Infrastructure

Enable IP Forwarding / Routing on Ubuntu 18.04+

October 27, 2019

Enabling routing via iptables is slightly different on Ubuntu than Centos / RHEL. That is explained here in depth using firewalld. On Ubuntu the…

September 7, 2019

With the right hardware, it can be possible (and effective) to run your wifi NIC as an infrastructure access point. This is entirely dependent…

March 31, 2019

On minimal installations of Centos / RHEL the text based network manager utility is not installed by default. It is a simple utility that…

March 30, 2019

Introduction: There are many guides on building home routers – too many. Most of them revolve building a budget box out of cheap components…

March 24, 2019

Like many other individuals you may find yourself in the position of having multiple amazon devices on your network. In my situation, there are…

March 19, 2019

The netstat command shows the services listening to ports on a Linux server and the details of any connections currently made to them. The…

February 25, 2019

The the network command line tool ifconfig is not installed thus missing by default on CentOS 7 Linux. Users are instead encouraged to use…

February 25, 2019

The VMware preferred installation method for the use of open-vm-tools Open-vm-tools is a set of an open source services and modules for VMware from…

February 24, 2019

Depending on your activity….this can be a fun example. Wget can actually be used to crawl an entire website. A number of dubious uses…

February 22, 2019

Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary. After that, it…