Netbox Mikrotik Ansible Config generator
So, due to Covid, weather and everything else I am quite behind on blog updates and such. this is one that kinda fell through the cracks. I meant to get this out much sooner than now. My buddy Schylar Utley …
Mikrotik Connection tracking and CPU usage
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The problem with broadband projects in general
Before Covid I tried to attend as many meetings community leaders and towns had about bringing broadband to their communities. This is what you are supposed to in order to let the leaders know you, or in my case, my …
Siklu Case study 80 GHZ Indianapolis Indiana
Some photos from a Siklu 80GHZ deployment in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. This was deployed by On-Ramp Indiana (https://www.ori.net). The problem being solved is moving video files around a network in order to get it to smart screens and projectors. This …
Medium WISP Core Network Design
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A Longitudinal View of Netflix
This came across the NANOG mail list. A Longitudinal View of Netflix: Content Delivery over IPv6 and Content Cache Deployments paper: https://bit.ly/2toOGWPslides: https://bit.ly/2ZoEpapvideo: https://vimeo.com/437111302 Some highlights Caches reachable within 6 IP hops and 20 ms-IP path lengths shorter by 40–50%-Latency …
Network troubleshooting tools
Recently, there was a thread on the NANOG list asking what were somne favorite network troubleshooting tools. I have taken many of these tools and created the following list. http://ping.pe/Simple pingport and dig commands https://mtr.sh/BGP Looking glass https://perfops.net/mtr-from-worldTraceroute from various …
WISPs: IPv6 is the answer to some of your issues
Many Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), especially newer startups, struggle with nat issues and having enough public Ip addresses to go around. Invariably, you start running into double nat issues pretty quickly. Then you get the dreaded gamer call: Many …
Takeaways for the customer from Tech Support
I have been in the ISP industry for close to thirty years now. One thing that has changed very little is the customer side of technical support. What I mean by this is, no matter if it is dial-up or …