homelab

I decided to upgrade my OpenWrt One WiFi router.

I bought an OpenWrt One WiFi router from “Bipai Corp”, via AliExpress.

The list price was $89, I got it for $109 with shipping from China.

I decided my WRT3200ACM Linksys WiFi router is garbage. There’s something about the hardware that neither Linksys factory firmware, nor OpenWrt can deal with. It drops a lot of packets.

I bought an Asus AX6000 TUF gaming router, which is kind of embarrassing, but it supposedly works well with OpenWrt.

When I last had problems with PPP, I noticed that some non-routeable IP addresses ended up getting sent out for DNS reverse lookup.

This is different than routing packets with those same (nominally) non-routeable addresses out into The Internet.

I had to get my production server to clamp MSS (size of TCP data “segment” in bytes) to path MTU.

I run pacman -Syu about once a week on my Arch Linux machines, to stay up-to-date, avoid security problems and generally stay at the bleeding edge of software revisions.

Today, I ran pacman -Syu on my Dell R530 server and it updated the PPP package.

Trouble ensued.

I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.

My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.

I bought a TP-Link powerline ethernet starter kit.

After a reboot of my new server, the Kea DHCP server did not respond to DHCPDISCOVERs or DHCPREQUESTs