Posts
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Breaking Free from RFC1918: How IPv6 Simplifies VPN Design
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CBRS is the "Innovation Band," and after integrating it into my homelab, it’s clear…
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🚀 From Crypto Speculation to Core Network: Building a Private LTE/CBRS Homelab
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Hardware Hacking: Rooting the Baicells Nova 227
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It’s a frustrating conversation I see online all too often. A customer asks their…
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🌐 Make the internet your underlay, and IPv6 your overlay.
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🌎 My "New Network" Ritual: Traceroute First, Connect Later.
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The Invisible Effort Behind Your Signal 🚇📶
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The "Linux on my Switch" Dream: A Reverse Engineering Journey 🐧
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The "Open Networking" Dream vs. The Homelab Reality 🛑
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The Reality of Building a Network OS: From Reverse Engineering to Implementation
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When the Internet Goes Down: How a $20 USB Adapter and an Old PC Saved the Day
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You might be using IPv6 right now… and not even know it.
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A $25 eBay Switch, Now Running Mainline Linux 6.1
An enterprise switch abandoned on a 2019 kernel — climbed one LTS at a time to a current, security-maintained Linux 6.1, with our own from-scratch NOS driving the Broadcom ASIC.
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The last software this switch could run was from the Linux 3.2 era — a kernel first…
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How an open-source NOS drives a switch ASIC from plain Linux
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OSPF adjacency: FULL.
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A 52-port data center switch with nothing wrong with it — e-waste anyway
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I've plugged in thousands of SFPs over the years. Slot it in, link comes up, move on.…
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That white unit on the tower is something most engineers in wireless have never seen…
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The Ghost in the Network Switch: Reverse Engineering 104 LEDs
On the Edgecore AS5610, even the port LEDs are a distributed computing problem — two stack-machine micro-engines running bytecode the main CPU never touches.
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First Packet: A Bare-Metal Switch Running 100% Our Own Code
Five packets sent, five received — across a Broadcom Trident+ ASIC programmed without the proprietary SDK. The milestone, and the ten undocumented walls it took to get there.