Mr Aijay Adams and I am back making my Fireplace Internet / Smart device controllable. Now, via a very sexy Web UI, when I’m heading back to Chateau Tahoe, I can turn my fireplace on to be ready as soon as I walk in the door. Sexy warmth controlled by a sexy custom made API. [ View Post… ]
nftables
Are you using the latest Linux kernel firewall?. Here are some notes I’ve saved that I use and forget all the time. I plan to add to this as I do more. Hopefully it helps you work something out one day. Note: I am using inet tables combining my IPv4 and IPv6 rulesets. List Tables [ View Post… ]
RPM vs OPKG Cheat Sheet
Recently in the Terragraph project I work on we changed from RPM to OPKG to removes some dependencies (e.g. perl) and make our overall image size smaller. I’ve never driven OPKG, but know RPM, so I made this cheat sheet for my shit memory. I’m cheap so I don’t have a Table plugin – So [ View Post… ]
Ansible + Handy PyPI CLI Tools
I often use a lot of PyPI CLI tools. Here is an example of how to get them easily installed and kept up to date via Ansible on Ubuntu >= 18.04. Install base pip via apt then run pip: – name: Get Python3 pip package: name: python3-pip state: latest – name: Add some handy Python [ View Post… ]
IPv6 + Flow labels
Recently a teammate and I have come across a frame forwarding issue with ECMP on a hardware ASIC in a device I work on where the use of Flow labels are used in the ECMP hash. This was interesting as we found iperf was not setting the Flow label at all, unless you specify the -L [ View Post… ]
NXOS Simple IPv6 BGP Peering
It took me far to long to find out how to config this, so I’m sharing it to be more searching on the Internets. Scenario: – NXOS BGP ‘upsteam’ / ‘north bound’ peer sharing the default route only – Linux box runs Quagga sharing it’s /56 routable behind it Nexus Conf feature bgp router bgp [ View Post… ]
Python pip ‘editable’ installing
From time to time I get asked (and I even have to ask a coworker) for the best way to install a Python modules (especially ones with entry points) into a virtualenv and still edit / develop with them. It seems pip install’s ‘-e’ is very unknown. pip install -e /path/you/are/editing Will allow you to develop [ View Post… ]
BitBucket + hg + branch merges
Ever have to update/merge a PR on BitBucket with Mercurial? I couldn’t find documentation anywhere, so doing so here: hg up BOOKMARK_NAME hg merge [–preview] -r REV If EDITOR is not set: export EDITOR=vim hg resolve –all hg commit -m “Merge with default” hg push –allow-anon
Python 3.7 – The best Python Release Ever!
Especially because: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/47320a652e872003f3dd3a9db4243067b09dd316#diff-c6a3fa0ad7b17f8e32f340835a4e5353 🙂
GitHub + Rebasing from upstream/master to origin/master
So, every now and then on a PR I need to rebase and fix things so I can retest etc. – I always forget this so blogging it to remember. Scenario: I have a diff on origin/master on my forked repo and I need a rebase from upstream/master (where I forked from). Process: Github recommends [ View Post… ]