I signed up for the new 25Mbps VDSL services that are becoming available through TekSavvy, now that Bell has to provide speed matching profiles to other providers instead of just the staid old 5Mbps profiles they used to offer.
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IPv6 Part 9: Configuring A Domain For IPv6 With BIND
Welcome to part nine of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure the ISC BIND daemon to serve an authoritative DNS domain over IPv6. The host is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to any system running the ISC named daemon.
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IPv6 Part 8: Configuring DNS And DHCPv6 On An IPv6 Network
Welcome to part eight of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure the ISC BIND and DHCP daemons to support dynamic DNS updates from DHCP in DNS on your LAN. The router is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to any system running the ISC named and dhcpd daemons.
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IPv6 Part 7: Securing And Optimizing An IPv6 Home Network Using FreeBSD
Welcome to part seven of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use packet filter (pf) on BSD to run a small network. The router is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to either OpenBSD or FreeBSD with pf.
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IPv6 Part 6: Configuring An IPv6 Network Assigned Over PPPoE Using FreeBSD
Welcome to part six of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure a dual-stacked PPPoE tunnel on FreeBSD using mpd. The host is a FreeBSD 8.2 box using mpd5 from ports.
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