Notices by The Psychotic Network Ferret (nuintari@infosec.exchange), page 4

@silverwizard As for, "Need cheap device with wifi." My solution has been to not ever need to be that cheap. Also, I NEVER run wireless directly on my router. If I deploy something that cheap, I'll end up fixing it a lot more than a little.

I would rather have the free time.

@silverwizard Try migrating 500 fixed wireless subscribers from an insanely poorly planned and implemented Mikrotik network over to anything else, with the expectation of never breaking anything, while management barks at you to move faster.... while also juggling other projects.

@silverwizard Today, I spun up OSPF on a Mikrotik in the old core, in a VRF, trunked a new VLAN over to the 'new core,' and tested migrating individual tower sites to the VRF.

It was terrifying, I was just waiting to get knocked out, and safe mode engaging, which would mean a 2-3 minute outage.

Shit like this is trivial on real network OS.

@silverwizard Reason not in that rant:

Its low cost leads to it frequently be used as a teaching tool, where its awfulness permeates fresh, young minds, and fills them with all the worst kinds of bullshit.

If you learned networking on a Mikrotik, you learned so many things so very poorly, and more than a few flat out wrong.

@silverwizard Here, this covers a subset of the reasons:

https://infosec.exchange/@nuintari/110063047379416606

@silverwizard Lemme find the rant.... it covers a ton of the reasons.

Dear #Mikrotik fanboys, I realize I can't get you to stop using RouterOS completely. You are just hopelessly addicted to that garbage.

But do you suppose l could entice you to stop deploying routers on sticks as your standard model?

nuintari's rules of networking 0x3b:

When changing production, change one thing at a time and test frequently.

@coleens_ I have a don't mind, hate relationship with NAT.

On the one hand, fine, it creates an easy to explain and understand demarcation point between provider and customer networks. Handy that.

But at the same time, most people don't understand how routing without NAT works, and said people often find a way to make their lack of understanding my problem.

Furthermore, I have to deal with Carrier Grade NAT, which is just pure hell and should never have needed to exist.

Dear circuit provider.

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME.

200 mbit is NOT the same as 2000 mbit.

@ben_co_grimm @mav @mwl It's the simple fact that it is even considered as an option. I don't touch things that take cryptocurrency seriously, because that is a strong indicator it will do something else grotesquely stupid as well.

@cyburnout I love this, but I am apologetically a Keurig fan, despite being a vi user.

@silverwizard I use vim for color syntax highlighting, and the multiple undo levels. I turn the vast majority of the other features off.

That fucking --VISUAL-- mode is pure garbage. I do not _ever_ want the mouse interacting with the cursor.

I realize that my method does not scale to the non-technical, but I have never regretted my firm stance on self hosting my password manager.