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802.11ax Cisco APs not getting IP address from the DHCP server

This post is more of a reminder for myself to remember this in the future. With introduction of Cisco AX access points, the requirement is for the APs to be able to resolve gateway IP address sent via DHCP in ARP. If that doesn't work, no IP address for you! Usually this is not a problem, but I was

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step-ca Certificate Revocation

In previous posts we successfully deployed our own PKI with step-ca and even configured traefik to use ACME protocol to request certificates from our PKI server. Now we are going to add an additional feature to our PKI, which is active certificate revocation. Smallstep’s step-ca as CA with ACME sup

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Traefik with mTLS

We are discussing how to enable mTLS for services behind Traefik reverse proxy

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Smallstep's step-ca as CA with ACME support

In this blog post, we will go through the basic installation process and install both the step-ca and step-cli tool that will help us manage our CA and certificates issued by the CA.

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Changing/Adding SSL certificates to Proxmox

I decided to add custom CA-signed certificates to my Proxmox cluster, but the last time I did that, I managed to get my cluster all screwed up (I did what I wasn't supposed to do!) The only thing that matters is that you don't replace existing pve-ssl.pem certificate file or pve-ssl.key key file,

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QNA-T310G1S 10GbE SFP+ adapter no longer working after Proxmox upgrade to 8.2.4

Today I upgraded my Proxmox servers to 8.2.4, and after restart, I noticed that my networking stack wasn't working properly. I resolved the issue by moving all of my VMs and my Migration and Cluster Sync networking to the bridge associated with my other network adapter, but that was just a temporary

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Getting real IP address from visitors when using Cloudflare as a reverse proxy

To be honest, I wasn't paying a lot of attention to my analytics, but I did notice one thing - there was a lot of users coming to this blog that all had similar IP addresses. I didn't really care too much about this, but it got me thinking. And then I had a Eureka! moment. Stupid, I know - but most

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How to edit file in a docker container when no editor is installed

I recently needed to edit a file in a docker container, but when I tried editing the file, no luck: /var/www/html/config# vi config.ini.php bash: vi: command not found Of course, I tried installing an editor right away: /var/www/html/config# apt install nano Reading package lists... Done Buildin

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