Hobbies
IPv6 network conifguration on RedHat / CentOS
When I last used some RedHat operating system nobody ever mentioned IPv6, I cannot even remember that saw any of the configuration option mentioned in this article. So now I need to figure out how to have Xen configure IPv6 for my guest systems :-/
Getting back to RedHat style network configuration
It’s quite some years ago when I last used a RedHat style operating system, so I was happy that I found this article to remind me of some network configuration basics. Actually the syntax hasn’t really changed since RedHat 7, but I was using Debian based operating systems for the at least the last 5 [...]
Using vif-route with multiple IPs for a Xen domU
This article at ModernAdmin saved me alot of time. I was looking how to add multiple IPs to a Xen DomU in routed mode, this requires routes to be added on the Dom0. One way was to add multiple interfaces to the DomU, the other way is to add the addresses as aliases to an [...]
.Tel domains now come with custom heading
The TelHosting and TelProxy were recently updated to support a custom heading for .tel domains. The custom heading allows you to customize the text that displays as the heading of your .tel web page instead of your domain name. [...]
Advertisements now live on .tel domains
I almost missed the latest Update to the TelProxy. Telnic added the already announced support for “Sponsored Links” to the TelProxy websites. I have added a few to mcs.tel as an example linking to several sites of interest, this also allowed my to save some space in the main listing. You can see a few [...]
EPT IPTV via Fritz!Box 7570 incompatible with VoIP
EPT is now deploying their EPT Homeserver (aka AVM Fritz!Box 7570 VDSL) to new IPTV (aka La Télé des P&T) subscribers. Ddue to the technical implementation of IPTV on EPT’s network this will unfortunately render the VoIP features of the Fritz!Box unusable. EPT seems to use an AVM feature to run the VoIP part over [...]
How to setup IP routing on Avaya IP Office 500
I have recently learned that one of the most common issues with the VoIP setup of an Avaya IP Office 500 IP PBX is the routing of the IP packets. While the IP Office offers 2 Ethernet interface called LAN1 and LAN2 with configuration fields for the local IP address and netmask, there is no [...]
Fixing Twittertools to post URL of your blog post [UPDATE]
So I got this WordPress plugin Twittertools from Alex King which promises to publish your blog posts to twitter including an link back to your blog post. Unfortunately there is a hardcoded tweet format setting in the twitter-tools.php file:
$this->tweet_format = $this->tweet_prefix.’: %s %s’;
