TheBrothersWISP

Tommy Croghan

Networking podcast geared towards wireless internet service providers and network engineers of all sorts

Episodes

  1. 07/08/2023

    The Brothers WISP 180 – Communicating in an Outage

    This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess (LinkTechs), Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions 00:02:15 Sponsors and Patreon 00:04:00 Bad actor companies on FB & RF Elements 00:07:05 Going back to secorized pannels? 00:09:25 WRT54G, That Belongs in a Museum! 00:13:52 Bad Credit Card Machines and UNIFI 00:17:45 New PCI Compliance Testing Rules 00:22:06 OWASP Top 10 and Security Testing 00:27:05 Penetration Testing Fun 00:32:40 Communicating in an Outage 00:52:50 Topolograph 00:54:11 Memorizing Your Network and Maping it 01:01:00 Big F’n Deal, ROS is now Feature Complete! s 01:09:45 ChatGPT won’t be replacing Network Admins 01:12:45 IEEE Talking about LET Bandwidth Limitations 01:18:30 Backup Connections Building and Selling them to Customers 01:25:10 Spectrum will no longer sell to WISPs (Official) 01:29:10 Frontier’s fiber build budget has been spent and other issues with the big carriers. 01:32:00 O-Band Optics 01:34:30 Fiber should be done on Fridays! 01:39:30 DHCP Lease Times? Use the right tech! 01:48:05 BGP Knobs to turn 01:49:00 Outro, BDC is happening Links: YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/PRVQgQ_NOlQ Dennis – Support@linktechs.net (or if you want to call him listen to the video) Justin – dynstatic.net Tomas – unimus.net OWASP Top 10 https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ Topolograph https://topolograph.com/ BGP Knobs to Tune https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/Freedman_bgp102_1_N45.pdf IEEE Talking about LEO Bandwidth Limitations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568932?denied= O-Band https://www.fiberlabs.com/glossary/original-band/

  2. 07/27/2023

    The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs

    This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions 00:05:10 Dave Taht’s Story 00:18:00 What is Buffer Bloat? 00:25:50 Dave’s Poem about Congestion 00:28:30 Dave’s Mission 00:30:10 What is FQ_Codel? 00:44:30 What have various implementations been focused towards? 00:47:50 New Zealand Example and the ECN Bit 00:51:20 What does CAKE do different than FQ_Codel 01:04:30 Congestion isn’t just in our Links, looking at the insane time scale of BW 01:09:50 How different protocols handle being queued (Not everything is IPv4/TCP) 01:25:10 Where should you be doing your proper Queuing 01:34:00 How well has FQ_Codel and CAKE been implemented? (Kinda poorly) 01:37:00 Dynamic BW availability controls? 01:42:30 Wrapping Up 01:54:00 Dave’s 3 Points How to get ahold of people Dave: dave.taht@gmail.com https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Daves_Media_Guidance/ Zach: zachbiles.net Robert: https://libreqos.io/ Dan: www.coverfire.com Preseem.com Jon: https://geekitek.com/ The Blind Men and the Elephant https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7567 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8290 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336 Personal Blog Post by Dan Siemon about QUIC https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2023/07/11/the-rise-of-udp/ Preseem Podcast Not mentioned in the cast, but informational pages that were very helpful for me in my learning process. (Mikrotik’s documentation has gotten a lot better in the last few months thank goodness.) https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/ https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-cake.8.html https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Queues#Queues-FQ-Codel https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07617.pdf https://lwn.net/Articles/758353/

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Networking podcast geared towards wireless internet service providers and network engineers of all sorts