So, I’m now finally natviely IPv6 enabled :)
This led to an interesting debtate about my internet connection. In a nutshell my Drayetk Vigor 100 is broken, but apparently by design. The problem is this- for IPv4 goes through my NAT whose public IP has an MTU of 1492 so Path MTU Discovery works fine. However IPv6 does not need NAT and the PPPoE interface does not have a public IPv6 and nor do the internal clients use it even it there was one.
I as blogged about earlier I’ve now changed ISP to Goscomb Technologies. Quite a straight forward migration and although the downspeed isn’t much better, it’s a lot snappier which implies I was congested on the Demon line. However, my upload speed has doubled, which is good news for this server :D
There maybe some more downtime in the near future as I may change registrar as I’ll be getting native IPv6 later today (yay, no more tunnel!
I’ve been a loyal Demon Internet customer for a long time now (since 1989 I think). But the time has come to change as they’re simply just not the same ISP I first joined, started going downhill when they were bought by Thus. Service speed degradation is now common and sometimes the PPP is just dead even though it gets an IP address. Also, they have no plans for native IPv6.
Accelerated OpenGL on NetBSD on my laptop - FINALLY!
It took some time, but it looks like the NetBSD and Xorg devs have finally cracked ATI X600 laptop cards working :) The final bit on my behalf was enabling EXA acceleration as the older and default XAA caused the screen not to refresh properly.
OpenGL screensavers have been working flawlessly for nearly have the day now, so it looks fairly stable too.
In my efforts to improve performance in terms of speed and memory consumption of trac which powers web the interface you’re seeing here, I’ve just installed mod_wsgi.
Initial reaction is that it is lighter on memory and also faster, but time will tell. What I did like is that installation is very simple and well documented, unlike fastcgi or fcgid. Sadly I still need to use fcgid for the non python parts of my site.
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