networking

[errant zealot]

on games id spike to 300-600 ping, while my normal ping is about 60

[peak cloak]

@meager ginkgo could it be something with modem only allowing one MAC?

I doubt it

since it would done per modem I would think, not per ethernet device

[meager ginkgo]

I’m not sure to be honest lol

[peak cloak]

you could try to factory reset router to go back to original mac?

[errant zealot]

I did

the red LED still lit up

[hollow marlin]

They finally got back. Did you know that farting around with policies/route-maps when you have no clue what you're doing has negative side effects?

[waxen scroll]

yeah its why cloudflare goes down so much

[hollow marlin]

They were doing a "migration" and updated their config which suddenly blockholed one of their subnets due to local-pref on Cogent's end. But instead of reviewing their changes, just pointed the finger as us.

[toxic chasm]

TLDR, I want a separate VLAN to have SSH access to a bunch of cisco gear and be able to just jump onto it from my computer.

What I have rn is a USB NIC in my computer on the management network.

[peak cloak]

what you can do is just tag the vlan on the interface to computer

then just switch between vlans

what NIC do you have

you can also just configure a router to be able to route between them

[hollow marlin]

Or just setup proper routing. There is no reason to have to swap VLANs just for remote mgmt

[peak cloak]

yeah

X Y problem

https://xyproblem.info/

[errant zealot]

Heyyyy uhh presentmonkey

So I tried unplugging my modem right

Yeahhhh I kinda dropped the power wire and I can't get it

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak bruh some of the esports pcs got joined into the domain somehow

[acoustic isle]

First rack build inc

[clear igloo]

This is it, you need to reboot the modem between MAC changes

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak Classes haven't even started at uni yet and I've already seen one AV rack room

@clear igloo @waxen scroll The Crestron AV room for uni esports has 2 12 fiber OM3 coming into the room

and a shit ton of CAT6

[waxen scroll]

OM3 is outdated 😦

really need OM4+ but in reality single mode for new deployments

[rocky badge]

wait

OM4 and OM3 are same color right

that aqua blue

[waxen scroll]

yes

[rocky badge]

oh then its either one then lol

all of this is going to the room lol

[acoustic isle]

Thats for to night

[echo roost]

Making good progress!

thats a lot of ports

[hushed kindle]

I am in need of a 2.5 gigabit pcie network card because my onboard motherboard ethernet cuts in and out sometimes and it's annoying, so I am upgrading, what's the recommended brand

[peak cloak]

can't go wrong with intel

[sudden kayak]

i mean the answer is to RMA the motherboard, that shouldn't happen and it could indicate other problems

but yeah any intel 2.5GbE nic is fine

[tender hazel]

hey @hollow marlin - do you happen to know what "tx bias current" means for an optic?

we have one active ethernet customer where the port is only linking up on one side (the tower side), the customer side links up for one second and goes down.. optic signals are great.. only thing weird is that the tx bias current for that one customer is 67 milliamps, which is three times higher than the other 20 customers on that switch

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak My uni forces light theme Windows

[peak cloak]

rip

[peak cloak]

prob not on purpose

ask them

[rocky badge]

but i have local admin

although idk if its for all PCs or just the esports PCs

[hollow marlin]

If I remember from a Ciena doc, the Tx bias is how it regulates the wavelengths. More power, the greater freq emitted. I may be butchering it.

What type of optics are they? Maybe negotiation issue?

[tender hazel]

bidi, 1490/1310 on one end and 1310/1490 on the other.. fs.com, 10km, SFP 1Gbps

both sides set for forced 1Gbps, so not a negotiation issue

we have to force both sides, as our switches has SFP+ ports but the customer devices have SFP ports, and so you do you have to force both ends to 1Gbps in order to work

it is only this one that is not working

given that the rx and tx light levels are very good on both ends, I'm suspecting a transceiver problem

[hollow marlin]

Id probably say the same. I assume the other interfaces are using the same model of optics as well?

[tender hazel]

yes, everything else is identical

[hollow marlin]

I would test in another device just to make sure but I would say it's a bad optic, especially being 3x higher

[tender hazel]

yeah

[hollow marlin]

Now I'm going to have to check and see how consistent our levels are. Our Calix AE is all 1G BiDi as well

[south crypt]

here

I also had them replace everything up to my network rack

This is extremely frustrating

I might try to use wireshark to narrow down the issue

It has nothing to do with wireless im not referring to wifi at all im only talking about hardwired direct connect and even if it was i have the amplifi alien which is wifi 6

And yes i know it says up to but i already had a conversation with my rep and he said that my area is not congested what so ever and we have prioritized lines due to a contract with Comcast where i live

[glass anvil]

I found a CE0128TB switch for sub-$200. Thoughts?

[acoustic isle]

100plus incoming plus fiber. looks like need other rack..

[pseudo blade]

Is this for personal use? I assume so. Hardware looks fine - not premium, no redundant power -but not bad. Not familiar with the OS. CLI reference manual for CNOS looks rather cisco-ish and it and the datasheet promise some L3 features. If you just want basic access/L2 you can go cheaper but it doesn't look like that bad of a deal

[broken jetty]

Are there any good UK-shipping places to buy cables from? I know LTT use Infinite Cables, but they don't, and I'm not a huge fan of buying off Amazon as there's zero quality assurance

[sudden kayak]

if you're talking about ethernet, that's a whole different deal. it just sounds like the amplifi is broken. try doing a factory reset and disabling QoS and any other traffic management features

[sudden kayak]

also yeah that's the regular gigabit cable plan. you should be able to get 1500Mbps if your router is up to the task so it might just be that the amplifi isn't fast enough

what is the model of your modem

[thick minnow]

Quick question, if my ISP is not giving my router a static IP, that means setting up a VPN server in my home is pretty much out of the question right?

[old cradle]

and my school doesn't allow me to access anything that has to do with the computer

[clear igloo]

You can setup dynamic DNS

[thick minnow]

How much is the said service cost averagely?

[clear igloo]

free

[thick minnow]

Huh, interesting. You're talking about cloudflare right?

[clear igloo]

No, just a dynamic dns server such as dyndns

I can't remember if cloudflare provides dynamic dns off hand

[thick minnow]

Thanks for the info. I'm gonna do some reading on this stuff.

[peak cloak]

you can do it through the api

@thick minnow if you want an easy solution without port forwarding you can also look into services like zerotier and tailscale. I'm personally using zerotier right now since it's easy to use

[thick minnow]

Thanks for the info i'll look into that.

[thick minnow]

Hi chat i have usb wireless lan card it's 2.4 ghz and i want to speed up !

[peak cloak]

use ethernet or get a better one

[glass anvil]

Just really want some cheap 10Gbit ports.

[south crypt]

Get a domain and set it up to be a dynamic IP and you can run a vpn then

[glacial linden]

Not if the IPv4 address is behind CGNAT... no port is open on external ipv4

[south crypt]

I dont think you can request a static ip unless its a business account at least for Verizon and comcast

[glacial linden]

I have a similar problem.. im trying to host a server, expecting easy direct connections with IPv6. My friends only have IPv4... I tried using noip to get a free public domain but it's IPv6 mode also requires an IPv4 address, and for example minecraft prefers IPv4 over IPv6 even when both are present. Is it possible to make it IPv6 only, with some other service? Or redirect that IPv4 address to IPv6 using something like noip?

My IPv4 is behind some cursed ISP NAT that doesn't allow any incoming connections over IPv4 at times

[south crypt]

Just try registering with a dynamic dns service mine works great

Noip i had issues with

Not sure why

[glacial linden]

Dyn DNS service can only get external IPv4... behind a whole mess of NATs (my ISP is big and many people in my area share the same ext IPv4)
That ext IPv4 can't have open ports or port forwarding rules for incoming connections since I can't config any of that on routers in the middle

[south crypt]

Ohhhhh

[glacial linden]

I set it up too... IPv6 can be reached but IPv4 can't

[south crypt]

That sucks

There has to be a way around that

[glacial linden]

I want something that can have IPv6 only... or some service that can route IPv4 to IPv6 address without adding too much latency

ik that a domain registered on Cloudflare can allow ipv4 only requests to connect to ipv6

but since I already have a big fat server that can do basically everything, I was hoping I can get a solution working for free

[south crypt]

@glacial linden whos your service provider?

[glacial linden]

Oh I'm not in US or Canada... Also my ISP doesn't even bother responding to such requests unless it's a proper verified business

I tried everything I could for 1 year to get them to give me a dedicated IPv4

[peak cloak]

oracle free vps

free v4

or some cheap vps

[glacial linden]

will it be able to route ipv4 to ipv6 for friends who dont have v6

[peak cloak]

no you'll run dual stack

v4 over v6 tunnel

I think it's also possible to do v4 over v6, without tunneling, but I have no experience with it

[glacial linden]

oh ok... will try

[pseudo blade]

I can't help but wonder if you could just use NAT/port forward from the instance if the services are reachable via ipv6

[glacial linden]

No idea... Friends who do have IPv6, are able to directly connect without issues all the time. Then we use zerotier-one and tailscale as a noconfig vpn with their own ip subnets to connect stuff like ssh, SMB, minecraft, etc

[pseudo blade]

If it's nothing but HTTP/S I'd just use Cloudflare's service but I think you mentioned game hosting before if I'm not confusing you with someone else?

Yep

[glacial linden]

also I tried connecting to localhost minecraft server over ipv6 ::1 but it just won't connect

so even if I do get everything working, I have no idea what's wrong with minecraft

[peak cloak]

isn't it [::1] ?

[glacial linden]

Tried that too

also tried [::1]:25565

[peak cloak]

yeah there is no offical v6 support for mc

[peak cloak]

what's the server-ip in server-properties

[glacial linden]

blank

[peak cloak]

hmm

[glacial linden]

basically listen on everything on that port if im not wrong

[pseudo blade]

I wonder if you could use masquerading there too and just translate from v4 to v6 assuming Minecraft doesn't have any expectations on the matter

Fixing the binding would be preferable but if there's no support...

[peak cloak]

see if it binded correctly

netstat -an

[glacial linden]

Every IPv4 works. Every IPv6 doesn't connect. Client throws errors too, I've seen some logs

[peak cloak]

see if it actually bound

[pseudo blade]

People are saying ipv6 is supported by Minecraft

So it should be solely a binding/firewall issue

[glacial linden]

[14:24:54] [Render thread/INFO]: Connecting to ::1, 25565
[14:24:55] [Server Connector #7/ERROR]: Couldn't connect to server
java.nio.channels.UnsupportedAddressTypeException: null

UnsupportedAddressTypeException

it gets stuck here and doesn't give any onscreen errors... and that in logs. This is ipv6 on localhost

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak @clear igloo there are so many APs here. i can see 3 from where i’m sitting

[clear igloo]

more coverage!!

[rocky badge]

and they’re the good wifi 6 aps too

[clear igloo]

lol, wow

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

[acoustic isle]

atleast covers all sides of you

[rocky badge]

there are no dead spots

[waxen scroll]

At least you know your money got put to good use

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQwumADjSE

👀

[rocky badge]

ooh

[sly lark]

Uhhhh so weird thing happened at my dad’s work

And then one thing led to another and

Now we have a nas, help?

Also is this a good surge protector for gaming pc or should I keep it for the nas?

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak Apparently Apogee shuts down the network jack if you try to connect to many IPs at once

[reef hill]

what would be the thing that increased that 100.0 Mbps, a new motherboard, ethernet cable, or upgrading the wifi? My brother in the same house uses a wifi card and gets 30+ mb/s download speed and I use ethernet and usually get around 12 max

[pseudo blade]

You're likely confusing megabits with megabytes, 12MB/s*8=96mbps. Unless your computer's more than 15 years old a motherboard ethernet port is likely gigabit, so it's probably router/switch ports being 10/100mbps or a bad cable.

[reef hill]

my mobo has 2.5gb and i switched it to that and the speed stayed the same, i think i am confusing the two things though

but a new cable wouldnt take it above that 100mbps unless the router supported it?

[pseudo blade]

No

[reef hill]

i have a "cat6" cable but i purchased it a couple years ago

[pseudo blade]

But if other clients are getting 240mbps (and not 30mbps?) I'd be shocked if it had 10/100 ports

[reef hill]

well again he is on a wifi card upstairs and connected to the 5g wifi and when he downloads games i've seen it go up to 40mb/s download speed, so i would assume that means the ethernet should be capable of the same? or is that not how routers work

[pseudo blade]

It's not, but there's definitely something missing

[reef hill]

this is the internet i have, that should mean the ethernet ports are rated for the 400Mbps right

[pseudo blade]

They would likely be gigabit

[reef hill]

so if the speed is set to 1.0Gbps or 2.5 and im still at 100.00 then is it more likely to be an ethernet cable problem

[pseudo blade]

The router model would be a more helpful way to determine that

But likely the cable

[reef hill]

alright i have anew cable on the way so gonna see if that works, just wanted to be sure it wasnt my motherboard at least

assuming the new cable fixes it, i would know by whether or not that 100.0 goes up correct ?

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll

they put so many network drops in this room

[dull owl]

I just moved into a new apartment, and my internet is acting up when downloading stuff on steam. Can anyone explain why the speed is fluctuating from 6 MB/s -> 27 MB/s and then going down to 0? Thanks )

[sly lark]

What happens if you unplug a nas?

[unborn sluice]

Then it is not longer running

[uncut plume]

Is it better to separate the 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz networks into different SSID's or should I just use one SSID?

[ripe bridge]

I already experimented some problem with device while having the two band on the same ssid. After getting two I never had issue again so I would say to you to separate them

[uncut plume]

Okay thanks for your input

[pseudo blade]

98% of the time having them the same and letting devices roam works well and is a net benefit

I find people who separate the networks tend to join their devices to either a 5ghz network, move further from the AP and wonder why their experience sucks or be permanently on 2.4ghz and wonder why their experience sucks

[peak cloak]

Interesting

[sudden kayak]

i can basically guarantee you won't do a better job manually picking the bands with separate SSIDs than your devices can when they're automatically checking signal strength multiple times every second and picking the optimal band as you move around

also the one specific exception people seem to always get hung up about is weird iot devices with buggy wifi stacks that don't like 5ghz. the solution to that is to have a separate 2.4ghz only ssid on an iot vlan which you should be doing anyway for security, because iot shit is a security nightmare

[waxen scroll]

I dont think you can separate bands on different SSIDs on the same APs

oh ok you mean 2 vs 5

I was thinking multiple freq in 2 or 5

[sudden kayak]

nah i just meant the common thing ppl do where they have an ssid for 2.4 and one for 5 because they want to manually pick the band

[waxen scroll]

yeah I do that too

I had devices refusing to stay on 5 a while ago and just stuck with it

[sudden kayak]

idk i think it's better to have specific ssids for stuff that has trouble with it, but it's gonna make the experience so much worse for things that can't switch when they should if it's manual

[acoustic isle]

i will have 6cat6a and 2 fibers in my room

just for multi pc use case if party or just laptops

[rocky badge]

i hope it’s not permanent loll

[rocky badge]

nice

[south crypt]

getting between 900 to 1.4 now thank you to everyone who messaged me to help me fix this complicated issue!!!

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo Did i tell you guys that my uni is running 2 domain controllers on aws lol

[clear igloo]

lol, nice

[rocky badge]

They have a s2s vpn back here it seems since the dcs have an internal 10.x ip

[waxen scroll]

that is the dumbest thing ive heard for a large campus unless they're just additions to whats already there

[rocky badge]

There's 4 on prem DCs

and 2 AWS

4 on prem at this site anyways, there's probably more at remote sites

[subtle estuary]

Some routers Ethernet ports can be capped at 100/100 to we hade that problem on our internet switches when we switched from 100/100 to 500/500 3 years ago so we needed to buy new ones to get till full speed otherwise it would have been capped at 100/100.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

dns-umbrella1

[clear igloo]

block all the things

[rocky badge]

they actually don't block many things

[clear igloo]

That's good, yah, usually just malware and nefarious stuff

[rocky badge]

its mainly for malware and unwanted shit

[waxen scroll]

I would hope not. You pay for it so nothing should be censored

[rocky badge]

Yeah

plus COPPA doesn't apply

[ripe bridge]

Running DC on Cloud, are they running openLDAP or RHDS ?

If they are running a Windows ADDC

[rocky badge]

Windows domain

[quartz mural]

Hi, I just got a new router mesh network installed yesterday and now my desktop that is connected does not have internet. I can see the link light blinking on the switch and the computer shows it's connected. My router app shows that it's connected, but no access ??
Any suggestions?

Anything that I've done so far in command prompt gets an error because it can't connect to DHCP server

[coarse rapids]

I have my own internet connection via DSL, but I also have (much slower) internet included in my rent via WAN. Would it be possible to connect both to a single router and use both connections at the same time?

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo 20mhz 802.11ax channels

[clear igloo]

Yup, crazy to see in the wild though 😛

[rocky badge]

yeah

[clear igloo]

You know nothing is using it

[clear igloo]

Needs more overlap

[ripe bridge]

Strange choice when you know that Azure AD exist

[rocky badge]

they have Azure AD too

@clear igloo 😐signing up for mcgraw hill shit for school and they emailed me my password i put in

[clear igloo]

Yup, most of them suck but mcgraw is extra bad from what I remember

[sudden kayak]

mcgraw hill is abysmal yeah

[waxen scroll]

Nah it's Pearson that's extra bad

[ripe bridge]

So they have 4 onprem, an Azure AD and 2 AWS instance ? Seems to be lot of useless cost

[rocky badge]

idk

they have lots of stuff in AWS

banner/SIS is in AWS

they’re also using AppStream for vds

[sly lark]

Should I use a NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 or no?

For home and gaming use

[broken jetty]

Is it possible and/or advisable to create custom mDNS records for devices on your network that don't do it on their own? Seems like better practice than .local records in a custom DNS server

[modest mirage]

what the heck, that's crazy bad lmao... it's okay to email randomly generated passwords, but passwords you manually set is just crazy

[rocky badge]

yeah..

[modest mirage]

are they also stored in plain text then? 😂

[rocky badge]

i fucking hope not

[modest mirage]

they probably just grabbed it while you signed up and sent in an email

but in doing that they sort of store it in plain text, unless you change it again after 😂

unless they email you the new password as well that is

[crude dirge]

I hate shaw

They just reset my internet so I had to do everything from the beginning

[peak cloak]

isn't that what vtech did

[modest mirage]

Not sure, but there have been a fair few examples of bad practices 😛

[ripe bridge]

Apparently this kind of thing start to happen since Entrust breach
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1561262483448512513/photo/1

vx-underground (@vxunderground)

Lockbit: "We're being DDoS'd because of the Entrust hack"

vx-underground: "How do you know it's because of the Entrust breach?"

Lockbit:

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Twitter · Aug 21, 2022, 8:02 AM

[flint field]

Hi Guys im trying to setup a mesh network thats is fed from PoE, but, i dont want the access points to "extend" the network through them, but rather all be connected to the same poe router (which also turn them on), but the most common mesh systems dont say anything that work like that, im looking at TP-Link Deco system, what Access points or systems should i be looking into

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo someone threw a pack of mayonnaise on top of the AP

[clear igloo]

lol, mayo slows down the waves

[rocky badge]

lmao

[pseudo blade]

You're just looking for APs with roaming then, not a mesh. What you're describing is exceedingly common for business networks. Some here like Unifi, I use Mikrotik gear as long as WiFi 4/AC is good enough for the use case and I've yet to need Wifi 6 in a design so I have no idea what I'd pick for it - budget dependent probably. But both Ubiquiti and Mikrotik offer controllers for bulk management of APs.

Perhaps the better question here: How much is your budget, how many APs do you want for it and what kind of network performance do you need?

[flint field]

it is for a business, i'd say arround 1.5k

So, APs with roaming should function similar to a mesh system?, but w/o the repeating wifi signals that would incur into their degradation

[pseudo blade]

How many APs do you need? Do they work on local servers etc. or internet-only? What internet speeds do you get?

[flint field]

4, internet only, 200mbps

2 per office building, 1 for each floor

(its not that big)

[pseudo blade]

APs with roaming don't function like a mesh network (no directly connecting to eachother for backhaul, but ethernet is better anyways), but the devices+APs collectively decide which one your devices connect to based on signal so it appears as one big network to clients

[flint field]

ye, having a big single network is one of the things i suggested, their current solution is a bit rudimentary and quite cumbersome for the endpoints most of the time

Since, there are no fixed stations (mostly laptops), it was requested to keep it wifi

[pseudo blade]

Have you picked your PoE router yet? Have a vendor you like?

I don't think a Deco makes a ton of sense for your stated layout - they're home products focused on mesh networking, with low port counts+home features

Is your existing router fit for purpose? If so you could just buy a PoE switch and retain it

[flint field]

not yet, dont really have a preference, but can also buy injectors if needed

[flint field]

yea, that was the plan mostly, till i encountered the mesh issue

[sudden kayak]

yeah "mesh" is a) a marketing term for consumer wifi systems and b) a bandaid for people who can't or don't want to run ethernet. for a business scenario you should always go with proper multi AP system with a controller for roaming. something like TP-link's omada line is what you want, or the ubuquiti system.

i don't know off the top of my head but i think cisco or aruba would be out of the budget range for a small office like that? but other people in here know more about their stuff

[flint field]

ye, its a small business with arround 40 people working in the office, and mostly laptops and phones

TP-Link EAP615-Wall would be a nice fit?

[sudden kayak]

hmm that's wifi 5, for an office environment the density/mimo improvements in wifi 6 would actually probably be pretty helpful

something like eap610 or eap660

[flint field]

most laptops dont have wifi 6 capabilities

in reality, most laptops dont even have AC wireless lol

[sudden kayak]

hmm i would still say you might want to go with wifi 6 ... they're basically the same price rn and a lot of the AC stuff is going out of production

[flint field]

ahh, price wise

hmm, they're double or 50$ more for the models you suggested

[sudden kayak]

weird. either the price changed since last time i looked or I'm comparing the wrong models lol my bad

[flint field]

its k, im from another country so prices will vary a lot

[sudden kayak]

AC will definitely work fine and if its cheaper it's a solid option

[flint field]

so, the one i mentioned is 100$, and the one you suggested is 240$ :/

[sudden kayak]

that's what my house is on rn, i am actually in the process of upgrading but not because AC is too slow or anything. just because i got a good deal on a longer range AP

i would say if you can swing it, the whole omada system is more likely to be in stock rn then ubiquiti and it's pretty solid. i have a similar setup to what you're describing at my parents house... but i would say it's a solid setup for a 40-50 person office (yes it's very much overkill lmao)

[flint field]

im cheap on my house, so i just ran ethernet everywhere and a 25$ gigabite/Ac tp link router

[pseudo blade]

It's not your house though

Running crap that breaks costs money

[flint field]

ye, that's what i was getting at

[sudden kayak]

two omada gigabit PoE switches, an omada hardware controller, and 4 of the cheaper omada APs probably comes in under $1000 and covers what you're describing reasonably well

[flint field]

so, im intrigued about this Roaming AP things, and the TP-Link EAP615-Wall that has Omada seem very nice

[pseudo blade]

Not too familiar with TP-link Omada stuff but from what I've heard it isn't too bad on a budget

[sudden kayak]

seconded, yeah I'd say it is solid

[flint field]

owner says he is fine paying a bit extra for brands like Cisco, so im speaking witht the hardware supplier in the city to see what they have to offer

Any models i should ask about, or the TP-link stuff should be sufficient

[pseudo blade]

Unless you're buying refurbished good luck on that

[sudden kayak]

i mean, the classic line is "nobody ever got fired for buying cisco" 😆 but yeah budget wise that's gonna be a huge jump

[pseudo blade]

IMO Cisco's not worth it for SME

[clear igloo]

Well when the lead times are 300+ days

[sudden kayak]

yeah that too - the tp link omada stuff is in stock in a ton of places. Cisco not so much

[flint field]

im just gonna present the options to the owner, and explain, let him decide

[clear igloo]

Yah, if they're fine with year long lead times they can go enterprise, I think the shortest might be Aruba? but not 100% on that off hand

[flint field]

ye, they're easily available even on amazon

im a recently graduated rookie, what do you mean with long lead times?

[clear igloo]

how long until you get the gear

from when you order the gear

[sudden kayak]

supply chain issues are crazy rn yeah cisco is kinda struggling

[clear igloo]

Yah

[flint field]

hmm, i see, since we buy from a hardware supplier/importer, we mostly buy what's in stock already

[clear igloo]

If you're buying in stock then that helps narrow things down

[pseudo blade]

Pretty much all enterprise gear's in short supply

[flint field]

ye, i already run a smaller pc building services how i actually got hired, and have the stores that supply hardware already

so i just buy from there

but i guess cisco has a cheaper not so highly requested line for smaller business?

[clear igloo]

Their small business line is hit or miss from what I've heard

[pseudo blade]

Anything I've ever tried from Cisco with the word "budget" attached was crippled to the point of being worse than alternatives at a lower price point

[flint field]

oof

[pseudo blade]

The small business RVXXX routers are a joke, I remember Cisco's 700 series routers that didn't support vlans

[flint field]

thats awfull for a business grade gear

[clear igloo]

yah, the firewalls especially rv are junk

[flint field]

wow, i did not know that, in college we had very old, but high grade cisco gear, which we practiced with

so i guess TP-Link is a solid option for small business

[clear igloo]

ASAs were good workhorses though

TP-Link is fine for small business

[flint field]

For Poe Switch, what should i be looking into, i think supplier has microtik and ubiquity

[pseudo blade]

If the AP's need 48v be careful with those two vendors as their lower end products do 24v PoE

[flint field]

i guess a 90w should be more than fine for all 4 aps?

ah, i see, so there are voltage differences too aside from wattage requeriments

[pseudo blade]

90w is more than ample for 4 APs

Like you won't get close

[clear igloo]

Passive vs Active POE
passive is 24v and active is 48v

[flint field]

they usually run 10-20w at most dont they?

hmm i see

[pseudo blade]

Passive is not always 24v

This is a very fun subject I had a lot of fun with when figuring this stuff out for Mikrotik deployments

Mode A and Mode B...

[flint field]

it doesnt specify on the product page

just the watts used

[pseudo blade]

Which product are you looking at?

[flint field]

TP-Link EAP615-Wall

[pseudo blade]

Anything generically referring to itself as PoE should be 48v

[clear igloo]

Yup

[flint field]

i see, so 24v is more for iot smaller things?

so if this product specifices POE power @ 13w

it should be 48v

[clear igloo]

24v is a niche thing more than anything

[pseudo blade]

af/at - 48v

[flint field]

yes it does say 802.3af/at PoE

[pseudo blade]

Unifi and Mikrotik APs mostly

[flint field]

Aight, think im gonna settle on those TP-Links, im going to research more on them to see if i can get a better deal than that wall one

[pseudo blade]

Sure. Hope it works out well.

[flint field]

thanks a lot guys <3

[hollow marlin]

It's pretty bad across the board. Our Juniper orders are 12+ months out and our Ciena orders are almost pushing 18 months. It's killing business and only getting worse

[sudden kayak]

yeah not that cisco is any worse than other enterprise gear - but compared to that, prosumer/smb type stuff like the omada gear seems to stay in stock more

[hollow marlin]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll It is now set in stone. JNCIE-SP scheduled for 11/18

[copper fiber]

I'm trying to use moonligjt with a pc over wifi to a TV over ethernet

But the ethernet is not working when connected to the router instead of the modem

Help?

It worked when connected to the modem btw

[peak cloak]

prob because on different subnets

plus double nat

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo

Extreme at university for AV net.

[waxen scroll]

An Alienware? Why.

[thick minnow]

does anyone know what these rings around client devices and APs mean in unifi network 7.2.92

[waxen scroll]

How active they are compared to others?

[rocky badge]

uni has contract with dell

[hardy python]

What is the Alienware serving as for the server(s)?

[rocky badge]

It's running OBS & spectator games

this is for the esports team

[hardy python]

Oh, gotcha. That is neat. What are the specs in it?

[rocky badge]

i7 9700K, 2080 Ti, 64GB RAM

July we are getting new machines

[hardy python]

Tbf, you really don't need new machines. That is plenty enough lol.

[rocky badge]

We're on the 3 year update cycle

[hardy python]

Yeah, I figured. But still, that is above any game recommendations.

[rocky badge]

Yeah

I mean, our video PC needs it lol

I want more than a i7 9700K in it

[waxen scroll]

OK but what lighting console do they run

[rocky badge]

None in there

[waxen scroll]

how do you have esports and no esports stage?!

[rocky badge]

We do but its architectural lighting

[waxen scroll]

lame

[rocky badge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/477682193544773633/1011007772676075671/IMG_7810.jpg

[waxen scroll]

all those sponsors, tuition, and not even one moving light

[rocky badge]

🤣

Its a multipurpose space

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/477682193544773633/1011353182926032957/IMG_7840.jpg

🥴 the way they did this

[waxen scroll]

I had free geek squad install once and they did that to my coax

[rocky badge]

yay M3 contractors

M3 sucks ass

[waxen scroll]

is that drywall? those stickys dont do that well over time

[rocky badge]

i have no clue

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/477682193544773633/1011353184033325206/IMG_7837.jpg

NDI L goes back to the PC, Cave L goes to the line arrays

there's a right channel but its linked

I wanna play around with Dante but idk

[hardy python]

I hate contractors and outsourced tech support :)

[rocky badge]

Right now I'm working on overlay stuff

[hardy python]

I work as end support for PC Delivery & Integrity and sometimes I will need elevated permissions for certain actions. Depending on those actions I can go to my team for authority or I have to fucking call tech support and 90% they don't know what the fuck they are doing.

I tell my SDA, I can do this shit, why the fuck do I gotta call people 😭

[waxen scroll]

thats why I filled out the form for local admin rights

[hardy python]

I have local admin rights. I am talking about AD and or GP permissions.

[waxen scroll]

sure. fill out the form

if the justification is good you'll get it

the hack to getting rights is asking in the first place. dont wait for your manager to agree. go fill out the form

[rocky badge]

Lol we have local admin on all of these PCs

Most of them aren't domain joined but there are some that are

[hardy python]

I work for Henkel, and Henkel is a German organization. So, they have a strict security infrastructure so nothing or if any info leaks out to competitors. Not sure why the applies to facilities that have no classified personal, but it is what it is. I would say at least 100 or so people have access to AD or GP.

Out of thousands to tens of thousands.

[waxen scroll]

Germans like efficiency. Have a good justification!

[hardy python]

Yeah.

[waxen scroll]

They can probably give you some kind of rights that allow you to do exactly what you need to do without compromising their security much

[hardy python]

I mean, I taught myself Windows Server 2022 and shit was easy. Made my own domain with devices on a VPN network and FTP site.

I spent well over 40+ hours learning Windows Server 2022

[sudden kayak]

yeah our windows domain joined machines have to request local admin for 24 hours

no permanent way unfortunately

but engineering staff get macs managed with jamf. maybe worse but at least we have root access

[waxen scroll]

3 departments had to review and approve mine and then a VP approval

🤣

[sudden kayak]

the nice thing about my group is that i report directly to a VP so all those annoying vp approval rules i can basically just ping my boss on slack and get it taken care of in a few minutes

[waxen scroll]

My justification was more or less "you know all these restrictions you put in the way? What an I going to do if the network is dead and your restrictions are in the way of me consoling or patching a device?"

[sudden kayak]

yeah that kind of restriction should never apply to the people who actually need access to keep the network running... crazy

[waxen scroll]

They monitor me like crazy though so I can't do anything fun with it like unauthorized software

[sudden kayak]

to be fair, i have no legitimate reason to access most production stuff (we're essentially an r&d/prototyping group) but sometimes it's a lot easier than trying to replicate everything in a lab accurately

and they accept that as enough of a business justification most of the time

[pseudo blade]

Tbh 100 people with domain admin in an org is a lot, even with 10k endpoints/staff. Most 10k EP orgs bar the shit ones I'm aware of make do with maybe a dozen or so, with local admin for computer groups given away more willingly for support types. After all - how many people really need to be able to define group policy and set up DC's and network services?

Unless an employee's role involves modifying the domain, they don't need domain admin and even then there are roles to grant access to subsets

[knotty gulch]

40Mbit down and 10Mbit up

[modest mirage]

you mean you don't like Dell's customer support on WhatsApp?

[hardy python]

OMFG I HATE DELL SUPPORT! NEVER WORKING FOR THEM AGAIN! I used to work as a repair tech under Dell and they were absolute shit. Somehow they managed to be dysfunctional inside and outside of tech support tasks.

[hardy python]

Not a lot of people, tbh. You are right but I would like access to make my job easier. Henkel makes domain users create a ticket before modifying AD/GP

[modest mirage]

yeah, definitely not one of the companies I would ever consider working for 😂

at least their enterprise hardware is good, as long as you don't need their support - though perhaps enterprise support is less bad

[sudden kayak]

i mean that doesn't sound like they're saying 100 people with domain admin, just 100 people total with some access to domain level AD stuff. I'm sure they have only a handful of people with actual full-on domain admin

[limber river]

Managed to snag an IBM System X3650 m3 and a Cisco Catalyst 4948-10GE last night from work. Anyone know if these would be worth getting up and running or is the tech just too old and power hungry to make it viable as a home storage and game server? Thinking minecraft and a few other for the kids.

[bronze fulcrum]

Would a closet be a good place to put networking stuff? I plan on putting a NAS in there as well.

[limber river]

As long as it doesn't get too hot, a closet is fine.

[bronze fulcrum]

Okay good to know. The closet has Attic access so it would be easy to run cabling.

[limber river]

If it starts getting warm, you can always add some louvres at the top and bottom of the door to let cool air in the bottom and the hot air escape, or install a ceiling fan to vent hot air into the attic.

[pseudo blade]

You're probably better off finding an oldish desktop to run the Minecraft server/the like, M3 has CPUs from 2010/11, 32nm Xeons and Minecraft can't use the cores anyways

It'll suck a few hundred watts from the wall easy under a bit of load

[limber river]

Thanks. I was thinking of throwing VMWare on it to run some game servers, maybe a plex server, a NAS server, etc, but I don't know what the power draw is going to end up being for it.

[pseudo blade]

If it's only a small Minecraft server it'll probably be fine, considering you have the server anyways you can just test it if you want to put together all you've described

NAS fileshare will likely not need much CPU at all

Plex is variable based on setup

But they'll suck more power to do the job than a small desktop and it might be fast enough if you have one of those instead

Plus LFF drive support for your NAS duties

[limber river]

I guess testing it only wastes an afternoon, and if I want better hardware I can always pack up the VMs and transfer them later.

[unreal valley]

I am currently using the router/modem my isp has given me. It is a fiber AIO device. If I wanted to run my own website and some other devices from home, is there any way to add a pfsense box behind the router or if there is no need to. I've been told punching a bunch of holes with port forwarding isn't the best case

[peak cloak]

It may have a bridge mode

[unreal valley]

I didn't know if it was worth it from a security standpoint

If the one given by the ISP was secure enough to handle the traffic/attackers

[peak cloak]

Your generic home router does basically nothing

All it does is reject basically all new packets from WAN

Your default pfsense install does the same thing

End users within your network are more of a risk

[thick minnow]

I have an issue were my chromebook takes up all my wifi is there a way to fix it

[hardy python]

What are your network speeds provided from the ISP?

[thick minnow]

300 mbs

[prisma flame]

Hey about to set up my first patch panel and I want to double check I’m doing it right

So the Bottom set follow the bottom digram and the top follow the top? Or is this input vs output layouts?

[clear igloo]

No, follow B standard for all

or A standard for all

Keep the standard the same on both ends of every cable, I prefer and see most people use B

[prisma flame]

Ok thanks

I saw the text right after I posted this and relized that what it was

[clear igloo]

No worries 🙂
Just remember the patch panel shows different order than the official standard because it's making it easy and handles mapping the pins underneath

[prisma flame]

I’ll double check to see what the existing wiring is

[clear igloo]

Other cables don't matter, just depends on how each end of that cable is terminated

[prisma flame]

The ends are already set up just had to redo the patch panel and didn’t think to take a photo first

[clear igloo]

Ah, ok, then yah double check

[prisma flame]

Yeah don’t want to start with a and end with b I would think

[clear igloo]

white orange | orange | white green | blue | white blue | green | white brown | brown is B
swap orange and green for A

[thick minnow]

Lurick can you fix my issue

[clear igloo]

dunno, depends on what you mean taking up all your bandwidth

Does just having the chromebook on cause other devices to slow to a crawl?

[thick minnow]

Yes

[prisma flame]

We had people working on the houses electrical and they kind of messed up the wring when the moved the patch panel so I’m redoing it

[clear igloo]

Could be any number of things from the Chromebook blasting out RF causing issues to a hardware issue causing a broadcast storm or any other number of things, hard to say

[clear igloo]

Ah, that stinks but hopefully you can knock it out quickly 🙂

Patch panel stuff can be a bit of a pain sometimes

[prisma flame]

Yeah it needed to be done anyways the former owners were not big on labeling and ther was missing connections

[clear igloo]

Yah most people don't label 😦

[prisma flame]

I can’t complain though becuase they had the chose to use 5e back when that was cutting edge

[thick minnow]

Yep everything slows to a crawl

[clear igloo]

Yah, that's good 🙂

[prisma flame]

So I’m not going to need to refish lines for a bit hopefully

[clear igloo]

Yah, could be anything sadly, likely a software issue if I had to guess

[thick minnow]

For chromebook

[clear igloo]

Yup 5e can do 2.5Gbps and short runs of 5Gbps without issue

[thick minnow]

What would software issue be on

[clear igloo]

idk, that's the issue, hard to say with software

Something is broadcasting I suspect and just gobbling up all the bandwidth locally

[thick minnow]

Would it be chromebook issue

[clear igloo]

Yah, definitely something on the chromebook

[prisma flame]

Yeah I don’t see our little rural area getting fiber or anything that would need more bandwith anytime soon😅

[clear igloo]

You never know but even then 1Gbps is plenty (for now) to the internet even if you do get it

[thick minnow]

I'm confused why it takes up all wifi

I'll just keep it off for now

[clear igloo]

Like I said, could be a software bug causing the issue
It's possible a hardware issue but unlikely if it's a new issue

[thick minnow]

Its new

[clear igloo]

Yah, likely some software bug with an updated app or something

But it's one of those things you have to uninstall and reinstall one thing at a time which takes forever

[thick minnow]

I mean it did get a big update when I was in Charleston a week ago

Which is when it started

[clear igloo]

That's likely the issue

but how to fix it that's the question, obviously a complete wipe of the chromebook and reinstall should fix it but that's usually a pain

[thick minnow]

I did wipe it

[clear igloo]

That's A standard then

[prisma flame]

Yeah that what I though

Thanks

[clear igloo]

Yup 🙂

[prisma flame]

Nearly took out an eye trying to pry that sucker out course they paint over the edge of the cover

At least the wall is ok

Ok 1 down 8 to go

[peak cloak]

don't you want to leave as much rubber coating on as possible

basically to leave as much twist in as you can

[rocky hawk]

I was debugging connection randomly dropping when gaming the other day and found out that my GPU is cooking my network card 😄 I'm not really sure how to remedy this, since they are already as far from one another as they can be on my mobo.

either more case fans or less gaming, more work

[prisma flame]

Probably, I might clean it up but it’s working and that makes me happy

I purposely left a lot of extra cable inscase I messed up so once I feel more confidant I would want to take in that slack anyways

I also have way more ports then need so I can space them out and not have to be super tight on cable management while I’m figure this out

[smoky estuary]

My isps router kinda sucks (even though it has WiFi 6 and a 2.5gbe port) and I was wondering if I could use a load balancing router to handle DHCP (static local IPs are a pain in the ass to redo constantly) and mainly use it for failover by connecting my phone with an ethernet cable to a second wan port during an outage

[peak cloak]

people still unironically use static IPs at home? 🤦

I mean you can. But I would get rid of the ISP router completely, unless it's a modem + router combo, which in that case, try to get it into bridge mode. You want to avoid double NAT

[smoky estuary]

It's a modem+router combo so I'm stuck with it and I have an AdGuard + Plex server which requires a static ip to keep it working and the devices running through it need a static IP so I can manage each client correctly in the software (I have Facebook blocked on my phone but unblocked on everything else).
I already have a WiFi 6 ap from tplink and disabled the isps provided ap built into the combo unit as the it decided it should started having the wireless connection kick random devices off and preventing certain devices from connecting

[peak cloak]

Just use long DHCP leases

My lan device IPs like never change

And if you really make sure, DHCP reservation

[smoky estuary]

That's what I meant by static ips, DHCP reservations

[steep stirrup]

I am accessing discord through a vpn, if I turn off the VPN, discord is stuck on connecting

Ddos?

[peak cloak]

nah

[steep stirrup]

I see a lot of other people from Serbia also experienced discord issues

Most stuck on connecting, currently there are tensions in Kosovo.

If our government actually blocked discord I am moving lmfao

Disabled VPN, now it works.

Had to be some sort of attack.

[urban swan]

anyone having problems using the guest portal on mist? I’m having this issue where if a client tried to connect to the guest WLAN the splash page won’t come up but at the same time the client gets limited access to the internet.

[urban swan]

i just upgraded from Cisco and I’m already regretting my choice of picking mist

should of went with meraki

[spring plank]

Decided to find out what model my dorm wi-fi router is so I could mess around with the default settings and all and it's being detected as a MacBook Air?????

[peak cloak]

how are you checking?

[spring plank]

Fing

[peak cloak]

each room gets it's own router? usually it's a whole resnet wifi network

[spring plank]

Yeah pretty much. There's 10 router out in the hall, one outside every room

[peak cloak]

you sure? or are those just APs

[sudden kayak]

nah those are almost certainly not routers

just APs

[spring plank]

Yeah APs

[peak cloak]

yeah you won't be able to mess with settings

[spring plank]

Now I know they are Ruckus units, atleast on my floor. But why does it show up as the Macbook air in the Fing app?

[peak cloak]

@sudden kayak funny thing about my dorm ethernet, I get a global IP assigned

not nated

[spring plank]

Yeah lmao I tried the default user / password and obviously they've changed it. But it sorta prompted me to learn a little about networking and linux network tools

[peak cloak]

it has a whole controller

[sudden kayak]

yeah that's surprisingly common lmao i think it's just cuz universities all got big blocks of IP space when the internet was young

and none of them have anything better to do with it so they just use it for individual hosts lmao

[peak cloak]

yeah they have a /16 and like 9 /24s

[hardy python]

@peak cloak what server do you use to host your domain?

[rocky badge]

probably because something’s emitting mDNS/bonjour

so Fing is seeing those services and marking it as a MacBook Air

[peak cloak]

My website?

Cloudflare pages

[hardy python]

Oh, okay. @peak cloak I asked because I have a website built that will be a multipurpose use. It will feature services I will provide and I am going to integrate some other networking features that will manage vpn devices and storage use. I am trying to figure out some authentication methods and security implementations to use.

I just need a domain to host it on.

[spring plank]

Uhh, what's that exactly?

Also, if it matters, the router's admin page is accessed at 192.169.20.1 while the Macbook air's address is completely different 172 something something (there's like 400 devices connected on the entire network). So I had a feeling Fing was very wrong there

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak wifi died this morning lol

[sudden kayak]

a domain and hosting are totally different things - it sounds like you want both which you (generally) get separately

there are hosts that will also sell you a domain and there are domain registrars that will also sell you hosting but those are often not the best deals

[hardy python]

Yes, I know the difference between the two. I am referring a domain as a server in the sense because providers sell a domain for users to host their site on.

[rocky badge]

auto discovery

if the macbook is an airplay target it’s sharing its name and model number with mdns

so if fing found that, it’s going to use that data for router info

since it might be coming from the router as a repeater service

[hardy python]

I mean, I could host it myself but I am actively on my server that require restarts or sudden service interruptions.

Wordpress has a plan for 2.19/month for a domain and 100GB

[spring plank]

Oh right. Is there any way to bypass that so I could get the router info?

[rocky badge]

idk lol

[peak cloak]

No? Selling domain and hosting are seperate

[hardy python]

Yes, I know that. Wordpress hosts your site on their servers and the domain is sold to the user. Sorry for any miscommunication lol.

[sudden kayak]

what info are you trying to get? you're not going to be able to configure anything on the actual router

[spring plank]

The router's model number and stuff, that's all

[peak cloak]

Its prob some Cisco router

Best you can get prob is by looking up Mac

[sullen bloom]

How do i open up ports in wmwhare pro 16???? So i can host a website in a linux vm

[spring plank]

I can't seem to get that either, since I can't pinpoint the router

Assuming you're talking about the mac address and not the MacBook

[peak cloak]

Yes you can. It's prob the Mac of the gateway ip

Arp

[spring plank]

I'll look into it tomorrow. Thank you!

[wintry temple]

So I have a 20 year old modem. Can it bottle neck my speeds by being a DOCSIS 2.0?

I pay for 1gig but only get 40mbs

[clear igloo]

I'm surprised your ISP even allows you to access their network

DOCSIS 2.0 maxed out at 40Mbps download

[hardy python]

LMAO! fuck no, go buy a modem lol

[wintry temple]

Anytime I have over 4 devices it crashes my internet and I have to reset it

Ok then anyone have a good recommendation for a modem router combo?

Under $200

[hardy python]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-ac1200-router-with-16-x-4-docsis-3-0-cable-modem/6473371.p?skuId=6473371

Uses DOCSIS 3.0 speeds up to 1Gbps but uses Wi-Fi 5

[meager ginkgo]

I would highly recommend NOT getting a combo device

they are usually overpriced and not good compared to separate devices

[wintry temple]

Yea but this is for my mother and she needs something easy to setup

Do you have any good separate devices that would get 1 gig speeds and have 4 Ethernet at 1 gig?

What about:

https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-Surfboard-SB6190-RB-DOCSIS-Cable/dp/B06XPRDVDC/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=24ZWMHU8UUMJ8&keywords=docsis+3.0+modem&qid=1661375483&sprefix=docsis+3.0+modem%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-4
And

https://www.amazon.com/WiFi-6-Router-Gigabit-Wireless/dp/B08H8ZLKKK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=30OQG9W8LR1N9&keywords=archer+router&qid=1661375670&sprefix=archer+router%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-3
Would they be good together and be available to reach gig speeds?

[sudden kayak]

the sb6190 is what i have - it's perfectly functional for up to 600Mbps plan

you can get em for like $25 used though, and they're very unlikely to fail just from being old

[wintry temple]

Ok thx

[sudden kayak]

that tp link router is probably fine too, i was using the previous wifi 5 model for a while and generally they're solid for the price

[wintry temple]

Thx

[clear igloo]

6190 is bad

It's got the Puma6 chipset which is known for causing latency issues

If you want gigabit you're unfortunately going to have to go more with a SB8200 or something DOCSIS 3.1

[sudden kayak]

it's fine with more recent firmware

it's advertised as i think 900 something mbps and with more recent firmware is actually certified at 680 something

i have no issues with latency

but yeah like i said for the 600mbps plan it's fine and it's dirt cheap on the used market

[wintry temple]

What about the sb6190?

[sudden kayak]

it's an Intel chipset that has some performance issues

if you plan to upgrade to gigabit don't get it but if you're just staying on a cheaper plan, it's generally fine with current firmware/provisioning and dirt cheap

[wintry temple]

I have a 1200mbs plan

The sb6190 has speeds up to 1gig so I think it’s fine

[sudden kayak]

ah then no - if you have the gigabit plan lurick is right, don't get the sb6190

like i was saying it does not actually get speeds up to 1gig because of the chipset issue

if you actually want to get the full provisioned 1.5Gbps on the 1.2 gig plan you'll need a docsis 3.1 modem with a 2.5GbE port

that's basically the Motorola mb8611, arris s33 or netgear 2050v

oh wait also netgear cm2000

[bronze swift]

Guys quick question, let’s say I have to calculate system availability in a month and include a percentage. In that system, it can’t fail fail more than once and if it does, the mean time to repair should be 9 hours.
So in the calculations, I estimated 730 hours in a month and did the (mean time before failure)/(mean time before failure + mean time to restore)
So (730)/(730+9) = 0.9878 = 98.78% system availability right?

[exotic plume]

Guys I need help with installing OpenWrt on Xiaomi Mi 4a Gigabit Edition router, I have managed to brick and unbrick the router on multiple occasions and have failed to install openwrt using hoody's guide, any help will be appreciated.

[marsh drum]

Lol Riley and James working for Cisco

https://video.cisco.com/video/6311008549112

[pseudo blade]

Have you opened the router up and checked the flash chip model?

[exotic plume]

@pseudo blade it is the international version of the gigabit edition and I have tried 3 times and I have managed to brick it all the time

[pseudo blade]

Yep, but have you checked which flash chip and revision it is?

[knotty gulch]

40Mbit down, 10Mbit up, how do you rate my internet?

[glad willow]

Pretty good, I get less than that when everyone is on the internet during the day

[knotty gulch]

Ok

That is shared between 7 family members in my home btw

So it actually is like 10 down and 5 up

[glad willow]

Oh then we run about the same when everyone is on the internet 😂

[knotty gulch]

Ok

[vagrant merlin]

do anyone have the same issue?
so i am using a apple time capsule to expand node based network, time capsule basically is configured to create LAN, with its DHCP and NAT but connection is from main network
for some reason under some specific circumstances it freaks out, for some reason thinking that time capsule is a node or something like that, and basically cuts off lan, only way it to reboot main node

[shrewd pawn]

I have been having packet loss spikes lately. The normal loss it usually 1-3% but suddenly spikes to 13-80%. Can this be fixed?

[hardy python]

Word of advice, do not use Apple for networking. Use Linux or Windows.

You will have more freedom if you use either.

[meager ginkgo]

Are you on cable? (Comcast, Spectrum, Cox etc)

And if you are what modem do you have

[arctic oracle]

When you’re reinstalling your home server…

[fallen wind]

T3400?

Hmm! A 256gb SSD really is overkill for OPNSense isnt it?

i have a 128 here maybe i should swap it out? But the 256 is a fairly nice Intel S4500 and the 128 is garbo-tier

[carmine moss]

could use the opnsens box as a nas also and use the 256gb as a boot drive with 64gb for opnsense and use the 128 as a cache drive

as using a vm for a router is nice as well you can just swap it over to another machine if the machine fails

[fallen wind]

i have another server for NAS/VM's etc

prefer to keep the router seperate

[arctic oracle]

Some progresss

[peak cloak]

windows...

[glacial linden]

is that win7

[arctic oracle]

Server 2008

For the homelab

[fallen wind]

😬

[carmine moss]

would not run that at all.... just run proxmox or ubuntu server... or just a normal desktop linux distro

[arctic oracle]

Nah, it’s isolated to our home network anyway

[glad gale]

Might I ask why 2008

[carmine moss]

still it's not gonna really learn you as it's well not in use anymore if you use windows server use a newer version you can just use the free trail even

[glad gale]

Lets be honest you'd host your own kms

[plucky herald]

So... it's been nearly a year since this video went up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T98VsMe3oo&t=917s

I've got a friend in a similar situation, so I'm curious how that system has held up over the year...

[little schooner]

where's the SSD??

HDD boot drives I can't stand

[glad gale]

SD Card?

[little schooner]

those are still fine cause no moving parts

[glad gale]

Oh your problem is with mechanical?

[little schooner]

for boot volumes yes

I have seen at least 50 hard drives die in my work environment

also users are waiting too long

[waxen scroll]

Wow look who finally showed up

[glad gale]

Nothing is wrong with a disk boot drive

its just about having a maintenance schedule and an adequate replacement plan

[pseudo blade]

I set up a server 2008 r2 vm for software compatibility testing recently

It is a genuinely painful ordeal

[glad gale]

welp ive pulled my back putting these servers in

woops

[pseudo blade]

It took me most of the day just to apply patches, endless reboots, had to drag in wsus offline to even get the certs to patch it

[glad gale]

tbf windows server is shocking for pulling updates

[pseudo blade]

And the end result was a bloated, poorly-performing mess

[glad gale]

and they want to phase out wsus

[pseudo blade]

Wsus offline isn't actual wsus

[glad gale]

tell me more

[pseudo blade]

It just downloads patches to disk so you can copy them to your server/pc and apply them using their installer

[glad gale]

that should not be called wsus

[pseudo blade]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[glad gale]

Much sad

very mislead

[pseudo blade]

You could call it Purple Baconator Extreme Edition and I'd still use it if it worked

[glad gale]

I support this name

Fork?

[pseudo blade]

But yeah - nobody should be installing 2008 r2 (or even worse, 2008) for actual work

[glad gale]

We've already phased out 2012, and planning the change from 2016

[pseudo blade]

There are nice software distributions and tools for NAS/webserver work on Linux, or just buy 2022 essentials if you're that desperate

[glad gale]

ew essentials

[pseudo blade]

I know

But it's better than 2008

[glad gale]

idk chief

id just go zentyal at that point

[pseudo blade]

Oh I'd use Linux instead any day of the week if possible

[glad gale]

I'm trying to train myself in enterprise linux systems

Not going well, I get bored

[pseudo blade]

Set yourself a more specific task than "linux"

I find having a project helps

[glad gale]

My only projects atm are infrastructure related. And since work only do windows. It's finding the effort to read up about it in my free time

[pseudo blade]

Enterprise linux is pretty much more of the same but older versions

[glad gale]

The entire purpose of my homelab rn is just testing.

Research it, build it, scrap it, repeat.

[pseudo blade]

That's what a homelab should be.

[pseudo blade]

There is if time is money

Small, fast flash storage is cheap

Server 2016+ on a single mechanical drive is a useless experience even if your applications are on SSD

[glad gale]

Respectfully I disagree

10k new sas disk, you'd be fine.

Not that anyone would boot to a single drive.

[pseudo blade]

If you have 10k sas budget you can afford flash

[glad gale]

Its not about cost

Its about "is it okay"

and it is

[pseudo blade]

Windows alone will eat your iops

Before you even bring apps in

[glad gale]

Realistically, you'd have 2 boot drives in a raid 1, then your apps on a separate array

[pseudo blade]

Raid 1 doesn't give you more iops

[glad gale]

It does however keep redundancy standards

[pseudo blade]

On a uselessly slow server

A bigger array with stripes is better but not by that much

[glad gale]

AH STRIPES

[pseudo blade]

What, do you just constrain all files and operations to the size of a single disk?

[glad gale]

Of course not, i was just having a laugh.

Also gotta dash, starting work soon.

Before I do go.

To clarify I'm not saying all HDDs are better than all SSDs.

Toodles

[shrewd pawn]

Sorry for being late. No, I'm not using ethernet to connect
And my modem is the Modem-Router combo unit the isp sent. I want to switch it to a separate modem and router. But I can't find any good dsl modem. And also, the isp said to my mom to never change the modem because "the 3rd party ones cause problems". For now, I will try to use ethernet and see if that works

[fluid badger]

so google drive is pretty potent when coupled with fiber

[unborn sluice]

try playing 6Siege

[sudden kayak]

if you're on wifi, packet loss is expected

[fluid badger]

aight

[sudden kayak]

also that sounds like the isp is just trying to get you to keep paying for their modem

[meager ginkgo]

what speed are you paying for

[meager ginkgo]

this was in a new construction home I went in.. lots of CAT6, speaker wire, and wall mount tv locations lol

[fluid badger]

gigabit

flickering was due to fullscreen and obs not liking eachother

issues with battleye not wanting to work

[violet kiln]

so...I felt like posting an update to my 5 year old LTT Storage Rankings post on the forum... I'm not super active in the community (I should change that) but I stumbled on my old post and was seriously shocked at how much has changed in just 5 years. The hardware kinda speaks to how my life has grown and things have really come together. 5 years ago I was living in my parents basement, today I'm living in a house with an amazing S/O and we have a beautiful Bernedoodle puppy 🥲 https://linustechtips.com/topic/21948-ltt-storage-rankings/?do=findComment&comment=15539601

if anyone has any tips/tricks for a ZFS novice i'm all ears!!

[sullen olive]

i don't think this and having 90 percent packet loss speaks well

or this

or this

[violet kiln]

honestly you'd have worse latency but better overall performance with this - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

[sullen olive]

i don't think that i care considering i got booted out of cs because i had too much packet loss

[spare eagle]

My rural internet

[earnest orchid]

Bro where do u live

[crystal gust]

Pfff you're lucky. In Croatia during peak tourist season on islands you can barely get 100kbit down

[spare eagle]

Rural New Zealand

[severe topaz]

how do i fix high upload latency? it was fine for years but recently for about 2 weeks now ive consistently had over 1k latency

upload latency is around 70ish but upload is over 1k more often than not

[hardy python]

What type of Internet Service do you have? Satellite or DSL/Cable?

[thick minnow]

So recently i've been getting fluxuating ping where it goes from 20ms to 3000ms every now and then which is really annoying in games, ive called up my isp multiple times and i've used different wifi adapters on my pc but it doesnt fix anything, on my phone and on other devices its not a problem however. i've tried everything i could think of and i have no idea what is going on. hopefully someone here knows a solution 😅

[thick minnow]

question ! best Wifi 6 router?

cant

my room is on the complete other side of the house

i was looking at powerline but i dont think its the wifi thats the issue, i think its something on my computer

i tried that already

switched from 1.1.1.1 to 8.8.8.8

in cmd?

now what

[signal valley]

ipconfig/renew would just assign a new ip address with DHCP wouldn't it?

[thick minnow]

Did you switch to Linux? Lmaoo

that gave me internet back atleast 😅

[signal valley]

what brand of WI-FI card do you have?

[thick minnow]

tplink something lemme check

tplink archer t4u plus

still doing the weird thing

ye

i have

i know

ill download the drivers again

Do you guys think ethernet over power line would be better?

/fix this

no but reinstalling the driver seems to have fixed it!

well thanks dude @proven crown

nope

dont think they are common in europe, or atleast i havent seen any

nah we only have those in the living room

"OLD home"

my home so new they got rgb wall plugs 💪

well it seems to be working now so ye

ig ill just reinstall the driver anytime its bad

[severe topaz]

Cable I think
If I’m honest tho idrk my mum and brother set it up but we live in the countryside so there’s no good cable wifi here for us to rlly use

[broken jetty]

What's a good way to have my Jellyfin (media) server available over the internet to stream movies when I'm away from home? I was planning to use Cloudflare Tunnel, but their ToS prohibits using it for video streaming

[unborn sluice]

Bring your media server with you

[acoustic isle]

it was common in 2000 not in 2020😂

[thick minnow]

yea lmao

[acoustic isle]

baisicly every 30-2000 house are pretty much rebuilding now and they must been disasembled

and if use phone line you use rj45 to rj12 adapter

[peak cloak]

that looks like rj45 not phone

[peak cloak]

for an easy solution tailscale or zerotier

[broken jetty]

I designed it to be somewhat portable, and I can easily unplug the drive and take the files with me, but taking the entire server is another matter.

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1142560311.8794/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u1.jpg

[acoustic isle]

he probly ment rj 12

[glad gale]

When you realise none of it is RJ, because it isnt keyed

[peak cloak]

true

8p8c

[hardy python]

RJ-11 phone port

[unborn sluice]

phone port

[thick minnow]

Question: For those who used TP-Link ER605 or Similar Load Balancers, will I be able to set it to automatically switch to the ISP with a faster internet at the time?

I am planning to buy an ER605 because I have two ISPs, one is 50MBPS and one is fluctuating from 50-90, but sometimes goes down to 30

So I want our office to have the best speed possible, but as far as I have read the documents, the ER605 only allows fallover when one connection FAILS (when the Load Balancer Pings it and receives nothing back) and not via Bandwidth

this is how our office setup would look like:
(PLDT/ROYAL CABLE are both ISPs of our office)

[peak cloak]

I don't think it's supposed since a router itself doesn't really know the speed. It knows the speed of a link, but not actual speeds. It would have to be doing speed tests in order for it to know. Maybe there is some router that does that, but I highly doubt that one does

I guess you could write a custom script to do it if it has an API

[thick minnow]

Yup, thats what I also said and have researched, so realistically, I could do code on it that checks the speed test every now and then (like 30 mins) then adjust parameters in the TP-Link website/app to change the current link but, that would be another work

[thick minnow]

but does my topography work

gonna use the ER605 as a way to use the backup internet instead when our main internet fails

[granite jetty]

hello people sorry if this isn't the place to ask, got a new ethernet cable but it just stays on "unidentified network" tried lots of things so far, the only thing that doesn't work is whenever i try ipconfig renew it just says "unable to contact your DHCP server"

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak thanks apogee

resnet WiFi works but wired doesn’t and it’s across the entire dorm

[clear igloo]

What is the cable plugged into directly?
Did this work prior with ethernet?

[granite jetty]

the cable is plugged from my router to my pc, previously it has worked but on a different router/cable, i don't think its something from the cable itself as the motherboard flashes as i plug it in and the router lights do blink

[clear igloo]

Hmmm, and your router is a router or combo unit not just a cable modem right?

[granite jetty]

yes its a router I'm pretty sure

[clear igloo]

Definitely sounds like the cable works but something on the router isn't giving an IP out
Have you done these commands from an elevated command prompt?
netsh int ip reset
netsh winsock reset

[granite jetty]

yup i had done these and they all worked

i can try them again

[clear igloo]

And did you reboot your pc after?

[granite jetty]

yes

[clear igloo]

Hmmm, interesting, yah it should just work after that and you shouldn't need to keep doing them

[granite jetty]

so far the only thing that doesn't work is ipconfig renew

[clear igloo]

Have you tried the old cable? or is it damaged and not usable?

[granite jetty]

the old cable isnt with me

[clear igloo]

That's fair, wasn't sure

[granite jetty]

sadly

[clear igloo]

Can you get to the router with wireless or another device?

[granite jetty]

have tried the netsh commands again and its the same thing, it tries to identify and goes back to unidentified network

yes i can my phone is connected atm so is my tv and everything else

i can even connect to it with my pc if i enable the wifi on it

[clear igloo]

What IP do you use to get to the router?
192.168.1.1 or 0.1? or something similar?

[granite jetty]

im pretty sure its the first one that i have used before

[clear igloo]

I'm thinking try setting a static IP on the ethernet adapter and seeing what happens, something like:
IP: 192.168.x.77
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.x.1
DNS: 192.168.x.1

[granite jetty]

as it does show up in my browser but it just says unable to connect

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo dhcp brokey

[granite jetty]

do i set via the ipv4 section?

[clear igloo]

Yup, exactly

[clear igloo]

yup, lol, you need new DHCP server 😄

I see they're running 17.3.x code 😄

[granite jetty]

is x a 0 in that case or just some number i come up with?

[rocky badge]

do all Cisco switches have L3 Software in the LLDP

[clear igloo]

It's whatever your gateway IP address is

[rocky badge]

or only when running in L3 mode

[clear igloo]

Good question, I think it's always

[clear igloo]

I just didn't want to tell you to use 192.168.0.1 and your router IP is 192.168.1.1 or something different

[rocky badge]

lol, “ResNet User Port”

[clear igloo]

9200 too 😄

[rocky badge]

yeah

[granite jetty]

well no difference i guess i typed something wrong but whenever i try ipconfig i cmd to check if they show up only subnet mask is there

[clear igloo]

Hmmm, what IP did you put in?
When you check your phone do the first three sets of numbers match?

[granite jetty]

first 2

3rd one is 100

[clear igloo]

Ah, then put 192.168.100.77 and 192.168.100.1

[granite jetty]

same thing

well something new happened

i disabled and enabled it and after that i got a notification from Windows if i want to use this connection or w/e it says whenever you connect but now it shows "network, unidentified network" and the addresses in the ipv4 section changed

[clear igloo]

Hmmmm, is it 169.254.x.x?

[granite jetty]

nope

same as before but the last 2 numbers have changed

3rd one* sorry

[clear igloo]

Interesting

[granite jetty]

last one are still 1

[clear igloo]

From a command prompt, can you do
ping 8.8.8.8

[granite jetty]

destination host unreachable

sent 4 received 1

lost 3

[clear igloo]

weird, it's like the router is talking to the PC but then not

[granite jetty]

yea honestly no idea what the hell is happening

[clear igloo]

Can you try a different port on the router?

[granite jetty]

yup ill try and do that

[clear igloo]

Yah, if that doesn't work I'm almost suspecting some weird software or hardware failure on the PC port

[granite jetty]

ye i dunno now it just goes back and forth between cable unplugged and unidentified

[clear igloo]

Yah, sounds like something is failing on the PC

You could buy a PCIe NIC if you want to go that route for about $20

[peak cloak]

Our network has been rock solid

They use Aruba for wifi

150/150 on Ethernet

I get like 100 on wifi

[rocky badge]

ours has except yesterday and today

[granite jetty]

i plugged it again now its normal and as before on unidentified, could be possible its something from the pc as in a bios option or something thats preventing the connection other than something with the port/motherboard?

[clear igloo]

Likely something with the port on the motherboard

You could try reinstalling the nic drivers from the motherboard maker's website

Just in case before you spend any money

[granite jetty]

only drivers regarding Internet are realtek pci-e ethernet drivers, if thats what you mean i have tried that already

[clear igloo]

Yah, crap, then it might be the controller, I would try with a cheap PCIe NIC then

[digital silo]

Hi, I am having trouble with my laptop (Zephrus g14 2021) disconnecting from wifi every so often. I've tried to update to drivers but windows says it is up to date (don't know if I trust that). It doesn't happen to my mobile phone or desktop so I doubt it is a problem with the network its self. Is the wifi card bad? I just bought this laptop.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo I love that my university doesn't firewall between devices with public IPs

[clear igloo]

Interesting

[rocky badge]

from WAN they block it

[clear igloo]

I guess it's easier to just protect at the endpoints that need it than students stuff

Ah, ok, that makes sense

[rocky badge]

but not between stuff in the LAN

[acoustic isle]

Some gudi gudi

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo stfu sccm

[clear igloo]

lol, I hate it 😄

[acoustic isle]

Mutch better

[sudden kayak]

wait is that your personal machine or??

[peak cloak]

Same

[rocky badge]

school

[peak cloak]

I can rdp to my PC from anywhere on campus wifi

[sudden kayak]

oh ok i was thinking they somehow snapped up your personal windows machine

i haven't used windows in a while but that would be insane lol

the way the internet is meant to be set up, it really sucks how standard NAT & extremely restrictive firewalling has become

[sudden kayak]

although i guess modern OSs make that assumption and relax security a lot so....

[rocky badge]

i have admin on this pc tho lol

[sudden kayak]

nice i guess they trust you??

[rocky badge]

I guess

[sudden kayak]

(or they did it by accident)

[rocky badge]

I mean, we kinda need admin on these PCs

its the esports lab

i don't remember about actual computer labs though

[waxen scroll]

they gave it to your actual account?

i bet MFPtest has a weak password

[rocky badge]

Idk if the GPOs just make it where Domain Users is a member of local Administrator or what

my issue is the labs I'm in I'd generally probably need admin (esports & computer science)

[waxen scroll]

the gaming lab being on the domain is how they're going to get crypto'd

[rocky badge]

the gaming lab wasn't supposed to be on the domain

but some of them got joined to the domain somehow

there's like 3 out of the 13 on the domain

[waxen scroll]

do they reset on reboot like deepfreeze would do?

[rocky badge]

no

@waxen scroll @peak cloak

u need fiber or excess cat6?

[sudden kayak]

lmao

[eternal glacier]

My grandparents internet 💀💀💀💀

I usally get 3-8 mbs

💀💀💀💀

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak

[alpine heath]

how does a dns server work? is it possible to only connect a specific app or websites through a custom dns while others dont?

[analog grove]

GreatMusic you can use a local "hosts" file for that, which is checked before DNS

But not sure whether that answers your question

[waxen scroll]

wtf is that hostname

[rocky badge]

idk

[waxen scroll]

who uses .local

[rocky badge]

apogee apparently

[waxen scroll]

as probably access switch

whats an apogee

[rocky badge]

etsu = my school
governors = my hall

212 = probably telco room

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo is mcpre a human?

[rocky badge]

lmao

[waxen scroll]

mcpre is on a ton of their images and ive always wondered

[thick minnow]

most likely wifi card is bad, but make sure that you have a good wifi mesh around your room, better buy new routers / add an extra mesh device to spread your wifi to your room

[fading gale]

Another thing to take into consideration is how many devices are attached to your WiFi. If you have a standard router, you may simply have to many devices connected. WoFo routers can only handle so many connections at once per band.

I am hoping someone can jog my memory... A while ago I saw a small wired router for like $50 advertised somewhere, but I can't remember the brand so I can't find it again. If anyone can help me figure out what I saw and where I can get it, it would be amazing! I really don't want to keep using my asus wifi router, as I have APs that do the wireless work now.

[clear igloo]

[late current]

Does some1 know why its not reaching the 10gbps they advertised?

[clear igloo]

Ethernet overhead

[peak cloak]

Edge router?

Mikrotik hex?

[copper lintel]

Anyone why is my ping so 💩 on games

[sudden kayak]

yeah the ones in that price range are the edgerouter X (although i think they're having stock/supply chain problems), mikrotik hex or hex S, and tp link omada er605 iirc

i have the er605 set up for my parents with tp link APs and it's been awesome

[bronze oak]

network

[south briar]

hey you guys know what is a good router I can buy?

[meager ginkgo]

What internet speed do you pay for?

[fading gale]

I went with the 605ER, which is fine because I don't has gigabit internet atm. From the specs I saw, it only does up to 400MB/s or so, which is perfectly fine since I only has 300 down sadly. I hope it's relatively easy to set up.