http://localhost:1313/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on yomimono - something to read Hugo en-us Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:14:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/2017/06/13/fine-ill-download-it-for-you/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:14:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/2017/06/13/fine-ill-download-it-for-you/ <p>I recently found myself needing to reset an iPhone 6 to its factory defaults. There is some useful stuff to have if you&rsquo;re trying to do this:</p> <ul> <li>the passcode for the phone</li> <li>the AppleID with which the phone is associated</li> <li>an iTunes installation</li> <li>an Internet connection capable of downloading the iPhone software image in 15 minutes</li> </ul> <p>It turns out the first two are optional given the last two, or at least a reasonable facsimile. If you don&rsquo;t have the last one, you have to fake it. Here&rsquo;s how I spent my first day of funemployment compensating for some Apple engineer failing to consider that it might be nice to download a file before you need to use it.</p> http://localhost:1313/blog/2015/04/01/things-routers-do-network-address-translation/ Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:40:47 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/2015/04/01/things-routers-do-network-address-translation/ <p>WiFi is fairly ubiquitous in 2015. In most of the nonprofessional contexts in which we use it, it&rsquo;s provided by a small box that&rsquo;s plugged into mains power and an Ethernet cable, usually with an antenna or two sticking out of it. I&rsquo;ve heard these boxes called all kinds of things - hotspots, middleboxes, edge routers, home routers, NAT devices, gateways, and probably a few more I&rsquo;ve forgotten; there are surely more I haven&rsquo;t heard. &ldquo;Router&rdquo; is the word I hear and use most often myself, despite the unfortunate overlap with a more specific meaning (a device with multiple network links, capable of sending traffic between them). There are an awful lot of things these boxes do which aren&rsquo;t implied by &ldquo;router&rdquo;!</p>