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Exetel IPv6 learnings on Unifi UDM Exetel hands out a /60 by default Note: The IPv6 addresses below have been tweaked to hide the actual network prefix and host portion. Exetel by default hands out a prefix designation of /60 (see below on how to view that in the UDM...

Just migrated an Azure Linux Ubuntu 22.04 VM to XCP-ng and got it running successfully Here are my rough steps: Create a snapshot of the VM in Azure (good idea to shut down the VM when you have a VM that writes data all the time) Convert the snapshot to a disk (Mine...

When running docker ps -a in the default WSL instance you see "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?" Solution: Goto Resources WSL Integration and make sure Enable integration with my default WSL distro and...

Recently our EDI supplier notified that they were changing their SFTP encryption and data integrity algorithms I use https://api.phpseclib.com/3.0/phpseclib3/Net/SFTP.html to talk to their SFTP gateway. So I to confirm the change would not cause an issue I had to...

The performance of both the Windows and Powershell Zip utilities is abysmal The following Powershell script enables a Zip operation on approximately 0.33GB of data consisting of around 59,000 files to go from minutes down to less than a minute using 7-Zip instead of...

The internet is a waterhole and we are digital gazellesJames McDonald 2024 Look at the text below of 2 emails I received sent to two of my email aliases from two different From addresses I presume it just requires you to reply to the query and then they send some...

Some notes from a Unifi USG SE and a UDM Making a note of this here because TPG HFC connections uses VLAN 2 TPG HFC NBN Connection - UDM Note the VLAN ID of 2 Exetel HFC NBN Connection All it needs is a PPPoE connection with the [ServiceNumber]@vic.exetel.com.au and...

Problem: Trying to provision OpenVPN Access Server from the Marketplace and get: You cannot purchase reservation because required AAD tenant information is missing. Please ask your tenant admin to fill this form: https://aka.ms/orgprofile (Code: "AccountSetupError)"...

Until today I assumed that Meraki was built in-house with only closed source software. But having a look at the Meraki-Firmware-Licenses bundle it is clear that like Unifi Cisco is using many Open Source packages to bring together it's offering: Having only just...