In my spare time, what little I have, I’ve been wanting to play with some OSS networking projects. For those playing along at home, during last Suse hackweek I played with wireguard, and to test the environment I wanted to set up some routing. For which I used FRR. FRR…
If you read my last post, I set up a POC with wireguard and FRR to have to power of wireguard (WG) but all the routing worked out with FRR. But I had a problem. When using RIPv2, the broadcast messages seemed to get stuck in the WG interfaces until…
It’s hackweek at Suse! Probably one of my favourite times of year, though I think they come up every 9 months or so. Anyway, this hackweek I’ve been on a WireGuard journey. I started reading the paper and all the docs. Briefly looking into the code, sitting in the IRC…
This is a quick post to say the final topology post is coming. It’s currently in draft from and I hope to post it soon. I just realised it’s been a while so thought I’d better give an update. The last post goes into what auth does, what is…
This is the third post in the series of Keystone Federated Swift. To bounce back to the start you can visit the first post. Separate Clusters + Container Sync The idea with this topology is to deploy each of your OpenStack federated clusters each with their own unique swift cluster…
I’m a big fan on console apps. But for IRC, I have been using quassel, as it gives me a client on my phone. But I’ve been cleaning up my cloud accounts, and thought of the good old days when you’d simply run a console IRC client in screen or…
As a Swift developer, most of the development works in a Swift All In One (SAIO) environment. This environment simulates a mulinode swift cluster on one box. All the SAIO documentation points to using tempauth for authentication. Why? Because most the time authentication isn’t the things we are working on.…
If you are using a 3rd party application / package installer to install a service onto a system that using chkconfig to manage your run-levels, or writing your own which are incompatible with chkconfig. That is to say when trying to add them you get the following error: # chkconfig…
In case anyone out there in internet land happen to have a BIND DNS server still running RHEL 4 or Centos 4 and require a version that has been back ported from the Centos 6.2 source, one that has the CVE-2012-1667 fix. Then you can download the RPMs I build…
Squid is one of the biggest and most used proxies on the interwebs. And generating reports from the access logs is already a done deal, there are many commercial and OSS apps that support the squid log format. But I found my self in a situation where I wanted stats…