Playing with the network

I'm in the position of needing to improve my internet connectivity, so one of the first steps is to decouple all the things that provide the services I rely upon.

Stage one is to turn my modem into just an ADSL endpoint, removing any DHCP, NAT, and PPPoE termination from the device so that it has a single function.

Fortunately my nb604n ADSL modem has a nice easy-to-follow guide for taking it into bridge mode: http://support.netcommwireless.com/sm/videos/nb604n/nb604n-bridge-mode-setup-guide

Now onto greater things!

First post!

My website disappeared earlier this month as a result of costly disk crash.  I was bitten by some lovely EXT4 corruption, on an Ubuntu 10.04 image, in a VirtualBox environment.  Of course I had backups, but they likewise failed me when the time came to restore.

So I've lost 9 years of weblog.

I have rediscovered the importance of testing the restorability of your backups, and yet again read The Tao of Backup.  I've taken my cod liver oil and learnt my lesson.

So it's time to start again, hence this log of life that I'm now starting...