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Link archive: ASUS MN78 PRO URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/08

Since my brother has this motherboard: M4N78 PRO GREEN.

It does WOL, but doesn’t always wake up when powered down.

–jeroen

ASUS Serial 93M0AI195747; Part 90-MIB7C0-G0EAY00Z; M4N78 PRO GREEN; UPC 61083916977; EAN 4719543169773

Posted in Ethernet, Hardware, Mainboards, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | Leave a Comment »

ScanSnap ix100 info you don’t find in the Getting Started guide easily

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/28

Always fun when Getting Started guide makes it hard to find essential information, but the installation mentions it after installing:

ScanSnap is initially set to turn off automatically after a certain time of non-activity.
The power-off interval can be changed from the [ScanSnap Manager – Preferences] window.

To turn the ScanSnap back on, perform one of the following:

  • Press the [Scan] button
  • Close the ADF paper chute (cover) and open it again

The installer then continues to ask to connect it over USB, though the Getting Started guide mentions you can connect over WiFi.

There the “monkey gets out of the sleeve” as the WiFi installer mentions this:

ScanSnap Wireless Network Setup

To start up the Wireless Setup Tool, perform the following:

  • Turn on ScanSnap
  • Turn on the Wi-Fi switch on the ScanSnap
  • Connect ScanSnap to the computer via the USB cable

(i) If you start up the Wireless Setup Tool via Wi-Fi, some functions are not available.

Too bad it doesn’t explain which functions are not available, not even a web-search or the [WayBack] manuals:

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Posted in Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, ix100, Power User, Scanners | Leave a Comment »

Philips Brilliance 240B max resolution: 1920 x 1200 pixels at 24 bit

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/25

Since the Display on the frontside is labeled as “Philips Brilliance 240B”, finding the actual supported maximum resolution took an additional step resulting in these specs: [WayBack] Specifications of the LCD monitor with Ergo base, USB, Audio 240B1CB/75 | Philips

This is what I needed from it:

Philips Brilliance 240B max resolution: 1920 x 1200 pixels at 24 bit via either of the inputs

  • VGA (Analog )
  • DVI-D (digital, HDCP)

–jeroen

Posted in Displays, Hardware, Power User | Leave a Comment »

ScanSnap ix100 open ports

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/25

For my archive: the open ports on the ix100 WiFi connection:

# sudo nmap -O -v -A -p- -Pn 192.168.0.1
Password:

Starting Nmap 7.50 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-08-01 17:40 CEST
NSE: Loaded 144 scripts for scanning.
NSE: Script Pre-scanning.
Initiating NSE at 17:40
Completed NSE at 17:40, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 17:40
Completed NSE at 17:40, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating ARP Ping Scan at 17:40
Scanning 192.168.0.1 [1 port]
Completed ARP Ping Scan at 17:40, 0.01s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:40
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:40, 0.03s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 17:40
Scanning 192.168.0.1 [65535 ports]
Discovered open port 53218/tcp on 192.168.0.1
Discovered open port 53219/tcp on 192.168.0.1
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 17:40, 51.05s elapsed (65535 total ports)
Initiating Service scan at 17:40
Scanning 2 services on 192.168.0.1
Service scan Timing: About 50.00% done; ETC: 17:41 (0:00:32 remaining)
Completed Service scan at 17:41, 31.85s elapsed (2 services on 1 host)
Initiating OS detection (try #1) against 192.168.0.1
NSE: Script scanning 192.168.0.1.
Initiating NSE at 17:41
Completed NSE at 17:41, 0.04s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 17:41
Completed NSE at 17:41, 0.02s elapsed
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.1
Host is up (0.0037s latency).
Not shown: 65533 closed ports
PORT      STATE SERVICE VERSION
53218/tcp open  unknown
| fingerprint-strings: 
|   DNSStatusRequest, DNSVersionBindReq, GenericLines, LPDString, NULL, WMSRequest, afp, oracle-tns: 
|_    VENS
53219/tcp open  unknown
| fingerprint-strings: 
|   DNSStatusRequest, DNSVersionBindReq, GenericLines, LPDString, NULL, WMSRequest, afp, oracle-tns: 
|_    VENS
2 services unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprints at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
==============NEXT SERVICE FINGERPRINT (SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY)==============
SF-Port53218-TCP:V=7.50%I=7%D=8/1%Time=5980A106%P=x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.
SF:0%r(NULL,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(GenericLines,10,"\0\0\0
SF:\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(DNSVersionBindReq,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0
SF:\0\0\0\0\0")%r(DNSStatusRequest,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(
SF:LPDString,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(WMSRequest,10,"\0\0\0\
SF:x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(oracle-tns,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0
SF:\0")%r(afp,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0");
==============NEXT SERVICE FINGERPRINT (SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY)==============
SF-Port53219-TCP:V=7.50%I=7%D=8/1%Time=5980A106%P=x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.
SF:0%r(NULL,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(GenericLines,10,"\0\0\0
SF:\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(DNSVersionBindReq,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0
SF:\0\0\0\0\0")%r(DNSStatusRequest,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(
SF:LPDString,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(WMSRequest,10,"\0\0\0\
SF:x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")%r(oracle-tns,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0
SF:\0")%r(afp,10,"\0\0\0\x10VENS\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0");
MAC Address: 84:25:3F:25:7F:21 (silex technology)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6
OS details: Linux 2.6.17 - 2.6.36
Uptime guess: 248.550 days (since Sat Nov 26 03:30:04 2016)
Network Distance: 1 hop
TCP Sequence Prediction: Difficulty=199 (Good luck!)
IP ID Sequence Generation: All zeros

TRACEROUTE
HOP RTT     ADDRESS
1   3.66 ms 192.168.0.1

NSE: Script Post-scanning.
Initiating NSE at 17:41
Completed NSE at 17:41, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 17:41
Completed NSE at 17:41, 0.00s elapsed
Read data files from: /usr/local/bin/../share/nmap
OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 85.09 seconds
           Raw packets sent: 65856 (2.898MB) | Rcvd: 65608 (2.625MB)

The nmap is aliased as nmap-fingerprint_host_all-ports-even-if-ping-fails

–jeroen

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Installing as a LAN -> WiFi bridge: FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/21

I have a bunch of [WayBackFRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E | Overview | AVM International devices; this is the quickest way to install them as LAN -> WiFi bridge (connect ethernet to your LAN; use the WiFi as a bridge).

  1. Connect the FRITZ!WLAN to your LAN
  2. Connect the FRITZ!WLAN to power
  3. Connect your laptop to the WiFi SSID FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E with password 00000000 (that eight times a zero)
  4. Set your laptop with a fixed IP address 192.168.178.127 with netmask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.178.2 for WiFi.
  5. Connect to your FRITZ!WLAN at http://192.168.178.2
  6. Setup your FRITZ!WLAN for the first time (password, country) and have it reboot
  7. Logon to the FRITZ!WLAN
  8. Change the WiFI password and the SSID for 2.4 Ghz and 5.0 Ghz channels (I use a different SSID for both as many Fritz!Box devices have both bad 2.4Ghz performance and a hard time to automatically switch from 2.4Ghz to 5.0Ghz on the same SSID automagically).
  9. Change your laptop to use DHCP on WiFi
  10. Reconnect to the Fritz!Box with the new SSID and password

–jeroen

Posted in Fritz!, Fritz!WLAN, Internet, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Raspberry Pi cannot be woken up by WOL, but it can send, and there is Whack-on-LAN

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/17

Cool stuff if you want to make your own WOL devices out of spare parts.

From old to new:

They can be woken up by anything sending magic WOL packets, including Raspberry Pi (which cannot be woken up by them, though you could use a Whack-on-LAN for that).

Basically the Raspberry Pi cannot be woken up with WOL because of a few reasons:

  1. The ethernet chip is connected over USB so it cannot pass the WOL result further on.
  2. If it could, there still is no BIOS to process the WOL result.
  3. When it is halted but has power, the CPU isn’t active. The GPU is, but cannot process the WOL.

It can be a WOL server though: [WayBackRaspberry Pi As Wake on LAN Server: 5 Steps (with Pictures)

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Ethernet, Hardware Development, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | Leave a Comment »

Tools for TCP tunnels over HTTP/HTTPS

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/16

With the advent of WebSockets, it looks like TCP tunnels over HTTP/HTTPS are gaining more ground and I need to put some research time in them.

Some old to new links:

CONNECT requests are not supported by many HTTP proxies, especially in larger organisations, so chisel and crowbar have a much bigger chance there.

And of course there is SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN: A Free Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Software. * For support, troubleshooting and feature requests we have http://www.vpnusers.com/. For critical vulnerability please email us. (mail address is on the header.).

However, that is a VPN solution which is much broader than just a single TCP tunnel. You can so similar things with OpenVPN, but over HTTP/HTTPS, also requires CONNECT:

SoftEtherVPN seems to be more versatile though. I blogged about that before, but back then didn’t have needs for it yet. VPN over HTTPS: Ultimate Powerful VPN Connectivity – SoftEther VPN Project.

–jeroen

via: [WayBackVPN through only http – Server Fault answer by [WayBack] neutrinus

Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, Network-and-equipment, OpenVPN, Power User, TCP, VPN, WebSockets, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: see how widespread support for the TCP BBR congestion control algorithm is.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14

The TCP BBR congestion control algorithm was introduced in September 2016 and became available in Linux kernel 4.9 in July 2017 after being in the news for a good 5 months (see links below). It strives for better bandwidth use and lowering latency on big data pipes.

This post is a reminder myself to see how widespread that is on recent distributions for both end-user and server systems.

Via:

–jeroen

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Strange MAC addresses starting FA:8F:CA without OUI in your network? They are Locally Administered Addresses and likely from Google.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/07

A while ago, I write about Locally Administered Addresses: a few series of MAC addresses you can use on your local network: MAC address ranges safe for testing purposes (Locally Administered Address).

A while ago, I found ones in my network and ones in my WiFi SSID survey starting with FA:8F:CA. They did not show up in the Wireshark · OUI Lookup Tool nor their manufacturer database.

But with bit 7 turned off they start with F8:8F:CA which does show up as “F8:8F:CA Google, Inc.”

They appear to be Google devices, in my case Google ChromeCast ones, though they can also be Google Home ones.

Google does “magic” with networks, just look at a few of the links here:

–jeroen

Posted in Ethernet, Google, Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Ubiquiti, WiFi | Leave a Comment »

Need to play with this: Raspberry Pi web simulator from Microsoft Corporation

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/26

It’s been a while since [WayBack] +Microsoft Corporation has recently released a preview version of an open source +Raspberry Pi web simulator where you can connect sensors and component… – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+

Back then it was convoluted to get going. Hopefully by now that has changed.

So time to take another look during the holiday season:

 

It reminded me a lot of [WayBackBring ideas to life with free online Arduino simulator and PCB apps | Autodesk Circuits (a.k.a. circuits.io):

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Posted in *nix, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Linux, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Software Development | Leave a Comment »