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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

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I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage. I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings. I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Juniper SRX 345
6 April, 2017 Blog

Juniper SRX – Upgrading JunOS from USB

There’s a few ways to do this. Here’s the easiest: First, format your USB drive as fat32. Download the compressed

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Juniper SRX 345
5 April, 2017 Blog

Juniper SRX PPPoE Configuration for Plusnet ADSL

This was a bit of a faff, so I thought I’d document it. The setup here is an ADSL modem

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Juniper SRX 345
24 November, 2016 Blog

An overview of JunOS Quality of Service (QoS / CoS) configuration

JunOS QoS configuration is flexible, albeit a little tricky to understand. It has a few key components which I shall

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Juniper MX 80
25 October, 2016 Blog

VLAN manipulation/translation on Juniper MX series routers

The MX series routers are truly excellent. As well as being used for routing, they can also be used for

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Juniper SRX 345
20 September, 2016 Blog

Chassis clustering a Juniper SRX firewall via a switch

Intro It is recommended that clustered SRX devices are directly connected. To do this, you need to run 2 cables,

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30 August, 2016 Blog

[SOLVED] pfSense – pfsync_undefer_state: unable to find deferred state

This pfSense bug has been present since 2.2 and is still present at the time of writing this. It occurs

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19 August, 2016 Blog

Configuring the permissions of a Samba share

Samba share permissions can be a bit fiddly. The user and group IDs which own the file on the Samba

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15 August, 2016 Blog

SOLVED – “mount error(13): Permission denied” when doing cifs mount on LXC container (Proxmox)

When trying to do a command like this on a system running inside an LXC container on Proxmox:   Linux

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HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T
12 August, 2016 Blog

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 as a home server

I picked up a HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T with the intention of turning it into a Virtual Machine host to run a

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9 August, 2016 Blog

Resolving poor network throughput performance on pfSense running on Proxmox

There exists a bug in the FreeBSD VirtIO network drivers that massively degrades network throughput on a pfSense server. VirtIO

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