TheBrothersWISP
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNetworking podcast geared towards wireless internet service providers and network engineers of all sorts
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The Brothers WISP 104 – DACs, UBNT Leaf, Teslas
January 05, 2020 20:26 - 1 second - 103 MB This week Greg,Tomas, Mike, and Miller chop it up after the holidays…trying to come to terms with going back to work…ugh. This week we talk about: Brock – /tool sniffer quick Chad was having VPLS issues that smelled like MTU – Go home fiberstore switch, you’re drunk DACs are faster Carlan likes his 3D(More)…
Greg Talks 2 – White Papers, Troubleshooting Access, Anxiety Control
December 30, 2019 14:38 - 1 second - 84.3 MB This one includes Greg along with Nick Buraglio. Again, playing with the format, so let’s hear your opinions. This week we talk about: Company white papers – zero information with a quote or two – only good for SEO, do you even look at them? I love kaizo mario hacks…not playing them, but watching(More)…
Tom Interviews Theo de Raadt of the OpenBSD Project
December 30, 2019 14:26 - 1 second - 68.7 MB Theo talks at length about the OpenBSD Project and the OpenBSD operating system and the innovations that the OpenBSD Project. If you use and benefit from OpenBSD Projects, please consider donating to the OpenBSD Foundation. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)
The Brothers WISP 103 – GPON on a stick, Monitoring APs, Accepting Default
December 23, 2019 20:38 - 1 second - 75.2 MB This week Greg,Tomas, and Mike squeeze a quick one in before the Christmas holidays. This week we talk about: TiBitCom SFP+ OLT – GPON on a stick Sell out warning – Greg’s first CCNA course is live Greg did his first “Greg Talks” podcast Brock has an occassional issue where his Cambium APs will(More)…
Greg Talks 1 – HDMI Encoder, IOS-XR, Die Hard
December 16, 2019 01:14 - 1 second - 31.9 MB This is the inaugural run of the “Greg talking to the camera” podcast. No guests on this one as I’m trying out a format to fill in the gaps between the regular podcast. PLEASE let me know what you think. This week I talk about: – Shaping holds packets while policing drops packets. –(More)…
The Brothers WISP 102 – FortiOS Exploit, Mikrotik Cube60, Unifi DTIM
December 09, 2019 15:22 - 1 second - 71.1 MB This week Greg,Tomas, and Mike try and remember how all this works after taking Thanksgiving off. This week we talk about: -Thanks to ISP Supplies for hooking me up with a test Audience -FortiOS version – “stick with 6.0.7 until 6.2.4 drops” Thrift -FortiOS / FortiClient security mess -MTK Newsletter 92 – cube60 60Ghz(More)…
The Brothers WISP 101 – Cheap OTDR, UBNT Data Collection, IPv6 Tracing
November 10, 2019 18:06 - 1 second - 76.9 MB This week Greg,Tomas, Nick, and Tommy talk about networking and listen to traffic driving by Tomas’ house. This week we talk about: – George A had a cheap SM OTDR he likes…I wonder if he still does? – Use caution with cambium 3000s and it looks like 4.4.2 firmware is “pretty good” so far.(More)…
The Brothers WISP 100 – MTK Route Cache, Virtual Routers, Fortnite End Event
October 28, 2019 20:07 - 1 second - 101 MB This week Greg, Mikey, Tomas, Cox, Thrift, Miller, Alex, Tom, and new friend Serena get deep on some interesting tops and reflect on 100 episodes over 7 years. This week we talk about: – Michael Ducharme – route cache update. Stale routes could be cached for months. Subnets deleted from a router still cache(More)…
The Brothers WISP 99 – Pi4 Speedtest, Fiberstore Switches, NTLM Takeover
October 13, 2019 15:40 - 1 second - 77 MB This week Greg, Mikey, and Tomas do the dirty minutes before everyone leaves for WISPAPALOOZA; have fun errbody! This week we talk about: Nick A got married; oh to be young and in love. Quote of the week “He doesn’t pay me enough to shut up.” – John Osmon The slack recommends 4 port(More)…
The Brothers WISP 98 – Warshipping, LACP Hashing, Switch Port Security
September 29, 2019 15:37 - 1 second - 83.3 MB This week Greg, Mikey, and Tomas do a lot with a little, and at the end we get a patented Mike rant in place of the normal Tomas one LOL This week we talk about: Warshipping WISPAPALOOZA 2019 Mikoritk trolled us with the “new hardware found in new NPK file”…thanks Obama ROS v7 alpha(More)…
The Brothers WISP 97 – Passive PoE Thievery, Mikrotik Extreme Performance, RouterOS Version 7
September 15, 2019 17:21 - 1 second - 92.3 MB This week Greg, Mike, Tommy C, Andrew Thrift and Andrew Cox join their voices in chorus; we’ve been working on our acapella. Unfortunately someone didn’t wear headphones while recording so the audio is back to it’s old self…we’ll be back to normal next cast. This week we talk about: Greg has been blogging for(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 96 – Security Issues, Centurylink Outage, UBNT New Hardware
September 01, 2019 16:29 - 1 second - 67.9 MB This week Greg , Nick A, Mike, and Thomas cover a lot of ground; must talk about all the things. This week we talk about: MikroTik CHR perf issues with AMD Epyc 30+ Cisco unauthenticated RCEs for various Cisco equipt. Cisco IOS-XE critical (10/10 CVSS) auth vuln Kubernetes DoS vulns Webmin unauthenticated RCE vuln(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 95 – Mikrotik 60Ghz Tuning, Neighbor Discovery, ROS Post Exploitation
August 18, 2019 16:06 - 1 second - 73.8 MB This week Greg , Miller, and Tomas catchup about Mikrotik, Mikrotik, then a little bit of Mikrotik. This week we talk about: Miller – LHG 60 experiences Miller – Neighbor discover over bonding interfaces Mikrotik copper 10Gb SFP Mikrotik newsletter 90 RouterOS post exploitation – local only method to gain shell access Urgent 11(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 94 – Urgent 11, Yeahlink W/ 3CX, Ansible
August 05, 2019 14:13 - 1 second - 77 MB This week Greg and Mike sneak a cast in a day early(shhhhhhh, don’t tell anyone). This week we talk about: Urgent 11 – vxworx vulnerabilities – dell powerconnect, sonicwalls, etc. Greg is learning ansible WISPAMERICA Dallas March 16 4011s SFP+ issues with 6.45.x – acknowledged issue, could be repaired at this point. Proxmox 6.1(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 93 – Copper 10Gb, Fiber Projects And Kit
July 21, 2019 20:09 - 1 second - 67.5 MB This week Greg and Mike sneak a cast in a day early(shhhhhhh, don’t tell anyone). This week we talk about: Mikrotik CRS copper 10G – CRS312-4C+8XG-RM Generic and Cisco optics work well in Mikrotik kit Physically securing Mikrotiks – 1/16th” steel braided cable Mikrotik 6.45.1 requires a new version of winbox(3.19) Greg completed backbone(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 92 – IPAMs, Verizon Cust BGP Leak, Linux TCP DoS
July 07, 2019 20:01 - 1 second - 76.1 MB This week Greg, Tomas, and almost Tom Smyth(but not quite) catch up on a month’s worth of stuff. The show is complete with a Tomas rant(your life is now complete). This week we talk about: Greg is looking for a reasonably priced OTDR Lightning hitting a tree can take out your fiber PHPIPAM for(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 91 – Flapgate, MAAS, Hypervisors
June 10, 2019 13:34 - 1 second - 80.1 MB This week Greg, Dave, Nick, and Tomas try yet another podcast recording suite; spoiler, we didn’t use the audio from it this time, but will next. Don’t stop believing. This week we talk about: Mikrotik flapping issue CRS317 on SFP+ with newer firmwares – “flapgate” Veeam has a community edition – 10 free VMs(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 90 – Ubnt Vs Cambium, Ubiquiti LTU, Nobody Sees The Same Internet
May 26, 2019 19:31 - 1 second - 73.8 MB This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and Alex fail at using Zencastr for the first time. We have failed back to the old audio…it is a sadness. 🙁 This week we talk about: Zencastr Feature Request Doc Ubiquiti v Cambium Ubiquiti LTU UniFi Certification ChiNOG NANOG Dan was having unifi APs with wireless backhauls not(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 89 – CNheat, Unifi Access, Taking Custom Projects
May 12, 2019 23:48 - 1 second - 106 MB This week Greg, Tomas, Dave, and Nick never stop never stopping. This is a long one, so put it on 2x speed and kick back 😉 This week we talk about: Jim Jones recorded his tips video, thanks! Cambium CNheat Ubiquiti unifi access – access control system(strike and mag control) Ken asks about VRRP(More)…
TheBrothersWISP Jim Jones’ Top 5 Tips
May 08, 2019 20:11 - 1 second - 57.1 MB This week Greg talks to Jim Jones about his top 5 tips. The Tips: 1. Show up. – If you’re early you’re on time. If you’re on time you’re late. If you’re late, you’re fired. – Never be late… especially to a client. 2. KNOW DNS. – It’s never DNS… till it is. –(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 88 – White label PCI Compliance, EDC Backpack, Basic Business Router Config
April 28, 2019 21:21 - 1 second - 92.5 MB This week Greg, Tomas, and Dave talk about how we are getting into beach shape…or perhaps we just talk tech 😉 This week we talk about: White label PCI compliance scanning. Unimus is awesome – mass config push Mikrotik try catch block *Slack Updates* What’s in your backpack. Aside from the common Some things(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 87 – Confluence RCE, BGP On Various Kit, Configuring Edge Switches
April 14, 2019 16:44 - 1 second - 112 MB This week Greg, Tomas, Mike, Wilson, and TOM SMYTH get all Irish up on it. Tom and I go on some deep tangents, prepare thy self. This cast we talk about: Confluence RCE in all but latest v6 versions wpa3 vulnerability GPENs will have water proof enclosures V7 we saw was an internal alpha(More)…
TheBrothersWISP MUM USA 2019
April 07, 2019 20:50 - 1 second - 8.37 MB This is recorded from a random conference room at the US MUM, which we get kicked out of after 10 minutes…LOL. Enjoy what’s there 🙂 This cast we talk about: Stuff at the MUM, duh. Help support us by becoming a patron!
Mikrotik ROS V7 BGP CCR Performance – Leaked Video!
April 04, 2019 17:30 - 1 second - 3.23 MB Greg Sowell, Justin Miller, and Justin Wilson get a live demo of 6 BGP peers loading on a CCR1016 running a build version of router OS version 7. We give all the details we have on the inner workings of the new engine. 3.5 million routes in around 3 minutes and the UI didn’t(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 86 – Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability, MTK Indoor, Technology’s Impact
April 01, 2019 13:34 - 1 second - 93.5 MB This week Greg, Tomas, Mike, and Wilson get down with the get down. Get ready towards the end, because we go on some nontechnical discussion on technology’s impact on us in our daily lives along with how the technology we facilitate changes people(we go deep bro). This cast we talk about: Mikrotik Update: GPEN(More)…
TheBrothersWISP – Matt Whiteley’s Tips
March 21, 2019 13:53 - 1 second - 46 MB This week Greg talks to Matt Whiteley about his top 5 tips, British TV, and Brexit. The Tips: 1. If you don’t know how it works, you won’t know how to fix it. If you’re new to wireless, put a bridge pair up and set it to auto-everything and then put it into production,(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 85 – Mikrotik New Hardware, UBNT 60Ghz, Dangers Of Wifi
March 17, 2019 18:37 - 1 second - 69.6 MB This week Greg and Tomas have a chat while recovering from their respective illnesses LOL. This cast we talk about: Nvidia acquires Mellanox Mikrotik EU MUM 2019 New Hardware Ubiquiti has 60GHz radios with 5GHz failover in beta – $130 Fiberstore merged with an optic factory; SFP+SR $15, SFP+LR $21 Windstream in chapter 11,(More)…
TheBrothersWISP Nick Buraglio’s Top 5 Tips
February 22, 2019 14:17 - 1 second - 61.4 MB This week Greg talks to Nick Buraglio about his top 5 tips. The Tips: * Be the dumbest person in the room * Know your network * Failure is your friend * Grey is the new black, grey is the new white * Networking is largely social, technical is an artifact * Play to(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource
February 18, 2019 00:42 - 1 second - 82.6 MB This week Greg, Dave, Mike, and the ever elusive Tomas go on some rants! This cast we talk about: Unimus update from Tomas New Weekly Feature Big Boy Switches Chi-NOG LibreNMS PHP Requirement Change *Slack Updates* Mike K says use silicore HDPE conduit to pull fiber in underground. Mike K also suggests the use(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future
February 03, 2019 16:29 - 1 second - 53 MB This week Greg, Dave, Nick, and Andrew Thrift along with his hair, do the thing with the mics. Cox also teases us…we don’t deserve two Andrews in one cast. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik newsletter 87 Intel may be purchasing Mellanox (as per Thrift) Tilera–>EzChip–>Mellanox–>Intel DNS Flag Day anyone? John Osmon’s 5 tips,(More)…
TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon
January 31, 2019 20:40 - 1 second - 55.6 MB This week Greg talks to John Osmon about his top 6 tips. The Tips: 1) *BE* the packet (Know how the network works) 2) pcap or it didn’t happen (get proof) 3) don’t confuse network and physical diagrams 4) give back to the community 5) vocabulary — learn others, teach yours. Necessary for communication(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 81 – CEPH/ZFS, Charging for RFO, Dynamic SIP Servers
January 20, 2019 17:12 - 1 second - 77.9 MB This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and the coolest kid I know in VA, Miller, take it to the mat. This cast we talk about: CEPH and ZFS Open media vault Dynamic SIP server location DNS SRV “Tubes” book PDF? AT&T charges for RFO Certifications? DNS Flag day What bandwidth bursting be used for other(More)…
TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Colin Z
January 08, 2019 22:21 - 1 second - 26.4 MB This week Greg talks to Colin Z about his top 5 tips. The Tips: Colin Z 1) Look at things in terms of a Link Budget. 2) 6 dB delta to make a noticeable difference. 3) Follow basic grounding practices (R56 is a good reference). 4) Plan for outage. 5) Document what you can.(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 80 – Favorite Things 2018, SIP Tshooting, Centurylink Outage
January 06, 2019 21:18 - 1 second - 73.2 MB This week Greg, Mike, and Dave do the first cast of the new year…time to start out on the wrong foot 😉 This cast we talk about: UBNT vs. Cambium Lawsuit Update Centurylink outage Mikrotik NAT (as it pertains to SIP and RTP) Broken Greg fav things: hAP AC^2, pickleball, your mom’s house podcast/Harmontown(More)…
TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Tommy C and Greg
January 04, 2019 03:48 - 1 second - 43.1 MB This week Greg and Tommy C(TCent to his fam) talk about their top 5 tips. The Tips: Tommy C 1. Have a test bench: I read somewhere “everyone has a test network, not everyone has a production network” I have been able to pull off so many changes/upgrades to our network just because I(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 79 – Ubiquiti Financing, MUM Austin, Slack Catchup
November 25, 2018 15:36 - 1 second - 67.5 MB This week Greg and Mike do an after Thanksgiving update. This cast we talk about: Ubiquiti 0% financing Mikrotik newsletter 85 MUM USA in Austin April 4th-5th Mikrotik BGP Tests? Happy Birthday to Miller IBM picks up RedHat Airspan acquires Mimosa *Slack Updates* Jeff – Huawei US distribution raised prices and documentation is behind(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 78 – MTK Grey Hat, RF E Asymmetric Horns, Supermicro HW Hack?
October 28, 2018 17:04 - 1 second - 83 MB This week Greg, Andrew Cox, Andrew Thrift, Dave, and Nick Arellano choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Generate ACLs for country based filtering Route filter for North America Mikrotik grey hat hacker asking for donations. New logo challenge…what do you guys like? Don’t use RB1100 ports 11-13; on pcie interface which causes(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 77 – Cambium Cat5, 4011 BGP, All-In-One or Nah?
September 30, 2018 22:57 - 1 second - 72.3 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: IPv6 follow-up: enable ipv6 in MTK, then issue “/system default-configuration print” to see default ipv6 firewall rules Steve’s IPv4/IPv6 Network Aggregator Cambium is going to sell outdoor cat5 Greg’s USB boost converter(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox
September 17, 2018 00:37 - 1 second - 38.8 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik renames release channels DHCP Snooping Ubiquiti CPEs with public IPs stop responding to admin access, but pass traffic…why? Tool to aggregate IPv4/IPv6 routes – thanks Steve! Mikrotik newsletter 84 RB4011 RB4011(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story
September 02, 2018 15:38 - 1 second - 82.1 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike do a quick cast to kick off the Labor day weekend…it sure feels like working trying to listen to these things, though… This cast we talk about: SECURE YOUR ROUTERS!!!!!!!!! Ignite net new firmware TBW IPv6 podcast Nicks notes on IPv6 All of the pickles Sangoma acquires Digium(More)…
TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6?
August 30, 2018 17:41 - 1 second - 94.6 MBNick, John, Miller, Tommy, Mike, and Greg talk about the various reasons to do IPv6 or not, some of the hurdles to implement, and use cases. We also discuss: Business case for IPv6 Islands of knowledge Consumer vs Enterprise Dual stacking P2P addressing Subnet sizes Subnet sizes to deliver to customers Prefix delegation via DHCP(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 74 – Protect your tik, Ciena Metro E, Unresponsive Customers
August 19, 2018 16:16 - 1 second - 77.8 MB This week Greg, Dave, Mike, Miller and Andrew Cox totally bro out and talk about manly things…and at the end Greg feels all the feels, so use caution if that’s not your thing 😉 This cast we talk about: Dragonwav’s annoucement Bare minimum to protect your Mikrotik Greg Trains on Ciena Metro E Kit(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 73 – Mikrotik 4011, security, MTU, cheap fiber tools
August 05, 2018 15:34 - 1 second - 64.8 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike trade our favorite recipes. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik 4011 first look Mikrotik 4011 second look Wireless Wire MTU Issue – regular wireless l2mtu of 1600 Mikrotik selling CWDM muxes and optics Mikrotik coinhive crytpojacking More botnets taking advantage of winbox holes up to version 6.42 Mikrotik(More)…
TBW 71: Where oh were could Greg be?
July 12, 2018 15:30 - 1 second - 106 MB This cast we talk about: NEWS: Cambium launches the e700 outdoor WiFi AP NEWS: RF Elements gets hornier Mikrotik have found a bit of focus on LTE, HOORAY! NEWS: Mikrotik: RB450Gx4 and hEX S new products + discuss the inevitable refresh of Omnitik AC, Dynadish, Netmetal Mikrotik switching – State of Play 1H2018 Ham(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 70 – LHG60g, Vendor Stagnation, Why Ham?
June 10, 2018 15:13 - 1 second - 66 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike get jazzy. Can you notice the better audio? This cast we talk about: Mikrotik LHG60 available around 15th of this month stagnation in vendors vs wireless in emerging markets Caching on https USAC – FCC subsidized telecom costs for govn’t organizations UBNT starts looking into AirMax MPLS issues(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 69 – VoIP Phones, Mikrotik Hex-S, Centralized Vs Distributed DHCP
May 27, 2018 15:25 - 1 second - 53.9 MB This week Greg, Dave, and Mike have some real talk, bro. This cast we talk about: Follow up from last week: Calix G.fast and Coworking space software Nexudus VoIP phones that don’t feel cheap Mikrotik 6.43rc17 – w60g – added 4th 802.11ad channel (CLI only); Mikrotik part of the VPNFilter botnet Mikrotik Hex-S –(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 68 – G.fast, Security Onion, Co-working spaces
May 13, 2018 19:24 - 1 second - 45.9 MB This week Greg Dave from PennyTone choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Who is using G.fast; what are you using and how well did it work? LibreNMS with Centos Brick. PHP conflict due to auto update Security onion security collection Flow collection / elastiflow with elasticstack and nfsen/ndfump(Nick B.), ntop(Tom S). Co-working(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 67 – 10G unifi Gateway, New Mikrotik Hardware, 24Ghz Mimosa
April 30, 2018 01:39 - 1 second - 48.1 MB This week Greg, Mike, and Tomas catchup for the first time in ages! This cast we talk about: New mimosa radio – was it 24Ghz? Mikrotik MUM EU hardware waplte Unimus has blog/mass change pushes 10Gb unifi gateway Cloudkey version 2 hits FCC Mikrotik winbox port vulnerability from 6.29 to 6.42 xLEC Stuff FB(More)…
TheBrothersWISP66 – Mikrotik MUM 2018, wap60G, Mikrotik Hardware
April 16, 2018 02:48 - 1 second - 23.6 MB This week Greg, Alex, Miller, and Tomas all sit down and talk on day one at the 2018 Baltimore MUM. Thanks to our sponsor for this cast Sonar.Software. A simple yet feature rich customer billing platform. This cast we talk about: Some of the new CRS devices wAP60G tweaks Mikrotik Hardware Help support us(More)…
TheBrothersWISP 65 – OpenVPN, Siklu 10Gb, VAR’s Design
March 04, 2018 18:05 - 1 second - 58.2 MB This week Greg, Mike, Wilson, Miller, and Tomas discuss the chick pea, it’s neither a chick, nor a pea. This cast we talk about: chinog in may Wispamerica very soon OpenVPN isn’t so hard Mikey 😉 Unimus has some US MUM vouchers, so bother Tomas about it. Siklu has 70/80Ghz 10Gb wireless link Link(More)…