Warsaw MUM (March 15-16, 2012)

Posted by Admin Thursday, January 26, 2012 0 comments
Biggest WISP event in Europe!  LESS THAN TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE MUM !!! Warsaw/Poland, March 15-16, 2012 Over 500 people have already registered for the MUM Europe 2012. The capacity of the conference room will be reached soon. We are working with the hotel to get additional space if needed, but please register IMMEDIATELY to be sure of your place. FREE registration will end on February 21,...

Mikrotik New Product

Posted by Admin Friday, January 20, 2012 0 comments
The MikroTik new products: * RB751U-2HnD * RB411L * RB433GL * R5SHPn * RB433L * RB751G-2HnD * OmniTikUPA-5HnD * RB433UAHL Download the newsletter here: http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/news_36.pdf See you in the MUM in Poland!...

Bug spotting – PPPoE and Hotspot

Posted by Admin Sunday, January 15, 2012 0 comments
Came across an interesting (yet to be verified) bug today. The info: RouterOS v4.10 running on x86 server Site runs both a hotspot and PPPoE server on the same interface. Users can decide to login via the captive portal (which most do) or for those who understand and wish to use a pppoe connection, they have the option to use that instead, as it comes with a public IP. The problem: Support call...

Port Knocking to Increase Security

Posted by Admin Tuesday, January 10, 2012 0 comments
The port "knock" itself is similar to a secret handshake and can considt of any number of TCP, UDP, or ICMP or other protocol packets to numbered ports on the destination machine.The KNock may also consist of text strings sent to the device being knocked to add additional complexity and security. Port knocking example : Host send a connection to the one of router ports, the router stores the requester's...