Archive for September, 2007

Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge

Sean September 24th, 2007

I’ve recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection.

Normally, I’d go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD’s with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made “appliances” (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own.

This post is just a quick summary of the active configuration at the time of writing, mainly for my future reference. So, without further ado, here’s what I came up with…

[Updated]

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Barry & Louises Handfasting

Sean September 20th, 2007

Last weekend we took a trip down to Leicester to attend Barry & Lou’s Handfasting at Kirby Muxloe Castle.

Kirby Muxloe Aerial View

A great day and evening was had by all - A DJ who wasn’t afraid to play any kind of Rock/Metal you could want was a real bonus too :)

As usual, my photos are online - Just click here…

Outer Hebrides Photos

Sean September 19th, 2007

I’ve finally got round to making another pass at sorting out our Outer Hebrides photos!

There’s still some missing (more panoramic photos and the videos we took), but the majority are now online.

Go to http://www.cardus.com/gallery/v/Outer+Hebrides to check them out.

Autostitch is a really handy tool for automatically stitching overlapping photos together into one large panoramic shot.  Links to the few I’ve uploaded so far: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7*

* - This one’s a bit screwy and needs fixing & cropping

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