I think the relevant iptables commands for port triggering with Bittorrent are: #iptables -t nat -A prerouting_wan -p tcp –dport 6881:6889 -j TRIGGER –trigger-type dnat –trigger-proto tcp –trigger-match 6881 –trigger-relate 6881-6889 This tells the router to do NAT on the packets arriving on the WAN TCP ports 6881 through 6889…
kernel hacking
Now that I’ve got my new router set up (it’s working fine btw) I decided to dig a bit deeper into the firmware possibilities. Warning: this post is mostly martian, and it’s long. The first thing I wanted to investigate was the possibility of port triggering. Port triggering is an…
new router
Lately my SMC2804WBR has started to play up a bit (arbitrarily causing loss of connectivity), so this weekend I finally got around to replacing it. Mrs Elbeno was complaining of having to power cycle it 2 or 3 times a day. Where wireless broadband routers are concerned, experience has taught…
Mini-Elbeno can read!
Lately mini-Elbeno has started to read words. No, really! Last week I printed out some flash cards and he can read about a dozen of them: nose, ears, dog, clap, wave, arms up, arms down, ball, book, and more I can't remember now. Although he can't say many of them…
you can tell someone's computer background…
…like you can tell where they're from. By listening to what they call things and how they speak. ! = pling (or exclamation mark) ” = quotes # = hash £ = pound sign $ = string ^ = hat (or up-arrow) & = and (rarely, ampersand) * = star…
Some Linux/Unix commands worth knowing…
It seems like not a day goes by when I don’t run across someone’s blog listing “top 10 Linux commands you must know” or something like it. I get the feeling these are mostly posted by people who switched to Linux recently and want to share the experience. I switched…
it's old, but it still works!
Having played around with DosBox lately, I decided to do some more digging in my archives and found some stuff from the early 90s, pre-university era. Back then I was programming in QuickBASIC, which was awesome at the time. I found a half a dozen programs: a game of Yahtzee…
more linux fiddlings
Some things I’ve tried over the past week or so: Getting Second Life to work on Linux (compiling from source). Well, it worked in a very limited way, after a fashion. I didn’t get any sound (had to compile without FMod because v3.75 isn’t downloadable for 64-bit Linux). And there…
97X… Bam! The future of Rock and Roll
Over 70% of radio listeners listen while in the car. What are your stations set to? Mine are: 1. KCBS 93.1 “Jack FM”. Used to be Arrow, a classic rock station. Now seems to be some sort of chain (I've heard one in the SF area called “Bob”) which makes…
getting stuff working on Linux
Inspired by ‘s recent wibblings on Linux, I decided it was time to iron out my own wrinkles. So after a very little googling, I was able to get a bunch of stuff working that for one reason or another had broken when I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy. Sound…