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Month: May 2007

  • Onwards and southwards – ta-ra ta-ra!

    Well, the ball is rolling for me to move south by about 60 miles as the crow flies. Iโ€™ve accepted a job at a utilities company as a system administrator, and if things go as planned, I should be starting there at the beginning of July. Cue frenzied packing, cleaning and decorating of the current…

  • Dhclient3 and MS DHCP classless static routes

    $dayjob uses a Microsoft server for DHCP. Not really a problem, except out of the box, the (K)Ubuntu dhcp client (dhclient3) doesnโ€™t actually support option 249 – classless-static-routes (or ms-classless-static-routes as some sites on the net refer to it). The format that the MS DCHP server spits out is the mask, followed by the subnet,…