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Surfshark, IOS, IKEv2 and VRFs

Surfshark, IOS, IKEv2 and VRFs

This post describes my attempts to configure SurfShark IPSec VPN with IKEv2 on a Cisco ISR.

EE IPv6 Strategy

EE IPv6 Strategy

Found this really interesting and wanted to blog about this - shows in a great amount of detail how EE are doing with their IPv6 rollout. They've decided to go IPv6 only on compatible devices, which is excellent news, the faster we get rid of CGNAT the better! You can

Resurrecting TinyGrab

Update 10/02/2020 This process is no longer functional, although you can still use the following source code if you want to do this yourself (many thanks to @farkie on twitter for re-writing the whole API (including login support!). It's available on Github here. --- So, TinyGrab is an

General Featured

hello again

Hello! It's been an awful long time since I last posted here, over 3 years in fact. So what happened? Well, university happened. 4 days after I wrote my last blog post I started Uni and have spent the last 3 and a bit years being rather busy! Last year

Moves History v2

So there's a brand new version of Moves History almost ready to go, it just needs the finishing touches adding (and those pesky bugs swatting). I'd be running the migration script and launching it later tonight, but it's the last Wednesday night before I move to Uni, so going out

Oh iOS 6...

So iOS 6 has been released this evening.. As well as getting the usual 'It doesn't work', I've hit another snag: It's completely clogging up the internet. Aaaaaand just as I'm typing this the inevitable happens: Note that every time it fails it resets the downloaded count to zero as

Thunderstorm vs VDSL2

We had a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Saw a thread or two on the PN forums about thunderstorms, errors and internet, so I thought I'd check my stats from the afternoon. Sure enough, there's a pretty graph: Have a guess when the storm was?

FTTC Update

Got bored this afternoon, so aswell as starting a FP1 past paper, I decided to graph the attainable rates from our FTTC modem (HG612) since I started logging them back in April. This proved somewhat challenging for excel (~200k samples to graph) and was freezing for 5 minutes every time