Networking

Merging Overlapping Subnets

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Once upon a time there was a single AWS account. In this AWS account was several regions but a single VPC. To make sure expansions into other regions was …

Reflashing Cisco Catalyst With XMODEM

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One of the Cisco Catalyst 3750 I had to work on recently had it's flash completely wiped. When this happens you can only flash the filesystem using the XMODEM …

AWS Elastic IP Details

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Sometimes it becomes important to understand how your cloud provider implements certain networking details. While working through an issue in AWS I needed to …

Fighting IPSec on AWS

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IPSec is a well known and well understood protocol that is pretty easy to get setup and going... Most of the time. While setting up an IPSec tunnel to an AWS …

Quick and Silent Gigabit Packet Interception

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I regularly find myself inspecting traffic on Linux systems. Usually I'm already on the client or server when doing this (such as when diagnosing weird low …

Using OpenWRT's Dnsmasq as a TFTP Server

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I recently re-flashed my primary router to a newer version of OpenWRT and attempted to follow my own directions written in an earlier blog post to add PXE …

Configuring PXE Booting on OpenWRT

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I needed to support PXE booting on my home network. I use OpenWRT as my main router and DHCP server and it took me a bit of searching how to configure the BOOTP …

NFS

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NFS (Network File System) allows sharing directories between Linux systems over a network. NFSv4 is the current recommended version and simplifies things by …

Network

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