Posted on 2023-October-04 in networking • Tagged with IPv4, IPv6, DHCPv6, SLAAC
My home network is unusual, I'll grant you that. Hundreds of connected machines, servers, tablets, gadgets made me switch at some point to a /23 to push the limits to 500 entries on my LAN. In my defense, I have a lot of multi-port routers, managed switches, and …
Posted on 2021-November-03 in networking • Tagged with router, raspberry, openwrt
Driving a home Gbit Internet connection requires heavy hardware. Or maybe not?
Following recommendations on OpenWRT forums I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an additional USB3/Gbit adapter and the results are beyond anything I could have hoped for. This is not a cheap solution …
Posted on 2021-October-03 in networking
Latest upgrade on my home Internet connection brought me to an almost symmetric Gbit link: 1000 Mbit/s down, 500 Mbit/s up. Very comfortable, but what kind of home router do you need to sustain such traffic loads? I tried a lot of alternatives which I will briefly describe …
Posted on 2021-May-31 in networking
Self-hosting is about running your own cloud services on your own hardware. Remember: there is no cloud, you are just using somebody else's computer. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes you don't want to entrust that someone else with your data. In some cases it is a lot cheaper to host …
Posted on 2021-May-23 in networking • Tagged with dynamic ip, vpn, vps
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Say you want to host some service at home and make it reachable from the Internet. What …
Posted on 2017-February-28 in networking • Tagged with home network, ipv6, nat
Home networking can be a lot of fun: setting up a name
service, a guest network, or traffic rules, leads to an endless joy of
discovering new RFCs or creativity in the very active field of artistic
configuration file syntax.
I thought I had seen everything until I tried to …
Posted on 2014-December-10 in networking • Tagged with opendns, openwrt, parental control
The following recipe took me a whole evening to find, so I am documenting it here in hope it could be useful to somebody else.
I recently upgraded my home network to a beefier TP-Link C5 Archer. This little box packs two Wi-Fi access points in 2.4 and 5GHz …
Posted on 2014-October-15 in networking • Tagged with ad-hoc network, ipv6, rj45
Got my hands on an old but faithful laptop recently. The thing is a lot faster than my son's desktop, so I thought it would make a nice update for him. First thing I did was upgrade the laptop's disk to an SSD and install Linux Mint. This is now …