Being somewhat addicted to Linux mini computers, I just had to lay my hands on a PC Engines APU. A lot of information about the APU is strewn all over the Internet so I wanted to consolidate it all in one single post. Installing Ubuntu Server using the serial console To boot the Ubuntu Server …
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How to receive Cymru’s IPv6 Bogon list using Quagga
The provided BGP sample configuration for Quagga on Cymru’s web site didn’t work for me. Since my AS is IPv6-only, I’m only interested in the IPv6 Bogon feed. Here’s an excerpt from my Quagga bgpd.conf: router bgp aut-num bgp router-id id bgp log-neighbor-changes no bgp default ipv4-unicast neighbor cymru-bogon peer-group neighbor cymru-bogon remote-as 65332 neighbor …
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Setting up a Huawei E3276-150 4G/LTE USB modem on Ubuntu Server/Desktop
I just received an unlocked Huawei E3276s-150 4G/LTE USB modem/surfstick I bought on eBay the other day. I went for the E3276s-150 because the 150 seemed to be the most compatible option for European 4G mobile networks. There are even cheaper Huawei E3276 models like the E3276-920 which you can buy for less than 20 bucks. However, …
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Dockerflix: Docker-based SNI proxy for watching U.S. Netflix, Hulu, MTV, Vevo, Crackle, ABC, NBC, PBS…
Recently, I published a new project on Github called Dockerflix. Instead of HAProxy, Dockerflix uses sniproxy. To make the installation a breeze, I boxed the proxy into a Docker container and wrote a small, Python-based Dnsmasq configuration generator. And voilà: DNS-unblocking as a service (DAAS) ;-) Thanks to sniproxy’s ability to proxy requests based on a …
How to encrypt an ODROID-C1’s Ubuntu root filesystem with DM-crypt LUKS
The starting point is a running ORDOID-C1 with the Ubuntu minimal image. Make sure the Ubuntu installation has been dist-upgraded and to use the latest linux-image-c1 kernel image available (3.10.72-78 as of this writing). The ODROID-C1 has to be running the lastest kernel available, check with uname -r. Some of the early Ubuntu minimal images may …
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