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I recently enable IPv6 in my home network. Familiar with IPv4 I detected there are new commands I have to use and also commands I used with IPv4 have to get additional options for IPv6. The following list is just a collection of tools I think are useful for whoever starts to use IPv6.

 

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I just had to tunnel inside a VPN to be able to connect to my home network. I tried OpenVPN and Wireguard but had issues to get it working. Therefore I decided to use ssh tunneling inside the existing VPN. There is a nice too called sshuttle available which easily allows to tunnel any requests through ssh.

 

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At home I use PiHole to get rid of the annoying Ads in my Firefox. I also want to get this nice feature when I'm away from home.  My Raspberry running  PiHole also has OpenVPN which allows me to access my home network. Unfortunately OpenVPN does not use the pushed DNS without any installation and customization on the OpenVPN client side. See next page how to get this done.

 

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If you want to use webdav space with Linux there exist various ways to connect this space to a Linux system.

 
1) wdfs - Very easy to use. It's a simple command line and then you can access the webdav space from a console or any filemanager.
2) davfs - You have to configure this first. Then you can use it the same way as wdfs. The way it's used by Linux is identical to the other spaces like disks, nfs, smbfs which are used as filesystems in Linux. davfs is my suggested way to use webdav in Linux.
3) cadaver - Works similar like a ftp or smb client on the command line
4) gvfs - Gnome virtual Filesystem
 
There exist variouse filemanagers like dolphin and krusader which offer their own way to connect to a webdav space. If you use wdfs or davfs you can easily use these filemanagers to work with webdav space transparently by a mount point.
 
I personaly use davfs because the webdav space is used the same way in Linux like all other space is managed. I can use my dolphin or krusader easily to access the webdav space.
 

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Meine Fritz!Box 7390 hat viele Jahre dafür gesorgt dass ich einen zuverlässigen Zugriff von Zuhause ins Internet hatte. Machmal gab es Anschlussprobleme die aber nicht der Fritz!Box anzulasten waren sondern der Vermittlungsanlage sowie Infrastrukturprobleme meine Internetproviders 1und1.

Vor ca 1 Monat wurde mein Anschluss in der Vermittlungsanlage von 50Mb auf 100Mb umgestellt und meine Fritz!Box7390 fing danach intermittierend an in einer Woche 1-3 Mal die DSL Synchronisation zu verlieren obwohl die vertraglich vereinbarte Geschwindigkeit weiterhin bei 50Mb blieb. Ich muss aber dazu sagen dass der Download danach von 47Mb auf 51Mb sowie der Download von 9Mb auf 11Mb gestiegen ist. Anyhow ist die Fritz!Box 7390 offensichtlich ein wenig am ächzen bei der neuen Anbindung. Da die Fritz!Box 7390 keine Softwareupdates bekommt - und speziell keine sicherheitsrelevanten Softwareupdates - war beides zusammen für mich der Anlass mir eine Fritz!Box 7590 zu kaufen umd damit die gute alte Fritz!Box 7390 zu ersetzen.

 

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Tiny Networkinterface Monitor (TNM) was written to practice bash scripting. It's analyzing any interface usage (I used it for my DSL connection) . I generates a pseudo graphical representation of the receive and send usage in % of the interface bandwidth an usage in KBs .

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Following four commands can be used to get a list of local devices which are online. They provide different types and format of informatione. Thank you rpi444from the raspberry Forum for the list of commands.

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WLAN has a major advantage compared to wired communication: You can use your laptop, iphone or android everywhere and don't have to struggle with a cable. Just comare it with wireless and wired phones. There are some disadvantages: WLAN has usually a lower throughput than wired connection. But that's acceptable for normal browsing, eMail processing and chatting. Unfortunately there is another disadvantage: The number of WLAN channels to communicate with the accesspoint is limited. If a neighbour uses the same channel or a channel nearby the throughput of WLAN will decrease significantly.

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You have to configure in the advanced network connection to use a proxy. Then you use th local port 3128 as the proxyport which is tunnels with ssh to the remote server on port 3128.  This trick can be used for any port which should be tunneled.

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I usually use my webdav space from my Linux systems. But I also want to use this webdav space from my Windows box with filemanager TotalCommander. There exists a plugin in the plugincollection which is installed very quickly. The documentation how to configure and how to use the plugin is not very detailed. I found here a much better description how to use webdav with TotalCommander.

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At home I use a Linux server as a disk- and printserver. I wanted to grant somebody from the United States using Windows access to my shared disks which are available on my sambe server. It's not an issue on my local LAN but it's dangerous to open disk shares in the internet. It's just a matter of time until you have foreign visitors accessing your LAN. The best way to solve this issue is to create a VPN with OpenVPN. An alternate way is to use a ssh tunnel. The following article explains how you can get this done on windows XP with PuTTY.  Windows7 unfortnately is much more complicate and works best with a VPN network.

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namebench is a tool, which allows to measure the performance of DNS nameservers. That way you can find out which DNS nameserver you should configure on your system in order to get optimal nameserver performance.The test needs some time - but the results are very helpful.

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Recently I had problems to revoke my labtop from the supend mode. Finally I wasn't able to use KNetworkmanager any more because it was disabled.  Seems to be a feature of openSuSE 11.3  Solution: Edit /var/lib/Networkmanager/Networkmanager.state and change NetworkingEnabled=false to true. 

See also here

Update 9.August 2010: Bug fixed

 
  1. IPV6 Howtos
  2. How to disable ipv6 on Linux mint
  3. Wie ist meine IP/What's my IP