I’ve long dreamed of setting up a personal home lab to mess around, host a set of local tools and my personal collection of… Linux ISOs. 💽
As I came in possession of a bunch of large SAS hard drives (spinning rust type) I started researching how to put all this to good use. So, let’s get out the Santa wish list:
In the category of “unexpectedly good native tool”, I present to you today a Windows built-in network connection history report. It is really useful to help diagnose VPN/Wi-Fi connection issues on users’ laptops 1.
You can get the report easily by running the following command as administrator:
netsh wlan show wlanreport
While doing a support call today, we had to diagnose some routing issue. I was bummed to not have a tcpdump at my disposal to just grab the network output on a specific interface… 😔
That’s when my SRE pulled out a nice one :
sudo /root/sretools/sreinstall.sh