Geeks can be tough to buy for but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t receive a gift! To make your shopping experience easier this year I’ve complied a list of the top 10 gifts for geeks. Everything in the list sells for less than $100, and almost all of the items are available with free 2 […]
Identifying Unknown Network Hosts Using pfSense
One of my friends recently sent me the following question regarding how to identify some unknown traffic he noticed in his pfSense firewall logs. He also sent me a screenshot of the firewall logs. So I see these things on the firewall being blocked. How do I figure out what they are and if they are harmful? […]
Best Mini Gaming Towers for Running Steam Big Picture
If you don’t have a PC connected to your living TV then you may want to consider doing so now that Steam Big Picture is available. Big Picture is a new beta feature designed to run the Steam interface on your TV. The thought behind Big Picture is to allow gamers to play their favorite […]
Time Warner’s New Navigator Guide Launches in Kansas City
Last week I received a call from Time Warner letting me know to expect their new on screen navigator guide on my cable box (Cisco 8742 HDC) this week. Today I turned on my box and discovered that the update was pushed out over night. A reader first brought the new navigator guide to my […]
Performance Test and Review of the ZyXEL PLA4201 Powerline Adapter Kit
In this post I’ll be sharing my experiences with the ZyXEL PLA4201 powerline networking starter kit. ZyXEL calls this their HD networking kit claiming that it is ideal for media streaming and gaming. They claim a max throughput of 500Mbps which is more than double that of most other powerline kits with a max transfer […]
Visiting the Google Fiber Space in Kansas City
Yesterday was opening day for Google’s new Fiber Space located in Kansas City (1814 Westport Road). I’ve been really excited about this project since it was announced so I decided to go down and check it out. The Fiber Space is basically a big demo area for Google Fiber where you can test out their […]
FreeNAS 8.2 RC1 Now Available
It was just brought to my attention that FreeNAS 8.2 RC1 is now available for download. It doesn’t look like it’s been officially announced by the FreeNAS team yet but I anticipate they will be posting something soon. Just noticed that #FreeNAS 8.2 RC1 is available for download as of a couple hours ago. http://t.co/0uI0UREM […]
Capture Data on Multiple Interfaces at the Same Time With Wireshark
Wireshark version 1.8 has a great new feature that allows data to be captured from multiple interfaces at the same time. Since this wasn’t possible in previous versions the only option was to run multiple copies of Wireshark and then merge the captures using Mergecap. Merging captures can be time consuming so I’m really happy […]
Configuring Link Aggregation on FreeNAS 8 Using LACP and Cisco EtherChannel
In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to setup link aggregation (LAGG) on FreeNAS 8 using Cisco switches. Aggregation is a method of bonding multiple ethernet links together to provide additional bandwidth and redundancy. FreeNAS supports several different protocols for LAGG but LACP is the most robust option. LACP is a negotiated protocol that […]
Installing the FreeNAS Image Directly to a USB Drive
The quickest and easiest way to get a FreeNAS server running is to write the image directly to a USB drive. After imaging the drive you can plug it into the computer, set the bios to boot from the drive, and watch FreeNAS boot directly from USB. I like to run FreeNAS directly from USB […]
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