Enterprise Servers are loud and hot, and while a couple of 13th generation Dell servers kept a room nice and toasty in the cold of winter, it a double whammy to your electric bill in the Spring/Summer. The noise can be problematic as well, especially since I no longer have a basement, where I relied … Continue reading The Homelab Dilemma: Living With Enterprise Servers
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Setting up Chrony/NTP Server with GPS on Ubuntu 22.04
This post details the setup of an NTP/Chrony server on Ubuntu 22.04 using a GPS receiver. It covers hardware requirements, package installations, GPSD configuration, firewall settings, and Chrony installation and configuration. Key functionalities include time synchronization and location sharing, all while ensuring secure incoming and outgoing network traffic.
HomeLab: Simple DHCP Service Configuration on a Cisco Router
Sometimes when I learn something new in the world of technology, I am often amazed that something that I assumed was technically advanced is rather quite simple.
Such is the case with configuring DHCP on a Cisco Router. I mean, is it just me or do network guys sometimes act as if everything that they do is takes elite technical skills and tons of experience. Don't get me wrong, I know that networking is not exactly easy. But can we just agree to admit that once in a while some things are easier done than said. Anyway, for me this was the case with configuring a DHCP pool on a Cisco Router.
HomeLab: Upgrading Cisco IOS Via tftp on RHEL
0012fbf7_mediumSo I was planning on blogging about this process simply because I keep forgetting it. Being that I am in the middle of building out my lab, and have a ton of old cisco hardware with ancient images, I have found myself going through the process of updating firmware quite a bit as I tinker with different IOS images.
RHEL6 – How to Setup an Anonymous Download Only FTP Server
A while back I spit out a post on how to configure an anonymous ftp server that allowed uploads and downloads, which you can find here. Its a very exciting read and will tell you everything that you need to know to get you up and running with an anonymous ftp server. However those instructions are specifically for a server that allows anonymous uploads as well as downloads. So today we are going to go over only the steps for anonymous download, which is actually much easier.
RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server
Do you know whats almost as delicious as a tasty waffle with pure AAA Vermont maple syrup smothered all over it. Neither do I. However I did run across a very well written blog post on how to configure an NFS server on RHEL6. Wierd, is it a NFS server or an NFS server, the … Continue reading RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server
Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010
If you are having issues with your HP server and were thinking about calling support, you might as well put down the phone. Seems to me that their default first step of troubleshooting is to advise you to upgrade to the latest firmware. According to HP support these were both release just a couple … Continue reading Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010