A friend asked me the other day how to get his Tivo to make it’s daily call through his home network. Besides simply getting on the network via a wired or wireless connection, the real problem most people don’t think about is that the Tivo uses a large number of network ports to call home. [...]

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Recently, a friend who had read my blog asked me what I ran my Smoothwall 3.0 Express firewall on. I tried to explain the tiny, fan-less, little case which I use. I bought it with the CPU (VIA C3) and three built-in-NIC motherboard all as a single unit. I only had to add in a [...]

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Just a quick note to say that the kimanddave.com “empire” is going to be undergoing a server upgrade shortly. Possibly even this weekend. Three weeks ago I bought a new AMD quad-core CPU (yes they’re not the fastest but I believe we need the multi-processor quad core capabilities more than we need a single core [...]

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It’s been a few months now since I upgraded our firewall to a Smoothwall 3 installation. I’ve got to admit that the interface on this, while not quite as flexible as an outright Linux IPTables installation, is quite easy to manage and runs very, very reliably. I’ve had to update the static dhcp assignments a [...]

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