should run Bandwidth … Read more
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/
Interconnection Quarterly
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e013aba1c79407e08cf53bc/t/60610a0a5517c019d36a2083/1616972299607/Foundations+-+Interconnection+Quarterly+%284Q2020%29+.pdf From Christian Koch from Foundations I am excited to reveal that my quarterly interconnection update hastransformed into the Interconnection Quarterly, a hand-tailored,independent briefing on the interconnection industry. Right now, my plansare to publish the Interconnection Quarterly shortly after the last publiccompanies report earnings, as I’ve done with the previous updates. Thismay change in the … Read more
Awesome CTO Github
Came across this gem in a newsletter. https://github.com/kuchin/awesome-cto A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies Contents General Hiring Management Handbooks Development process Architecture Technologies Startups Related stuff Product Marketing More links
Common Building materials and dB loss in LTE
The following is an estimate of loss using LTE frequencies and common building materials. -Fiberglass -2dB -Drywall -4dB-6″ Concrete 12-20 dB-Brick -10-20dB
LibreNMS syslog.ibd cleanup
Recently I ran into an issue where a librenms install was taking up a crazy amount of disk space. This was tracked down to the syslog.ibd file . Even thought I had set my options to be less than 10 days per this link https://docs.librenms.org/Support/Cleanup-options/ I still was having a huge file. Here is what … Read more
Another Water Tower Install
Another water tower install earlier this year for a client. To critique our own work the cables were moved under the mounts after these pictures were taken. this was done to minimize damage to the cables.
WISP Tower leasing Resources
The following are leasing companies that I have worked with on securing vertical real-estate over the years. This is not a total list of tower companies. If you provide co-location services to Wireless ISPs and want to be included please reach out to me. Donations motivate me to update these lists. Ones with a Star … Read more
How Comcast breaks the IPV6 Internet
So it used to be I received a /56 IPv6 prefix and then my router picked a /64 for my lan. Then it turned into a /60. Now I get a /64 and my router has to turn that into a /72. Come on Comcast, don’t break IPV6 norms.
