Interesting commands around networksetup -setairportpower en0 : power off and on your WiFi.
–jeroen
via: [Wayback/Archive] Quick Tip: Automating your Mac’s wifi power – BrettTerpstra.com.
Archive for the ‘Network-and-equipment’ Category
Quick Tip: Automating your Mac’s wifi power (on off through script) via: BrettTerpstra.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/04
Posted in Apple, Hardware, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Network-and-equipment, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, WiFi | Leave a Comment »
SoftPerfect Network Scanner: fast and free network scanner
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/17
On my list of things to try: SoftPerfect Network Scanner: fast and free network scanner.
–jeroen
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Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
For my own reference, especially since setting the network profile in Windows 8 from the UI got much more difficult.
It is doable though, but not in logic places; I like the secpol.msc way most: windows 8 – How do I set my wireless network to be private instead of public? – Super User.
Same for renaming the network, which also has a secpol.msc way that is easy:
- Press Win+R, then type
secpol.msc- Click on “Network List Manager Policies”
- Double-click on your network
- Optionally give your network another name
- Click on “Tab Network Location”
- Set “Location Type” to “Private”
Go back to Network and Sharing Center to check the result.
To start the Network and Sharing Center:
control.exe /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter
Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands | Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro.
including:
- Checking if the current profile is set to private/public/domain:
netsh advfirewall show currentprofile
- Checking the firewall rules for applications: Read the rest of this entry »
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Glasvezel / Fiber internet notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/09
Some links:
- XS4all Glasvezel – Internetproviders en Hosting – GoT.
- De eerste aansluiting in De Lingebuurt Elst.
- Een eigen router | netwerkje.com.
- Mikrotik configuraties – Helden van Nu – Internet.
- L4, 5*100 mbit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal, AR9331@300 Mhz, 32MB: RouterBoard.com : RB951-2n.
- L4, 5*100 mbit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal/option-external, USB, AR7241@400 Mhz, 32MB: RouterBoard.com : RB751U-2HnD.
- L4, 5*1 gigabit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal, USB, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : RB951G-2HnD.
- L5, 5*1 gigabit, 5* 100 mbit, 1* PoE, 1*SFP cage, microUSB, Serial, 802.11bgn external, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN.
- L5, 24*1 gigabit, 1*SFP cage, microUSB, Serial, 802.11bgn external, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN.
–jeroen
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DefCon-21: ASUS RT-AC66U is vulnerable to SMB Symlink and ACSD hacks, I presume the ASUS RT-N66U is too (via SecurityEvaluators.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/05
Since the ASUS RT-AC66U and ASUS RT-N66U are so similar, my guess is that the ASUS RT-N66U is vulnerable too.
–jeroen
via: Hacking and Rooting SOHO Home Routers.
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Looking for a new Dynamic DNS provider for FritzBox 7340 and ASUS RT N66U
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01
Found out the hard way that DynDNS.org now requires you to perform a web login every 30 days for the free service: Free DNS requires monthly login? – Dyn Community Forum.
Basically I’m looking for a way to either
- host my own dynamic DNS compatible service (I already run normal DNS on 2 domains)
- use another free dynamic DNS service
The biggest problem: I’m using 2 routers that have a list of supported Dynamic DNS services that only partially overlap: Read the rest of this entry »
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Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/05
Easy, but worth viewing the screenshots: IPredator – Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion.
Although: I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
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Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/24
A while ago, I had to connect to secure data over PPTP.
It reminded me of this post from about a year ago: via Divide and Conquer: Cracking MS-CHAPv2 with a 100% success rate (now archived at the wayback machine).
Their main point:
MS-CHAPv2 can be cracked within less than a day (and that time will only get less).
Their short conclusion “basically PPTP is dead, and IPSEC-PSK is worse” leads to the recommendation:
This leaves either an OpenVPN configuration, or IPSEC in certificate rather than PSK mode.
Longer quote: Read the rest of this entry »
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ASUS RT N66U did not update DDNS with changed IP addres
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/11
Today my router had an IP-address change, but didn’t update the DynDNS.org information in my My Host Services | My Dyn Account. Which meant I could not “phone home”, as I didn’t know the new IP-address**.
Lesson re-learned:
During initial router configuration, watch the router logs, as you might have accidentally updated the DynDNS.org by hand, not by your router
Had this in the ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log:
Jun 11 08:01:53 notify_rc : restart_ddns Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns: clear ddns cache file for server setting change Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: connected to members.dyndns.org (204.13.248.111) on port 80. Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: server output: HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:01:53 GMT^M Server: Apache^M X-UpdateCode: X^M Content-Length: 7^M Connection: close^M ^M notfqdn Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: malformed hostname: myhostname
The problem: hostname should not only be the name of the host, but the FQDN of the host. Read the rest of this entry »
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More ESXi5 installation steps
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/10
(note: part of this post is unfinished, but I wanted to make sure all the links are publicly accessible, so I posted earlier and incomplete)
I already did a few ESXi5 postings (they apply to 5.1 as well) of which the most important are:
- Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (failed at first in HP XW6600, but with MBR partition table it works)
- Screenshots: Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick with MBR partition table
Time to finish up some additional installation steps (with a big thanks to Matthijs ter Woord):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 