LinITX Blog Ubiquiti & MikroTik Wireless Networking Experts

A common problem amongst growing WISP businesses is rapid growth. Not a problem for the bottom line obviously, but once the owners see what is happening to their network, which is one single layer 2 bridge, they see they now have a problem they hadn’t planned for in advance.   …

We have been frequently asked to control a WISPs backhaul from excessive usage by a minority of their clients, which then in turn spoil the experience for the majority. In one case, a provider had a 200Mbps leased line and it was 100% saturated with Bit Torrent and Binary UUNet …

It seems that some people didn’t like their MAC address being magically used as part of their IPv6 address, and so some bright spark created the concept of privacy addresses – see RFC3041 However sometimes we need to be able to control the behaviour, sometimes we want to enable them …