by CBrown | Jan 31, 2013 | Web Sites
After setting up your website it is always a good idea to change the directory and file permissions. This makes it a little harder for an attacker to compromise your site. For Joomla and WordPress it is best practice to set your directory permissions to 755 and your...
by CBrown | Jan 30, 2013 | MikroTik, Networking
This is my first setup with 3G on a Routerboard. It took a little longer than I wanted to figure everything out, but I eventually got it working. The steps that made it work. Place the UMTS drivers in the /firmware directory on the Routerboard (You should be...
by CBrown | Jan 16, 2013 | Training
Come join us in the our MTCNA class in Pittsburgh Jan. 21 – Jan. 23! For more information and to signup click here.
by CBrown | Oct 16, 2012 | MikroTik, Networking
Sometimes you will need to connect to a router that either has a dynamic IP or a domain name instead of directly to the IP address. This is easily achieved using RouterOS with a simple script. Using the script below you will need to change PPP-INTERFACE to the name...
by CBrown | Oct 12, 2012 | MikroTik, Networking
Many businesses want to block facebook on their corporate networks. Here is a useful site to lookup blocks of IPs. http://www.robtex.com/dns/www.facebook.com.html#records http://bgp.he.net/AS32934#_prefixes Using the IPs from above we can create firewall rules to...
by CBrown | Apr 9, 2012 | MikroTik, Networking
Here are the rules I use to open my NAT on Xbox Live. Xbox.com says to “open” ports 88udp, 3074udp/tcp, 53udp/tcp, and 80tcp. Assuming you can browse the internet you don’t need to NAT 80 and 53 to your Xbox. These are just HTTP and DNS traffic...
