I've got an IPv6 connection at home via Sixxs which works pretty well. Of course some of the time when I need to access certain machines from outside the office I'll run into issues ie. I can get in over IPv4, but not over IPv6. Other times the IPv6 connection from wherever I happen to be might not be as stable as the IPv4 one. So being able to force an SSH connection … [Read more...] about Force SSH over IPv4 or IPv6
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A New Broadband Connection
Last week, while I was up in Dublin, UPC came along and hooked me up to their fibre. Yesterday I got the fixed IP details and with Paul's assistance switched the UPC box over to bridging mode, reconfigured my Fritzbox and moved my home connection into the fast lane. It's nice With the standard UPC wireless access point I could get a respectable 35 megs, but once I … [Read more...] about A New Broadband Connection
IPv6 and Dual Band Wifi On FritzBox 7390 Rocks!
I've been using a Fritz!Box 7390 for my home network for the last few months. It's not a "dirt cheap" piece of equipment, but it has a lot of very nice features which make it well worth its price tag. I originally got it, as I was looking for a DSL modem / router that would support IPv6 natively. I had been using a Linksys WRT54G with an open source firmware, but configuring … [Read more...] about IPv6 and Dual Band Wifi On FritzBox 7390 Rocks!
IPv6 In Ireland
I Want You To Use IPv6, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. IPv6 day came and went and still none of the major commercial ISPs are offering IPv6. None of the Irish government websites are available over IPv6 and only a tiny number of sites are dualstacked. Successive Irish governments have harped on about the "knowledge economy" and tried to play up how "advanced" the country … [Read more...] about IPv6 In Ireland
The Ideal SIP Client For Mac OSX?
For the last few months we've had a SIP / VOIP setup in our offices.My experiments with accessing the system using a SIP client on my iPhone were disastrous. However I hadn't had any reason to do any proper experiments with using a SIP client on my desktop until today.I'm currently using "Telephone", which is functional, but not exactly amazing.So what SIP client software would … [Read more...] about The Ideal SIP Client For Mac OSX?