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Guest Wi-Fi has become a crucial part of many businesses, but you can’t simply spin up a WLAN and let users on it. It needs to be secure and segmented not only from corporate traffic but from other guests as well. A misconfigured guest network is one of the easiest lateral movement vectors into your…
“I built it because I was tired of carrying a separate app for every calculation I do on a job. Now it’s one app, 173 tools, on every device you own.” – Keith Parsons 173 tools in one app in the palm of your hands, that is pretty cool. As a wireless engineer there are…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…