BT just enabled Infinity in my residential area, so I quickly contacted my ISP to see if they could upgrade me. They said they were still working on their fibre rollout and couldn’t estimate when they might be able to provide a fibre to the cabinet connection. Obviously I dropped them like a shitty stick, [...]
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BT Infinity with Linux Router
Posted by arcana on November 26th, 2011
Posted in Computers, Linux 
Tags: BT Infinity, Linux, Modem, PPPoE, pppoeconf, Router, Ubuntu 
No Comments »iptables: PPTP Passthrough and UPnP for Xbox 360
Posted by arcana on October 28th, 2010
iptables: PPTP Passthrough and UPnP for XBox 360 I recently decided to replace my nice Draytek 2820 with a Linux box for purely geeky reasons. Since then I’ve come across a couple of little ‘gotchas’. Firstly I found that I couldn’t open any PPTP connections from computers on my network, despite GRE being allowed to [...]
Getting your Ubuntu server to show up in Finder on OS X
Posted by arcana on October 15th, 2010
An easy guide to get your Ubuntu machine to show up in the Network window in Finder on your Mac without using Windows File Sharing.
Openswan LAN to LAN IPSEC Tunnel to Draytek 2820
Posted by arcana on October 15th, 2010
My Openswan to Draytek 2820 LAN to LAN IPSEC tunnel config.
