Bash Batch re-encode videos based on resolution, filetype and codec Its been quite handy recently to re-encode some old videos to x265/HEVC to save a bit (actually a fair bit :o) of disk space now that most devices at
simple Specifically disable certificate verification in lftp LFTP is a great FTP program that I use quite regularly. I recently had a problem connecting to a server (that I didnt control) and getting the following error due to the cert being self signed:
Linux Install and verify softflowd for Netflow on OpenWrt softflow is a great opensource Netflow exporter that is support on OperWrt :) This allows us to sample the flows running through our OpenWrt router, export them to a netflow analyzer
Eggdrop movie search script for eggdrop bot using api Recently another script I used to search for film information got broken. After a quick look around I found the nice people over at OMDb (http://www.omdbapi.com/) who
Eggdrop Twitter Eggdrop script I've started to play around the the Twitter API a little and created a small script to grab the contents of a spammed tweet link and display it in the
Eggdrop News script for eggdrop bot This script uses the API from newsapi.org to return the latest headlines from a users preselected news site. Requires +news set on the channel and your own free API
Kodi kodi-pvr-mythtv addon for Fedora (25) Kodi MythTV PVR automated packages from rpmfusion. and unitedrpms. sadly haven't been working on my Fedora 24 or 25 systems for quite sometime with crashes and failures to load that
Scripting Subnet Calculator A simple subnet calculator that will accept either an IPv4 or IPv6 subnet in CIDR notation For example 192.168.10.0/29 or beef::/112 is acceptable. The tool
Eggdrop Gif search script for eggdrop bot Just another small script that uses the nice API over at giphy to return gif links based on the query from a user. Requires +giphy set on the channel but
IPv6 Juniper SRX IPv6 (VDSL or FFTC) Recently ZEN announced an open IPv6 trial in the UK and first impressions are very good (just like the rest of their service :D ) DHCPv6 using prefix delegation (RFC 3633)
Eggdrop Image search script for eggdrop (Bing API) ***BING have since closed their API so this script no longer works :( Sadly one of the few APIs that still provides access to image search now the Bing API provides
Eggdrop Weather eggdrop script for wunderground.com API *** This API has since been closed by Wunderground :( Please look HERE for an more modern alternative This is a simple script tcl script for an eggdrop that will allow users
Fedora Install GNS3 1.x on Fedora 22 Quick guide to installing the quite awesome GNS3. Very similar process to Fedora 20 but this time using DNF and a small adjustment on some package names with some extras
Linux Decrypt HTTPS (SSL/TLS) with Wireshark Wireshark has some very nice SSL/TLS decryption features tucked away although you need either of the following two: Access to the servers private pki key Access to the client
CCIE DMVPN setup with PSK (GNS3 Lab) Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPN) offer a low admin overhead and scalable VPN solution. It is also efficient at routing traffic as it can dynamically reconfigure itself from a hub and
CCIE EIGRP (Named vs Legacy) Just a quick look over the basic differences with the newer style of EIGRP config. It really is quite a bit nicer (more logcal?) layout in the config with things
Eggdrop Youtube eggdrop script using API v3 Just a very simple eggdrop script that allows users to search on youtube using the youtube and will also return some information for any youtube link spamming into the channel
Eggdrop Kuvaton Eggdrop script A very simple little TCL script for an eggdrop bot that will grab either some random images or return search results from http://kuvaton.com/. Any problems or suggestions just
BGP Simple script to add route to exaBGP Continuing to play around with the very fine exaBGP. This time adding my own little script to announce a new route and reload the exaBGP config to announce the new
BGP BGP RTBH setup using exaBGP In this post I'll describe a basic setup using Cisco IOS, IOS XR and exaBGP that will function as a BGP remotely triggered blackhole (RTBH) allowing you to null route
GNS3 Fedora 19 how to install GNS3 Doesnt seem to be a package for GNS3 on Fedora but installing from source is pretty straight forward :) The example below uses the latest version at the time of writing
642-691 BGP+MPLS Difference between Router Descriptor (RD) and Route Target (RT) Studying towards the SPEDGE (great word Cisco!) tonight and couldn't quite define exactly Route Descriptors and Route Targets. So lets try First off it might be important (and obvious) to
Linux Use tcpdump to analyse HTTP POST data Today it has been useful to look at POST data being sent to this webserver. A nice filter to do this at the console with tcpdump is: tcpdump -s 0
Cisco Generate DSCP marked pings Today it was useful to confirm a switch was passing DSCP marked packets as expected and handling 'ef' marked packets. To do this on a cisco switch we can use
BGP Simple script to reload exaBGP config Recently started to look at exabgp as a tool to inject routes for a RTBH setup. Works nicely so far so made the following simple script to reload the config
