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NIX4NetEng #8 – sshuttle
VPNs are a critically useful tool for gaining access to resources that cannot be…
Basic automation for WISPs and small to medium ISPs
Small to medium ISPs are an interesting phenomenon. Early in my career I was…
The value of measurements: Network Latency
Smokeping, or “why do I need to track latency?”
Configuration backups and an opportunity for automation and management
Configuration management is a critical part of successfully and efficiently run any network. From…
Updates, podcasts, and videos
Anyone that looks at this site with any regularity may have noticed that I…
Creating an internal span port inside proxmox OVS
In the last few years I have moved all of my virtualization to proxmox…
NIX4NetEng #6 DNS, ad-blocking, and quality of experience
The sixth [and arguably very overdue] installment of my NIX4NetEng series, this began as…
NIX4NetEng #5 – GeoIP tools
Sometimes in networking and security it becomes necessary to do lookups of location data…
NIX4Neteng #4: POODLE and SSLv3, scanning and updating
With the recent release of the POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability, folks are scrambling around trying…
NIX4NetEng #3: IP Addressing and Subnet Tools
IP addressing and subnetting is a common interview subject. I assert that memorizing these…