networking
- Enable Wake-on-LAN on Fedora with a Realtek r8169 NIC
Make a Realtek r8169 NIC on Fedora or Bazzite keep magic-packet Wake-on-LAN across shutdowns under NetworkManager, then wake the host from a MikroTik router.
- Six gotchas deep in RouterOS containers
RouterOS containers use the same vocabulary as Docker. The meanings diverge in six specific, time-consuming ways.
- 572,000 domains and the router barely notices
Network-wide ad blocking on a MikroTik hAP ax3 with blocky in a container — no Pi-hole, no separate box, and a DNS trick that defeats client DoH bypass.
- It wasn't CGNAT. It was a one-digit typo.
The typo was found early, fixed, and dismissed as irrelevant — then I killed the poller that would have disproved my CGNAT diagnosis.
- AllowedIPs is not access control
A per-friend WireGuard kit scoped each peer with AllowedIPs, which is a route on the friend's own device. The real scope is a forward-chain drop on the router.
- The router had been running fine, which was the problem
A read-only audit of a hAP ac3 that had run fine for years: a 6.x bootloader, plaintext services on, NTP off, and admin reachable from anywhere.
- HTC Desire Z browsers: what still loads HTTPS on Android 2.3
Android 2.3 tops out at TLS 1.0. Firefox 47 brings TLS 1.2 but an old root store; Opera Mini hands the handshake to its servers. Only Opera installed.