‘Networking’ Articles at Phil’s Blog

OpenWrt on Adalov / COMFAST CF-EW84 Wireless Access Point

Intro This is actually a pretty decent access point, hardware wise. It has 2 radios and reasonably high gain external

Proxmox will manage the network interfaces file (/etc/network/interfaces on Debian) for you, on containers. This is sometimes annoying – for

Hetzner offer very well specified physical servers at extremely low prices. I’ve used them for many years and they’ve proved

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

This is far easier than I thought it’d be. I had to change it to get around some blacklisting my

A potential project requires me to detect Sonos devices on a network and find their IP addresses. Since Sonos only

As a revision to my earlier post on the matter, here’s a better constructed way to achieve the same effect

When a router’s next hop gateway is in the same subnet as the previous hop, it’ll send an redirect to

, at a very basic level, is when a collection of servers share the same IP address and data is

Some Cisco switches, such as our Catalyst 3560 series, have Smartports which can be configured via the switch’s web interface