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I’m honoured to be invited to participate in a panel discussion for the upcoming African Peering and Interconnection Forum event. I will be representing our wonderful city and province of Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Details are here of the event and to register are here. https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/franchise-vs-homegrown-ixps-2/

My blogs are more just a note to self. This is my note on list of sites to check status of the content providers and connectivity tests. I don’t advocate for Speedtests to check the quality of an internet link. sometimes they are useful for Troubleshooting so have a list at the bottom. maybe a post for another day. If you got some links for other sites let me know blog [at] networkstack.co.za Apple –

Check what prefixes you are advertising to a peer /routing bgp advertisements print peer= Firewall Connection count /ip firewall connection print count-only Show Mac addresses. This can only be done for a bridge /interface bridge host print Mikrotik FW rule so OSPF doesnt break Add firewall rule so NAT doesnt break OSPF /ip firewall raw add chain=prerouting protocol=ospf action=notrack See forum discussion herehttps://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=116968

Note to Self: Create a VM in proxmox GUI with HDD and RAM requirement log onto proxmox shellcd to /rootdownload latest image from mikrotik sitewget https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/6.47.7/chr-6.48.img.zip unzip chr-6.48.img.zip if you dont know where your VMs are stored trypvesm list when you have location of VM disk you create in the GUI run the following command dd if=chr-6.48.img of=/dev/pve/vm-1XX-disk-0 done

Network Stack is honoured to be invited to speak at the Netconf which is a new session at Linuxconf focusing on Networking. more details can be found at https://linuxconf.co.za/