Puppet Infrastructure 2015

The Quagga version in Debian 8 (v0.99.23.1) suffers from a bug in ospf6d, which causes that no IPv6 routes are exchanged via point-to-point interfaces.

In order to workaround this problem (and re-establish IPv6 connectivity), a downgrade of the quagga package can be done.
For this we add the 'oldstable' entry to sources.list and pin the quagga package to the old version.

Entry to add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ oldstable main

Entry to add to /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: quagga
Pin: version 0.99.22.*
Pin-Priority: 1001

After the entries have been added, run apt-get update followed by apt-get install quagga to downgrade to the old quagga package.

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Create packets with custom IPv4 IP Option fields using Scapy:

>>> packet=IP(src="203.0.113.1",dst="203.0.113.2",options=[IPOption('%s%s'%('\x86\x28','a'*38))])
>>> ls(packet)
version    : BitField             = 4               (4)
ihl        : BitField             = None            (None)
tos        : XByteField           = 0               (0)
len        : ShortField           = None            (None)
id         : ShortField           = 1               (1)
flags      : FlagsField           = 0               (0)
frag       : BitField             = 0               (0)
ttl        : ByteField            = 64              (64)
proto      : ByteEnumField        = 0               (0)
chksum     : XShortField          = None            (None)
src        : Emph                 = '203.0.113.1'   (None)
dst        : Emph                 = '203.0.113.2'   ('127.0.0.1')
options    : PacketListField      = [<IPOption  copy_flag=1L optclass=control option=commercial_security length=40 value='aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' |>] ([])
>>> sr1(packet)

The above code results in the following packet (as seen by Wireshark):

To avoid the automatic installation/switch to systemd during the upgrade to Debian 8, it is enough to prevent the installation of the systemd-sysv package.

This can be done by creating a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-systemd-sysv with the following content:

Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

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"Obey the cloud!" by Johannes Kretzschmar, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy

Looking forward to see the live performance at the Future Music Festival 2015 :-)

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Run #9 around Centennial Park. Two rounds again, this time during noon with some nice sun and a whopping 30°C :-)

Centennial Midday Run 2x

Run #8 around Centennial Park. Two rounds again, and with some rain :-(

Centennial Morning Run 2x