Mikrotik getting started with BGP in v7, quickly.
Mikrotik’s documentation got you turned around again? Well here is a short quick and dirty config guide and some quick tips. Forget most of what you remember from v6, and the cheats you had there.…
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Pros and Cons of Overloading a Subnet to increase the efficiency of IP use in an ISP network and my implementation
Pros and Cons of Overloading a Subnet to increase the efficiency of IP use in an ISP network and my implementation. So this blog post is based off of some work that I did for…
Mikrotik RouterOS v6 vs v7 BGP notes.
I will give a bit of a summary of the differences between Mikrotik’s RouterOS v6 and v7 BGP setup and configuration. This is not supposed to be exhaustive, my knowledge isn’t. I just am wanting…
Mikrotik Cake notes:
These are my notes from implementing, CAKE in my network. I will be doing some updating to this page. Anything you find here should be taken with a grain of salt and verified with your…
Running Winbox from a URL
Ever wanted to have a button on a web page that would open up Winbox to a certain router/switch in your network? Have you realized that Mikrotik's Winbox, while it can be invoked from a…
The Brothers WISP Podcast 121
I had the opportunity to join Greg, Mike and Andrew for several interesting topics, from Mikrotik RouterOS v7 to Moving into Data Centers for the first time. http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/the-brothers-wisp-121-mikrotik-corrections-nas-hds-datacenter-newbie-guide/
The Brothers WISP Podcast 120
I had the pleasure to be a guest on The Brothers WISP Podcast. This week we talked about a lot of different topics, some new Mikrotik Hardware and my workplace terrorism. We also talked about…
The Brothers WISP – Episode 119
I had the pleasure to be a guest on The Brothers WISP Podcast. I also got to talk about one of my recent network management mistakes... http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/the-brothers-wisp-119-1800-ptz-100-slas-centurylink-split/
Port Forwarding to Uncooperative Hosts
NAT is not a good thing, but it is frequently a necessity. Here are some of my quick tips to diagnosing the problems and some duct tape solutions with Mikrotik routers. This last week I…
Going from Static Routing to Dynamic routing from Edge to Towers. (Part 2)
In My last post I went over the issues I was facing and the first steps I took to implement BGP to my upstreams. In this post I will look more at the internal issues…