Anyone know of a good way I can have some #selfhosted service set as an #ethernet#networking gateway which I can then toggle on/off - killing all traffic I route that way?
Yes, I am looking for an easier way of manually cutting teenager internet access.
This morning's task--install a Structured Media Center box into a closet, start running Ethernet from wherever I can access. (Update: Dog wondering where the CATs are?) #diy#networking
If I wanted to build a gigabit router able to handle HD video streams and use any Linux distro what would be the minimum specs recommended ? #HomeLab#Networking
Whew! 3 bedrooms (double runs), one kitchen, one hallway, and two outdoor Ethernet runs done. I still have lots of CAT6 cable left, now I wonder if I should throw some runs into the attic. 🤔 (two other rooms not wired: no exposed walls, and not really wanting to go wall fishing, but maybe I will if I have time between now and drywall... whenever that is--haven't even gotten the drywall people identified yet). #diy#project#networking#Ethernet
What do you all think we do here in the #fediverse?
Is it “#social#media”? (It doesn’t sound quite right to me: I post “media” only rarely)
Is it “social #networking”? (Not sure, it’s different from offline networking, and I feel networked already even without the fediverse)
I’ve been playing with the term “social #communications”: I’m here to communicate with you all, but not 1-on-1, but socially, where everybody else can overhear what’s being said.
A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...
The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.
Something is intercepting DNS calls on my Windows 11 laptop and I can't tell what, but I know the responses I'm getting back couldn't be from the DNS server running on my PFsense router. I do not have DNS over HTTP configured. I'm getting close to just nuking this Windows install because I am not convinced there isn't some weird vendor spyware or something causing this (it is an ASUS laptop, I just uninstalled most of the ASUS stuff). #windows#DNS#networking
I need to set up Wi-Fi in a small business, but not allow any streaming services. Ideally, with the ability to turn off guest Wi-Fi after hours so the residential units don't use it all evening.
The router that comes with the Internet service sucks, as they all do.
I want to build / get a travel router / hardware VPN which connects to a network wirelessly or via RJ-45 and creates a new Wi-Fi (& maybe a wired connection to the new network) to which I can connect my devices and everything gets tunneled either through Mullvad or through my home network. Maybe it can even throw the traffic into Pi-hole before tunneling.
What hardware would I need? (As compact, as cheap-ish and as efficient as possible)
I wrote a new post on my blog. It's published; I can hit the URL on my Mac and on other devices. On other devices, I can see the link to it on my homepage. With curl, I can see the link to it on the homepage. But all my browsers on this Mac (FF, Saf., Viv.) load the homepage and don't show the link.
It's super weird. I've restarted; I've copied curl commands from the browser; I've tried to clear DNS caches... I don't know what's up at all. 😄
Federated wireguard network idea
Any feedback welcome.
Let's keep things stupidly simple and simply hash the domain name to get a unique IPv6 ULA prefix.
Then we would need a stupidly simple backend application to automatically fetch pubkeys and endpoints from DNS and make a request to add each others as peers.
Et voilà, you got a worldwide federated wireguard network resolving private ULA addresses. Sort of an internet on top of the internet .
The DNS entries with the public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses could even be delegated to other domains / endpoints which would act as reverse proxy (either routing or nesting tunnels) for further privacy.
Maybe my approach is too naïve and there are flaws I haven't considered, so don't be afraid to comment.
is it possible to QoS down traffic priority for one host? like, this host can gobble up all the available bandwidth if nothing else is using it, but if other stuff needs to talk to the internet, this host is considered secondary? it doesnt look like there's a straightforward way to do this.