Bryan Vest

WireGuard for One: Tunneling Your Mobile Device Through a Remote VPS

This isn’t hard. But if you’ve never done it, the

When Your Wife's IoT Bird Feeder Doesn't work, and You're a All Hats IT Engineer

It always starts simple: a thoughtful gift, a charming gadget, a new

CodexMCP: Simulating 1,100 Realistic ISP Users with Full MAC-Authenticated DHCP

I made all of these changes and additions solo between 5:00

CodexMCP UI Refactor: 2.5 Hours to Rip and Rewire the Front End

Let’s be clear: this wasn’t some multi-week, team-driven redesign. This

Parsing Kea: Building Real-Time Visibility with Grok and Simulated Users

Kea is an open-source DHCP server developed by ISC. It offers a

Simulating a Virtual Subscriber Network With Docker

In a recent surge of development for CodexMCP, I orchestrated a full-scale

Monday Boot Sequence: Cluster Running

Date: Monday, May 27, 2025 Location: Somewhere in the damp clay of

Kea DHPC4 Configuration - Leases at Scale, Logs in Motion

Here’s the current live configuration for the Kea DHCPv4 server running

The Core VyOS Router - Revisit

In this build, VyOS is the spine. It routes, it NATs, it

Back in the Lab: Goats, Control Planes, and the Future of Small ISPs

I'm back in the lab after a few weeks of

CSSIP: Is This Where We Need to Go?

Introduction SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) succeeded not because it was perfect—but

Where It Stands: Building an Open-Source ISP Stack from the Ground UP

May 2025 Project Update – by Bryan Vest If you’ve been following