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Setting up a hurricane electric tunnel with a linux router

This assumes that you have a working router as per my older post . This can work behind a nat (though I ended up DMZing this router) in some circumstances. This distils grawity’s excellent post on superuser – in the context of this setup (which has a few quirks), and some

Setting up Ipv6-pd with dnsmasq on a linux router

This follows on from my last post, and is basically a distillation of this excellent post on Super User.  These steps will work with Starhub Fibre ipv6 or any other provider who does IPv6 PD I found I *didn’t* need to set up a few things the way he

Setting up a basic Linux router with Ubuntu 18.04 and firewalld.

I’ve made a few choices that fit around my own preferences (firewalld) and problems I faced (bridgeutils and the classic network interfaces over bridging) This is as much a cookbook as a guide Picking hardware is easy. I got a system that was overkill – but basically there’s a

And another iteration of bias lighting.

While it “works” – there’s various minor issues, and iterations of my bias lighting setup.  More brightness is always nice, and I’d like to combine the ability to power it off my PC, with a few additional features. I’d like to turn it off. I went with a

The internet kinda sucks.

I’ll entirely admit this is *partially* inspired by this MSE post. And a certain desire to move off purely “This is a neat thing that I did” that this blog has been (even if I need to do an updated ttrss install guide). And well, I’m not a

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