Note: This is about “intra-AS” IPv6 routing and networking as I haven’t had the opportunity to play with IPv6 BGP stuff.

I got a (insanely) large IPv6 address space from SixXS statically routed to me over a 6-in-4 tunnel, it’s connected to a static IPv4 address on a machine with plenty of bandwidth.  As I wanted IPv6 connectivity at multiple points I figured that instead of wasting a /48 for every location I could just as well setup my own “overlay” IPv6 network running on top of several IPv4 tunnels.

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Granted it’s still poor-mans-ipv6 (aka ipv6 over a ipv4 tunnel), but still. If you’re IPv6 capable you’re most likely reading this over IPv6 already.

The IP address for www.shapeshifter.se is 2001:16d8:ffe5:1:1::1 (from 2001:16d8:ffe5:1::/64)

It has got some shiny AAAA/PTR records too.

shapeshifter.se has IPv6 address 2001:16d8:ffe5:1:1::1
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.5.e.f.f.8.d.6.1.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa domain name pointer www.shapeshifter.se.

I played with IPv6 several years ago (back during the 6BONE days) and recently decided to give it another shot.  Most of my services are now available through IPv6 and my local LAN has IPv6 connectivity. I’ll write more about that in another post.

New release of hso(4), FreeBSD driver for Option iCON branded 3G/HSDPA devices.

Changes to hso(4)

• Support for the new TTY layer, driver now works with 7.0 upto todays 8.0-CURRENT.
• Device IDs for Option GlobeTrotter HSUPA and Option GMT382 added.
• Minor performance and stability issues have been addressed.

Changes to hsoctl(1)

• hsoctl now forks into background upon a successful connection, the old behvaior can be obtained with -n flag. Disconnection is possible by executing hsoctl -d hso0.  While running in background, important information is logged to syslog.  Complete daemonization is also possible with the -b flag.
• Use of AT+CGREG in addition to AT+CREG to detect network registration (for service plans where voice calls are disabled).
• resolv.conf handling have been improved, only nameserver entries are changed, other content is left intact. A bug that sometimes caused garbled data to be prepended to resolv.conf have also been addressed.  The resolv.conf path can be altered with the -r flag, disable resolv.conf with -r /dev/null.
• hsoctl does now gracefully terminate upon unexpected device removal.
• Default route installation have been improved.

The code can be obtained from the hso page, the update should hit the ports tree soon (comms/hso-kmod).

Speed test from a rural location. Values are in bits/s, so that’s almost 300 kB/s downstream and around 40 kB/s upstream. Hopefully downstream is slightly better from a more urban location.

hso(4) speedtest

UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) is standard (part of ISO/IEC 11578:1996) to create “universally unique” identifiers to identify objects within a system or across system boundaries. The identifiers are 128-bit in length (that’s 16 bytes) and while there really is no way to guarantee global uniqueness the probability of colissions are very small both thanks to the number of bits and the way the identifiers are created.

The UUID generation algorithms are specified in RFC4122 and I’ve created a static PHP class that implements version 1 which is time based UUID, version 4 which is truly psuedo random UUID and version 3 and 5 which are named based UUID, using either MD5 (version 3) or SHA-1 (version 5).
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Want a “web 2.0″ styled bookmark bar for your blog that automatically creates submission links (bookmark and share) to social media sites? if you answered yes, then continue reading.

I previously used the service from addthis but never really liked it so I created my own, you’re free to use it if you like. It’s a simple script that is quite easy (guess it depends on who you ask…) to use and that generates bookmark/share buttons for popular services such as delicious, digg, facebook, twitter and more.

Supports Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Technorati Favorites, Google Bookmarks, Facebook, Reddit, Diigo, Blogmarks, Blinklist and Magnolia

This is a sample of how the bookmark bar could look, it’s possible to re-arrange and remove individual services if wanted. The icons are courtesy of http://fasticon.com/freeware/index.php/web-2-icons/

Follow this guide to get your own bookmark bar, you need some knowledge of how to edit HTML.
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