Keepin' it Cloudy

Mikrotik wifi bridge for Apple developers

Mikrotik acts as the interface converter, your dev machine in the same network range as your iphone

Posted on April 14, 2022

It’s not the most secure way, but can be used as a good starting point for further improvements. It works with iphone and android devices which are your hot spots and the Mikrotik is the client. Mikrotik acts as interface converter and bridge, no routing functionality. Mobile is your hotspot,... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to configure Mikrotik DDNS

External DDNS provider, not the Mikrotik cloud approach

Posted on April 14, 2022

There are few ways which this can be achieved. The simplest way is to use Mikrotik Cloud, by enabling one IP->Cloud->DDNS enabled within the Winbox GUI. Another option is to reach out towards the third party provider with the use of curl, and update their systems with the information of... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking DDNS Mikrotik

How to setup vlan - Mikrotik RouterBoard and CCR series

There are plenty of alternative vendors, but still as of now, mikrotik it's cost effective

Posted on April 13, 2022

RouterBoard is sufficient for most use cases. It can be the heart of your home lab, unless you pass great amount of traffic which utilize the who throughput of the wires, then there are better product series, like CCR or CRSXXX. The logic mentioned within this article also applies to... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to setup vlan - Mikrotik CRS3XX series

CRS3XX just do it's job pretty well, when it goes for switching

Posted on April 13, 2022

This series of mikrotik devices, can handle your regular VM traffic, as well as your storage traffic. Never the less 10G devices seems to be a better fit for homelab usecase. Not perfect, but good enough. [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to setup vlan - Mikrotik CRS3XX series - 10G storage traffic

10G series CRS3XX just do it's job pretty well, when it goes for switching, also for storage traffic

Posted on April 13, 2022

This series of mikrotik devices, can handle your regular VM traffic, as well as your storage traffic. Never the less 10G devices seems to be a better fit for homelab usecase. Not perfect, but good enough. [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to setup Mikrotik for home lab usecase

There are plenty of alternative ways reaching this, but still mikrotik it's cost effective

Posted on April 13, 2022

As of 2022.05.26 - it is draft due to the fact that there are just too many ways of doing it, which differs per device line like CCR, CRS3XX vs CRS2XX/1XX and RB multiplied by L2 and L3 approaches [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking

How to reset routerboard configuration

It's still the routerboard, but approaches slightly differ between products

Posted on April 12, 2022

Even though it is still the routerboard it slightly differ from device to device. The method works, when there is no access to the device, or you have cut off yourself during the configuration. [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to downgrade Mikrotik Router OS

When you consider changing branches

Posted on April 12, 2022

At the time of writing this blog post the long term release of the Router OS is 6.48.6, where the stable version of ROS 7 is 7.3.1. Downgrade from 7.X to 6.X requires downloading the .npk package from the mikrotik website. [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik

How to flash Asus RT-N device with FreshTomato

FreshTomato, Tomato, Open/DD-WRT, Gargoyle, LEDE is popular alternative for SOHO

Posted on April 11, 2022

Asus RT-N series is affortable and reliable piece of hardware, which can serve your home network already. The original firmware, can left much to be desired and it may not be very up to date, that’s why there are some end users, who decide to flash the device with another... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking FreshTomato

How to configure FreshTomato to make use of a voip phone

A bit of a hussle, never less it made it work

Posted on April 11, 2022

Even though it is not very popular in 2022, some still make use of VoIP phones, which are reliable as tanks unless configured properly. Even though previously it was working flawlessly, this time it cost me a bit of time to make it work. [Read More]

Tags: Networking FreshTomato VoIP

How to make use of wired ethernet for your mobile

Provided you have a combination of products which brings that functinality

Posted on April 10, 2022

In case you are interested in lowering the amount of wireless traffic in your nearby, there is an option. [Read More]

Tags: Wireless Networking Misc

How to grab content from youtube for offline listening

You don't need to have premium plan

Posted on April 9, 2022

In case you are interested on listening your favourite podcasts without generating LTE/wireless traffic, when commuting or taking a rest. [Read More]

Tags: Audio Misc

How to make use of Creative Zen Micro in 2022

Right, you can still synchronize data with this great product without being equipped with windows xp

Posted on April 8, 2022

It’s a pity that this line is not supported anymore on Windows, thankfully it’s trivial to make use of it under linux. [Read More]

Tags: Audio Misc Legacy

How to setup a blog on github with jekyll

How to take the benefit of jekyll engine to create your blog in 10minutes

Posted on April 6, 2022

It’s very convinient to take the benefit of jekyll engine to manage the content in your blog. Posts along with the whole structure, can be developed within the Vistual Studio Code and the blog posts are constructed in the markdown language, pushed directly to your github account, where the jekyll... [Read More]

Tags: Github Blog

How to configure your visual studio code to make use of github

How to configure git

Posted on April 3, 2022

It’s worth putting some attention on making use of git to manage your code and projects, instead of using offline versioning on the filesystem level. When one reach some amount of code, it’s just a life saver to move away from chaos. Right, up to some extend ISE will be... [Read More]

Tags: ReadmeFirst Github IaC