I don’t want the NBN ISP router running anymore and use Ubiquiti Dream Machine (UDM) instead. But when I try to remove ISP Router it and direct connect UDM to NBN, the connection fails. UDM is set for DHCP, only other options are PPOE (which requires credentials) and Static IP …
Read More »Communicate via an WEP-encrypted access point with easside-ng
Easside-ng is an auto-magic tool which allows you to communicate via an WEP-encrypted access point (AP) without knowing the WEP key. It first identifies a network, then proceeds to associate with it, obtain PRGA (pseudo random generation algorithm) xor data, determine the network IP scheme and then setup a TAP …
Read More »OSI Layers – Please Do Not Tell Secret Passwords Anytime
I had an interesting day at work trying to figure out how best I can setup a service for a client who is sending UDP licensing traffic through some high-end networking devices over VPN. UDP by design is unreliable. This was causing issues as the UDP packet size was over the …
Read More »Check download speed from Linux terminal
Lets say you are logged into a headless server (command line only) and you get a call about slow internet performance across network. Now of course there might be hundreds of reasons for slowness but you managed to narrow it down to the correction between your Gateway proxy and Upper …
Read More »How to get Public IP from Linux Terminal?
Public addresses are assigned by InterNIC and consist of class-based network IDs or blocks of CIDR-based addresses (called CIDR blocks) that are guaranteed to be globally unique to the Internet. When the public addresses are assigned, routes are programmed into the routers of the Internet so that traffic to the …
Read More »