Continuing my earlier post about my Yaesu FT-7800R install, I completed the radio portion this weekend, so now I can get on the air.

I had a Diamond NR770HNMO antenna, and bought a fender bracket mount for my F150. All I needed was an NMO mount and to fish the …Continue reading

This is not my typical type of post, but as I have said, communications and networking are things that excite me greatly. It's why I collect antique telephones, why I enjoy scanner and shortwave listening, why I learned the OSI model and have spent much of my career in and …Continue reading

I recently learned about the program map type in the Linux automounter.

You can read about it here, but there is little information about it, and I was unable to find any web pages about it, so I am writing this post since it might help others.

The NFS automounter …Continue reading

As mentioned previously, I continue to be inundated with spam email. Fortunately, every spam has an observable email format: the email comes in the form of user@word1.word2.TLD.

This allows me to update my blocked_senders file to defer every email in that format with a 450, using …Continue reading

I've been busy at home, but not working in my home lab. Lately I have been preoccupied by a few things.

First, I have been busy with prepping -- I can see how things are going, and I predict we will need stores of supplies, so I have been busy building …Continue reading

Somehow I have been added to several mailing lists, all run by the same organization. The emails look legit, and are ones that I might have subscribed to, but I cannot get off of them no matter what I do -- it seems that they ignore all requests to be removed …Continue reading

I have been programming in Perl since the early 1990s. My early scripts were what you would expect them to be, but my skill of course increased over time. I have never found a thing I wanted to do that I could not do in Perl and/or shell scripting …Continue reading

For my storage needs, my first NAS was a Synology DS415+. This was my primary NAS until I purchased a DS1618+, at which time it became my backup unit. When I filled up the DS1618+, I had a few options: buy a small NAS and use some 4TB disks I …Continue reading

I have recently switched most of my offsite network connections to WireGuard, away from ZeroTier. This is great for all of my systems except for one: the NAS (a Synology DS118) I have at a friend's house for offsite backup. That NAS can run ZeroTier and WireGuard, but I don't …Continue reading

A quick update on my OSPF cutover. With one exception, everything has worked great. The one exception is that OSPF would not work over the WireGuard link between my USG and my primary DigitalOcean VM that runs FreeBSD 12 and FRR7. I thought that was odd, since OSPF worked fine …Continue reading