An insight into a networking problem thrt I faced seven years ago wrt unable to use Internet on Linux after learning networking and Linux over the years.

I use dynamic DNS for my home internet connection so that I can access the machines from anywhere on the internet. And I use OpenWRT on my router. Earlier I was using Namecheap for managing DNS but I switched to CloudFlare for performance and security reasons of the website. Unfortunately [...]

Recently I discovered something called Proxy ARP. I had seen this earlier in sysctl options but never understood it and why would someone need it, until one day I worked in a networking setup which used this to route traffic from the machine to the Internet. It’s an interesting technique [...]

If you’d like to access your Linux desktop over the network from anywhere in the world, or just want to share your computer’s resources on the LAN by giving all users accounts on your computer, you can set up a remote desktop server. It is quite easy to do so, [...]

GlusterFS is a clustered file system that can be used when you want to share the content across different machines which can be accomplished by NFS as well. But the difference is, NFS failover is hard. In GlusterFS, you can add two servers known as bricks in Gluster’s terminology on [...]