To anticipate and prevent
So last week, I didn’t know a whole lot about IPv6 (backwater hick — slow and behind the times). After spending a long weekend delving into the world of it, I find out that I’m basically on the bleeding edge already… and that makes me sad. How can I go from not even having used…
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So the Snowulf Network of websites has grown by two over the last week. Normally, I try not to add too many sites to my belt as it tends to make for a lot of administration. In these particular cases I have to make an exception. Let me explain briefly why I brought these two…
If you’re not into IPv6, but you’re a networking person — you may want to avert you eyes. This next piece of information is going to cause you pain: DHCPv6 does not support/allow you to send default gateway. This is “by design”. Does your brain hurt yet? I know mine did when I first found…
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Recently the Wikimedia Foundation finalized their “5 year strategy” and posted the 2010-2011 Annual Plan. I read the entire plan and found it an interesting read. Previous to this, I had heard rumblings that the Foundation was going to double in size over the next year. They are 40 some fulltimers now, and that means…
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So let me start off by saying, I’m not new to the world of networking. I’ve been doing this for a long while now. I had a Linux box running as a router on a PPPoE DSL line back before you could even buy a home “router” (IE Linksys). Heck, I had the network running…
Maybe you’re sitting around this 4th of July holiday and looking for something to entertain yourself, maybe you’re thinking about getting a movie. Whatever the reason, let me pass one word of advice down: Do not watch “Bitch Slap“. I really don’t know how to convey this movie in a short synopsis, but I think…