Archive for January, 2008

I’m going to cry.

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

If you can remember back to my woes with SATA-II disks and 3Ware 9500S cards, you'll probably be feeling my pain right about now. The wonderful set of Western Digital RE2 drives, which saved the day all those months ago, now seem to be dropping out of the RAID5 array. :( However, ...

TFTP Server via Netgear DB834GT

Monday, January 14th, 2008

I've written a short guide on how to configure a Netgear DB834GT (and possibly other variants of the DB834) to forward a device to a TFTP server, via the router's built-in busybox/linux-based udhcpd server. I've recently been setting up a Cisco IP phone at home, and this functionality has proven ...

Windows’ Wonderful Network Routing

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Update: I've since realised (after doing this on another machine) that if you enable the RRAS (Routing and Remote Access) service under Server 2003, it actually does behave in the correct manner. Why can Linux just do this out of the box, eh? Running multiple NICs, on different networks, is not something ...