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  1. Jumboframes on the Internet?

    Recently, I've been experimenting with Wireshark for my bachelor's thesis, monitoring the performance of TCP uploads from my notebook to my web server. A while ago, I had also swapped my router for a nicer model capable of gigabit ethernet and 5 GHz wifi (due to increasing congestion ...

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  2. VPNs and IPv6, part 2

    As I've written before, VPNs can lead to insecure situations when used with IPv6 enabled networks.

    The easiest way to mitigate that problem is actually just to enable IPv6 tunneling over the VPN itself, provided your VPN gateway has IPv6 connectivity and you have a spare /64 subnet you ...

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  3. My OpenWrt setup

    This weekend, I finally reinstalled OpenWrt on my home router. I've been using a nightly build for several months now, and it had been working just fine, but unfortunately, the opkg (OpenWrt's package manager) repositories for the nightly builds are updated every few days, and all of the ...

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