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More Then Pushing Packets

Connecting and securing your digital landscape. Explore network fundamentals, routing and switching concepts, firewall configurations, and VPN technologies. Discover how to build a secure and reliable network for your home lab. Inbound, Outbound and Beyond.

• Solving Intel NIC Shenanigans

  Oct 20, 2025

  4 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Linux Hardware Howto

  How I fixed the issue with non-intel trasceiver not working with Intel X520 network card. Intel trying to be smart and how to tell the card to get over itself.

• Auditing Network Assets

  May 6, 2025

  3 min read

  Neworking Cyber Security

  Notes Assets Managment

  Network system asset audits validate that hardware and software controls align with policies and standards. They uncover vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and provide assurance for stronger governance and security resilience.

• Assessing Network and Security Policy

  May 3, 2025

  3 min read

  Neworking Cyber Security

  Notes Managment

  Strong network security goes beyond firewalls, it relies on policies, access controls, and regular assessments. Clear governance, technical safeguards, and incident response procedures establish a framework of prevention, detection, and response. By enforcing least-privilege access and auditing compatibility with organisational requirements, policies become active controls, protecting systems, data, and people against evolving threats.

• No NFS on boot

  Sep 29, 2020

  2 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Ubuntu Linux Networking

  Upgrade my workstation and now NFS mounts in fstab not mounting on boot but working with mount -a command works as expected. in short, systemd is worth learning and I cant believe ubuntu was released with such a basic bug.

• Powering On/Off Juniper SRX320.

  Sep 7, 2018

  2 min read

  Neworking Home Lab

  Networking Hardware Juniper

  Always use the graceful method unless absolutely necessary.  i.e don’t just yank the power cord out. There is console less method and a CLI method over the network

• eBay Score of the Century

  Jun 15, 2018

  3 min read

  Neworking Home Lab

  Networking Storage Server

  how about a smoking network I’m redoing my home and lab network with the goal to go 10Gb/s. Let’s up that and go 40Gb/s and while were are at it let’s take it even further with 56Gb/s….with a twist. I found Infiniband hardware cheaper then ethernet and it can do both

• Netplan bridging under Ubuntu 18.04

  Apr 27, 2018

  4 min read

  Neworking Virtualisation Home Lab

  Linux Ubuntu Networking Lxc

  The new trend in linux is the shift to netplan as a network manager that uses either NetworkManager or systemd-networkd to manage interfaces is pretty much the default now for Ubuntu Desktops. This breaks OVS and linux bridging, but there is a way