Kenneth Finnegan
blog.thelifeofkenneth.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Kenneth Finnegan, a network and hardware hobbyist, writes about running his own autonomous system, DNS, and hacking small devices.
What HN saysHN links his post on creating a personal ASN as a BGP reference, plus his WRT54G RAM upgrade write-up.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit12 people · 173 points · first shared 2017 · 16 comments on HN
- 2Building an anycast secondary DNS service2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3Off the Grid Debian Install Setup2 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 4Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5Teardown of a Sonoff Basic WiFi Relay1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Reprogramming ez430 chronos rf dongle1 people · first shared 2013
- 7Upgrading ram in wrt54gv21 people · first shared 2025
- 8Homepage1 people · first shared 2021
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runningskull · 2021-06-17
Related and fun: the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange[1]. The person who started it has a great blog[2] about all kinds of related things. There’s a really good interview[3] with him about how it started and what it takes to run it on the On The Metal podcast (highly recommended in general)
1: https://fcix.net
2: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com
3: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/kenneth-finnegan
aftbit · 2025-09-08
I remember swapping the TSOP packages on a WRT54 to double the RAM.
Here's a blog post about this, not sure if it was the same one I followed:
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2010/09/upgrading-ram-in-wrt54gv2.ht…
icedchai · 2025-05-27
It doesn't have to be that large. Many people have "personal" ASNs.
Check out this blog (not me, I just remember it from years back): https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-f…
myself248 · 2023-01-28
Oh this is super interesting! I've been playing with Internetinabox, Kiwix, yt-dlp, httrack'd websites, mirrors of github orgs... and I have all this data but no frontend for it. Searchability is huge, I will definitely be playing with this.
IIAB, notably, has an offline maps function in recent versions. I haven't looked at how it works.
Ultimately I'd like to put _all_ that content behind the same interface as my local Othernet receiver node, some sort of Piratebox file-upload site, a local-only BBS sort of message-board, and whatever else might be useful if I found myself offline for a long time.
Oh btw, this may be of interest since you're likely to have a pi sitting there, maybe you'd like to bring up some other pis:
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-repositori…
scratchadams · 2021-10-05
Here is an interesting article for anyone interested in BGP or IXs https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-f…
npsimons · 2013-04-15
Modular hardware? Yes, please! Right now, I can upgrade the RAM, CPU, GPU and storage in my servers, desktop, and laptop. My phone? Not so much. And it wouldn't pain me so much, but for the fact that I'm missing out on things like NFC and low power Bluetooth. If I can get a software defined radio in a wristwatch (http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2011/04/reprogramming-ez430-chronos-r… then why can't I have one in a cell phone?