…or annoyances with the DSPAM hash driver

I’ve been running DSPAM for a long time and the spam classification is great, unfortunately the maintenance tools are not as it turns out. This is the tale of why and more especially HOW I moved from the hash driver to the mysql driver as a backend for my DSPAM installation.

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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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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