Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
Whenever I travel, I always bring a travel router with me. The reason is I really don’t trust the hotel or someone else’s network. There many reasons why you shouldn’t use public or public networks. To name a few, man-in-the-middle attacks, malware, identity theft, etc. To avoid all these issues, I use OpenVPN or Wireguard […]
I have been using the /etc/fstab to auto mount the NFS exports from my storage server. However, there were times that when I rebooted my NAS and NFS clients rebooted as well, the clients got stuck because it could not find the NFS server. The solution that I found to address this issue is to
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I have been using WireGuard VPN and recently I want my folks to browse the Internet safely via the OPNsense firewall. What this means is I will be implementing a full-tunnel VPN and not a split-tunnel VPN. I really don’t want to generate a WireGuard key for each user because it is not scalable. I
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For five years, I have been using Ubiquiti Unifi access points. I got tired of issues with upgrading the APs, and random disconnects. Also, the controller is now showing some promotions. I thought of switching to Omada by TP-Link, but their WiFi6 is huge and ugly. After looking around, I found the Grandstream brand which
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I am using CentOS Stream for one of my VMs and encountered this error. I have not updated my Stream in a while, but this is really annoying thing to deal with. It is not hard to fix, but very inconvient. The commands below are what worked for me. For some articles online you will
This is part 2 of my Raspberry Pi as UPS server via the NUT post a while back. I configured my Raspberry Pi to be my NUT server. I have three Cyberpower UPS connected to the RPi via USB cables. To make a node a NUT client, we need to install the nut-client package. Once
I have been using Univention Corporate Server. Now, I am in a process of switching to FreeIPA. This post is how I installed FreeIPA on Rocky Linux. This post assumption is there is a fresh Rocky Linux installed. I am planning to use FreeIPA solely for LDAP purposes, so I am skipping the DNS part
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I really like the Grandstream access points. However, their documentation is not very informative. I tried to upgrade my GWN7660 AP and it kept failing. If you have your Manager/Controller on a different network, it is not as easy as the vendor shows it in their demo. I am using OPNsense as my firewall and
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I want to update the post Apache Guacamole with LDAP and 2FA TOTP authentication that I posted a while back. The Docker container image is no longer being maintained. This post is how to install the official Docker container images. This is the docker-compose.yml that I am using: Below is the content of the .env
I have been getting a quite a lot of comments on the post TurnKey Linux’ Nextcloud container on Proxmox. Since I switched to the official Nextcloud container for several months now, I thought I would update my Nextcloud deployment. The reason I used the official Docker container was the update process. It is very easy
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