Eggdrop openweathermap script for eggdrop Recently wunderground announced the end of new registrations for "free" API access making an earlier eggdrop weather script [here] somewhat less useful. The script below attempts to replicate the functionality but
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 have a good
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 channel. Requires an
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 key Any comment
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 I couldnt figure
Scripting Subnet Calculator A simple subnet calculator that will accept either an IPv4 or IPv6 subnet in CIDR notationFor example 192.168.10.0/29 or beef::/112 is acceptable. The tool (should) automatically detect the
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 hopefully a very
CCIE EIGRP Filtering (GNS3 lab) In this GNS3 lab we're looking as the various options on how we can filter updates between EIGRP speakers and then how that affects the traffic flow (as EIGRP is a distance vector
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) is being used
Eggdrop Image search script for eggdrop (Bing API) Sadly one of the few APIs that still provides access to image search now the Bing API provides all the results for this script. Again a very simple script (it has a simple
Eggdrop Weather eggdrop script for wunderground.com API This is a simple script tcl script for an eggdrop that will allow users to set a default location and then grabs current conditions or a 3 day forecast using that default location
CCIE 6to4 Tunnelling (GNS3 Lab) This is a quick lab to look over how 6to4 tunnelling can be implemented using GNS3 1.3 and 3725 (running c3725-adventerprisek9-mz124-15.image). The topology will be as below but the important part
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 included now for
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 machines and its
CCIE GET VPN (GNS3 Lab) [toc]Group Encrypted Transport (GET) VPN is slightly different and has quite different use cases from more traditional point to point IPSEC VPN where each point to point VPN is quite distinct in
CCIE DMVPN setup with PSK (GNS3 Lab) [toc] 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 spoke to
640-553 CCNA Security Disable ASA TCP State tracking (make my ASA a router) Recently had to use this (useful?) feature to help a customer with an asymmetric traffic flow via an ASA. The ASA would only see the out bound traffic from a host with the
Centos Install NGINX with HTTP/2 and Pagespeed [toc] Been playing recently with nginx rather than apache (nginx supports http/2 now as of 1.9.5) and its been quite a nice change with a much cleaner config in my
Cisco jun2acl (Juniper to Cisco ACL Script) Recently we've needed to migrate an inherited environment away from Juniper Junos and onto Cisco IOS. As part of this a lot (!) of old an quite nasty firewall filter config needed to be
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 like authentication moving
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 set with +youtube.
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 let me know.
GNS3 Install GNS3 1.0 on Fedora Recently started to play around with the new GN3 1.0 release on my Fedora 20 laptop. Just a quick guide to installing since the official notes only seem to mention apt/debian.
Centos Install NFSEN (Centos 6 & Fedora 20) Found myself having to do this a few times now and it usually ends up being quite messy in the end so some nice clean instructions from a real sysadmin. All credit goes
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 prefix :) Please note
