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I’m sick. Again. I was just sick a couple of weeks ago, though it only lasted for about two days. Now I’m pretty sure I’ve got Bronchitis. I’m betting that’s what euphorik had/has, and I found out that darkho probably had it to and is just getting over it. I’ve been feeding on Chicken Noodle soup for the past few days. Sigh. I hope this passes soon, I’ve lots of work to get to. When I’m sick I prefer to rest a lot in hopes that it’ll help me get back to complete wellness faster.

I sent out messages to those who requested DD soundtrack notification today. If you didn’t get yours, mail me and I’ll see what I can do.

iptables connmark matcher has problems with iptables-save/iptables-restore, and its command line parsing. Here’s my connmark patch, applied against RH 8.0’s iptables 1.2.6a.

Had a major problem with the network at the office last night. Power apparently went out long enough to bring everything down, including the stuff on UPS. Then when the firewall came back up the DHCP server wouldn’t start up because I never completed the IP switch-over on it. Now lets remember that I switched all the servers, Linux and Windows alike, to be DHCPed a month or two back. Result? dhcpcd and probably pump give up trying to get a lease after a while, and so the servers never got IPs. Oops. I’m going to be changing the time they spend trying to get a lease to probably extend into infinity, but I’m not sure this is entirely good enough. I’d really like them to boot up, see they’ve still got a valid lease, and use that lease – especially in the event they can’t contact a DHCP server. Maybe that’ll be a trivial hack to dhcpcd, who knows? (Of course, for all I know they boot, try and get a lease, and if dhcpcd times out it forks in to the background and keeps trying to get a lease for whatever timeout it’s configured for. The alternative is that it’s going to be booting and sit where it tries to bring up the network interface until it successfully contacts the DHCP server. I guess that wouldn’t be so bad. At least it’d be a start.) Anyway, next I’ll be attacking dhcpcd, or at least reading its source to see how it uses an option or two.

It was fun taking cold medicine, then getting a call from three ISPs (we had a customer line go out too; sounded like TWTC left me a voice mail using a soup can and some string) about 30m later to tell me everything was down. At first I was like, “well, I guess I can drive to the office.” A minute or so later I realized, “I can’t even focus on the monitor, like hell I’m going to drive.” Had to go in today, though, and it was taxing.

Computers are such a bother.