Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/01
From a while back: [WayBack] ZeroShell Firewall/Router Linux Distribution Works on x86 Hardware, Raspberry Pi 2/3, & (Some) Orange Pi Boards.
I’m anxious to see how much it has grown up by now.
More info at Zeroshell – Wikipedia
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] ZeroShell is a ##Linux distribution for firewalls/routers fully configurable via a web interface, and that not only works on x86, but also on some ##Arm… – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/16
For my link archive: [WayBack] Route traffic from one port via VPN – MikroTik
Via [WayBack] networking – Mikrotik route internet traffic from one interface via vpn – Super User
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/09
QoS doesn’t work, except for one specific scenario:
Where QoS works is where one organisation controls both ends of a connection AND also tightly-defines and controls the applications:
- A fixed-broadband provider can protect IP telephony & IPTV on home broadband between central office & the home gateway.An enterprise can build a private network & prioritise its most important application(s), plus maybe a connection to a public cloud or UCaaS service.
- Mobile operators can tune a 4G network to prioritise VoLTE.
- Telco core and transport networks can apply differential QoS to particular wholesale customers, or to their own various retail requirements (eg enterprise users’ data vs. low-end consumers, or cell-site timing signals and backhaul vs. user data).
- Industrial process & control systems use a variety of special realtime connection protocols and networks. Vendors of “OT” (operational technology) tend to view IT/telecoms and TCP/IP as quaint. The IT/OT boundary is the real “edge”.
Source: [WayBack] Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: Debunking the Network QoS myth
Via: [WayBack] This is not news, but it’s worthwhile repeating… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+:
This is not news, but it’s worthwhile repeating: it is actually cheaper to build a network that can carry the traffic than building a network that keeps quality promises on a backbone that is undersized or close to capacity. Overprovisioning works, everything else does not, economically as well as technically.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/05
Reminder to self [WayBack] Just a small FTR. Yes, the IKEA TRÅDFRI lamps [1] when equipped with Firmware >= 1.2.217 intergrate seamlessly into the Philips Hue system, thanks to t… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+:
Links:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/19
Via [WayBack] Knowledge Base | AVM International:
3 Setting the maximum transmitter power
- Click “Wireless” (“WLAN”) in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click “Radio Channel” in the “Wireless” (“WLAN”) menu.
- If the option “Set radio channel settings automatically (recommended)” is enabled, proceed with the following section.
- If the option “Adjust radio channel settings” is enabled:
- Click “Additional settings”.
- Select “100%” from the drop-down list “Maximum transmitter power”.
- Click “Apply” to save the settings.
Hence the settings below: 6% Maximum transmit power is the lowest I could set.
For devices that cannot adjust their antenna output power which have RP-SMA connectors, I bought these to effectively throttle them:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/15
Interesting stuff from a while back that I will be using soon: [WayBack] Sonoff Wireless Switch Family Gets a $3 IP66 Waterproof Enclosure.
Pictures via CNX Software; originally found via [WayBack] $2.90 waterproof case for +ITEAD Studio Sonoff switches… – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/03
The ll header field in a martian source message on linux is about the [WayBack] Ethernet frame – Wikipedia: Data Link Layer.
The first 6 hex digits are the source MAC address, the next are the destination MAC address:
May 10 08:59:24 linux kernel: IPv4: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.17.44, on dev eth1
May 10 08:59:24 linux kernel: ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 0c 29 f7 0f fe 08 00 ........).....
In the above example:
ff ff ff ff ff ff (broadcast, which corresponds with IPv4 target 255.255.255.255)00 0c 29 f7 0f fe (specific, which I could verify after checking out the machine having IPv4 192.168.17.44)08 00 (IPv4)Some sources indicate it is a martian, as 255.255.255.255 is never a valid IP address, but [WayBack] Martian packet – Wikipedia: IPv4 disagrees.
References:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/08
When one of the machine isn’t active for a while it seems to disappear. Even when it’s active some of the machines have intermittent errors pinging it as like every 10-30 seconds one of these ping results appear:
92 bytes from tl-er5120 (192.168.71.1): Redirect Host(New addr: 192.168.71.193) Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 05de 0 0000 40 01 644d 192.168.71.108 192.168.71.193
Sometimes even a simple
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6900
So I need to dig into ICMP “Redirect Host” .
It might be a simple ARP thing like mac mini – Why the different results for ping? Or why is the Time Capsule getting involved? – Ask Different [WayBack] but like usual stuff I bump into is of a more complex kind so I’ve archived at least these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Interesting read and watch:
At the recent Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Dietrich Ayala proposed a simple and affordable solution to home automation: A discarded smartphone can handle some of the most useful home automation tasks without requiring expensive hubs and sensors — or risking data security in the cloud.
Source: [WayBack] Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information.
Via Ruurd Pels.
GitHub Repository autonome/context by autonome (Dietrich Ayala)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/25
Until recently, I hardly used Wake on LAN, so I never noticed that many routers nowadays can send WoL requests themselves.
A few links:
/tool wol 00:1F:29:02:2A:ED
/tool wol 00:1F:29:01:12:76
wol 00:1F:29:02:2A:ED
wol 00:1F:29:01:12:76
And a few ones from my previous WoL related posts:
–jeroen
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