Networking

  • DOAG 2024 Conference + Exhibition: Connect your home office with the Oracle Cloud
    On Tuesday, November 19th, I had the opportunity to speak about Oracle Cloud. Have you ever wondered how to connect your home office to the Oracle Cloud and exchange dynamic routing with BGP? If so, I hope my presentation provided some inspiration. This presentation is a follow-up to my first session at DOAG 2022, where
  • Install OPNsense® @Oracle OCI
    To manage north-south and east-west traffic in a Cloud environment, it can be useful to implement a software-based firewall. In lab, training environments or for personal use professional firewalls are often too costly. Why not choose a proven and community-driven solution like OPNsense®? While there are many alternatives, today we will focus on OPNsense®. This
  • Install OpenWrt on TP-Link EAP245 v1
    How-to install OpenWrt on TP-Link EAP245 v1
  • Setup a WireGuard VPN using IPv6 and OSPF – Oracle Cloud Free Tier- part IV
    This post will describe the way to setup a WireGuard site-to-site VPN using IPv6 and OSPF in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Part IV is focused on routing and OSPF.
  • Setup a WireGuard VPN using IPv6 and OSPF – Oracle Cloud Free Tier- part III
    This post will describe the way to setup a WireGuard site-to-site VPN using IPv6 and OSPF in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Part III is focused on the WireGuard setup and configuration of the home router. In my case it’s an EdgeRouter™-X with version 2.0.9.
  • Setup a WireGuard VPN using IPv6 and OSPF – Oracle Cloud Free Tier- part II
    This post will describe the way to setup a WireGuard site-to-site VPN using IPv6 and OSPF in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Part II is focused on WireGuard setup and configuration in the cloud.
  • How to remove the Google DNS server entry from my Kindle?
    How to remove the Google DNS server from my Kindle? Configuring my Kindle network configuration, I observed something spooky. Despite using DHCP and my own network services, there appeared the Google DNS server address 8.8.8.8 in the network configuration, always.
  • Setup a WireGuard VPN using IPv6 and OSPF – Oracle Cloud Free Tier- part I
    This post will describe the way to setup a WireGuard site-to-site VPN using IPv6 and OSPF in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
  • It’s not me, it’s you! … Me? No! It’s you! – black hole/null routing
    There is a very common routing issue, that might exist, when you are setting up your home network with the help of RFC1918 based IPv4 addresses. How to make sure that unassigned private IP address destinations will not be forwarded to the default gateway or public Internet. Situation Nowadays most of the Internet service providers
  • Delete IPv6 route on EdgeRouter™-X
    What to do, when you messed up your router routing configuration? Configuring your router, things might go wrong. Probably this is interesting fore everyone dealing with routing configurations using an EdgeRouter™. How to delete an IPv6 route using an EdgeRouter™? What happend? In this blog post IPv6 addresses have been modified to dummies. Unfortunately, I’ve