Category Archives: Tech topics

More on pivotroot

Posted on January 10, 2010 by kaufman

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Finishing the Separate LANs Configuration

Posted on September 14, 2009 by kaufman

Last time I wrote about how OpenWRT configures networks at the port level. Once I split the LAN ports into two separate LANs, there was higher-level configuration that also needed to be taught about the LANs. Once again, I’ll show … Continue reading →

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Open Source in Startups

Posted on September 11, 2009 by kaufman

I’ve worked for several New England startups that used open source software to jump-start their product development. What are some of the tradeoffs? Continue reading →

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Separate LANs under OpenWRT

Posted on August 31, 2009 by kaufman

A friend runs two separate subnets at home: one is for home computing/entertainment, and the other is work-related. It’s important to keep the entertainment users off the work LAN. Here’s how we set up separate LANs under OpenWRT. Continue reading →

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Persistent /var for OpenWRT

Posted on August 28, 2009 by kaufman

In other posts I talked about booting my OpenWRT routers off an external USB stick. In this post I’ll describe how to make the /var directory tree persistent across reboots. Continue reading →

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