Wearing the many technical hats of radio.
It’s not often that catch-up meetings with vendors lead to anything particularly exciting but a recent one I attended with Brocade was a little different. While Brocade have had Openflow support for a very...
FreeRADIUS is an incredibly powerful RADIUS server and a tool I’m currently taking through a proof of concept as a possible replacement for Microsoft NPS. While the debug output of FreeRADIUS is fantastic in...
At one station I volunteer for, we use a 1.5GHz microwave link to connect between the studio and the transmitter site on top of a hill nearby. Now I should stress that microwave link...
Weirdly, I had a problem I’ve not seen for years crop up recently. And it all started with complaints about car radios flipping between us and a competitor radio station. That’s not a good...
Getting a practical deployment of 802.1x on the wired network running Comware 7 is something that’s been on my radar for a while now. Until recently, we had a working (for our system) configuration...
It’s something a lot of community radio stations here in the UK are trying to improve – their FM coverage footprint. While the 25 watts ERP that Ofcom often licence stations at is usually...
When does a URL not take you where you expect? Usually only when something’s wrong. However, I recently encountered a URL that would result in a browser taking a rather long path to the...
It’s not often I look at a headline I’ve written and think “are you serious”? But this one’s for real. The problem is with Windows 10 and the deployment of an 802.1x Group Policy...
I’ll be the first to admit that I never really intended to be talking about in-depth networking topics when I started this blog a few years back. However, that’s been where a lot of...
As a little side project, I’ve been toying with OpenStack to replace ESXi on a couple of old servers I’ve got in a lab. Now that it’s up and running, I must say I’m...
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