Updates

This evening the brand new website of my employer went live (click here if you’re interested).

I thought to be nice to perform an update on my personal site, which you’re reading right now, obviously

What is updated you might ask… well: i’ve updated my “About Me” page with my newly created linkedIn profile. I’ve added the “follow me” button on the left of this site with links to my twitter and my linkedIn profiles. And i added this post

So what’s been happening lately in my life… about 2 months ago i “finally” graduated i am now “Bachelor of Engineering”. In less than a week i’ve got a full-time job at my employer. I must say it’s a lot of weight of off my shoulders, no fuss about graduating anymore. Just working full-time and having fun in my weekends, i’m loving it.

At home i have a lot of things which keep me busy, i’m having trouble deciding what to do first A couple of weeks ago i started a new project called [R4CK]. You can read all about it on the website. But don’t expect it to be finished anytime soon because at this point my network is consuming a lot of my time.

Last week i ordered and received a Cisco 7940 IP Phone. A great toy to play with, i hooked it up with my Asterisk setup and i’m able to place and receive calls with it. But there’s so much more, for example the address-book which the phone is able to access. I figured i want to do this with LDAP but i want to have the LDAP server running at one of my vps’es and not at home where my phone is.

So i’ve decided i also need a site-to-site vpn tunnel towards my vps’es (this has been a wish of me for a longer time) but i would like to create my vpn tunnels over IPv6. And since a short time my provider (xs4all) supports native IPv6 to my home (the first provider to do this in the world i’ve been told). But to use this i needed IOS 12.4 on my router, before i could run this new version i needed to upgrade the memory.

Last week i received and installed this memory and i now have native IPv6 at home \o/ but this week i discovered it wasn’t enough for IPv6 vpn tunnels, i need a 12.4T image for that and if i want to run that i need more flash memory, more ram and another bootrom in my router so i’ve accepted this won’t be happening. So now i’m at the point i’m about to configure vpn tunnels and BGP over IPv4.

Once that’s complete i can focus on LDAP and then back to configuring my phone (which it all started with). On top of that, the server of a friend of mine crashed last week so i’ve also been busy configuring his new VPS.

So you can imagine don’t know what to do first and last. Luckily i have some days off next week maybe i can finish some of the tasks mentioned above And maybe i have some time to read in my new book which i ordered last week (link) it should arrive this week.

Until the next post.