Steve Borba

My notes, I hope they help you, feel free to comment/add to them

Month: April 2019

hostapd

I have a linux firewall/router that has a wireless adapter in it, and I wanted to use it for an AP too. The way I did this allowed me to use it as an AP and a client, which may not be the preference for everyone, but I like to know all the options. Here […]

systemd-networkd plus vrf

I built a Linux router/firewall with Arch when I found that systemd has it’s own networkd built in. I also wanted to have complete separation of the “management” interface/routing so I could stop using NAT – and found it is in systemd and kernel 4.8+ (using 5.0.6-arch1). Here is how I found worked well: Here […]

Arch Install

So I decided I was going to finally try Arch. I was told many times it was too hard and I shouldn’t attempt it unless I was willing to invest a lot of time… It’s not that hard, especially for me because I had done a more difficult version when I setup an Ubuntu server […]