sunshowers
An investigation into some lesser-known IPv6 features.A few weeks ago at Oxide, we encountered a bug where a particular, somewhat large, data structure was erroring on serialization to JSON via serde. The problem was that JSON only supports map keys that are strings1, and the data structure had an...
Martin-Éric
A lot of time has passed since my previous post on my work to make dhcpcd the drop-in replacement for the deprecated ISC dhclient a.k.a. isc-dhcp-client. Current status: Upstream now regularly produces releases and with a smaller delta than before. This makes it easier to track possible...
Martin-Éric
Given news that ISC's DHCP suite is getting deprecated by upstream and seeing how dhclient has never worked properly for DHCPv6, I decided to look into alternatives. ISC itself recommends Roy Maple's dhcpcd as a migration path. Sadly, Debian's package had been left unattended for a good 2 years....
Martin-Éric
While having a Debian boxen as a router feels nice, I kept on longing for something smaller and quieter. I then remembered that I still had my old WRT54GL somewhere. After upgrading the OpenWRT firmware to the latest supported version for that hardware (Backfire 10.03.1, r29592), I installed radvd...