Tag: Networking
All the articles with the tag "Networking".
Travel Router
Building a Travel Router That Doesn't Ruin Movie Night The problem This whole project exists because of one specific holiday. The accommodation's Wi-Fi died completely, for two full days. No terrestrial TV either. Two days of genuinely nothing, in the evenings, on holiday. I count it as a personal engineering achievement that I survived those…
11 Laws of the Universe
These aren't scientific laws, but widely-used mental models and heuristics that help explain behaviour, decision-making, management and problem solving. 1. Parkinson's Law Definition "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." Coined by historian C. Northcote Parkinson in 1955. Meaning People naturally consume whatever time they are given. Give someone: 2 hours →…
AXIS P3224-V Multicast Setup Guide
Overview Receiving multicast video streams from AXIS cameras requires proper network configuration at multiple levels: kernel, firewall, multicast group membership, and RTP/H.264 decoding. This guide documents the steps required to successfully receive and record RTP multicast streams from an AXIS P3224-V Mk II camera using GStreamer. Network Setup in This Example ComponentValueCamera IP10.0.133.12Client IP10.0.133.83Network Interfaceenp86s0Multicast…
Using Paramiko with SSH Config Including ProxyCommand and Includes
This guide documents how to properly use Paramiko with SSH configurations that include: SSH config include directives ProxyCommand for AWS SSM Session Manager Multiple configuration parameters (hostname, user, identity files, etc.) The Problem Paramiko's SSHConfig.parse() has two key limitations: Does not support include directives - If your ~/.ssh/config has lines like include ./config.d/*.conf, paramiko will…
Disable Wi-Fi on Ethernet Up
I wanted to turn off/disable my Wi-Fi adapter when I plug in an Ethernet cable. Add this script as /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-disable-wifi-when-et
Cloudflare Warp on Linux
After installing the Cloudflare Warp client on my Manjaro system, I could not get it to connect. Watching the journal, I found this: INFO main_loop: warp::
Icinga2 and Cloudflare
With Cloudflare, I wanted to host my Icinga2 instance behind a tunnel. This posed a bit of an issue as whenever I tried to submit a passive result the logs
Cloudflare Tunnelling
Updated:Using Cloudflare, it is possible to connect to a private internal service via a tunnel. This enables the interaction of a DNS name to get proxied through C
AWS S3 Bucket Service
Updated:Previously I have used s3fs as this supported mounting in fstab using and access key and secret. This S3 Mountpoint by Amazon can use IAM for a more integr
caddy
Caddy is a "server of servers", but probably more recognised as a reverse proxy or web server. It's memory safe, so likely to gain traction because of the