Recent content by rumblpak

Actually, I was having a ton of issues with 6to4 due to dnscrypt where it prevented a lot of local traffic. In a nutshell, disabling ipv6 solved a slew of problems including (but not limited to) windows file sharing. [edit] scratch that. modified the scripts to run opendns properly with a ipv6...

That's not necessarily true. You could technically implement a firewall that has a whitelist of allowed outbound services and drop everything else.

And to make it plainly obvious, 255 = 11111111 in binary. where the 8 is from is the 1 bits in the subnet mask, so a /24 is: 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 or 255.255.255.0 since there are 24 ones, the mask is /24. Alternatively, you can consider the host bits, which are to the right of...

The easiest way for me to get a stable connection is to disable dhcp on my gateway and give my router a static ip to wan. Once I did that, I haven't had a single dropped connection in 5 months. Prior to that it was near daily. Seriously, comcast needs to either fix their software, or let someone...