Started as a WAN engineer, using Case DCX statmux equipment. Dabbled in SNA and ATM, finished with Cisco and Juniper. Still own two Cisco IGS routers.
Moved into network and datacentre architecture and design. Burned out completely. Did nothing for a while. Picked my old programming hobby back up.
Develops in a bit in Python, C++, but mainly PHP. Now run a managed hosting and web application development company.
Next up: retirement.
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- Apr 30 2026, 4:47 PM (20 w, 3 d)
Jul 18 2026
Jul 18 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T9101: Multiple MAC address support for KEA DHCP.
Sorry, typo in the title, but I have no rights to change it.
Jun 23 2026
Jun 23 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T8942: Strongswan 5.x can not create a route when using a point-to-point tunnel (policy routing).
I'll have to think about how to test this now, we migrated the last Sophos UTM over the weekend, after which we migrated all tunnels from IPSec to wireguard.
Jun 10 2026
Jun 10 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T8977: Regression in network.py is_addr_assigned, function rejects floating addresses (HAProxy and maybe other affected).
I think it should check the state of net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind / net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind, and if set to 1, skip the check.
Jun 6 2026
Jun 6 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T4992: Incorrect check is_local_address for bgp neighbor with option ip_nonlocal_bind set.
load-balancing haproxy has exactly the same problem, see https://forum.vyos.io/t/haproxy-load-balancing-vip-address/17495
Jun 2 2026
Jun 2 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T8942: Strongswan 5.x can not create a route when using a point-to-point tunnel (policy routing).
To add, sudo systemctl stop strongswan followed by a sudo systemctl start strongswan doesn't release the memory claimed.
WanWizard added a comment to T8942: Strongswan 5.x can not create a route when using a point-to-point tunnel (policy routing).
There is a second reason for the upgrade: there is a memory leak in Strongswan, at least in the case I'm using it in (IKEv1 over PPPoE).
WanWizard added a comment to T8949: DHCPv6 prefix and delegation length unnecessarily limited.
That may be your opinion, which is fine, as you clearly don't have a need for it. I do, and VyOS' python validation rule is the only thing stopping me.
Jun 1 2026
Jun 1 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T8949: DHCPv6 prefix and delegation length unnecessarily limited.
Obviously, I meant DHCPv6-PD, not SLAAC.
May 31 2026
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May 21 2026
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May 20 2026
May 20 2026
WanWizard added a comment to T478: Firewall address group (multi and nesting).
Just bumped into the fact appearently this wasn't implemented for all groups, getting an "include is not valid" for a domain-group.