Tech Log: Chasing Down a Hijacked LAN Route on macOS
·3 mins
A NAS on 192.168.5.x went unreachable with ‘No route to host’ — the culprit was a leftover feth interface from an ad-blocker’s content-filter extension that never fully uninstalled.
Networking
Swapping My Parents' ISP Router for a Spare Xiaomi Router (an AP-to-Router-Mode Story)
·3 mins
A router that stubbornly stayed in AP mode after being moved, and the DHCP debugging it took to switch it back.
Reviving a Shelved Router: Reflashing a GL-SFT1200
·3 mins
A painfully slow GL.iNet Opal, rescued from a drawer with a two-step official firmware upgrade instead of a U-Boot flash.