Customer Owned Fiber
Timothy B. Lee over at Ars technica has an excellent piece on a pilot project going on in Ottawa, Ontario. A neighborhood is getting fiber installed to their homes at their own expense. Once that's in place any ISP that…
Traffic Shaping For VOIP With m0n0wall
My screencast guide to traffic shaping for VOIP using m0n0wall has been posted on the m0n0wall web site.
However, Manuel Kasper (m0n0wall project lead) had some interesting ideas on how to revise and perhaps simplify my approach. What he describes departs from the approach underlying the present implementation of the Magic Shaper in m0n0wall. Use of the Magic Shaper is the basis of the existing screencast.
Updated to provide a YouTube version in the post and ftp downloadable high quality version.
Updated Home-Office Network Diagram
I puzzles me how to see how many people find the diagram of my home/office network interesting. Yet it consistently gets a lot of traffic, so here’s an update to the original one I posted in March.
m0n0wall Traffic Shaping For VOIP Screencast
After several months of thinking about it I finally got around to recording a screencast tutorial about setting up the traffic shaping feature in m0n0wall to accommodate VOIP traffic. Phillip Cooper's series of screencasts were the inspiration for this. In…
m0n0wall Now Supports Next Server Option for DHCP
Sometimes its the little things that make life a lot easier. I just found that the latest beta of m0n0wall (v1.3b13) more properly supports the "Next Server" (aka Option 66) feature in the DHCP server. This is really handy for…
Answering Zeeek’s Tweet
Last Thursday Zeeek (aka Randulo) twittered: Please rate in order of importance to you: love, health, money, job, world peace, gas prices, inflation, 2008 US election, iphone, twitter It's a good question, especially when posed to an international group. I…