needy-wire.dev

A personal engineering notebook. Mostly Linux, networking, self-hosting and the small tools I write to make them less painful.

Redirecting port ranges with nftables, without iptables-translate

A short walk through nat chains, redirect to and why counters are your best debugging tool.

Moving certbot from standalone to webroot

Standalone mode is convenient until something else wants port 80. Here is the boring, reliable setup I ended up with.

QUIC, UDP buffers and the sysctls nobody tells you about

net.core.rmem_max, wmem_max, and measuring whether any of it actually matters on a 2 GB VPS.