Author: sissokofrancois@gmail.com
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Troubleshooting Cisco CAPWAP and DTLS Certificate Issues: Building an Enterprise Wireless Network at Home
How a few aging Cisco Aironet access points turned into a practical lesson in wireless networking, certificate authentication, VLAN segmentation, RADIUS, and wireless intrusion detection. Why I’m Running Enterprise Cisco Wireless Equipment at Home One of the best ways I’ve found to improve my understanding of networking is to build things, break them, and figure…
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Routing a VLAN Through Proton VPN Using Palo Alto Policy-Based Forwarding and WireGuard
Building a dedicated Linux VPN gateway with NAT, selective routing, firewall policies, and a kill switch. Introduction One of the advantages of operating a home networking lab is the ability to experiment with technologies that are commonly used in enterprise environments. For this project, I wanted to route traffic from a specific VLAN through a…
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Garmin Smartwatch Agentic Alert System
During the day, I noticed I was often bogged down with negative thoughts and discouragement. To combat that, I created an automated program that makes use of an agent to send different types of messages to my Garmin smartwatch. Originally, I wanted to see if I could get access to Garmin’s APIs so that I…
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Incident Management
A mass-casualty incident (MCI) refers to any call that involves three or more patients, any situation that places such great demand on available equipment and would require a mutual aid response (agreement between neighboring EMS systems to respond when local resources are insufficient to handle the response). The National Incident Management System (NIMS) was developed…
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Geriatric Emergencies
Geriatrics is aged 65 and older. There may be some fear of losing independence. Always treat with respect and avoid ageism. Can stay fit and be active even though they are not able to perform at the same level as they did in their youth. When communicating with a geriatric patient, use name or sir…
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Transport Operations
There are nine phases of an ambulance call. There is the preparation phase, dispatch, en route, arrival at scene, transfer of the patient to the ambulance, en route to the receiving facility, at the receiving facility (delivery), en route to the station, and the post run. In the preparation phase you make sure all equipment…
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Patients with Special Challenges
There are numerous examples of patients with special challenges EMTs may encounter during a medical emergency. Some examples are as follows. Children who were born prematurely and who have associated respiratory problems. Infants or small children with congenital heart disease. Patients with neurologic disease (occasionally caused by hypoxemia at the time of birth, as with…
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Pediatric Emergencies
There are a few challenges to providing emergency care to pediatric patients, which is why effective communication with both the patient and their family members is critical to success. A child may or may not be able to tell you what is wrong, and the caregiver may be acting irrationally, but communication is the key.…
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Obstetrics and Neonatal Care
During puberty, the maturing female body undergoes multiple physical and hormonal changes, ultimately leading to menarche. The average cycle is 24 days, and the processes that the follicle goes through and the actual release of the egg (ovulation) are stimulated by the release of specific hormones in the female body. Ovulation occurs approximately two weeks…
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Environmental Emergencies
There are four factors that affect how a person deals with exposure to a cold or hot environment: physical condition (ill or in poor physical condition), age, nutrition and hydration, and also environmental conditions. There are five ways heat loss occurs in the body and how the rate and amount of heat loss or gain…