Archive for the ‘networking’ Category
February 2025
Pupdate February was mostly cold and wet, so no particularly long walks for the boys :( FOSDEM The month started with my first trip to FOSDEM, and it was quite an experience seeing something like 8000 geeks descending on Université libre de Bruxelles. Day 1 was all about getting a feel for the event. So […]
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Tags: FOSDEM, Miniature Dachshund, OpenWRT, pupdate, sbom, solar
Fixing WiFi for iPad Mini 5
TL;DR My iPad Mini 5 wouldn’t connect to access points running WPA2-PSK/WPA3-SAE Mixed Mode so I’ve had to reconfigure them to just WPA2-PSK in order to get connected. Background I mentioned in my Flint 2 review that my motivation for getting a new router was better stability for my iPad and various devices. It’s certainly […]
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Tags: apple, iPad, Mini 5, Mixed Mode, wifi, WPA2, WPA3
GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review
TL;DR The Flint 2 seems to be a pretty awesome router. It was a little fiddly to set up my (quite complex) existing VLANs and wireless networks onto it, but it’s been working without a hitch since then :) Why? I’ve had a Draytek 2866ax router paired with an AP960C access point for about 18m[1]. […]
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Tags: Access Point, AI, Flint 2, Flint2, GL.iNet, MT-6000, OpenWRT, review, SSID, VLAN, wifi
Background At home I have a bunch of SSH tunnels from a VM to my various virtual private servers in various places around the world, so I can direct my web traffic through those exit points when needed. I’ve written before about using autossh to do this. But when I’m travelling I don’t have my […]
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Tags: keys, OpenWRT, proxy, SOCKS, SSH, sshtunnel, tunnel
The great bandwidth swindle
This isn’t a new thing. I’ve even written about it before. But it seems to be coming up in a LOT of conversations at the moment. The price that cloud providers charge for egress from their networks to the Internet is staggeringly high. Or as Bryan Cantril put it in a recent episode of his […]
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Tags: aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, cost, data gravity, ec2, economics, egress, GCP, Lightsail, pricing, s3, transfer, VPS
AutoSSH in Screen from systemd
I like to have permanent SSH connections from (a VM on) my home network to the various virtual private servers (VPSs) that I have scattered around the globe as these give me SOCKS proxies that I can use to make my web traffic appear from the US or the Netherlands or wherever (as mentioned in […]
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Tags: autossh, screen, SOCKS, SSH, systemd, tunnel, unit, VPS
Why? Everything you access on the Internet starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) query to turn a name like google.com into an IP address like 216.58.218.14. Typically the DNS server that provides that answer is run by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) but you might also use alternative DNS servers like Google (8.8.8.8). Either way […]
Filed under: howto, networking, Raspberry Pi | 40 Comments
Tags: 1.1.1.1, CloudFlare, DNS, privacy, Raspberry Pi, tls, Unbound
Using 1.1.1.1
TL;DR One of the best features of Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS service is the privacy provided by DNS over TLS, but some setup is required to make use of it. I put Unbound onto the OpenWRT routers I use as DNS servers for my home network so that I could use it. Background Yesterday Cloudflare […]
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Tags: 1.1.1.1, Bind, CloudFlare, DNS, OpenWRT, privacy, Unbound
TL;DR The WiFi coverage in my house wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be, and I’ve heard lots of good stuff about Ubiquiti UniFi gear, so I’ve installed one of their Lite Access Points, and it seems to be working well. Background I first came across Ubiquiti kit as part of the bizarre […]
Filed under: Docker, networking, review | 1 Comment
Tags: Access Point, AP, POE, review, router, switch, Ubiquiti, UniFi, USG, wifi
TL;DR I need local DNS for various home lab things, but the Windows VMs I’ve been using can be slow and unreliable after a power outage (which happens too frequently). Moving to BIND turned out to be much easier than I feared, and I chose OpenWRT devices to run it on as I wanted reliable […]
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Tags: AD, Bind, DNS, forwarder, OpenWRT, zone
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