Automation

When running a network with its own ASN, you will likely end up spending some time working with BGP. Knowing how your peer networks connect can help with your own network planning. BGP.Tools is a service that maps out different networks and the routes between them by having networks opt to provide bgp.tools with a BGP session sharing their exportable routes. This guide will walk you through setting up a BGP.Tools session with a Mikrotik router running RouterOS 7. ...

At an internship I had a while ago one project assigned to me was to regain access to a CCTV security system which we had been locked out of for some years. (The previous manager left without leaving the password.) The DVR system was a TRIPLEX DVRLink DVR468RW, whatever that is. It seemed cheap; a small embedded computer with video in/out, a hard-drive and CD-RW drive for recording storage. The administration interface was accessed either by a web server running on the device or a desktop client you installed on your computer. ...