Month: February 2020

This little virtual appliance is useful to keep spam and other malicious content from reaching your email server.  Last week I was successful at moving my physical email server install to a "container" in Proxmox.  That was one of my long term goals.  This means the email is backed up regularly and I can move it to another machine easily.  While doing this I thought that I'd like to look at the Proxmox Mail Gateway.  I use pfsense to do a lot of spam blocking.  I also have a customer that doesn't use pfsense.  When I look at their daily report I see tons of attempts by bad guys to get in.  In my case I know pfsense is blocking that.  That meant that when I was thinking about the…

This Nexus 7 has been a workhorse for me in so much as it has continued to work with not much difficulty even though it is many years old.  It has not been without its issues, however, it was always there for me to grab it when I needed it.  It's not that I push it, rather it's that I've used it for a long time as my portable device for taking notes and looking things up.  I use it also for things like Termux (a great terminal shell, and much more), playing cards on break, etc. Well it is dying.  One issue is that for a long time it would not auto-rotate, and sometimes I would have issues with it reacting to touch.  The solution was either to "tap"…

This can be implemented as an extender or Access Point (AP).  Realistically if you can run a cable nearby and place the EXT 6200 somewhere near where you want to serve the WIFI signal you should.  That's what this is about. Run an Ethernet cable as close as you can to the area where you want to serve with the Access Point.  Plug in an Ethernet cable to the device.  Then configure. Alright, that seems sort of simple.  Anyone can do it.  But no, the problem comes with the Netgear firmware.  It demands you connect to the IP address of the AP or you connect to their www.wifiext.net address.  If you connect in this fashion it opens a bunch of problems.  First, how do you get the IP address of…