Tag Archives: networking
Phoning Home with CGNAT and a UniFi Gateway
I’ve been running some sort of VPN to access my home network remotely for years. It probably started around the time I bought my first laptop. Back then, the only other computer I had was a Windows desktop. I wanted to access the desktop when I wasn’t home, but opening port 3389 to the world […]
icanhazmyownicanhazip.com
Last night I was playing around with routing in my homelab. I wanted a quick way to verify that traffic was reaching a given machine over a given route, and the easiest way to do that, I figured, was to create an icanhazip.com-esque site to display my client machine’s IP address and verify that it […]
I Finally Figured Out Why There’s an Ethernet Port on the Back of Some Cable Boxes
As I’m about to drop cable TV in an effort to start saving money on something I hardly use, I got curious about the Ethernet port on the back of my set top boxes. When we moved about four years ago, the tech doing the install in the new house looked at my existing box […]