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Kagi Assistant Times Out when on VPN
I use Kagi as my search engine and for LLM interactions. I am also always connected to ProtonVPN. I and others have noticed that the output from their LLM Assistant is cut of after a couple of seconds when on ProtonVPN. Why does that happen and what can we do about it?
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Choose Which Cisco OS to Boot
Let’s have a look at what Cisco OS gets booted at startup and how we can influence that deciscion using the configuration register.
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Quality of Service (QoS)
Let’s have a look at QoS or how to unfairly manage traffic in the face of congestion on Cisco devices.1
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OSPF
What follows is basically a summary of what I have learned about OSPF during my CCNA studies.
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Convert Cisco Lightweight AP to Autonomous
If you have a Cisco AP that has CAP in the model, you have a so-called lightweight AP that is supposed to be controlled by a wireless controller (WLC). I was able to convert my AIR-CAP2602E-E-K9 to autonomous mode by loading different firmware. This post discusses how to do that.
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Cisco LAN Routing
Let’s look at several ways to route between VLANs in the Cisco world.
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EtherChannel
Let’s have a look at how we can use redundant layer-2 links between 2 Cisco devices.
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Run SpinRite on Librem 5 Internal Storage
I have a Purism Librem 5 Linux phone. The Evergreen batch has 32 GiB of flash storage. In this post I will show how to run SpinRite on that drive.
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Convert Linux into NAT Router
Sometimes it comes in handy to have a Linux box act as a router. You might not have a switch lying around. You might want to monitor all traffic coming and going to some device. In this post, we will set up Linux to act as a simple IPv4 NAT router.
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Create Server Backup from Local Machine with Borg
How to back up your servers with borg? One way to do it, as documented by the fine borg documentation, is to use a pull backup using sshfs. The idea is to mount the remote filesystem in a local directory, chroot into it, and run borg inside the chroot.
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