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 times they don’t know why they are even calling. They just know the magic box … Read more

Mikrotik 6.47.1 released

Lots of things here. Some noteable things What’s new in 6.47.1 (2020-Jul-08 12:34): *) crs3xx – fixed HW offloading for netPower 15FR and netPower 16P devices (introduced in v6.47);*) crs3xx – fixed increased CPU temperature for CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+ device (introduced in v6.47);*) crs3xx – improved Ethernet port group traffic forwarding for CRS354 devices;*) dhcpv6-server – disallow … Read more

Sponsored Post: Ritalia Funding

As you may already know, we have been exhibitors at Wispa shows for almost 9 years. We are a technology financing source for the industry and work with many well known vendors such as Streakwave, ISP Supplies, Winncom, WavOnline, CTI, among others. We have implemented some new financing programs for you in order to meet the … Read more

Internet Routing Registry Resources by j2sw

Interconnection

What is a routing registry?From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Routing_RegistryThe Internet routing registry works by providing an interlinked hierarchy of objects designed to facilitate the organization of IP routing between organizations, and also to provide data in an appropriate format for automatic programming of routers. Network engineers from participating organizations are authorized to modify the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) … Read more

RPKI and misconceptions

After my blog post about Hurricane Electric and RPKi support, I was seeing some comments by folks that warrant some clarification. I put together a short midnight podcast on this.  To summarize1. route original validation is not the same as having ROA’S with your RIR2. If you have an ASN you should have a peering … Read more

Hurricane Electric now requires IRR and filters invalid RPKI

Interconnection

If you are a Hurricane Electric customer you may be receiving e-mails like the following: What does this mean for you as a service provider? If you use Hurricane Electric as transit or peer with them on an exchange you will need to have ROAs for your blocksand have routing registry objects. I did a … Read more

Some WordPress tips

If you are wanting to force non SSL to SSL. Add the following to your site’s .htaccess file Set proper file permissions Script from https://www.ryadel.com/en/set-file-system-permissions-wordpress-web-site-centos-7-chmod/ # # This script configures WordPress file permissions based on recommendations # from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions # # execute it with the following command: # bash set-wordpress-permissions.sh /var/www/ # OWNER=apache #

CCR1016 BGP route pull down

This morning I had a Mikrotik CCR1016 where I had to change the router ID, which caused all the sessions to reset. The following is a screenshot of the time it took to re-learn all of the peers. Obviously, the smaller prefixes were learned pretty quickly. It took about 10 minutes to learn two full … Read more

Briefing June 26th 2020 – API,5g,interconnection

https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-2020-6A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions.