Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with the ongoing move towards mediocrity at Opengear, presumably the result of the Digi acquisition, similar to what happened to Nimble after HPE bought them. Continue Reading…
Spent way too long troubleshooting an issue where OpenVPN Connect, on iOS in this case, was connecting to the server successfully, receiving both an IPv6 address and gateway assignment, and Continue Reading…
Dual stack FortiClient VPN’s are not fun; and a default massive security hole exists that I’m guessing most CISO’s/CIO’s don’t pay attention to since many people still barely know what IPv6 Continue Reading…
You’d think this would be an easy thing where perhaps a FortiGate unit would behave like a layer 3 switch; add an IPv6 address, it starts sending router advertisements. Nope. Continue Reading…
Just going to make this a page to call out bad ISP’s on all the stupid things they do. IPv6: I’ve been trying to get Verizon to give me IPv6 Continue Reading…
There are a number of RFC’s on this but the most recent, 5952, is the one that should be honored at this point. Here’s a breakdown of what you should Continue Reading…
I’ve seen a number of online articles on disabling IPv6 and they often involve blacklisting kernel modules, etc. which is a really bad idea. In most cases it does not Continue Reading…
This is a perl script that I wrote to add IPv6 addresses to a pre-existing Plesk server that is already up and running with IPv4 services. The script is based Continue Reading…
A lot of enterprises and hosting providers are getting into IPv6 finally and ideally are running dual-stack so they can offer their users/clients native IPv4 and IPv6. If you’re retroactively Continue Reading…
This article includes: Background on why you might need to deal with IPv6 tunneling (basically when your ISP sucks) Prerequisites for adding your own home IPv6 service Setting up IPv6 Continue Reading…