Nostalgia – Herbert Kornfeld keeping it real at Midstate Office Supply

Every so often I'll take a break from my educational adventures and reminisce about something or other which amused, interested, entertained or otherwise kept me occupied in the dim and distant past otherwise known as the Stone Age, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, or whatever epithet today's youth deems fit to employ. Today's trip down memory … Continue reading Nostalgia – Herbert Kornfeld keeping it real at Midstate Office Supply →

Adding VLANs to OpenWRT 18.06.1 on a TP-Link TL-WR810N

Welcome back to Project Overkill. This instalment covers, as suggested by the title, configuring OpenWRT 18.06.1 to support 802.1q VLANs on a TP-Link TL-WR810N. There are two pre-requisites: the network chipset in the router must support VLANs (some don't), and OpenWRT's configuration files must contain some instructions defining the switch and associated VLANs. The TL-WR810N … Continue reading Adding VLANs to OpenWRT 18.06.1 on a TP-Link TL-WR810N →

Dual-WAN failover with the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, using PPPoE and 4G

One WAN connection isn't enough for Project Overkill. Everyone's home Internet connection needs full redundancy, right? Well, mine certainly does. For years now I've made do with a paltry single router connected to a DSL line provided by British Telecom (even if it's billed through someone else to disguise its origins). But I recently got … Continue reading Dual-WAN failover with the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, using PPPoE and 4G →

2048 bits off more than iLO 4 can chew

Any good administrator knows that public key authentication for SSH is better than using passwords, and longer keys are better than shorter keys. Well, someone might want to let Hewlett Packard know. The latest version of HP's Integrated Lights-Out 4 (version 2.55) will happily accept a 4096-bit public key for SSH authentication. There won't be … Continue reading 2048 bits off more than iLO 4 can chew →