A practical walkthrough of configuring a Cisco 1941/K9 router as a home office gateway backup. Covers console access from Alpine Linux using screen, pulling config from a live router via SSHv1 in Docker, adding IPv6 (SLAAC + DHCPv6), pushing config over serial, and fixing policy routing on a dual-NIC Linux host.

How to set up a Cisco 1941/K9 as a home office gateway — including console access via serial, cloning config from a running router, adding IPv6 with SLAAC and DHCPv6, and fixing dual-NIC asymmetric routing on Alpine Linux.

Configure a Cisco 1941 Router as Your Home Office Gateway with IPv6

A step-by-step guide to installing Alpine Linux on old, low-powered hardware and configuring it as a mobile backup gateway using Android USB tethering. Covers BIOS quirks, disk identification, NAT/iptables setup, and hotplug automation with mdev.

Turn an old, dusty PC into a reliable 4G/5G backup internet gateway using Alpine Linux and Android USB tethering — no expensive hardware required.

Repurpose Your Old PCs: How To Install Alpine Linux on Them

A step-by-step guide to setting up an Alpine Linux box as a backup WAN gateway for your home or small business network, using Android USB tethering as the mobile data source. Includes a failover script and full network configuration.

Turn an old PC or mini box running Alpine Linux into a backup WAN gateway using your existing Android phone's USB tethering — no extra SIM, no extra plan, no extra cost.

Create a Backup Mobile Data WAN for Your Small Business / Home Network

When our office Meraki router died, we scrambled through Ubiquiti replacements, PPPoE struggles, and a sneaky VLAN configuration that taught us valuable lessons.

A real-world network disaster story: router failure, emergency replacement, and the VLAN gotcha that almost broke everything

Router Down! My 3-Day Battle with Meraki, Ubiquiti & VLANs

Troubleshooting checklist and final registry and group policy changes to let a MetaTrader 5 gateway reconnect to a legacy SMB share on Windows 11.

Steps I used to restore MetaTrader 5 access to an SMB share after Windows 11 hardened guest authentication.

Tag: Networking

Tag: Networking

Configure a Cisco 1941 Router as Your Home Office Gateway with IPv6

Repurpose Your Old PCs: How To Install Alpine Linux on Them

Create a Backup Mobile Data WAN for Your Small Business / Home Network

Router Down! My 3-Day Battle with Meraki, Ubiquiti & VLANs

Fix: Cannot Connect to SMB Share on Windows 11