networking

[opal pagoda]

what is your budget?

[mild turtle]

Entirely depends. Probably about £100 maybe a bit more.

[edgy tundra]

I am on my pc getting a measly 100mbps download speed When it used to download at gigabit speeds. I have changed speed and duplex to 1gbps but it still does not work and on my ethernet properties it says it is at 100mbps i fixed it before by resettiong my pc but i dont want to do it again is there a quiucker fix

[opal pagoda]

broken cable most likely

[opal pagoda]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Deco-X50-AI-Driven-HomeShield/dp/B09QMPGXRF
deco single units are ok routers, if you want to tinker with your router get something that can be flashed or comes with openwrt like glinet

[long pecan]

I desperately need a new server. it only has a 10/100 NIC, it's enough for most things (even if large transfers take a while) but I can't stream music from it at the same time as transferring files

I did buy a gigabit network card for it but it wouldn't accept it, it shows up in the config but wouldn't actually do anything with it

[lone sun]

Can anybody tell me what exactly is the difference between the radio MAC address vs the ethernet and wifi mac addresses? What is the purpose of the radio MAC address? Apparently, wireless access points don't just have an ethernet and wifi MAC, but also a "radio" MAC address. When you type in "iwconfig" into a linux/ubuntu machine, or "netsh wlan show interfaces" into a windows machine, it pulls up a MAC address, but its clearly not the ethernet or wifi one.

[opal pagoda]

tell us more about your server hardware, software and what nic did you install

[long pecan]

its a raspberry pi 3B with a sata SSD plugged in over USB thats stuck to my wall with blu-tac

i tried plugging in a Ugreen USB ethernet card but it showed up in my OMV config and was showing activity on my switch but wouldnt actually connect

[opal pagoda]

tbh you cant do anything about it
internally ethernet port is connected to usb2.0 hub so total bandwidth will always be 500mbps max theoretical

you could do a bandwidth limit of 90mbps for file transfer and that will leave some wiggle room for steam

[long pecan]

yeah, i know. but 480mbps > 100mbps

[opal pagoda]

480mbps = 100mbps + 380 leftover for ssd

[long pecan]

hm fair

[opal pagoda]

• overhead

https://arace.tech/products/radxa-rock-3c-blue-edition?_pos=2&_fid=b69b0db3c&_ss=c&variant=42476867059892

just get a new board with "modern" features like gbe and usb 3.0

[thick minnow]

Is it a good idea to pay for a second smaller internet connection through a different mobile carrier incse main one goes down?

My router has the ability to do that

I use the same one as my phone for my current and only connection

[pseudo blade]

Depends on your situation and budget.

What you have to ask yourself is if the cost is justified by the potential impact reduction or not.

[thick minnow]

The home internet is not the most reliable

Slow and lots ping

[thick fulcrum]

I need to order a 300m durm of cat 6utp for a job, its going to be used for PoE, what colour do i get? Red as its got power on it?

[peak cloak]

if it's active POE it doesn't matter, the switch and device communicate before sending power

[thick fulcrum]

its going to be powering onsite PABX handsets

[main hazel]

okay i was trying to setup 1.1.1.1 on my new router (fritzbox), aswell as DNS over TLS, the router requirres me to enter a fully qualified domain for the DNS servers... , and i entered one.one.one.one. wich is the fully qualified domain name for 1.1.1.1 as far as i can tell however the router does not accept this, does 1.1.1.1 have another domain i can possibly try?

[main hazel]

nvm found the problem, apparently the creators of fritzbox os have no clue what a fully qualified domain name is (dispite specificallty asking for it) wich is weird because you would expect manufacturers of routers to know something about their field ... :S :((

[thick fulcrum]

dont worry, front end developers dont 🙂

[main hazel]

one.one.one.one
``` the unqualified version works where the ```
one.one.one.one.
``` fully qualified domainname does not

[opal pagoda]

i would load balance across them
bonding even if you are willing to tinker with openmptcp router

[quiet vortex]

Hey, can someone help me, I am looking for a similar utility to the Dante virtual sound card where you can route sound channels to different channels, or something that just routes, but with networking so I can for instance route 1 ethernet to another ethernet port though my pc

(I am wanting to route a USB 4g modem to my internal network)

[crisp thorn]

usually no

since operators often share towers especially in hard to access areas, so you end up with exactly the same signal

[drowsy fossil]

If you dont otherwise have internet on your internal network, you can use the windows network bridge (if your 4g provider TOS approves)
but if your internal network has another internet connection, that will be a bad time

[opal pagoda]

having multiple gateways isnt a problem
problem would be if ip conflict and dual dhcp server would occur

[feral gust]

Anyone know of anything that can switch 120volt ac lights like via zigbee or zwave?

[thorn delta]

Any zigbee lightswitch should do it, you could do multiple of the small ones or one larger one like this, you'd want the "4CH 85-250V" version
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005655319174.html

iirc they use pretty standard bulbs, so you could convert it to LED, even low voltage LED bulbs, if you wanted

[empty furnace]

guys is PC wifi speed supposed to be slower than phone?

im in the same area while running wifi speed test and the phone is significantly faster like nearly 3x

and my games have been bugging out because of the lag that i have right now, it only recent started i would say 2 weeks ago

[feral gust]

Ok cool! It's actually just a bunch of lightbulb sockets wired up to a bus bar

That's how they used to do them apparently, just switching 120v ac from the box and then wired the lights in after

[feral gust]

Page not found

[quiet vortex]

Usally the bridge makes the connection really slow for me, is there a way to fix that and also by that do you mean using the bridge connections feture?

[drowsy fossil]

Yes, not that im aware of, yes

[quiet vortex]

Ok

Is there a faster alternative?

[drowsy fossil]

you probably could run a router os in a vm and it might be faster?

ive only used bridge so idk

[quiet vortex]

Can the router os acces all the ports?

[drowsy fossil]

no but you should be able to passthrough the usb device

[quiet vortex]

As in passthough the usb to the os and the ethernet?

[drowsy fossil]

yep

[quiet vortex]

Mmmm

yum

How do i find a router os?

[drowsy fossil]

Proxmox or mikrotik routeros

[quiet vortex]

And do i just run them in virtual box?

or am i missunderstanding this

[quiet vortex]

hmm

after further research mikrotik costs a ton i think it'd be cheaper to buy a router/modem with 4g sim capability or a usb port for a modem usb

ty for showing me that tho

I will stick to slow af windows bridge

(it dosent even work :dead:)

[willow relic]

I love my new little box

[pseudo blade]

It sure does attach storage to your network

[west vortex]

I'm kinda lost on how to get my Pi-Hole to recognize hostnames instead of IP addresses on my network for my devices. Only some of them show up and it's mostly Apple stuff and a few dumb IoT things, but a lot of devices still just only show their IP in the webUI. I have my network setup to distribute out the pi-holes as the DNS servers to the devices, and the pi-holes are then routed to use my gateway (UDM-SE) as their DNS, and the UDM-SE is set to use both 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 as it's DNS. I also have conditional forwarding set to use 10.0.0.0/24 and I have my domain set as well (which is just .localdomain). The UDM-SE is the DHCP server.

[fallow wing]

hey people, got a question for y'all

• as so of you may know, I'm making a server that will run proxmox so I'd like to get a dual SFP+ card on it but I'm not sure which one (and preferably cheap), thus I've been looking amazon listings like 10Gtek, H!Fiber, NICGIGA, etc...
• what I've gathered is that X510 good but can be troublesome here and there for 'reasons', X710 is the plague and must be avoided, that one broadcom controller is barely used so not much reviews on it, there is practically no realtek chipset for dual SFP+ (plus they are apparently hit or miss with their designs), also some connectx-3 listings on ebay are looking interesting but most of them are likely to be hardware locked for servers unless I find a 1st party card
• trying to go for the best value I could set for, preferably below 100€, max 120€, all those card fits that criteria but now I'm deciding depending on reliability, avoiding driver issues or possible "finnicky-ness"

any input on the matter I could give some thought about ?

[mighty wind]

Its not Proxmox but I have a Mellanox MCX312B-XCCT in my Synology NAS that has never given me trouble. I got mine off ebay for 116 USD. I have seen the same and some other Mellanox cards recommended before.

[drowsy fossil]

you might want to look into qsfp+ pigtails as another option

[opal pagoda]

You can disable "hardware lock" with a piece of tape

[thick fulcrum]

you want 2 ports, or happy to go 1/2 duplex, and get a 2 port SFP to copper adapter?

[main hazel]

a question i actually have had for a longer time, back when i did my ccna, (acient history) , 100mbit was the default for ages at that point, maybe 1gbit connections were just new or planned , anyway, if you did your network setup really well , used switches , not hubs , and a good switch at that, and there wasnt to much trafick on the switch, you could pull a file over ftp, from another pc, and get speeds of ~7MB/s , wich was considered the maximum real world speed for 100mbit, for 10mbit (oax or ethernet) this was ~700kb... now my router has finally cought up in speed to what was the norm fror lan back when.... and can do 100mbit down, however i get speeds upto 10MB , ive seen 11MB/s (but that might be artifacting for how the calculation is done) i know the theoretical speed for 100mbit is 11MB , but this would mean that we now get theoretical speeds on our modem, or what happened ? , as far as i know were mostly still doing tcp/ip connections i think and they have overhead so ???? or did we change how we measure speed from payload , (actual usefull data transferred) to every bit that comes over the wire... (would be like a weightlifter including his own weight in his performances , since he has to lift that to) , or ? i hope its not the latter , as it seems to be the case all around and i would hope that where isp's might fall victim to "boosting speed numbers" i would hope the manufacturors of the equipment doesnt... ???

[thick fulcrum]

So, why are your download speeds 10MB/s on a port that supports 100MiB?

I highly recommend having a read over https://www.nbnco.com.au - this is the national wholesale broadband provider in Australia, and answers LOTS of questions about speeds. Its regulator the ACCC also has a short version here: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/telecommunications-and-internet/broadband-speeds

[fallow wing]

In the end, I think I'm gonna go with the X520-DA2, I just wanted to ask one last time just to be sure I didn't miss any other options

[modern cairn]

Anyone frm India here? Where can I buy a laptop wifi card from here?

[fallow wing]

Does India have eBay or something similar ?

[modern cairn]

We hv Amazon but the stuff there is too expensive fr a broke college kid like me

[modern cairn]

No ebay though

[fallow wing]

Dang

Sorry, can't help you

Good luck tho

[modern cairn]

Np

Ty XD😭

[fallow wing]

Looking into cards here and there, will look at these too

[fallow wing]

Hmmmmmm

[fallow wing]

Two SFP+ ports

[thick fulcrum]

Good luck 🙂

Maybe a used synology one?

[fallow wing]

Hmmmm nah I found a couple candidates already

[blazing karma]

Gotta love the ubiquiti tax

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo

@rocky badge

My 14 night cruise

[cunning lion]

Here is what I am bloody thinking to solve my crappy networking issues here. Get about 2-3 powerline adapters and a mesh network that can use the powerline adapters as a backhaul so that I get full speed from every access point instead of doing my current mesh extender that rebroadcasts the wifi signal and cuts data in half

I can't do moca becuase there isn't any optical cable ran here aka people before us didn't have cable or satilite

If I can find powerline adapters with a built in 2-3 ethernet ports even better so I can add a switch for where I want a wire ran

Giant metal furnace in the middle of the house is screwing up my wifi signals badly

Trying to remote into any of my pcs is a very poor expenrince and what is preventing me from fully enjoying my 2 "gaming" pc's

I can't really run my own cables in this "rented" space

[cerulean pulsar]

Hey all, I've got an Unifi UDM Pro acting as the firewall and the dhcp server for my network. I'm trying to set up a PXE server so my plan was to set up a specific vlan/network where the UDMP would act as a dhcp relay (only for that network) to send requests to another dhcp server (in that same network) where I can customize what I need for the PXE server. Such as downloading specific images based on architecture, etc. Now my question is, am I overlooking any potential dhcp/network problems assuming this configuration is just for that one network?

[cunning lion]

Looking for recommendations for hardware

[thorn delta]

Powerline may not give you much better speeds than wireless backhaul. Definitely buy the powerline adapters from somewhere with an generous return policy. A WiFi 6E mesh system may help since it's going to be cleaner and have wide enough channels to get better speeds.

[opal pagoda]

Tplink has deco with powerlink backhoul if you want all in one device

But remember that if you use multiple powerline adapters they act essentially like hubs so they aren't the best

[cunning lion]

Amazon certainly does

[cunning lion]

I was thinking no more then 3

1 at the router/moden and 2 other rooms

[west vortex]

Feeling it here too haha

[blazing karma]

Mine is OPNSense at the heart

Ubiquiti cannot handle PPPoE well

Altho my connection is only 1 gig

[opal pagoda]

get some blanking panels

[west vortex]

Yeah getting a few soon, but only for spots I know wont be taken up by something soon

[opal pagoda]

blanking panels we use are clip on and dont require being screwed in

so no bigie when needing to install something

[west vortex]

I have rack studs so it's easy, I just don't like doing something twice if I can avoid it.

[opal pagoda]

i dont get why people hate regular cage nuts
i can install and remove them by hand without issues

[west vortex]

I have plump fingers

Also, I like how the rack studs can hold the equipment for me a bit while I get one on

[grand portal]

hey all, I'm looking to replace my ISPs router (it's just consistent and port forwarding is appauling!) something around £100mark maybe a bit over

anyone have any thoughts or advice for me?

at the moment, I'm looking something like ASUS RT-AX58U V2 AX3000 or TP-Link Archer AX72 AX5400

[mighty wind]

I hated having to service those ship networks. Worst one was a ship we were bringing back from COVIG mothball and when I plugged in I fount out the first person to setup the network didn't know what a vlan was.

cisco 3850s with no vlans, routing, or QoS

only upside that was not the guests network, or the important stuff

[main hazel]

ive setup my local lan as a 100mbit for testing now, and using a faster connection to pull with and the host im pulling data from can server it from nvme so tthe bottleneck should be the 100mbit connection, and as expected i get76mbit , for a http connection (more overhead than an ftp connection),
ive read the links you gave , but thats not the issue realy , my question was , -simplified- how come we have 2 different measures for 100mbit speed, one can do 11MByte a second over 100mbit , the other -and the one im used to - can only do 7MByte over (different connection but same rated speed) 100mbit.
im not mad about it , id rather have 11MB then 7MB , but how on earth do they manage to send nearly the theoretical maxumum for 100mbyte over the wire , not including package and network overhead :S

[agile torrent]

When you set up an ssh tunnel/port tunnel over an ssh hop, because it is easier than convince the local IT to give you an open port to a different Ip...

on the other hand it is kinda stable for now, but these things happen only on weekends right?

The IT is sorta kinda wanna help, but the paperwork would put Vogons to shame

[opal pagoda]

we dont allow ssh at all
you want ssh?- connect to a admin vm via vpn

[agile torrent]

this is our machine, located on site on an isolated vlan, we NEED external connection for getting measurements out/remote connections.

[opal pagoda]

for vendors like that we supply a ras vm

for non admin traffic firewall rule request needs filling out

[agile torrent]

yeah well we don't have to or even want to have any traffic into their intranet

i was thinking just putting down an LTE gateway, but they not allowing it on premises, cause that could be a way into their infra

I failt to see how but this is what it is

[west vortex]

ick, I hate those punch downs

[hearty lily]

I just picked up a synology nas wanted to see what I may have to do if I get 2 drives for it now and want to upgrade to the full 4 later? I want to just get largest drives I can but don't want it to screw with me in the future.

[sly compass]

I don't understand, i have multiple fqdn, the ones internally doesn't work for Firefox or Firefox nightly. Works great in Edge, Chrome and ios/safari/firefox etc

[rocky badge]

nice

[glossy gate]

wanting to acquire a gigabit switch for my bedroom, at around $15-20 does brand/model really matter at all?

[sullen shuttle]

Probably not, just aim for something that reviews well. I am running cheap Netgear switches throughout my home network and have had zero issues.

[glossy gate]

Thought so, but I'm nowhere near a networking expert myself so figured it'd be easier to ask

[sullen shuttle]

I'm not either, just know what I managed to build for myself when I decided to go wired. I am actually running my modem to a google wifi mesh router, then out to a switch, that runs to other switches for the connection points around my home. I have two other mesh points to handle all of the wifi devices. I upgraded to Phillips Hue last year and run the bridge through a hardwire on one of the mesh nodes. It works really well for me.

Have a switch in each bedroom, as well as a dedicated one for the living room, and my office. It's probably overkill, but we have had 4 people in the same house playing on a locally hosted server running two different games, as well as players connecting from their homes, and no lag.

I have the 8 port Netgear GS208 for my living room, and it's five port little brother for most of the end points. These are unmanaged and very easy to work with.

[polar cedar]

Look in Firefox settings for the private DNS/DNS over https and turn it off to use local DNS/system DNS settings. May solve your problem

[compact hill]

Trying to find a tool that ltt reviewed a while back but I'm not sure which channel it was on. The tool let field techs ssh to and configure network devices while in the field without having to learn cli commands. Anyone remember that review/tool?

[clear igloo]

You're not going to find such a tool, there are massive companies out there that struggle to manage a handful of vendor CLI syntax, nobody is going to cover all vendors. Heck, some vendors struggle with GUIs that cover their own products 🤣
The closest to what you talk about is netool.io and that doesn't bypass CLI commands, just lets you remote in from your phone/computer

[opal pagoda]

he should use magic of chatgpt™️

[clear igloo]

I just used the magic of google "LTT network tool review" and looked at the first result 😛

easier answers, lol

[opal pagoda]

i ment for universal cli knowlege

[clear igloo]

OH! lol

[rocky pecan]

guys where should i buy replacement drive caddys for a dell power edge 620

[opal pagoda]

ebay

[rocky pecan]

ok

[compact glen]

would it be dumb to run Zenarmor and NextDNS on opnsense firewall?

[clear igloo]

not really, no

[ashen cloak]

I am hosting librespeed docker container at home which is publicly accessable.
My network speed is 600/600mbps.
My friends network speed is 900/900-ish.
Somehow my friend only gets about 30/600 on my speedtest server. (expectation was around 600/600)

When we both do a speedtest at speedtest.net, we both get our supposed speed.

is this an issue with residential ip to residential ip networking?

Connecting locally to the speedtest will get me gigabit speeds both directions.

I have to add, from other remote locations it is sometimes a good connection. Just don't know why the speed sucks between my friend and I.

[crisp thorn]

try a different tcp congestion protocol

or use multiple connections for the speed test or udp

[ashen cloak]

I don't even know what that is.
It doesn't seem to be my home network, nor his home network.
It sounds like it's something with our ISP's having a rather slow connection or low priority traffic.
Another friend which has a different ISP gets full speed to my server.

[compact hill]

heck yea, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHbitD6or2w

[crisp thorn]

you probably have different routing between those friends

and one of those routes can be really congested, change your tcp congestion protocol on server device and check if it helps

[tribal sequoia]

reeks of ISP routing issue 😄

[opal pagoda]

same isp or diffrent isp?

[ashen cloak]

Different ISP.
The easiest way for me is probably to get a cheap vps with gigabit connection and have incoming traffic through that vm or something like that.

Or Cloudflare or something

[opal pagoda]

you could try tailscale first

basically a p2p vpn

[crimson ermine]

hey yall would it be a good idea to get a older thin client for a babys first server type of thing? running ethernet outside of the living room with the router is a bit difficult in my apartment, otherwise wouldve bunkered a older tower in some corner

[tight pecan]

Gotta make do with what you've got. You could maybe try using a powerline adapter to make use of your electrical circuitry, but that will highly depend on how your electrical wiring is set up.

[opal pagoda]

you could also get a nuc or a tiny mini micro system
my home server is zotac ci320 nano with couple of external 3tb hdds connected to it

[crimson ermine]

ill take a look at it thanks!

are you using USB for the drives?

[opal pagoda]

yup 2x of 3tb segate Backup Plus Hub

and it runs all of the home server duties just fine with just 4gb of ram and a low power 4 core
(nas, home assistant, plex, tailscale, pihole, duplicati, cloudflared)

[crimson ermine]

ill take a look thanks!

[fierce kiln]

yo is there an easy way to host a vpn on a raspberry pi that is actually fast? (not tailscale). I have a 400mbps down 30mbps up link at home

(with a nighthawk wifi 7 router + ubiquiti U7 pro for extra coverage)

[peak cloak]

you can use wireguard

pivpn makes it easy

[fierce kiln]

alright

thx

dang, its the same process as pi-hole, thats awesome

[peak cloak]

huh, it's no longer maintained as of 2 weeks ago https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/releases/tag/v4.6.0

[fierce kiln]

thats a big L

still works so imma use it

[sly compass]

Where can i find 5-8 port 10gbit switch that is managed and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? Found a reasonable price unmanaged one. But i want to compare and i mostly want it for vlan. Not a most but is nice to have

[ashen cloak]

You can probably find some used gear on market places which only cost an arm.

[sly compass]

Impossible

[pseudo blade]

10 gigabit, small, managed, inexpensive and new (and let me guess: base-T). Don't ask for too little eh?

I hope US$300 is inexpensive: https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-switching-utility-10-gbps-ethernet

[sly compass]

Unifi 🤢 But hey that’s actually a good option

[pseudo blade]

Well you can go 4% cheaper and get a Hasivo 8-port

That's about all I can offer

[fallow wing]

Hey chat
Question for y'all
I want to host gameservers
It's gonna have an end point in a datacenter that will be VPN'd into the local network of the servers
Reverse proxy after the VPN and before the servers, good/bad idea ? Should I be concerned about a significant increase in latency ? Or just let it loose with simple port redirects ?

[frigid roost]

what should i use to sync photos from my iphone to my file server?

[pseudo blade]

You'll get extra latency and DDoS traffic will be routed via your VPN to what I presume is your house

Not a ton you can do about that with that architecture, it's the price you pay for not having to pay exorbitant cloud compute fees

For a web server done that way you'd put all your caching in the cloud but game servers usually can't really do request caching like that

[fallow wing]

I mean, I'm hosting that VPS at OVH and they're supposed to have excellent DDoS protection so I'm betting on their past history of dealing with DDoS attacks and barely slowing down services to save my own machines from being bombed to heck and back

[pseudo blade]

It must be explicitly enabled and supports a specific (and small) list of games. It also seems to only be offered for their dedicated gaming server products.

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/security/game-ddos-protection/

[fallow wing]

Hm, weird
I'm pretty sure I saw that as a by default option when I rented my VPSes

[pseudo blade]

There is a generic DDoS protection offer

[fallow wing]

Ah that must be it then

[mystic latch]

What OS is your file server running?

[frigid roost]

currently running windows server 2008 but i want to move to open media vault

[mystic latch]

I can super recommend immich as a google photos-like service. It's really fantastic. It can be installed with docker.

Has a solid mobile app, too.

[frigid roost]

also can you explain what a docker is?

[frigid roost]

i see ppl talking about it but idk what it means

(idk much about networking or servers)

[frigid roost]

does immich run in the background

or do i need to actually open the app on my phone if i want to backup photos

[mystic latch]

Woo that's a whole big thing.

So it basically puts a service/app in a container that's almost like a stripped down operating system. Using containers helps a lot with not worrying about making sure you have all the dependency stuff worked out, it's handled for you.

[mystic latch]

I'm not 100% sure with iOS, but I believe it runs in the background. It definitely works on android.

[frigid roost]

gotcha

i know apple is picky with what can and can't run in the background

[fierce kiln]

apple is picky about literally anything that is third party

[frigid roost]

yep

[fierce kiln]

if I walked into a server room and saw rack pros I would slap the IT tech in the face

[mystic latch]

You can ask in immich's discord server and get a for sure answer

[frigid roost]

will immich work with open media vault?

[mystic latch]

Oh nvm, here we go, it works:
https://immich.app/docs/features/automatic-backup/#ios

[frigid roost]

👍🏻

time to wait for my hdds to arrive

[mystic latch]

I'm not super familiar with OMV, but IIRC you can do docker containers on it

[frigid roost]

so i run immich in a docker container?

[mystic latch]

Correct

Yea, it has a docker compose plugin
https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7:omv7_plugins:docker_compose

[mystic latch]

You'd set up the service and run it on OMV, then you install and connect the app to your server.

[frigid roost]

i see

do you think it's worth going from an hdd to a sata ssd for the boot drive

on my file server

[fierce kiln]

depends on whether your data changes alot, if you often do many file operations you could benefit from an ssd

[frigid roost]

it's going to be backing photos from my phone and then photos that i take with my camera

[fierce kiln]

how often and how much do you back up?

[frigid roost]

depends

don't really have a number off the top of my head

[fierce kiln]

if its just a few photos it doesn't matter, but if it's multiple GB's per backup you could benefit from an nvme drive

[frigid roost]

it's in the gigs

[fierce kiln]

how often? like once every 2 weeks?

[frigid roost]

uh

1-2 times a month

depends if im out shooting or not

i was quite busy when i was shooting photos for my robotics team last month

[fierce kiln]

alright, you could benefit, but don't overdo it. a pcie gen 3 drive is plenty

make sure it has a dram cache

[frigid roost]

only issue is that there's no m.2 slot

on the motherboard

it's that ancient

[fierce kiln]

oh, you could get a pcie add in card that gives you some slots

[frigid roost]

i'll look into that

i don't have much room at all to work with

[mystic latch]

In addition to what sneakyboa put, I'd get a SATA SSD for your docker apps. Will help them run smoothly. Then you'd use the HDDs for mass storage.

Not sure how OMV handles that though. It probably puts the apps on the boot drive.

[opal pagoda]

It is just debian os with nas features, if it works on debian it works on omv

[thick minnow]

why dont they cool a pc in a car with a radiator driving down the road

would make a good vid

[mystic latch]

Yea, was more thinking of having an integrated GUI option.

As they're inexperienced with servers and whatnot

[opal pagoda]

You can
https://youtu.be/UWlrodHF1EE

[mystic latch]

Well they have a docker plugin I showed here

[fierce kiln]

use the car rad for pc cooling? ultimate gaming minivan when

[frigid roost]

if i were to upgrade to a sata later how would i move the os over?

[frigid roost]

what other options are out there?

yay hdds arrived

[mystic latch]

If the drives are the same size or the SSD is larger, you could use clonezilla to just clone it over and disconnect your old drive. Might have to tweak bios boot settings.

[frigid roost]

one more thing

im not sure where to actually put the sata ssd inside the file server

i could take out the optical drive and use the sata cable from that for the ssd

other than that idk where else i could put it

[fierce kiln]

or you can pull a linus and double sided tape it to somewhere in the case

[frigid roost]

(there's no room in the case)

i can't even stick my hand in it

[mystic latch]

Perhaps get a bigger case from the resale market?

[frigid roost]

i'll see if i can 3d print a mount

[fierce kiln]

I love it when Mr___C said "Its printing time" and printed all over the place

[frigid roost]

@mystic latch bit of an issue i boot into windows on my file server and the keyboard and mouse are not being detected

it works in the bios though

is there anyway to format the hdd without going into the windows settings

[fierce kiln]

I would boot to a live Linux usb

@frigid roost

[frigid roost]

bit of an issue

it gave me an ip address to remotely connect to the file server

but it isn't working

[fierce kiln]

Are you trying to fix it remotely?

[frigid roost]

no

[ancient forge]

hey guys, i have a question, i want to get wifi all over in my house its about 3000.sq feet and i wonder if 2 Asus XT8 and a main router (Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX6000) would be able to cut it?

[sly compass]

Always nice to see 🤤

[hearty lily]

Hey looking to see if somebody could help me set up my synology nas. For some reason when I made my user account and tried to log in it kicked me out and didn't like my ip.

[hearty lily]

Wait did I screw up I got a 923+ can I not run plex on it?

[clear igloo]

You can but no transcodes due to the lack of CPU power or ability to add a GPU

[hearty lily]

Ok i did get a comment on reddit about setting up a raspberry pi to do the transcoding. Does that make sense?

[mystic latch]

Transcoding is poor on a rasberry pi, even on the latest version. Intel CPUs are best if you don't want to have a dGPU as you can use quick sync for transcoding.

[hearty lily]

I guess what devices would I be giving up the ability to watch the content on without having the nas transcode or am I better to get a different model that can transcode?

[mystic latch]

That's dependent on the source file and device you're trying to watch on.

For example, Roku can't do h265, so if you had any videos that were that they'd have to transcode.

Devices that can handle almost any format are things like the nvidia shield and fire tv

I think the only thing they can't handle is AV1, which is very rarely used right now.

[torpid sun]

if i use an Ethernet cable in my pc,
is there any advantages between using a high profile (8-9 arm) router or a regular (2-3 arm) router ?

[fierce kiln]

depends on the layout of the house and the locations of the routers/ap's, though 2 can cut it for that size

If you can, route an ethernet cable between the two for optimal reliability/speed/latency

[fierce kiln]

if its connected over ethernet, wifi antennas don't matter

[torpid sun]

alr. 👍

[fierce kiln]

all you want to know is the networking interface on both ends, the lowest standard wins. If your mobo/nic is gigabit and your router is 2.5 gig you will only get gigabit

[torpid sun]

so, bigger capacity router does matter but only if my cable capable to use that amount of speed... right ?

[fierce kiln]

lets have a quick rundown. Having multi-gigabit connections over ethernet doesn't neccesarily mean higher internet speeds. you will have to check with your isp about that. But let's say that your router is capable of a throughput of 2.5 gigabit over ethernet, your motherboard is capable of a throughput of gigabit, and your cable is cat6 (10gig for 100 meters). you will experience a max speed of 1 gigabit because your motherboard is bottlenecking it. though for most home internet setups gigabit is plenty.

[hearty lily]

Ok I would likely be streaming to my laptop when I'm away for work or would be going to my Sony tv at home which has plex built in apparently (hasn't downloaded it yet to it)

[fierce kiln]

on my media server I pre-transcode where all the media contained is transcoded by the rtx 3070 in my gaming pc to h.264 with nvenc. it works on most devices

I have heard that apple devices are particular about what codec you use tho

and storing raw .mkv's will gobble up your storage very quickly

[hearty lily]

If I purchased plex does that mean they would do this for me? What does the purchase version of plex change?

[fierce kiln]

transcoding is generally done on-the-fly meaning that videos are transcoded as they are streamed

this is true of most media server platforms

[hasty coyote]

Question: I am currently looking for viable solutions to establish a reliable network at a camping site for a maximum of a few days. I have the problem that mobile network is very weak and hear we are not allowed to strengthen the signal using a repeater because we are basically creating our own small network which might interfere with the regular ones and because the network carriers own the frequency bands it’s prohibited. One idea is using Starlink and then creating a local wlan mesh. Do you guys have any recommendations on products, setup and what else to look out for ? It should be able to handle quite some traffic and be robust so there is no downtime and cover as much space as possible. I know that star link could be a bottleneck and choke point. Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback.

[fierce kiln]

barring laying your own fiber optic cable to the nearest isp, starlink is your best option. for meshing it, it might take a lot of nodes so coverage will be an ordeal.

if possible, you could try to aggregate multiple starlink connections together if you have multiple starlink dishes/subscriptions

for the nodes themselves you could get a ubiquiti ac mesh pro 5-pack for about 1k

they will do about 2000 sq ft of range

[thorn delta]

Using an LTE modem with an external, directional antenna can really help

It won't cause interference like a booster, but will only benefit that one device with the attached antenna

At our camp / cottage property, I can't even send a text message from my phone with the signal available. With my Mikrotik LTE modem and a small directional panel antenna, I get a pretty solid 5 Mbps, despite being 30km away and the tower not having been updated in over 10 years.

It would really depend on how many people are using it and what they're using it for. If your area's starlink coverage isn't overloaded, a single one should be more than enough for people hanging out, streaming music, flipping through social media, ect. WiFi 6 has worked quite a bit better outdoors than WiFi 5/ac in my experience, the cheap TP-Link EAP610-Outdoor APs can be setup standalone and have some pretty decent coverage

[fierce kiln]

the other issue would be power. If there isn't power at the site you'll have to run it off a generator or power station (preferably one with clean power output)

[thorn delta]

For sure. Starlink was drawing around 60W iirc when I last looked into it, if power consumption is more of a concern than raw speed, LTE modems are typically under 5-10W for the peplink and mikrotik ones I've used

You can get PoE injectors and starlink adapters that allow them to run on 12VDC, which will save the standby draw and inverter inefficiencies

[fierce kiln]

if you're going the have a lot of AP's route, perhaps just a giant poe switch would do the job for all of it. one ac cable to rule them all

[hasty coyote]

Thanks a lot for the help. I guess Power will be no problem just internet.

[hasty coyote]

Is it possible to use this AP without the Omada Hardware Controller ?

[thorn delta]

Yes, you can just log into it from a computer or probably the android/ios app and configure an SSID/password

You lose some features, like seamless roaming between APs, but for basic setups like that it's going to be fine

Devices will still roam, the APs just don't help them out

[hasty coyote]

I already own a UniFi Express and poe switch. Are the routers comparable in terms of performance/price or "too expansive for what you get"?

Like for example this one: https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-wifi/products/u6-mesh

[fierce kiln]

generally mesh nodes are lower range but I can still expect similar speeds provided they are connected over poe and not just wifi mesh. If you want minimal downtime you mainly just need to worry about the starlink.

[hasty coyote]

Okay I see. I think the TP-Link has better coverage. The Ubiquiti is only advertised with 140qm which seems a bit low.
And because the TP-Link works standalone I think it is the better choice ^^

[fierce kiln]

ubiquiti tends to be conservative with their range estimates, I am pushing about 2500 sq ft out of an advertized 1500 sq ft AP at my house

and you can use ubiquiti AP's standalone, the U7 Pro I have at my house has nothing else connected to manage it

[frigid roost]

what are some free self hosted photo backup solutions that auto backup the photos from your phone

the ones i've looked at are either not free

or don't do auto backups

[fierce kiln]

Ltt did a vid on a nas card and I think he talked about a solution you're looking for

[fierce jacinth]

Does anyone here know what the domain of the default unifi radius server is

Been struggling to configure wpa3-enterprise connections on my android phone and linux machines

[half meteor]

Personally I love using Immich if you are willing to keep VERY good backups

it is under active development so use at your own risk but the mobile apps are very consistent with backup and I havent had any issues running it on my cluster so far

The machine learning is definitely worse than google photos but it does a pretty good job of it for running locally

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

[pseudo blade]

What kind of camp are we taking?

I'd use cellular with a directional antenna (yagi/dish) aimed your best nearby tower with as much height as you can give it. If it's weak but reachable on phones it should work well and maybe even a dipole setup would work with reduced but superior performance vs. Phones.

You can get WiFi APs like Mikrotik's OmniTik and cover something like a 200 meter line-of-sight radius for calls, bit less for data.
Depending on your expectations and environment you can spend quite a lot of money on this.

[amber elbow]

If anyone is building a pc. Im open for recieving donations on this laptop replacement
https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1232354050616590377

[sly compass]

Im planning on setting it up for my girlfriend so she won’t lose her photos. I just tested it on casa os but im gonna deploy it for real now…

[half meteor]

I'm definitely very happy with it, but I would absolutely reccommend backing up your postgress often and keeping another location for the photos, should be reasonably easy to automate the db backup and the photos are just a volume which you could mount a redundant storage device to

[fierce kiln]

UniFi devices generally don't have a web server for management. You generally use the unifi site manager if you have a cloud gateway or cloud key. You access it at unifi.ui.com and use your account

[frigid roost]

could you send me a link to the video?

i couldn't find it

[frigid roost]

any other alternatives?

[half meteor]

there's a nextcloud photo backup service which is also pretty popular but personally I dont like the organisation. Definitely look into those. Personally I have yet to lose any actual photos with immich, but when I was updating and didnt read the update log I had to reimport all the stored photos cause I wiped the database by accident

[frigid roost]

got another question, so im self hosting a vpn so i can access my server when im not on my local network, my only issue is when i try and access the files on my server from my iphone via the files app sometimes it keeps loading and nothing happens

i've gotten it to work twice yesterday but that's it

[fierce kiln]

network drives on ios/macos have been bugged for years

[fierce kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsM6b5yix0U

[frigid roost]

it works on my mac fine

funny enough i had issues on my pc

[fierce jacinth]

Ye, I have a udm pro which runs a freeradius server internally for its default radius group, I just can't find documentation anywhere on what that group's domain is

Apparently it should be the domain of the cert

[earnest depot]

Hey, i am currently setting up a unifi controller on my docker host. If I adopt my AP, it doesn't work an my Controller logs contain following entries:

:0 TCP candidates not supported yet :0 Permanent error code on channel bind request: 403 - Forbidden IP :0 Permanent error code on channel bind request: 403 - Forbidden IP :0 All TURN channel bindings failed

Any idea, why it is?

[opal pagoda]

I just attended my first fortinet fast track with labs
labs were great, i got fortigate, fortiloger and fortigate isfw along with one win pc connected via lan and another from outside the lan
i got 4 hours 30 min to play with them along with configuration tasks
would recommend 10/10

[frigid roost]

getting nextcloud setup

but im having some issues

nc: getaddrinfo for host "nextcloud-aio-fulltextsearch" port 9200: Name does not resolve

i keep on getting this

[fickle latch]

can you use a cat6 patch cable as a lan cable

[west vortex]

Yes

[fickle latch]

thank you

[fierce kiln]

if it can fit in an rj45 port, it works

[mighty wind]

challenge accepted

[opal pagoda]

sticks in a rj11 👽

[brisk ledge]

Heya is there a relatively easy way of accessing a remote network over vpn but without changing the device im wanting to change directly?

Story: my aunt has some smart home stuff i Set up, they have issues with it and id just connect to it from my home and just give them f. E. A Pi3 that would allow me remote access.

Only issue is, either im missing something or im just uncreative.

One idea i do have, would be to be like

My Server as a wireguard Server, and the pi3 id gave them Set up so it just connects to my wireguard Server automatically, this way i dont need them to Set up pf on their side.

Is there a way i now can get out of my pi3 at their place and connect this way, or would i actually need to have that pi3 Set up as a wg server with them having pf the wg Port of the Pi3?

Im not really deep into these scetchy ways of avoiding work for them (which would obv also work for more dubious activities).

Best thing is, their smart home server does come with tailscale in it... But explaining a tech noob how to enable, connect their acc and invite me to it is quite hard...

[opal pagoda]

I would just install teamviewer on their pc and have them read the connection pass
after that i would setup a tailscale either on their home server or win pc as a subnet router

[brisk ledge]

Easy solution i actually didnt think of lol...

Ye i will try and get them to setup and give me anydesk, didnt use it in a long time (anydesk over Team viewer cause i just know i liked it more)

Thanks for the idea lol

[opal pagoda]

yea i just used teamviewer as example. i have also used google remote desktop and it is real nice

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

[brisk ledge]

Google remote Desktop? Sounds cool

It can Set itself up via ssh? Daym.

• i dont have any usecase for it, but its cool that it can

[ancient forge]

i have routed the ethernet cables throughout the house but i heard that asus mesh network isnt good/their software isnt good

What are the best plug in mesh networks in the budget of like 125-300$ and have a few ethernet (2-3) ports on the mesh router

or should i buy multiple asus routers and use their AiMesh feature?

[pseudo blade]

Is it just linux you can get at a shell for? If so how about SSH certificate-based auth to that server and tunneling to it? Set that up and you can take your Pi away

[brisk ledge]

That would require me to have access to it in the first place without actually visiting them

[pseudo blade]

Didn't you say your Pi's already there?

If not... do that over Anydesk or something from a computer

[brisk ledge]

Nope, that was one idea of how to get any access there, but now the idea of anydesk on their Laptop + setting up tailscale in the Server is easier.

[pseudo blade]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds like a plan

[fierce kiln]

Nest wifi pro is on a big sale recently and I've heard great things about them. Though I don't think they have ethernet on the points. Typically mesh systems expect you to go wifi only and are even mostly designed for using wifi instead of ethernet for the mesh point connections.

[true arch]

hello, i recently saw this video of The PC Security Channel about how to "stop" windows from spying on you by entering a few domains into the host file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. Im just wondering, is it safe to do this and will this break anything that i might be using on a dialy basis? Is there anything i should be aware of/watch out for before doing this?
Thanks!

These are the entries:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 data.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 msftconnecttest.com
127.0.0.1 azureedge.net
127.0.0.1 activity.windows.com
127.0.0.1 bingapis.com
127.0.0.1 msedge.net
127.0.0.1 assets.msn.com
127.0.0.1 scorecardresearch.com
127.0.0.1 edge.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 data.msn.com

[atomic talon]

do you understand what 127.0.0.1 is? 🙂 this should not break anything at all, if you add those urls. but you might have a small change that windows update does not work but not sure which DNS its using.

oh one google search further;
if its one of these urls; its blocked for your windows updates;
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-server-update-services/deploy/2-configure-wsus#211-configure-your-firewall-to-allow-your-first-wsus-server-to-connect-to-microsoft-domains-on-the-internet

[true arch]

do you understand what 127.0.0.1 is?
isnt it a reroute back to your system?

if its one of these urls; its blocked for your windows updates;
wati so if im understanding this right, as long as the URLs in this link arent included windows updates should work fine right?

[atomic talon]

exactly

At least windows update would work.
if anything else would not work I cannot guarantee, not even sure what would break

there are allot of these DNS blocker lists out there.

[true arch]

i see

well in the video he only mentioned that edge wouldnt show like the news page and other buttons on the "new tab page" (itll basically just show a blank page with the search bar at the top). I dont use edge anyway so i dont rlly care about that... but other than that he didnt mention anything so im assuming this is all just telemetry and tracking

[hearty lily]

I have tp link deco units and they work well for me

[ancient forge]

how big is your home?

[hearty lily]

About 1500 square feet although packaging says it can do 5500sqft

[ancient forge]

my home is about 3000-3500 square feet and its on 2 floors, im planning on getting a main router on one part of the home and it would cover the kitchen, living room, and a bedroom. and then stick the 2 mesh aps on the 2nd floor

[hearty lily]

My place is a bungalow so I can't help you then much for that

[ancient forge]

okey

[opal pagoda]

if you are able to have a wired backhoul for deco it is much better

[hasty coyote]

Does anyone know if Ubiquiti supports multiple ISP connections out of the box/is it easy to set up? Like one primary connection and one backup connection.
Thanks a lot in advance for you help 🙂

[digital tartan]

Depends on the device - I've got a UDM SE here with 2 connections and took me about 10 mins to get the basics working

[agile torrent]

technically it COULD work, you have to do some nightmare fuel cabling but it could....

[thorn delta]

I remember checking out a business customer's office that was complaining about their wifi not working. They didn't use our router / wifi APs, but they were a good customer so I checked it out anyway. Turns out they must have had some cable made to use the network jacks with an analog phone, but they reused the cable for their wifi and didn't put it together that it was causing a problem

their actual router connected to our service was a 20 year old linksys, which was also the cause of their speed issues since it wasn't really rated above 5 Mbps of internet and they were on a 75 Mbps plan

Good times..

[agile torrent]

ohh yeah, last week (please don't judge me) I had to put 2x RJ45 on a single cat5E cable ends.

everyone else was like "The hell is that monstrosity"

but it works, and no one had to crawl under the floor for a good 100 feet so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Having to see this after a 10 hour workday though....

We need no cable finder our makita can find them without help...

bonus points for the electricians nailing the fire alarm tube dead center a year before

[thorn delta]

Nailed it

[agile torrent]

no idea how they did not even nick a single wire inside. The guests of the hotel were surprisingly calm considering we just killed like 10 rooms door access...

[opal pagoda]

tight fit

[drowsy fossil]

As long as you also put 2 on the other end lol

[magic owl]

i need help getting my WireGuard VPN configured, i believe i have the router configured properly, the server configured properly and the client; upon trying to activate the connection i get error "No such host is known" on client end

i figured it out 😁

okay so, i got it connected but there's no data exchanges happening. client is sending data but no data is being received

looking at logs, client is trying to initiate handshake with IP ending in 111, timing out every time

[waxen scroll]

I'm a Milwaukee guy

[frigid roost]

how would i get around restrictions on my school wifi basically i want to use discord and instagram while at school but unfortunately it’s blocked

i’ve tried using a vpn (it used to work) now it doesn’t

and cellular data service is terrible within a 1/2 mile radius around my school

[waxen scroll]

Host a vpn on port 80 or 443, TCP

Assuming they didn't block those and use a proxy for 80/443

[broken hearth]

New to networking, I have a folder named "photos" on one of my local drives in PC. This folder has sub folders like, Family, Friends, Office, etc., and these have many subfolders and so on.. I want to share this "Photos" parent folder to my home network and let everyone (who can connect to my home network using their android mobiles and the android TV) to view the files (read-only). What is the best method of sharing, what apps to use for this process? Any YT video would be appreciated.

[frigid roost]

i think those ports might be blocked

i think proton vpn used those ports

[tribal sequoia]

There's plenty of smb file share apps for android, and if you share the folder and setup a username/password for access that should be all you need to do

sharing on LAN with no username/password is essentially no longer supported by windows in that fashion

[broken hearth]

I shared a folder from PC, used CX-File explorer in android and I could access it anonymously without entering username or password.?

[tribal sequoia]

doesn't seem right

i had a hell of a time creating an anonymous accessible share

microsoft killed off anonymous fileshare in like windows 10 2004

maybe they changed something back, what version of windows is this win11?

at least, not without actual tinkering to get it to work, simply "sharing" a folder is definitely not enough in my experiences

[agile torrent]

or use port 53, or as a last resort what I did just use vpn over dns 😄

I did that a couple of times as a red team guy to exfil some data

also did a fully functional vpn on it but just as a techdemo and to avoid paying on international flights 😄

[tribal sequoia]

sneaky, you're the reason i only allow actual application identified port 53 lol

[agile torrent]

too bad these days no one really wants to pay for "real" tests, just so they can get a checkbox filled :/

I really want to do a no holds barred pentest, but no one is willing lol

[agile torrent]

do you allow icmp though? I used ping as well to exfil data lol 😄

[tribal sequoia]

yes but ping as an application

so it does behavior monitoring 😄

[cursive sandal]

Can anyone recommend a home & pro property security system/company that actually allows me to control more than ADT’s insanely limited & dumb Command panel? Had Vivint; liked them but things got very strange.

[agile torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/curiosity-curious-intrigued-interested-interesting-gif-14505707

define "strange"

[cursive sandal]

They became entirely unresponsive regarding billing

[waxen scroll]

Elk products. I use M1G but they have a new panel to explore too

Obviously it's hard mode, it's not going to be pretty like consumer friendly solutions

You can get it to work with home assistant

[plush vale]

Got to love a mini-pc with a monster NIC 😎😎

[opal pagoda]

when the
f12

[fierce kiln]

bruh I wish I had fiber in my area

[acoustic atlas]

I’ve got a real weird network based question if anyone’s down for it

[low pond]

No? 10Gb residential offering is not ultra rare in quite a few places around the globe now

[willow hinge]

Is opnsense plug and play (other then setting up input/output ports)?

[thick fulcrum]

??

now my question is, do DNS matter when your running a server for overall speed (vultr)?

[tribal sequoia]

i don't even know what you're actually asking

[shrewd robin]

I mostly deal with cable networking. And I'm here trying to understand some practices for wireless network. In WiFi, you can set the main WiFi and guest WiFi from the same WiFi router. Does having a guest network means you can set whatever rules like ACL?

[thick fulcrum]

if your running a website, would a faster DNS help with sending outbound traffic, or is it already hand shaken and DNS is only useful for traffic initialized within the server? E.g., using a browser to download the latest version of an offline installer?

guest network can have its own rules, but depending on those rules, you might need a more power use friendly interface

[west vortex]

DNS is only used for looking up hostnames to IP addresses. It wont impact anything other than that.

[agile torrent]

i've only got 2.5 gig :/

[plush vale]

it's a game changer. we went from 80mbps to 8000mbps in 2 months.

[pseudo blade]

No, unless you're going out of your way to do reverse DNS lookup on all clients before serving them (don't).

A normal HTTP server doesn't care about DNS whatsoever except for reverse proxy destinations, which it will have cached for it.

If what I said doesn't make sense to you, just take "No" as your answer as it is a pretty safe assumption.

[agile torrent]

That depends, what he means under faster outbound. So if the lookup from the client side is slow it would make the user experience slower and it could be noticed. So the website loading in would be faster, but not because of higher speeds, just less initial waiting. But 99% of the time you just leave DNS alone if it is working, because chances it's going to stop working out of spite

[pseudo blade]

They said "If you're running a website, would faster DNS help with sending outbound traffic"

So no, not really.

[tribal sequoia]

that would affect the client's experience but not be related at all to the server

so yeah, what they said, no, not at all

[livid edge]

Has anybody heard of this company/website? It looks too good to be true

https://www.hicentro.com/products/8-port-gigabit-switch-125w-2-gigabit-ethernet-uplink-port-plug-and-play-poe-poe-switch-for-cctv

I need somebody to verify the authenticity of it please

[nimble mirage]

whats yall internet speed?

[brisk ledge]

250mbit down 60 up. Ftth

Slow and expensive, typical in germany.

[void bolt]

1000mbit down 50up, also in germany :D

[brisk ledge]

Tho most likely 2-3x the price

Im paying 30 Euros

[void bolt]

like 50 euros lol

[brisk ledge]

Like actually not like "first 6 months"

[void bolt]

could be 60 im unsure

[brisk ledge]

Would be kinda fine i guess

My Provider even stopped delivering gbit for 0 reason. Best i could get is synchronous 300mbit, so up and down.

For 50 Euros...

If latency wouldnt be an issue i could get ~500mbit lte for 50 Euros aprox... (highly theoredical value, its lte...)

[void bolt]

which isp are you on?

[brisk ledge]

A local one

Prefer not to say lol

I can say tho, theres no way of me getting back to DSL or Cable.

[void bolt]

oof

[brisk ledge]

Its me not wanting it.

A because id need a Modem then, B latency.

[void bolt]

yeah its understandable

[brisk ledge]

Ftth is just nice to have.

[void bolt]

which confuses me is that most isp's dont offer much with ftth

[brisk ledge]

Other than one odd outtage (Google Services worked, nothing else) the Provider also is very reliable... Kabel Deutschland aka Vodafone we had before was extremely Bad in terms of how often we had outtages.

[brisk ledge]

Another thing. The whole avaliable bandwith in germany is just laughable...

Just scale it up, like actually. Gbit for everyone, and also allow something like 2.5gbit wan.

I dont see much benefit in gbit for me. I would Switch to a lot more tho. Or at least synchronous gbit in reasonable price.

I also wouldnt care if i cant always use it. Just get rid of the Limits...

Even if i mostly have like 500 and at Max gbit. Why not?

[fierce kiln]

If there were no bandwidth limits, servers would be overrun as the bandwidth needs to be paid for somehow

[brisk ledge]

Gbit for everyone really isnt an issue...

Im talking consumer.

Also, plan Limits are not technical Limits.

Here in germany you can have whole cities running on 20gbit total and stuff like that... Just because they want to save money, same with vdsl, so they could save going ftth and continue using dsl as a dead end.

Here is no such thing as future poofing in terms of Internet.

[fierce kiln]

I mean the best possible Internet in my area is 500mbit cable at 30mbit up

[brisk ledge]

Also funny, same thing on mobile, most Plans are 25mbit. The discount ones.

25mbit and limited data obv.

Only the 3 big are fast, Vodafone 300mbit, Telecom and o2 might be 500.

On Lte. - and the discount Providers also often advertise with 5g use. Wow. 0 benefit.

[fierce kiln]

Me waiting for google fiber Albuquerque

[brisk ledge]

I also thaught of lte fallback for me home via a second sim card of my Main Vodafone Plan, but thing is... They dont allow pf. Not at all.

[fierce kiln]

L

[brisk ledge]

Using lte for anything other than mobile is just a pain here.

[fierce kiln]

I mean 5g just came to my area and it's a game changer

[brisk ledge]

They say "yea All incomming traffic is blocked to save battery use and data use on your plan".

A. Its my thing, if i want open ports give me them.

B. Router is not battery powered.

C. Data use is laughably little for Port Scanners and random Internet noise if i only open certain ports on their end.

But that would have to be an Option on their end. Allow me to open f. E. Port 12345 on their Firewall before it goes to my Router.

This would fix every issue they have...

[opal pagoda]

No, it is something even more evil
Cgnat

Just use cloudflared to punch trough for non data transfer duties or tailscale for max performance

[brisk ledge]

Unsure if storj would work through it for example

[hazy magnet]

My brother has been having troubles with his tv connecting to internet. It’s a DNS error code on an LG OLED. I haven’t tried any router settings just the basics. Any ideas

[opal pagoda]

What do you want to host?

[brisk ledge]

Storj would be one of the Main things id like to keep up.

I dont really host anything else public. Minecraft Servers at Max or the tandoor server - but both wouldnt really matter at all on a fallback connection.

The rest i use is all over Vpn aka basically no issue. Alltho id like to use wireguard > PF.

[warm bramble]

hello
what is the average duration to learn Nmapping?

[low pond]

Seems like they can work with dynamic if not static, but then require you to setup dyndns at the least

But yeah, ports need to be forwarded regardless I guess

[low pond]

Yeah even Austria seems to have some of that DNA, when we were at a Airbnb it was still some kind of a docsis connection. Somewhere 250/50 setup going there. Suprise surprise it's the DTAG brand that does it, some other Austrian ISP was already offering fiber in the same building

[signal sluice]

Hey guys, so I followed the below tutorial to freshen up my skills while I job hunt and I was wondering what other fun or useful things I could do now that I have these 2 VMs set up to freshen up my skills or expand my skillset.
https://youtu.be/MHsI8hJmggI?si=9irAGs3d6GYhutUb

If you don't wanna watch the video, it's basically a tutorial on how to create a server VM that acts as a domain controller and DHCP server for a VM that acts as a client machine.
The server is also set up in a way to give the client access to the internet.

[spark torrent]

Why are screenshots of speedtests not allowed lol

[signal sluice]

Maybe to prevent bragging about high speeds? idk lol

[waxen scroll]

because they have no conversation value and too many people would do drive by posts

they post a screenshot then say nothing and log off

[spark torrent]

Couldn't some do the same thing via chat though?

It just seems like a random thing thats not that big of a deal but whatever I guess

[low pond]

Exactly, it isn't a big deal. It's not like something the mods even warn people or something for, just a adviced loose rule. People come here and post speedtests nothing happens 😛

At least would be nice if you said the technology being used, say ok this is this PON or that cable or whatever

[signal sluice]

Also just want to clarify, not a complete noob, just out of practice with some free time.

[brisk ledge]

The issue is Port forwarding towards my Hardware.

The rest is 0 issue, i just need the connection from the internet to my Hardware, that wont work

At least not with my lte fallback idea.

So i dont really have a use for lte fallback connectivity and thus i just leave it.

[thick minnow]

what sfp equipped router with wan would you reccomend for a homelab?

[pseudo blade]

How many SFPs? Any other features?

[opal pagoda]

most likely mikrotik L009UiGS-RM

but all depends on your requirements

[scarlet wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/fist-mad-angry-anger-meme-gif-17499271

ATT got me like ^

I don’t know why it’s so hard to check their damn configuration on our business modem. I’m getting no talky between copper and lasers.

[willow relic]

Bless whoever in here recommended me the omada access points, they doin work

[thick minnow]

maybe just 2, ill hook it up to a switch which would have more sfp ports

[ivory egret]

Hello, trying to find a simple range WiFI extender for a family members house. Whilst I recommended mesh they don't want to spend too much. Can anyone recommend an extender that does not require it creating its own SSID?

[pseudo blade]

They're all crap and make things worse, if you can't buy a pair with roaming try to relocate the current one

[ivory egret]

Noted, if i get them to purchase a mesh system are there any favourites out there?

[opal pagoda]

tplink deco units are deacent

[ivory egret]

Okay thanks. Theres quite a few out there

[sly compass]

I don’t understand why i get this. I do have trouble with dns sometimes breaks and does timeout and is slower than usual. I use opnsense

[fierce kiln]

Are you running your own DNS server, like a pihole?

[sly compass]

nope just DoT on opnsense

[livid aspen]

I just saw the LLT video on water cooling their server room.

And I really hope they have an automatic water shutoff for on the cooler for a mass leak.

And reduant water spill sensors, temperature/ humidity sensors with email/text alerts.

[solemn otter]

someone explain docker to me as a new network engineer who is abi slow / stupid

[drowsy fossil]

you know what a reverse proxy is?

[fierce kiln]

Probably not

[fierce kiln]

Try changing your DNS server to something like cloud flare or google (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8)

[fierce kiln]

Docker is like a vm in that it runs a machine inside your machine, but it's not fully self contained in that it doesn't have to fully emulate the os being run. This allows it to be really fast and not deal with the problems of emulation (partitioning stuff) The .dockerfile is a blueprint to create that container

[opal pagoda]

Press x to doubt
They do not follow common dc design aspects
We have better designed idf rooms than than their dc

[opal pagoda]

It is like vm but kernel is shared

[sly compass]

Yes dns over tls

[blazing karma]

at wits end here but anyone know if LAN VLAN setup will be affected by the hardawre connected on the other end of the devices?

currently my setup is like

opnsense - pro max 24 poe - hasivo 5 port 2,5g managed switch - lenovo pc , and I have tag 1337 for my trusted network

i have set pro max 24 poe as default and allow all vlan traffic, my hasivo switch port 5 is connected to my pro max 24 and is tagged, port 4 is connected to my lenovo pc, which i have the config set to untagged for port 4 and set accept frame type to untagged vlan only, my lenovo pc has obtained IPs from my DHCP server and got all the gateway/dns all correct but

internet just wont work, i have 1337 vlan tag with my wifi ppsk setup as well, but my phone connected to this vlan works just fine, anyone has any idea on why

[thick minnow]

Hey can someone help me with something weird?
im using a T-mobile sim card on a verizon 5g router, im doing this because the verizon router tricks the simcard into using the mobile data plan instead of the hotspot plan, (i assume it uses 64ttl but i never bothered to figure out why, dont look a gift shark in the mouth i guess) One Ethernet device gets Full speeds, the other one gets 60kbs up and down sometimes less (the same speed something limited by hotspot speed gets on T-Mobile) What the hell is happening?

and its not something with the device itself, ive used another device and it got 60kbs as well

[thick minnow]

Try disabling NAT forwarding on the router. It could be T-Mobile detecting two devices on the router.

I could be wrong, we don't have hotspot restrictions here so I've never had to deal with this but this would be the first thing I'd try.

[pseudo blade]

Try disabling NAT forwarding lol what?

[thick minnow]

I dont have the NAT forwarding option* on my router at all

[pseudo blade]

Trust me, you do

[thick minnow]

i know i have it, just not the option to disable it

[pseudo blade]

Anyways an actual fix assuming the Verizon router's as limited as most is to stick another router behind it and do NAT again, set TTL

[thick minnow]

i had another router

with Openwrt installed but it only got 60kbs

so any devices on that router would, predictably, get 60kbs

and then i bricked the router...

[pseudo blade]

You'd have to remove the other devices behind router one if only one can get full speed

[thick minnow]

But i need my jellyfin!

Oh

Well

id still rather have one and other devices than one with full speed and no other devices

[pseudo blade]

Or just get a another, better modem and set it up to pretend that it's a phone

[thick minnow]

Im broker than dirt

[pseudo blade]

I literally did not say you needed to do that, and even clarified

[thick minnow]

i thought you told me to tell you to remove the other devices so that one can get full speed

i mustve read it wrong, Sorry?

[pseudo blade]

You read part of it.

[thick minnow]

i read it 3 times...

Its not a big deal

just a slight misunderstanding

[pseudo blade]

The whole point of putting a second router in would be to hide other devices from the first one

[thick minnow]

Right, thats why i had the second router in the first place

[pseudo blade]

Ergo: don't not hide

[thick minnow]

well

i have no words

it also acted as a switch, i only had two ethernet ports

and i liked to tinker with openwrt

and it was fun having it be complicated and janky

Installing a Wireguard vpn to my second router connected to another router used as a modem thats using a janky setup with simcards and APNs and not being able to get a IPv4 address was very fun.

Call me a sinner if you dare, but girls just want to have fun 👩

[agile torrent]

~ 18 eur 2.5GB nic brand new. I am suprised that it works for the price.

[sly compass]

Can someone explain this?

[opal pagoda]

rest in rip

[tribal sequoia]

Result Message: No RPKI origin validation between resolver and auth, or a default route is pointed to destination AS

Description: Check if RPKI origin validation is enabled between resolver and authority DNS.

[pseudo blade]

Beats a RAID 0 in the same configuration

[quiet vortex]

🤤

[agile torrent]

I mean raid0 would be a lot worse, but more entertaining for us

[cunning lion]

Hmm would ubiquity as wifi+powerline adapters as backhaul work?

Unable to run wires in this rental place and there is no coaxial here so I am kind of stuck using powerlines as backhaul

[agile torrent]

well define "work"

100mbps sure, 200mbps probably, 400mbps unlikely, 1000mbps impossible

but that is only my experience with powerline adapters (multiple rentals)

[opal pagoda]

i mean how should i replace the drive in the applience without user replacable drives
our intergrator/var opened up a ticket with forti and we will see

• sligt inconvience of 850km

[agile torrent]

our accountant nuked the sim card contracts in our gsm gateways... 50 hours of overtime in a single week lol. I am like a honorable truck driver as of now

[opal pagoda]

how?

[agile torrent]

cancelled the phone contracts for ppl (changing carriers) and the gsm gateway data sims (should not supposed to even touch those)

[opal pagoda]

why couldnt operator reactiavte the sim cards remotely?

[agile torrent]

Poor Nagios was sensing sms/email/push alerts to everyone in the team like there is no tomorrow 😄

Nope not after the contract is cancelled, or they just did not feel to

[opal pagoda]

hmm
here they would reactivate the same cards in a instant

[opal pagoda]

do you have KAM or do you reach out to regular support

[agile torrent]

neither, not our dept

we just had to "deal with it" tm

[opal pagoda]

well atleast you got paid to clean it up

[agile torrent]

you know the fun things is yeah, but because we were running around like headless chicken all of our metrics got busted 😄

[cunning lion]

Doubt I need a gig transfer speed just enough to handle my 5g home internet and streaming between devices really

[agile torrent]

for that sure it will most likely work, be warned though the speed advertised on the powerline adapters usually is the speed of the powerline network

[cunning lion]

Think powerline has 2.5gb connections now?

For adapter to adapter connection that is

[agile torrent]

yeah so if you have a pair of 2.5gig that in a lab can sustain a 2.5gig link, if you have 4 on the same power they can sustain 2x1.25 or 100mbs/and 2.5gbps on the other pair etc

but 2.5 is the total maximum bandwith for all powerline adapters since they share the same wires/frequency

[cunning lion]

I should only need 1 maybe 2 ubiquity devices for wifi

Yeah I am aware of that

[agile torrent]

as I said that will work most likely

latency is surprisingly decent on these

[cunning lion]

Basically powerline from the t-mobile 5g router to 1-2 ubiquity hotspots

[agile torrent]

they are good for that

[cunning lion]

Is the plan I am thinking since having a single net gear mesh extender isn't properly covering the place and there is a giant metal furnace in the middle of the hallway causing issues

[cunning lion]

Yeah which is why I was thinking about it since we rent and thus can't pull ethernet

Place is newer aka 2019 so the powerlines should be up to snuff for this

[opal pagoda]

it is a shame that new homes arent built with wired networking

[opal pagoda]

if you have coax you could run moca and get much higher speeds

[steady yacht]

i think i got a good deal on this 10gig card

[cunning lion]

Nope no coaxial in the place either so I am pretty much stuck with using powerline for a wired connection around the place or stuck using wifi with a giant metal furnace splitting the place down the middle

[cunning lion]

My last place was built in 2014-215 with 100mb to each room

[radiant bone]

Anyone have experience with Google Mesh? Swapped over to it after my router got fried in a storm last night. It's severely limiting my desktop speed

[cunning lion]

Basically cat 5e cable per 2 rooms

[radiant bone]

Before this, I had Modem > Router & from router, split into different cables to different parts of the house. That was it.

[cunning lion]

Basically the cat 5e was split into 2 100mb boxes

[radiant bone]

Now I have Modem > 1st google mesh pod > Passed through to a switch > Split into different cables. I'd say the switch is what's slowing me down but the other desktop that's in the same room as the modem is still getting nearly 400mbps download. I'm getting barely 90. Wherein I used to also get nearly 400 as well before the google mesh

[fresh bane]

Anybody here use SimpleWall?

[restive kelp]

I'm renting a home from the 60s and they had a lot of "networking"

2200sqf and the place had nine coax jacks

all just coming from external wall drops

ended up punching a new hole in the wall to get the internet line to a central location, then put a new wall drop coming up from a crawspace to get internet in the office, then replaced one of the coax drops with an rj45 drop so I at least have internet in two places

[cunning lion]

Basically a setup like this. R=Router/Modem P=Powerline U=Ubiquity

[cunning lion]

Back then it would have been Cable/Atenna for the whole house hence the coax to each room

1 Giant outside house atenna for all the rooms

[restive kelp]

yeah there's a little antenna post on the northeast corner

I'm eventually gonna replace all the drops with ethernet but I need exterior-rated cables

[cunning lion]

In your case the Coax spiltters MIGHT need replacing for ones capable of MOCA

If you want to go that route

In my case I don't have anything ran expect for powerlines

[restive kelp]

yeah I'm just gonna replace the drops with rj45 heads. MOCA would be okay, but I'd rather run cat

[cunning lion]

I can't run cat here

[restive kelp]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to

[cunning lion]

So I am pretty much stuck with powerline as I am renting

[restive kelp]

but as long as they don't notice then I can do whatever

[cunning lion]

HOA or renting your place?

[restive kelp]

latter

but the landlords and the company they use never check up on us

[cunning lion]

They check around here

[restive kelp]

ahh, yeah they apparently do drive-bys for things like, lawn maintenance and general upkeep

if I left a junker car on the grass they'd probably notice

[cunning lion]

Or if you need to repaint your place they would say something

[restive kelp]

yeah, I do have to repaint a couple spots inside from when we ran the line to my office

but I can always say it was a moving mistake

[cunning lion]

That was just a quick Mockup I did on my tablet of the setup I would need for here

[restive kelp]

this was one I did a while back

blue lines are where I want to rin ethernet to existing drops, circles are where it goes up or down a floor, and purple are the cameras

[cunning lion]

Since mine is all moveable I don't need a very detailed setup like that

What Ubiquity devices should I look at for a 2 device mesh network? and coule I get one that allows for usage of my current Wifi network?

[restive kelp]

they do have stuff like the U6-Mesh if you already have a router

[cunning lion]

I would be supplying the ubiquity devices with ethernet over the powerlines so that they don't add hops to the setup

I currently have a netgear mesh extender that works with my current router/modem combo but it adds a hop to the wifi setup and doesn't cover everything I need it to here

Modem/router is a Wifi 6 device from T-Mobile

[restive kelp]

honestly, if you're not totally against it, you could just run super long ethernet cables from a router/switch to remove hops

I did that for a bit until my puppy tried eating it

[cunning lion]

NETGEAR WiFi 6 Mesh Range Extender (EAX12) - Add up to 1,200 sq. ft. and 15+ Devices with AX1600 Dual-Band Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (up to 1.6Gbps Speed), WPA3 Security, Smart Roaming https://a.co/d/9bnSxur

Not with the animals here

[restive kelp]

you could also just get a long-range AP, depending on the size

[cunning lion]

That is my current mesh extender

[restive kelp]

I have a standard U6-Pro and it covers 2200sqf just fine

[burnt badge]

It’s a misnomer. Extenders aren’t mesh

[cunning lion]

This one meshes with the current network fine

It broadcasts the same exact ssid and password as the modem/router compared to everything else which adds another ssid into the mix

basically this one rebroadcasts the same network as the router

[burnt badge]

Weird

[cunning lion]

which sounds like a mesh network to me

just with an extra hop/node in the mix

[restive kelp]

I don't honestly know much about the difference between a mesh and extra APs

I've only ever run one, and then my dad had a mesh Google system until he dumped it for Unifi stuff

[cunning lion]

compared to running wires to a new AP/Mesh node

Yeah I am looking at Unifi/Ubiquity stuff myself or at least 2 devices

with powerline as the backhaul between the nodes

If I can basically add to my current wifi network that would be best instead of having to setup a brand new one

[restive kelp]

I'm currently running a UDM-SE and a U6-Pro for my rental house

[cunning lion]

I have an older netgear mesh extender here that is wifi 5 aka ac instead of ax that didn't work with my wifi 6 router from t-mobile hence me needing to get a new one @burnt badge

Yeah Netgear mesh works with any wifi networks unline Tp-link which has their Onemesh tech

@burnt badge says this right on the product description which sounds like a mesh network to me

Unlike a standard repeater/extender

[burnt badge]

I believe ya. Just weird they called it an extender then

[cunning lion]

Netgear doesn't lock their mesh behind just their devices

unlike Tp-link and their onemesh devices

basically use netgear mesh devices to turn any wifi into a mesh network

ubiquity and unifi are the same company right?

[cunning lion]

My problem is that I have a GIANT metal furnace in the middle of the house here that pretty much blocks wifi from one side of the house or the other hence the 2 nodes required

[restive kelp]

ahhhhh, yeah that's an issue

[cunning lion]

Exactly why I picked the mesh extender up in the first place but it isn't quite reching where I need it to

let alone if I want to be on that part of the house outside

If I get 3 2.5GB powerline adapters that would net each node 1.25gb which should be plenty of speeds with my 5G home internet and between devices if I am remoting from one device to another on the network

Or get 1 2.5gb adapter for the router side and 2 1gb adapters for the node side

I assume the ubiquity stuff can be powered from the wall socket like normal and don't require POE?

Or would I need to budget for POE enjectors?

[restive kelp]

looks like most of them require POE

well you could actually get something like this https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-wifi/products/u6-extender

just plugs into a standard wall outlet and extends what you already have

and if you have a hard time getting around the furnace you could just position them around corners of the area, but it's a bit pricier at $150

[cunning lion]

I have done that wirh my current one which has a direct line of site down the hallway to the router/modem

[restive kelp]

that extender shouldn't have an issue through walls unless they're like, lead-lined or something

[cunning lion]

but it isn't extending it far enough to the other side of the house let alone outside the other side of the house

[restive kelp]

yeah in that case you could always just get more of them

it might be the least-invasive method

dunno how many you have but if you put say, 3 or 4 of them in various corners it might extend enough

[cunning lion]

But that is adding extra nodes/hops to the wifi network hence wanting to switch to a wired backhaul

[restive kelp]

hmmm

[cunning lion]

and since I can't run ethernet powerline is my only option really for backhaul

[restive kelp]

yeah moving to wired without being invasive is a bit harder

[cunning lion]

if I had coax I would go MOCA but no coax so MOCA is out

[restive kelp]

as far as i can tell, the UI stuff like the in-wall stuff would require injectors, and I'm not even sure if they can get the SSID without having a hardline connection

[cunning lion]

If that U6 extender had powerline onboard it would be great lol

[restive kelp]

most injectors are used for when you have an ethernet connection already in-place but it's not POE, like an older/cheaper router

lol yeah

[cunning lion]

Powerline would give me ethernet but no POE

[restive kelp]

honestly, the best bet in my very non-professional opinion, use extenders and just accept the extra hops, or run a few long ethernet cables and staple/tape them to the ceiling to avoid pets

staples are super non-invasive and can be removed/painted over easily, tape would probably honestly be worse since it'll leave a residue or even peel paint

[cunning lion]

Ok looks like I can snag Powerline+POE devices

[restive kelp]

ye that would work too

[cunning lion]

UGH looks like I can't find any 2.5GB powerline with POE onboard just older 1GB ones

looks like POE injectors are like $15 so $30 for 2 of those aka one per ubiquiti device

POE on the 1Gb would be fine since I would need a non POE for the router side anyways and that would be the 2.5(0?)GB one

[hoary token]

Would VPN stuff technically go here?

[radiant bone]

Is anyone able to help with a mesh issue? No one seems to have the answer

[radiant bone]

Old setup
Coax to modem
Modem to router
Router had 4 ports (3 used)
All 3 wired connections were great, worked fine.

<Cue storm last night>

Router is no longer accepting an internet signal from Modem
Troubleshoot connection and find that it's the port on the router that is no longer working. ISP suggests swapping out modems regardless. Did so, set it up, still no internet. (Connecting to modem still gave internet just fine)
Go back out to pick up a new router.
Get google nest mesh wifi pro
Use same cables, hook up the nest

New setup
Coax to modem
Modem to 1st primary nest pod
Pass through to switch (Has 4 ports)
Use 3 ports and reconnect the same 3 devices
Set up remaining 2 nest pod things
Wifi works great, good coverage, good speed 👍
Computer downstairs in the same room as the primary pod? Good speed.
TV in the next room over? Good speed as well. No issues.
My personal desktop across the house? Throttled down to 60-80mbps
Computer now suddenly shows my speed is limited at 100mbps.

I cannot figure out if this is a setting or bug or what.

[cunning lion]

cables fried from storm?

try replacing the cable from your pc with a different one

@radiant bone

sounds like lightniing may have fried something in the setup weither its a cable or your NIC we need to test a different cable first

may have fried a set or 2 of the twisted pair of wires in the ethernet that allows for 1gb and thus limiting you to that 100mb instead

if the cable swap doesn't work then it may have fried part of your NIC then and you may need to purchase a replacement PCI nic instead

[eager musk]

Hey guys! I’m looking for some help. My WiFi on my newly built system isn’t showing up. The WiFi is available on all my other devices. But my pc doesn’t show availability to connect to the WiFi. The motherboard I have is a TUF GAMING b650e WIFI board and the Ethernet works fine, but WiFi is what I need. Any help would be appreciated and I’m available to call

[burnt badge]

Are you saying you don’t see your WiFi network or you can’t see any WiFi networks?

If you can’t see any networks you’re probably missing the drivers

[eager musk]

I just downloaded the drivers directly from the ASUS website and I can’t see any networks

I don’t see ANY networks

I don’t even see anything relating to WIFI in my device manager

[burnt badge]

Oh. Maybe it’s disabled the the bios then

[eager musk]

Wifi controller is enabled

[burnt badge]

Hmm. Can you show me device manager?

[eager musk]

Sure. If calling makes it easier to I’m available

[burnt badge]

Look at other

Network controller

[burnt badge]

Bunch of others missing too, probably need to install the chipset drivers too

Ya windows couldn’t find the driver automatically is all

[eager musk]

where can i fidn my chipset drivers

[burnt badge]

Lemme find a link

https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b650e-e-gaming-wifi-model/helpdesk_download/

[eager musk]

i have a tuf gaming not strix

[burnt badge]

Oops

https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-b650-e-wifi/helpdesk_download?model2Name=TUF-GAMING-B650-E-WIFI

[eager musk]

and i already installed these drivers:
\

ok im downloading the chipset ones

[burnt badge]

Not sure why the WiFi ones didn’t just work, but usually it’s a zip file that has driver folders in it. You can bypass the installer and tell device manager to look at that folder

[eager musk]

installed the chipset

still no wifi options...

[cunning lion]

did device manager change at least?

[eager musk]

AFTER ^

[cunning lion]

Yeah it did got rid of most of the other devices

[eager musk]

BEFORE ^

[burnt badge]

Getting there 😎

[eager musk]

i hope so, this is so annoying LOL

[burnt badge]

So the WiFi drivers was it is zip file?

[eager musk]

i ran asussetup and nothing happened

cmd just popped up and then went away, i havnt restarted my pc YET

[cunning lion]

try restarting first

[eager musk]

but ive installed those wifi drivers 5 times b4

kk gimme a min ill brb

[burnt badge]

Ya. I’ll jump on a call with you to show you how to install em manually if restart doesn’t work

[eager musk]

ok w

[cunning lion]

WOW ok ASUS no need to push winrar that hard

under drivers for that motherboard

I would honestly suggest 7zip over winrar

[eager musk]

still nothing :/

[cunning lion]

@burnt badge sounds like you are up

[burnt badge]

On a call with em

[cunning lion]

k

[eager musk]

he is a genius

give that man whatever he wants in life he deserves it

[burnt badge]

Lmao

@months square is it was wild. Tried forcing the drivers in, nope. Thought maybe windows is just borked, no thumbstick though. Saw the a newer bios fixes some WiFi stuff and thought maybe armory crate could install the bios, but tried installing the drivers from there and it worked.

After the 37 minute long armory crate install

[eager musk]

shit was a headache but he is a genius'

[thick minnow]

Is it possible to setup a dhcp relay server in between two network interfaces? Say for example the relay server is connected to lan and wlan. Is it possible to forward dhcp request from client connected to lan, to another dhcp server on wlan?

[silent flax]

i do have a WinRAR license 😛

(as a home user)

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo

[clear igloo]

I did nothing!

[clear igloo]

lol, yup, I saw those

[waxen scroll]

Scared to know the cost

[clear igloo]

Probably about $400

[waxen scroll]

Looks like ~360

[clear igloo]

I was close 🙂

I've got the 980 headset

[waxen scroll]

I use a Corsair over ear thing

I don't like ear plugs because it sounds weird when I talk

[tribal sequoia]

dhcp relay is to relay to a centralized dhcp server mostly, so like you have 5 vlans and you "relay" all dhcp requests with dhcp relay to it by setting up the relay on your switches so they know where to send it

relay is used so you don't NEED to have your dhcp server connected to multiple lans

[green marlin]

What’s worse is they tout enterprise security, but then the security field of the datasheet mentions it only accepts encrypted… images? And you can’t run custom OS?

I myself homebrew my headphones, much like a 3DS

[clear igloo]

You mean signed images that are trusted so someone can't accidentally load malicious firmware? Of course you can't run custom firmware, lol

[green marlin]

They’re HEADPHONES

[clear igloo]

And? they're not for you, you as an end user aren't buying them

[green marlin]

I dont see the justification of touting security against something not actively exploited

[clear igloo]

So you shouldn't react until you've been attacked? You shouldn't put preventative measures in place?

[thick minnow]

I get it, but could it help me to achieve what I mentioned in my original post?

[green marlin]

There are no active exploits posted for headphones by CISA, I’m not an end user I’m the Cisco partner who has to resell these things

[tribal sequoia]

it's unclear what you're actually trying to do

i see 2 dhcp servers and you want to relay one lan to another dhcp server, why nto just have a dhcp server on each lan? makes no sense

[waxen scroll]

I dont trust CISA and you shouldnt either

Of course they're not going to publish warnings on non-public exploits. It hinders their hackers from using it

[waxen scroll]

How do you feel about their licensing these days? 😛

I love paying almost double the quoted cost once the license is applied.

[green marlin]

We’ve pretty much stopped selling Cisco at my shop, all Fortigates now

I heard it’s hellish with licensing

[waxen scroll]

We're staring at arista right now. Not sure what'll come of it

I got a good laugh demoing them because you almost cant tell its not NX-OS

[thick minnow]

Bit hard to explain here. I'll try my best. My constraint here is the device connected to the Lan network must be reachable by wireless network but they slightly out of range from the wifi access point. So i'm thinking of setting up a dhcp relay server on the device with the strongest wifi signal and relay dhcp request for the rest of the devices to dhcp server on the wifi network.

[tribal sequoia]

use a firewall/router for this

you're trying to use dhcp and dual nics as a way for 2 devices to talk on a network with multiple lans when you don't have to do that at all. It also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how networking works/is used. Who cares if one device cannot connect to wireless if it's wired, you use a firewall/router to have the 2 networks talk to each other via policies/connected or static routes/acls you don't need to "relay" dhcp requests from the device with the "best signal" the AP itself will have a controller setup where you can configure a dhcp relay address that will relay those requests

[cunning lion]

LOL sounds like a ride

[burnt badge]

Mannnn lol

[tribal sequoia]

cisco licensing is and always has been super expensive and trash

gotta pay to use encryption, gotta pay to get basic throughput on an entry level router that already costs 5k

[swift creek]

Would a i5-4690K be good for a 2.5 gbps opnsense router?

Looking to get rid of my isp router and want a pretty speedy local network for my nas and a potential media server and so on

[burnt badge]

Yes. Way over powered for that

I run 2.5 on an AMD RX-427BB

[deep karma]

Hey everyone got a old 2015 super micro server im very new to servers my question rn is that the server to my knowledge has a SAS card installed and should also run SATA 3 devices but somehow it wont boot of of the SAS card

[cursive mortar]

Hey, I'm building a small homelab and looking for server racks. I need something that is 12U or smaller. The cheaper the better. I just want to be able to attach wheels to it. I came across this ebay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166098072802
Do you guys think this item is worth it or overpriced?

[burnt badge]

Seems cheap to me

[fierce kiln]

Have you looked at getting 2 UniFi tooless mini racks and using the included stacking hardware?

[fierce kiln]

I am not sure you can boot off of sas, try booting on one of the mobo sata ports

[meager ginkgo]

I have that exact rack in the 18U version, it’s great for the price.

[opal pagoda]

Sas card is probably a raid card

[thick minnow]

Hi all, im trying to access hpe 560 ap web gui but im out of luck. With little bit of google search it suggests to use sslv3 to access it. I have also read that sslv3 has a security issue regarding a poodle attack. Is there a way to access it without making wrong moves ( im connected to companies public network (internert->switch->poe injector->ap->laptop)

[mystic latch]

Don't think any browser will connect to a site using sslv3 anymore. Your best bet is probably using a reverse proxy like ngnix proxy manager to sit in front of that AP gui

I would look into managing that AP via CLI though, you can probably accomplish what you want that way

[agile torrent]

well i'm screwed, never buy unify ap's. The hell is this app mania?

on the flip side they make decent frisbee

[peak cloak]

unifi works great if you have a controller

[deep karma]

So i got it working rn over the RAID card i forgot to assign the drives to the controller itsself

[steel rock]

Has anyone here ever messed with an Intel QuickAssist card? I recently got my hands on an 8970 and I’m wondering if there’s something dumb I can do with it

[burnt badge]

No, but I think L1 techs have some videos on it

[agile torrent]

take a wild guess what i don't have 😄

[rotund haven]

anyone here have experience with openvpn?

[peak cloak]

Me neither, the one unifi switch is annoying

Only have one AP, a tplink omada one, but that has a webui

[agile torrent]

yeah, what do you need?

as in using it as a client, setting up the server/certificates?

[rotund haven]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1238196214822998107

[lone sun]

🤔 In order to use a Windows 11 virtual machine in Oracle VM, do I still need to enable TPM in the host machine, the actual PC's bios? It keeps saying my PC doesn't meet the requirements when trying to install.

[agile torrent]

do you NEED tpm or just want a windows 11 vm?

[lone sun]

Just a windows 11 vm. I figured out how to bypass that requirement though with this link. Some shit I had to do in the registry. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement#:~:text=How to Bypass Windows 11's TPM Requirement Using Registry Hacks

[agile torrent]

or just use rufus

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eRGWVPyCELgWPuUittPtWm-970-80.png.webp

[lone sun]

😅 Well I'm sure I won't be able to just slither my way around TPM if I was actually trying to install Windows 11 on the actual machine itself.

That day hasn't come yet thankfully.

[lone sun]

🙂 Well I might just burn me one onto a stick since windows 10 will be coming to an end next year anyway.

sadly 😔

[agile torrent]

I am still not sure how to feel about that, since my pc doesnt have TPM

[lone sun]

Not sure mines does either.

[lone sun]

Well, I have a Gigabyte X570 Auros Master. I do remember seeing something like FTPM, so I guess it does.

[agile torrent]

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P67-DS3-B3-rev-10#ov

To be fair it is "long lasting" and "ultra durable"

[lone sun]

I'd check in the bios. Not sure it'd tell you if it does here. I do see something about a "TPM Connector" though. If it'll say that much, then you might be in luck.

[agile torrent]

except you can't find it anywhere 😄

[lone sun]

Or check the manual maybe?

[agile torrent]

latest drivers are from 2013 😄

sooo let's just say it's rather old

I think I will just fully move to chromeos

[lone sun]

What CPU do you have? AMD?

[agile torrent]

i7 3770

[lone sun]

Oh wait its intel. Damn.

If it was an AMD motherboard, your CPU may come with FTPM which is basically the CPU handling that function and is basically TPM 2.0.

Mines supports FTPM, so I'm in luck. I'm sure Intel has something akin to it though.

[lone sun]

However, if you go to your motherboards manual, it does come with a TPM connector. Maybe you can buy a TPM chip and connect it to it?

Mines has a connector too, but since its AMD, I can just have the CPU handle it.

[agile torrent]

can't find it anywhere and if i could It would probably more sane to update something with tpm in it 😄

but tbh this pc just works, and at this point I am really interested how long I can keep it working 😄

[lone sun]

I see there are TPM 2.0 chips you can get off Amazon. Looks like you just have to make sure its one that fits a Gigabyte motherboard, not 100% sure. Maybe someone in #1027757333117415424 or #1106613567966429224 channels can tell you. I'm not that Adept at A+/hardware stuff. 🙂

Or on the Linus web forum even.

But at least your motherboard has a "TPM header" port on it like mines, according to the manual.

[dreamy jolt]

My latest project at work…3 buildings, one network, and Fortilink switch management over Ubiquiti UBB

[burnt badge]

UI and fortigate work together?

[tribal sequoia]

careful with 40F and conserve mode 😄

i generally don't even sell them because of it

[tribal sequoia]

sure why wouldn't it

if you want to use fortilink though you need to use fortilink p2p mode on downstream switches that are on the other side of the bridge

[dreamy jolt]

Yep, what @tribal sequoia said...p2p config on the switch ports for both ends of the bridge:

config switch physical-port
edit port11
set fortilink-p2p enable
end

Works like a charm...only pain point is the UBB lives now in Fortilink VLAN world, and I am still trying to figure out how to get it to talk to the Main LAN so my CloudKey+ can manage it. If someone has figured that one out, I'm all ears

[burnt badge]

Interesting

[dreamy jolt]

Is it bad that I've now worked with Fortinet now for 4 years and I've never heard of conserve mode? lol Just looked it up, may try this https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Free-up-memory-to-avoid-conserve-mode/ta-p/241415

[dreamy jolt]

Initially was going to do a wireless bridge essentially meshing two FortiAP's like 432F's or something....but the client already has all Ubiquiti that we are yanking, replacing with Fortinet...so did research, seems alot of people are using UBB's along with Fortinet

[tribal sequoia]

maybe not using some of the features that will get you there 😄

[dreamy jolt]

Ha true..basically the client has 9 sites..this being a smaller one of them. The other sites I've spec'd out FG100F's and 60F's....but do have a few FWF40F's for a couple small buildings

Only thing fancy on this site we are talking about is IPSec site to site tunnel for server access at the main site and to allow for RADIUS authentication on the Wifi

Otherwise, pretty standard network

[quartz plinth]

Howdy, got a question and i'm not fully sure if this chat is the right one

I'm making my setup in my bedroom and have an ethernet switch, but i'm looking to also get a router posssibly? I want to play around wirelessly and with a decent connection to my oculus quest 2

Thing is, i'm not fully sure about how to go around with that. I'm not savvy on routers and modems and such, so I can't tell the difference between a router that needs fiber optics to work, and router which will work as soon as you plug in an ethernet cable coming from the main house router

Could honestly use all the help I can get 😅

[burnt badge]

I’m not sure I understand the question. I think what you’re looking for is a switch and an access point

[quartz plinth]

Maybe? My understanding of tech stops at computers, so I got no clue.

[burnt badge]

Switch lets you use more devices in your network. Router makes a network. Access point is like a wireless switch.

To over simplify it

[quartz plinth]

Maybe? What would be better to connect between a laptop and a vr headset for 5ghz?

over*

[burnt badge]

I’m not sure how wireless VR works. If it’s over your network then it’d be ideal to have your laptop hardwired

[quartz plinth]

If you mean that it is connected to the network by ethernet, it is.

[burnt badge]

Ya

That’s good. Then yeah if you got a switch for your room with an access point that’d be good.

Or you can get a router and put it in AP mode

[quartz plinth]

AP mode?

[burnt badge]

Access point

[quartz plinth]

oh, i see

[burnt badge]

Basically makes it work like a switch and access point. It won’t do any routing

[quartz plinth]

so, essentially it's just an extension of the main router, just like the switch

[burnt badge]

Ya

[quartz plinth]

but with wifi access points, i see

any suggestions on some decent ones that work on the 5ghz and 2.4 ghz bandwith?

[burnt badge]

What headset do you have?

[quartz plinth]

Meta Quest 2 - 64gb edition

[burnt badge]

Looks like it supports WiFi 6

[tribal sequoia]

Try to spec out disk models in the future

[burnt badge]

Maybe something like this https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-AX1800-Router-RT-AX1800S-Subscription-Free/dp/B09M9477NS/ref=mp_s_a_1_32?crid=2IVSYWWR8YD27&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xba5IlZqmU4Y5YYil4ds4Fe_CEqhkgTNtRb2A8ygBiKVgxTIuEiPl67Cun0P9LZ0PS0Q95QnUOlYnPMy2qkJnUMd1eAtPg1a9RHQTIwUa_atSEAQSooL5g3WZjlXa0OS2qRb0q6t2LHW3QUkVuGgowUkbbD4JOvbqnBVxO52cJdJpkVUvzI1LCZyJbUo0DOH8hE96tm5M0n_DET65t3QIw.-tC88YpmM31-2bKg5UIsnHvi0tUYxFofptzz8pY5azM&dib_tag=se&keywords=wifi+access+point&qid=1715296709&sprefix=wifi+acess+pojnt%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-32&xpid=8qec3Jc89Xa7o

[tribal sequoia]

they're useful because if you don't really NEED to log to disk you can setup file/wan acceleration on them

[burnt badge]

And throw it in AP mode. It gives you some more ports for your room too

[tribal sequoia]

that' would be the 61F the 71F the 81F