On 03/10/2024, the UK Government agreed to hand back sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago. While this isn’t a political post, it means that the British Indian Ocean territory (.io!) will cease to ...

Back in April, I made a post comparing my latency to internet services with SmokePing, after switching ISPs. At midnight on Thursday 25/07/2024, I seemingly started routing onto some new equipment...

Now that I’ve setup my home brewery, these are the notes from my first brew day. Recipe 20L batch. Grist 3.75kg / 58.6% - Maris Otter (Extra Pale) 1kg / 15.6% - Simpsons Golden Promise 1k...

After years of home brewing on my kitchen hob, I’ve set up a dedicated home brewery in the garage! Picture from May 2024: What are you looking at? KegLand BrewZilla Gen4 35L KegLand FermZi...

This guide is using Ubuntu as the distribution If you have already setup your Ubuntu user and would like to change the default, this is how to do it: First, open Ubuntu and create the user th...

How to run a cable diagnostic test using a FortiSwitch, either managed by a FortiGate or individually: Managed FortiSwitch: exe switch-controller switch-action cable-diag <FortiSwitch SN> &...

Hopefully you found this because you’re struggling to SNMP poll a FortiSwitch managed by a FortiGate. I’ve found there’s a lot of conflicting information, sharing my own experience to help others....

After my recent post about changing ISPs, I wanted to share some basic latency statistics between BT and Zen, using SmokePing. I’ve got Smokeping setup in my Homelab pinging various endpoints, but...

Living in a ‘new build’, well, it was a new build in 2019, not sure how long the new build tag sticks around. Similar to what will happen to Next-Generation Firewalls when we have another generatio...

Thanks for visiting my blog. This is the debut post for tindale.io. A space to share things network engineering, homelab and home brewing. Let’s see how this goes!