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Uncategorized Ralf on 19 Jan 2008
Recently acquired accessories starting with the letters ‘BR’.
Two accessories I recently bought which I can heartily recommend:
Bräda, a laptop support cushion which makes having your laptop sitting on your lap really comfortable. No more frying my balls!
Also, after having dropped my iPhone two times in the first two days already, I went to Media Markt in Berlin and bought a crystal hard case as well as a rubberized soft case. I didn’t like both very much. I’ve now settled on a Brando aluminium (aluminum, for our Amerikkkkkan readers) case. Tough, sturdy, flippable cover. Yeah, you can’t use the touch screen through the plastic protective screen, that bugged me at first. There’s a model without the protective cover as well, but buying that wasn’t an option since the screen will be the first thing my phone drops on if I decide not to protect it.
Uncategorized Ralf on 25 Nov 2005
issues with if_bridge on FreeBSD 5.4
I updated our OpenVPN gateway - it’s running on a sparc64 box - from FreeBSD 5.3 to 5.4 yesterday. Since we had problems with the bridge(4) code in 5.3, I tried to give if_bridge(4) a shot but ran into a different error here. Running the following commands
ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm hme0 addm tap0 up
on the gateway creates a bridge alright. However what it also does: it also causes FreeBSD to corrupt the checksums of all outgoing TCP packets on hme0. Not good. Reverted back to the old bridge(4) code. Since FreeBSD 5.4 is an intermediary step for this box anyway - I’m upgrading to 6.0 - I will not investigate this problem further at this stage. The ethernet address flip-flop problems that occured under FreeBSD 5.3 with bridge(4) when having tap interfaces in the bridge seems to be resolved in FreeBSD 5.4 however.
