I have a Planex MZK-RP150N. Sometimes (always), I forget how to change the SSID it connects to. This documents it so I can do this faster next time. Wireless LAN Basic Settings Site Survey select the SSID click on Connect Enter the password OK Apply (saves settings) Apply (again; this time it restarts the unit) […]
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It seems there is a problem between my home and my server in Austin: $ traceroute supernews.unixathome.org traceroute to supernews.unixathome.org (206.127.23.226), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net (98.114.194.1) 6.680 ms 3.669 ms 4.230 ms 2 G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.109.140) 3.756 ms 4.053 ms 4.384 ms 3 ae0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.178) 3.718 ms 3.787 ms 4.293 ms 4
Things are looking better now: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 19:43:16 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 253 5.6 7.3 3.2 143.0 15.6 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 4.9 5.1 3.0 36.2 4.1 3. so-3-1-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 5.4
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Here’s packet loss to one of the Verizon DNS servers: My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:58:53 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 10.7% 140 4.3 5.2 3.2 42.2 3.8 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net 8.6% 140 3.2 5.4
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This is interesting. From my gateway to one of my servers, the packet loss is pretty big: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:15:36 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni 3.4% 119 4.8 6.1 3.2 60.1 7.4 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-g
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After recent efforts to get old jails running on a new server, I tried to upgrade some ports today. I failed. portupgrade was erroring out and reporting: protocol not supported A simple fetch http://www.google.com/ was giving me fetch: transfer timed out I tried portaudit -Fa. Nothing. fetch: transfer timed out I checked ifconfig on the
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I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can. Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates: Setting up a $ ifconfig em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:51:ab:2d inet 10.55.0.44 netmask 0xffffff00
It appears that FiOS has stopped blocking port 80. I discovered this last night when I accidentally pasted a URL for http://beta.freebsddiary.org/ into an IRC channel. That website used to be publicly available, until Dec 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia and started with FiOS. Sometime after that, things started work. Looking back in my
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I’m sick of dealing with dynamic IP issues. My broadband connection at home has a dynamic IP address. I can always find out what my home IP address is. I’m using dns/noip to manage a hostname which points to home. I can always ssh home via the hostname. The problems arise when I try to
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