“Storm Control”, a Tricky Switch Feature
Setting up my home network in my new home in Berlin, it was time to deploy the managed 16 port switch to accommodate all Ethernet connections. It has proven to be beneficial to connect...
Category: Internet Protocol and L2
Routing, Switching, Protocols
Monitoring End-to-End IP QoS
Internet is now almost everywhere in the civilized and half-civilized world available. It’s only a question of price and Quality of Service. In my home in Bangkok I suffered from an ever changing quality...
Wireshark on Ubuntu
A repeating problem after new Linux installations is to get Wireshark running with access to the Ethernet interfaces as non-root user. Here is the recipe (tried successfully on Linux Mint 13, 64 bit): Overview:A...
IPv6 Readiness of consumer appliances
A table with devices and their IPv6 status. Device / Application Brand Type FW IPv6 Internet requ. NAS D-Link DNS-323 1.10 no YES Printer Canon Officejet Pro 8000 HP4D1A6D yes no Phone Grandstream GXP-2020...
Getting ready for IPv6
The alarm bells are ringing everywhere: we are are out of IPv4 addresses! What does this mean for the end user? Not much yet! There are enough IPv4 addresses for the backbone infrastructure and...
IPv6 Using Hurricane Electric’s 6in4 Tunnel
IPv6 Playground The goal is to have IPv6 Internet access available in a home network, not just on a single computer. Furthermore, any modifications and subsequent restarts of the IPv6 access part should not...
ADSL Internet Connectivity
12 Mbit/s offered, but how good is the phone line? Just recently, up to 12Mbps downlink speed is available in our area. Standard uplink speed is 512kbps, 1Mbps uplink is optional. The most economical...