Welcome to part four of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use ip6tables to configure a host firewall on linux. The host used runs Ubuntu 11.04, but this should be largely applicable to any linux host.
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Welcome to part three of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover configuring a (Debiab/Ubuntu) linux box to use a static IPv6 address without using Network Manager. This particular host is a headless Xen virtual machine, which makes using Network Manager difficult.
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Welcome to part two of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use packet filter (pf) to configure a host firewall on BSD. The host used runs FreeBSD 8.2, but this should be largely applicable to any version of OpenBSD or FreeBSD with packet filter support.
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Welcome to part one of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure a FreeBSD host to use a static IPv6 address. The host used runs FreeBSD 8.2, but it should be applicable to just about any version of FreeBSD with IPv6 support.
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Something has been bugging me for several years now. In that time I have usually had access to multiple WAN connections, owing to my participation in the telecom industry. However, I’ve never been able to get SSHD to behave the way I wanted it to. I wanted to be able to connect to the SSH daemon on my (FreBSD) router from whichever WAN connection I wanted. Unfortunately, SSHD is stuborn about always routing its response to the default gateway of the router, which breaks an SSH connection coming in from the secondary WAN connection.
I have finally, at long last, found the solution.
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