I love innovation and the idea of removing complexity. I worked for a manager once and during our usual 1:1 meeting, he told me one day that I don’t want to you to be the guy who always looks at a blinking yellow light and press a button to make it go away just because…
WLAN Validator
This was part of my presentation during the WLPC 2026 in Phoenix towards the end. I have been working on this for a while and learning a lot during the process. Idea behind this is to be able to validate as many items from the checklists created by Keith Parsons located here and do it…
PCAP I/O Graph Analyzer
I have written couple of posts before on using Wireshark to troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues. First post I focused on was the Wireshark I/O Graphs. Since I discovered them, I have been using them and seen other people use them to troubleshoot network and Wi-Fi issues. I focused on analyzing and looking at the WLAN traffic…
MAC Formatter
Mist WLAN Audit
Mist WLAN Audit ⚠️ Important Notice Use at Your Own Risk. This tool is provided for informational purposes only. No Warranty. Provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. Responsibility. Always verify configurations before making changes. Privacy. Your Mist API key is transmitted securely to Mist via a temporary in-memory proxy and is never stored,…
Wired 802.1X with Nile Cloud RADIUS
My previous post was about configuring Nile Cloud RADIUS. All the testing shown in there was using the Wi-Fi clients. What about the Wired Clients? This has always been a bit complicated to achieve and takes a decent amount of work. Here is my client, connected to employee segA as per policy. Switch 4 and…
Nile Cloud RADIUS – Configuring Nile Cloud RADIUS
Long awaited and it is finally here and I was able to get my hands on it for some testing, “Nile Trust Service and Nile Cloud RADIUS“. This post is going to be all about Nile Cloud RADIUS, I will get into the Nile Trust Service in another post because there is a bunch there….
Installing Orb on Ubuntu
I recently saw a post from Keith Parsons on Installing Orb on WLANPi and that sparked my curiosity. I have Ubuntu 25.04 running on one of my devices and wanted to see if I can install Orb on it. And it looks like Orb supports a whole bunch of devices. There is good documentation on…
MAB APIs and Python – Nile’s way
Been a while but I have been doing some tinkering with Nile’s MAB APIs to manage wired client devices and assign them to certain segments. There are multiple ways to do this: I was working with the MAB APIs to see what kind of automation can be created with it. Steps that my script takes:…
Setting up Ubuntu 25.04 for my lab
Some initial thoughts: I didn’t feel like typing all this, so you’ll just have to play the video and hear me talk. Some related links: Installation: Ubuntu installation was quick an easy, I downloaded Ubuntu 25.04 from the following link. Then I used BalenaEtcher to create a bootable USB drive. Next, it was simply a…