IPv6- the future? Not yet! :O
The problem as I see it is that it’s too complicated for end users. Even though I’m the maintainer of Gentoo networking scripts, I know nada about IPv6. It’s too complicated. Well it’s actually quite easy, it’s the documentation thats too complicated.
So here’s a quick and easy for IPv6 on the home network :)
Enable IPv6 in the kernel Add “ipv6” to your USE flags emerge-uaDvN world to get everything recompiled for ipv6 emerge iproute2 and baselayout-1.
seppelrockt asked on the Gentoo Forums about integrating xsupplicant with our network scripts seeing as baselayout has no support for it. As I don’t have anything xsupplicant can work with, I never got around to writing a module for it. However, in his last paragraph he said he wanted to change to wpa_supplicant for auth over the LAN.
My first thought was “WTF?” as wpa_supplicant is just for associating with an AP and then doing encryption / authentication, so I told him so!
After being told that baselayout-1.12.0_pre9 broke openvpn, I took a look at its init script. This baby had good ideas, but was poorly executed, hence causing breakage. As luckyduck is currently AWOI (absent with out internet) I decided to fix it. I also fixed a fair few outstanding openvpn bugs (mainly enhancements).
The new script is 3 quarters the size of the existing script as I’ve taken advantage of knowing baselayout :)
Just changed my web server from Apache over to lighttpd. Wasn’t that much of a chore, just had to emerge 1.4.4 so that I get working ldap authentication via ssl/tls and emerge dev-lang/php with the cgi USE flag and voila.The site seems to be a bit snappier - especially horde as php no longer seems to segfault with iconv/utf8 errors 8).
Why did I change? Well, apache changing things around annoyed me and it takes a long time to emerge it.
dhcpcd-2.0.0 went stable on all platforms a few days ago- due to the vast amount of bugs reported since it went stable on amd64 and x86 (zero), it’s a good time to prune the old ebuilds.
This means that you have to use baselayout-1.11.x as older versions used the-z “release lease but cache IP” no longer works. It didn’t work anyway from the DHCP servers perspective so you loose nothing :)
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