Packets DownRange
As summer comes to a close here in Indiana and the daylight fades to dusk around 5PM I find myself with more time to devote back to the writings on this blog, the Youtube videos, Podcasts and editing of the videos I already have done. Look for more content coming soon.
There always is a lot of talk about Mikrotik RouterOS CPU usage. I wanted to take a few minutes and go over a real-world example and explain some of the ins and outs when discussing Mikrotik CPU usage. Let’s talk about the router in question. This is a CCR1016-12s-1S+. This is a 16 core 1.2GHz … Read more
Has anyone used one of these switches?https://www.versitron.com/product/all-fiber-switches/SG162147M-16port-101001000-fiber-optic-switch-sfp-technology-1g10g-management-features Their sales staff has been very helpful. I have not come across a switch manufacturer that has had no software updates to their product. I asked about firmware and software updates and they do not have any. The switch itself looks very intriguing for the WISP market. It’s … Read more
Back Tap turns the entire back of your iPhone into a giant touch-sensitive button that you can double or triple tap to trigger specific functions on your phone. There’s a good chance that you haven’t noticed it yet. Apple slipped the settings for Back Tap into its Accessibility menu. https://www.theverge.com/21540028/apple-iphone-ios-14-back-tap-hidden-secret-button-gesture
Recently I had an issue with mounting older CD-Roms of backup files and such on MacOSX Catalina. Apparently, Apple dropped support for HFS volumes. In order to fix this it is pretty easy. You will need HomeBrew. Being a network geek I already have this installed. If you need to install this here is a … Read more
I remember using this when designing web-pages years ago. It was all the rage to put browser buttons like this at the bottom.
What’s new in 6.47.6 (2020-Oct-21 10:41): *) cap – fixed L2MTU path discovery;*) crs3xx – fixed hardware offloaded LACP bonding on Ethernet interfaces for CRS354 devices;*) crs3xx – fixed switch rules for CRS309 and CRS317 devices (introduced in v6.47.3);*) defconf – fixed default configuration loading on RBmAP-2nD;*) dhcpv4-client – fixed DHCP offer packet parsing with … Read more
https://docs.preseem.com/changes Features IPv6 Preseem now supports IPv6 for all use cases. This includes the ability to assign subscribers a prefix of arbitrary length. IPv4 with Prefixes of Arbitrary Length Previously Preseem modelled subnet assignments to customers as a number of /32 assignments. For example a subscriber who was assigned a /30 would result in four … Read more
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20200728/ ARIN Internet Routing Registry walkthrough.
Some of the things in the following article are kinda “buzzwordy” and very corporate mentatlity. A one-size-fits-all approach does not work for everyone. However, there are some very good ideas in this article. https://krisp.ai/blog/engaging-remote-employees/
