Episode 226
Networking Basics with Steve Ovens
April 6th, 2021
59 mins 26 secs
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About this Episode
Everyone uses a network to access the internet, but how well do you understand the network you use? In this episode Steve Ovens joins us to give a basic network overview as well as answer questions you sent in!
-- During The Show --
02:00 Setting up Network Segment
Reverse Proxy - Cameron
Kernel networking Issue - James
BCM4354 WiFi Card
Should we all use IPV6
- IPV6 is only being deployed in Telcos
- Short Answer No
How to Wireguard into my network?
10:50 FireJail
- FireJail
- Sandboxes applications using native Linux Kernel features
- Open Source
- Requires 3.x+ Kernel
- Bubblewrap Alternative to FireJail
- Steve Ovens Talks/Articles
14:00 Gadget of the week
Orico Tool-Free USB 3.0 Enclosure
18:00 Networking Segment
Caller Scooter
- Q: Sync Photos between Apple and Android Devices?
- A: Nextcloud Agent
- A: Piwigo
- Q: Where can I find the Multipass app
- A: I will look into this
- A: Last resort chrome app
Caller Tony
What is an IP address
- What is my IP
- Type what is my IP in duckduckgo.com
What is a Default Gateway
- Usually your router
What is Bridge Mode
- All traffic gets passed through
What is a MAC Address
- Unique hardware address
- Never changes
- Added to all packets
What is a Subnet Mask
- How many computer are in a IP Range
- Class C Networks have 254 usable addresses
How to separate large networks
- Use Subnets (no security)
- Use VLans
Trouble Shooting
- Ping default gateway
- Check DNS
DNS
- Phone Book for the internet
- Translates Domain Names to IP addresses
- Slower but Private DNS - Quad9, OpenDNS
- Faster but not Private - Google
Static vs Dynamic IP addresses
- Dynamic is DHCP
- Reserve static address in DHCP server
Call to Action
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SELF dates June 10-12
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