When I first played around with Gentoo, I found this nifty application called “coldplug” which claimed it would load modules for my hardware and start them. “Awesome” said I as prior Linux distro’s I had used never had something like this. So I added it to my boot level and watched …… it do nothing. Boy did I feel miffed :(
But wait ….. it had actually loaded my modules and started my network scripts in the background.
Last night Abbey and I celebrated 3 years of tender kissing and cuddling :)
Can’t believe that it’s been so long …. sometimes it feels like I’ve just met her and fallen in love and other times it’s like we’ve known each other all our lives.
I can’t imagine life without her …… but that’s why she agreed to marry me :D
If you are ever in the Hordle area, near Lymington then I heartly recommend the Mill At Gordleton for dining out.
I didn’t mean too, but I did :evil: . A slew of updates targeted for baselayouts trunk made it into the 1.12 branch which I released tonight as pre17. Along with updates to dhcpcd, pump, udhcp and the new resolvconf-gentoo package. Basically if you use this and DHCP then you will need an ~ARCH dhcp client!The good news is that this release works better with udev-089 forcing coldplug removal. Basically we detect coldplug scripts starting before we are ready for them and dynamically add them to the boot runlevel when we’re good to go.
Well, I’d like to be. Seems someone got into my server- no damage caused aside from lost time rebuilding and making new certificates. My own fault probably as I had a flaw in my firewall script that let everyone through :O. Well, that’s now been fixed, and I’ve moved to using OpenVPN to secure my wireless LAN instead of WEP. So it’s now as secure as I can make it :)Infact, using OpenVPN I can now connect my laptop to my home network very easily- the only downside is that I’m struggling a little with IPv6 routing across the TAP interface.
OK, say you have a dhcp connection to the LAN which supplies generic name servers (ie internet). Now you want to create a VPN connection to your home LAN and use its nameservers so you can ping the right machines at home. At the moment, you can’t. openvpn in portage currently has no ability to even create /etc/resolv.conf
Well, it has now. Well, it will when I upload it (don’t ask when as it depends on other stuff being done first).
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