internet

Network Hardware Behavior

Network Hardware Behavior

Bruce Ediger

A few months ago, I started monitoring my network with Smokeping, more about it later.

I’d also never bothered to check the speed of powerline ethernet. It “feels faster” than WiFi, so I was happy.

When I did my last Velop upgrade to OpenWrt, I did the physical manipulation at my home office desk using the powerline ethernet for various phases of the install.

This Old Page

This Old Page

Bruce Ediger

I have an old web page here on my personal web site. It’s actually my single most popular page.

I write specifically about my scripting FTP file transfers web page. Go take a look, then come back for some navel gazing about it!

It's Always Cables

It's Always Cables

Bruce Ediger

There’s a system admin saying: It’s always DNS

But weird problems aren’t always DNS problems. Better than 50% of the time, they’re cabling problems.

LCP terminated by peer

LCP terminated by peer

Bruce Ediger

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.