After being a Shaw TV and Internet customer for several years, I recently made the switch to Telus Optik TV and Telus Optik High Speed Turbo Internet. While I’m very happy with both the Optik TV and Internet so far, there have been a few bumps along the way. For example, the other day I hooked up a DD-WRT powered wireless router to the network and experienced an IGMP multicast packet flood when I turned on the TV. In this article I show you how to use ebtables to block an IGMP multicast packet flood on a DD-WRT WLAN when watching IPTV. …Continue reading » How to Block IGMP Multicast Flood on a WLAN When Watching Telus Optik TV (IPTV)
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January 22nd, 2012 | Tags: DD-WRT, IPTV, Linux, Routers, Telus Optik, wifi, WNR3500L | Category: How-Tos | One comment |
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Warning: The following story is truly nerdy and lives up to the NerdBoys.com name… Last week I watched the Star Wars documentary The People vs George Lucas. Essentially, it’s about the disillusionment that fans of the original Stars Wars trilogy felt when they watched the prequel Star Wars trilogy. As I listened to the angry comments of the fans in the documentary, I found myself saying …Continue reading » The People vs George Lucas and The Lightsaber vs The Blaster
September 19th, 2011 | Tags: Linux | Category: Mini How-Tos | One comment |
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I run the highly popular and lightweight dnsmasq DNS forwarder and DHCP server program on numerous embedded devices. One of the cool things you can do with dnsmasq is something called split DNS (some people call it split-brain DNS or split-horizon DNS). If you don’t know what it is, go check out the wikipedia story. To implement split DNS with dnsmasq, you …Continue reading » dnsmasq, Split DNS and the Dreaded “No address (A) records available” Error March 29th, 2011 | Tags: Tomato firmware | Category: Mini How-Tos | One comment |
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