ISP news and notables

The Commerce Department can’t allocate $42.5 billion in grants until the FCC publishes better coverage data.https://www.engadget.com/bipartisan-infrastructure-law-broadband-funding-delayed-180710457.html Walmart and Streaming Serviceshttps://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/walmart-streaming-nyt-report/ Mikrotik August 2022 Newsletterhttps://mt.lv/News107 Unifi Version 7.0https://blog.ui.com/2022/03/01/unifi-network-version-7-0-introduces-revamped-settings-to-simplify-system-configuration/

ISP News for the week ending April29th, 2022

Interconnection

Cloudflare blocks a 15rps DDOs Attack.https://blog.cloudflare.com/15m-rps-ddos-attack/ Good news regarding the chip shortage. “America’s ambitions to rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing industry took a step forward on Monday with the opening of a specialty chip fabrication plant in central New York.”https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-opens-first-major-silicon-carbide-chip-plant-in-New-York The United States joins 55 nations to set Internet ruleshttps://www.reuters.com/technology/us-joins-55-nations-set-new-global-rules-internet-2022-04-28/ Will a re-brand of Frontier help … Read more

RouterOS 7 goes RC

What’s new in 7.1rc1 (2021-Aug-19 13:06): !) added support for IPv6 NAT (CLI only);!) added support for L2TPv3 (CLI only);*) added “expired” user status with suggestion to change password (WinBox v3.29 required);*) added bridge HW offload support for vlan-filtering on RTL8367 switch chip (RB4011, RB1100AHx4);*) added password strength requirement settings;*) added skin support for WinBox … Read more

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.

Mikrotik 7.1beta4 is out

What’s new in 7.1beta4 (2021-Feb-03 09:39): *) api – added support for REST API;*) crs3xx – fixed Layer3 hardware offloading;*) route – routing rules improvements;*) winbox – added support for wifiwave2;*) winbox – updated User Manager, OSPF and BGP menus;*) wifiwave2 – authentication and functionality improvements;*) other fixes and improvements;

Using Splunk to monitor literally everything on Mikrotik

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Mikrotik Connection tracking and CPU usage

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Mikrotik RouterOS and CPU usage

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