Straying from Wireless
Many, if not most, of my posts recently have involved seemingly non-wireless related topics. I tend to focus primarily on computer and networking related topics. Part of the reason is…
Linux for Day In and Day Out Computing
Over the last few months I've been contemplating the idea of using Linux as a daily driver. A decade ago while I was in college I was a very heavy…
PiKVM, It’s as easy as Pi
IP KVM's are generally not cheap. They sure do come in handy though especially for someone who is not interested in lugging around a monitor, keyboard and mouse with them…
VyOS vs RouterOS vs EdgeOS
In the VyOS and Mikrotik OSPF Routing post, I set up a small OSPF lab with a Fitlet2 running VyOS 1.2.8 and two Mikrotik RB450Gx4's on RouterOS 6.47.10. The performance…
VyOS and Mikrotik OSPF Routing
In a previous post we walked through Building VyOS Because…We Can as it is an open source routing platform and further, allows one to supply their own hardware. This is…
Building VyOS Because…We Can
VyOS is an open source routing operating system and is the successor to Vyatta. VyOS is based on Debian Linux. VyOS is considered an enterprise solution and while it is…
Basics of Project 25
What is Project 25? To put it simply, Project 25 (P25) is a Land Mobile Radio (two-way radio) wireless communications standard that originated in North America in the mid-1990's. The…
Ansible versus Ubiquiti EdgeSwitches
Why use Ansible to manage EdgeSwitches? Ubiquiti's EdgeSwitch line is a series of semi-affordable managed switches designed for providers. In hardware, they are actually identical to Ubiquiti's UniFi switches (just…
Filling Out the Database
In the previous post, a ticketing system was created using a MariaDB database. Now let's throw some information into it. Inserting Employees Because of the way we created the database…
BYO Ticketing System, Introduction to Databases
Background I recently had the opportunity to meet a new owner of a local communications company and one of the things that was mentioned in the meeting was a ticketing…