networking

[tribal sequoia]

let me look at one of ours soon here

[tribal sequoia]

see all of ours have a router id listed of the IP set on their mgmt vlan

port ve 161 in this case

i'd say configure a vlan interface

[clear igloo]

yah, management port is typically in a separate VRF and for inband you connect to an SVI in the default vrf

[tribal sequoia]

that was what i figured

even if it doesn't tell you not to, the mgmt interface shouldn't be your default route interface

[cinder crow]

Hi, have anyone link or name to 8x NVME u.2/u.3 bay?

[cinder plank]

I haven't intentionally configured the routes. I am yet to learn what they are and how they function. I tried removing this in my quest to resolve the issue but I was unable to. Please can you explain how I should configure the routes to do noting until I understand how to use them and set them up?

[opal pagoda]

https://global.icydock.com/product_182.html
2x of these

quite pricy tho

[cinder crow]

i have some of these so maybe i gonna mount them finaly...

[opal pagoda]

how do you plan to connect them to the mobo?

[cinder crow]

with minisas pcie adapter

[opal pagoda]

do you have enough lanes for all of that?

[cinder crow]

yea

[opal pagoda]

ight

[cinder crow]

i have AMD EPYC 7742 so i think 128 lanes is enough

[hazy lichen]

Hey!

There is a setup like this

   ISP Modem/Router in Bridge Mode  

        ||                  ||
   Router 1 (Dad's)     Router 2 (Mine) 
        ||                  ||
       TV 1                 TV 2

Now there is a server that's currently connected to the ISP modem, so that both router and TV easily access the server.

Question is, is there a way for my dad to access the server in case the ethernet cable is connected with the server to the Router 2? (both has their own local network, so idk)

[waxen scroll]

what

[clear igloo]

y u no mgmt vrf 😛

[waxen scroll]

because I want to access my device from anywhere

[clear igloo]

no, you need OOB network completely separate 😛

[waxen scroll]

too much money

I did ask that question to arista

like you guys want me to have a management network for my management network?

what about the management management's network?

they told me loopbacks!

[clear igloo]

Management networks all the way down

with cell backup 😄

[silver pilot]

help me understand this, IPv6 is turned off

[waxen scroll]

maybe I will make an opengear switched network

@pseudo blade why buy cisco when you can have serial AND switching at the top of rack

[waxen scroll]

If this works, its not turned off:
netsh interface ipv6 show neighbors

[silver pilot]

well it did work

[pseudo blade]

I can't say I can think of a time I wanted 24 serial ports and 24 ethernet ports in 1U at the top of a rack but the rarity of that particular problem is probably why it seems to cost about $5k USD

[waxen scroll]

$5k is a steal for corporate equipment

[pseudo blade]

It's not unreasonable

[waxen scroll]

these are great for out of band. put it in the network rack. you got serial and ethernet for each device

servers, they dont need that

[pseudo blade]

I think I'd personally much rather use just Ethernet and have a management network in most cases, serial consoles have always been rather last ditch and aren't fun to use.
Maybe I'd consider a large serial server like that if I had a datacenter like one of our customers' ones that wants a weeks notice just to walk in and touch your stuff

[waxen scroll]

I have like 2000 switches to manage

[pseudo blade]

We had a million dollar warranty renewal via an OEM for the want of 4 CMOS batteries 6 months ago, and while the batteries being good was apparently of infinite importance it still took like 3 weeks of back and forth before between a chain of five companies before they'd allow the Dell technician enter the datacenter

[waxen scroll]

:\

ive had DC access taken from me at my last 4 jobs. usually I have to sign in as a visitor and have an active change ticket

but honestly thats fine with me. Its much less work to not touch any physical stuff and just open tickets and let those people deal with it in the background

[pseudo blade]

It was hilarious, considering the servers were old enough to warrant CMOS battery replacements and really just needed to be killed off and they decided spend a million to renew on the existing rust over 4 CR2032's going flat

Was tempted to offer to get on a plane and fly to the country in question and install 4 of the finest supermarket cells for a mere half of the price

[mossy stump]

With DC hardening protocols these days you'd need a secured laptop or device separate from your normal work device with special credentials to even log in and manage basic options in the Domain. It's painful but less painful than having to rebuild your entire AD on the fly.

[opal pagoda]

How old were those servers?

[clear igloo]

yes

[opal pagoda]

meanwhile we replace servers every 4-5 years

this year i will probably replace hpe DL380 G10

[clear igloo]

Yah, most places do 4-5 year cycles
Although I think some hyperscalers are trying to push that out to ~7 years in some cases

[waxen scroll]

thats when cisco says EOL is 3 years max

[frosty oracle]

websocket and ssh

443, 80, and 22

[opal pagoda]

For websocket i would recommend using cloudflared and for ssh use tailscale, for tailscale you need a client installed on both devices

[high wren]

I need to pull some utp cable through some walls. The distance is 15 meters and I need to make some corners along the way. What utp cable would be just right for this job?

[opal pagoda]

what bending radius can you do?

[waxen light]

Hey, does anyone has an idea why a lan cable might get hot while plugged into my pc (and not when it is plugged in via a usb-hub) (internet connection still works even though it gets very hot at the cable end)

[copper sun]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a consumer grade router? I have an old Linksys that is 6 years old and dying.

[high wren]

Honestly idk. It feels like a sharp very sharp turn

[hazy kernel]

been trying to figure out how to get ethernet, what does "network cable unplugged" mean

[silent flax]

it means your network cable is not plugged in on one of the sides, or cable is broken in middle

[hazy kernel]

its a brand new cable and i already checked if its plugged in

its pretty snug

[silent flax]

then it is a brand new bad cable or dead port on either side. or whatever you connected it to is turned off/dead

[hazy kernel]

am i dumb or do you have to also plug the router in an outlet?

because i havent did that

[opal pagoda]

you might wanna do that

[hazy kernel]

it says identifying now

im just gonna let it do its thing

[opal pagoda]

ok it is negotiating link

[hazy kernel]

elaborate

[opal pagoda]

negotiating speed, gathering dhcp info, connecting to gateway, checking internet access etc

[hazy kernel]

ah i see

it says unidentified network

what should i do about that

if yk

[opal pagoda]

in what port of a router did you plug it in

and is the router pluged into fiber/coax/phone line?

[hazy kernel]

ive never heard of those kind of ports before

i just plugged the ethernet cable in the ethernet port

[opal pagoda]

can you take photo of it?

[hazy kernel]

yea one sec

[opal pagoda]

if that is not 5g/4g router you need to plug it into a isp modem

[hazy kernel]

its a wifi 6 router

[opal pagoda]

do you pay for internet?

[hazy kernel]

yea

[opal pagoda]

did the company you pay for internet to send you anything?

[hazy kernel]

not that im aware of

im only 15 so i dont pay for internet myself

i honestly didnt know you needed a whole modem to use ethernet

i thought it was just a router

[hazy kernel]

could i just use something like this?

its listed as a modem

[opal pagoda]

no

[topaz patrol]

Lol

[mossy stump]

Are you trying to be funny or are you seriously asking a question here. Because I can type something up to try and explain but don't want to waste my time if this is just a troll.

[topaz patrol]

They’re 15 🙂

[mossy stump]

Your Modem is a device that would supply the internet to your household and is what your 'router' would plug into in most cases. In some cases the modem/router are one from the provider normally with cable modems and the like. IT would have a cable from the wall, either fiber optic (thin dual normally light blue cables. Don't crimp or bend these harshly) or a coaxial cable a round fat cable that screws into the back of the modem/router) This is the source of the internet. How you serve it up to the household in your case is where the Router/Modem comes in. The router would have a WAN port on it that stands for Wide area Network. This port is most often plugged into your 'modem' Then you would have LAN ports on the router that you can plug into and also configure the wireless network on as well. These LAN ports would normally have the ability to assign IP's to devices plugged into them.

So to reiterate.

1. Your provider of internet services would normally provide a 'modem' device. In some cases this is also your Router. (Common in Cable Modems and Wireless modems.)
2. The device you plug into would be the router (as I said above in some cases also the modem.) and you would plug into an available LAN port on the router.

I hope that simplifies things for you.

[fickle trench]

i am trying to set up tailscale for remote access on my windows 11 pro computer. i have tailscale installed on both my pc and my phone, and they are both logged into the same account. i can see both devices listed in the tailscale interface. i followed the instructions to allow the tailscale subnet for remote desktop (user mode, or something similar), but i am confused on what step to take next. how can i connect to my pc on my phone using tailscale?

[topaz patrol]

You need to install “Windows App” on your phone

Then enter the Tailscale ip and your windows login credentials

[fickle trench]

i've got this installed :) i entered the tailscale ip address for the "pc name" field, and i've tried both without user login information and with them, but it still says there is an error. it says "error 0x204"

[topaz patrol]

In order to remotely access a Windows machine it needs to have Windows Pro edition or higher

[topaz patrol]

Is the VPN enabled on your phone?

[fickle trench]

yes! i have windows 11 pro and i have the tailscale vpn enabled on my phone as well

[topaz patrol]

Have you tried connecting over the local network without Tailscale

[fickle trench]

like just using the 192.168.x.x ip address?

[topaz patrol]

Yeah

Get RDP working locally first to rule that out as an issue

[fickle trench]

when i enter the ip address into the "pc name", do i need to include the rdp port after the address?

[topaz patrol]

No

Not if you are using 3389

Are you using a Microsoft account or a local account?

[fickle trench]

i changed the port and now that i specified it, it did work

meaning i changed the port previously*, and i am using a microsoft account

[topaz patrol]

so it’s working locally now?

[fickle trench]

yep! albeit very slow and it took a while for my pc to get back to the login screen after i disconnected lol, but the connection is there!

[topaz patrol]

Lol

Now Tailscale should work like magic

[fickle trench]

and what would happen if i said it didn't 😢

[topaz patrol]

I would say that I can’t assist any further because I have to go lol

[fickle trench]

wait nevermind i'm dumb, i just needed to add the port to the end of the address lol

thank you so much for your help!

[topaz patrol]

I didn’t do too much you figured it out pretty much all the way

[fickle trench]

you definitely did, you helped me think about what i was doing and figuring out where i went wrong, so i appreciate it a lot :)

[thorny osprey]

How is my bro gettin allat with a 1500mbps router

[amber lark]

GB is Gigabytes a sec, mbs is Mega bits per second, 8 bits in 1 byte

[thorny osprey]

ik

hes gettin 12800 Mbps

but hes router max is liek 1201 Mbps

[amber lark]

12800????

Ur changing ur numbers dude

[thorny osprey]

1.6 times 8

he's getting 1.6 Gigabytes a second

calc'd dat into megabits a sec

[opal pagoda]

maybe 2.5 g wired ports

[thorny osprey]

his ethernet is limited to 1 Gbps anyway

wait nop nop hes using ethernet

but his router lan and wan ports r 1 G

[opal pagoda]

where did this number apper?

[thorny osprey]

mega

mega cloud services

[opal pagoda]

could be very efficient compression, download at gigabit, shows numbers of uncompressed files

[thorny osprey]

gah damn

[mossy stump]

Mega shows service to cache speed then download speed comes later. It's a bs number.

[low pond]

Yeah mega's downloading is one of those first downloads to browser cache and then gives you the real file, probably so they can utilise things like multi socket (which is more efficient yeah isn't a lie)

[ornate jungle]

Could be multi-socket / multi-part downloads... or it could be their encryption mechanism. 😉 😏 They learned after the last MegaRaid™ in 2012 - don't store unencrypted data, lest it be seized by the government.

[copper sun]

Look what I found!!!!!!

[compact scarab]

Does anyone know what i need specifically in order to run a sfp cord from my unifi switch to my custom windows desktop.

FLYPROFiber- 10G SFP+ AOC Cable,... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D22D616H?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

10Gb SFP+ PCI-E Network Card NIC,... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X9T683K?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

i ordered the two items linked above. But still dont get a hint of a attempt to connect to network through the fiber cord.

Im replacing the fiber cord in hopes maybe its a dud. But any help would be appreciated.

This is my second attempt at doing this

[copper ginkgo]

so problem: i fixed my trueNAS share problem, but now the old incorrectly-configured share data is sitting at root and i have no idea how to get it in the right place

[opal pagoda]

why are you running aoc cables for 10g?
i would use transcievers and fiber cables, for 30m om3 multimode will do fine job

is that nic detected under windows?

[copper ginkgo]

got an argument list too long error when trueNAS tried copying my mom's data over

[pulsar dawn]

I have 1Gbps internet with WiFi 6E yeah, in my room I only get 390Mbps, any way to improve that? I already have WiFi booster

[pseudo blade]

Tbh that's already pretty good and getting more won't be cheap.

The WiFi booster is unlikely to be helpful as most are designed awfully to save on a second 5/6ghz radio module.

Best fix will always be to go wired and get a cable ran. Alternatively you'll want to look at your house's layout carefully to determine if a gigabit mesh is actually feasible (the relay node must have a near perfect signal, and you must have a near perfect signal to it on a device capable of the speeds).

[autumn bay]

Quick question guys. I want to get a j6412 or j6413 but i wanted to know if it has enough power to run openwrt or or opnsense a vpn and some kind of ad blocker?

I will ideally want to have 16 gb of ram can so 32 if needed

[autumn bay]

Or maybe even a x2e n100

[charred ice]

So is it possible to duplicate MAC Addresses or show a different MAC Address for a specific app?

I need my phone to show the MAC Address of my TV

[topaz patrol]

What is your actual problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

[charred ice]

An app is MAC address locked I can only use it on only one device

[topaz patrol]

What app

[charred ice]

I am not sure if I am allowed to discuss it here 😅

[charred ice]

but basically what I need is

[topaz patrol]

You can figure that out yourself 🙂

[charred ice]

Can I DM you?, I said like that because it may be inappropriate for the Server

[topaz patrol]

I’m not going to help you do anything unethical or illegal

Lol

[charred ice]

then... yh sorry 😅

thx anyways!

[topaz patrol]

I DMed you out of curiosity

[pulsar dawn]

The main WiFi thingy is a room below so it should be easy to get it up to my room by putting in wall and travel it up to my desk

[pseudo blade]

Sorry you mean run a cable? Yeah that's the most reliable approach for speed. Heck if you put in cat 6/ideally 6a it should do 10 gigabit later if desired

[pulsar dawn]

awesome, ill purchase a cat 6a rn, future proof it yk

[pseudo blade]

Ethics requires me to tell you that you should have a licensed cabler install any in-wall cabling lest you potentially do something that violates building codes

It's usually not too pricy to do. But hey, you can do whatever you like with that information

[pulsar dawn]

yeah thats wa i might do, i aint wanna break any contracts or anything incase i hit somethin loll

ill get a cat 6a, and a network switch too so i can have it on the xbox, and my computer, ill get the licensed cabler person to do the cabling stuff, ty man

[compact scarab]

Yes it is.

[compact scarab]

Automatically installed drivers for both ports as well.

[mossy stump]

May I suggest instead of just running a cable see what the price difference is to run some conduit and put in a panel for you. then it will look good, and with a bit of work you can run your own new cables later through the existing conduit.

[autumn bay]

What router would you guys recommend to use for a small house?

I already have a ubiquiti AP but I want a router I can do more stuff with as the one I have doesnt have any features

[twin sphinx]

Honestly if you’re with a UniFi AP already

One of the small form factor Cloud Gateways could work great for you

The Cloud Gateway Max is one I like a lot

[autumn bay]

You think a cloud router is worth it?

Dream router sorry

Can get it for cost price

I wanna do adblocker, vpn, possibly a NAS on one machine if possible

[peak cloak]

jack of all trades, master of none. Personally I would keep NAS separate since for a NAS you want at least 2 drives

[autumn bay]

Ah okay

[peak cloak]

adblock and vpn doesn't take much resources

[autumn bay]

Opnsense machine gonna be OP?

[peak cloak]

depends what you want

ui makes things somewhat simplier if you already have a ui AP

[autumn bay]

I see i guess ill stick with that

I also have a switch from ui

You think the dream router is a deal for 200 gbp?

[twin sphinx]

I think so. It would help you with your goal of having adblocking and a vpn under one hood, combined with your switch management, AP controls and overall network management.

[autumn bay]

Yeah i guess ill go for it and just make my raspberry pi a nas

[twin sphinx]

I scored a ProLiant server for a very low price on Marketplace that I use as a NAS. There’s plenty of options!

[autumn bay]

Yeah when the router arrives ill have a spare raspberry pi 4 so ill probably be able to make it into a nas

I dont really have much to store like 300gb is tops

[unkempt stag]

so i have an access point connected to a poe plug into the wall

wifi through the access point doesn't work, even though it works if plugged into a lan port on the access point

and by extension i can connect via ethernet directly to the poe plug and that works too

any idea what my next troubleshooting steps would be on the access point?

[mossy stump]

So is the ap designed for POE?

What is the model of ap?

[cobalt heath]

Can you use a iPhone hotspot while connected to WiFi like on android?

[topaz patrol]

No

[cobalt heath]

Alright. That’s what I thought. Just needed to make sure I wasn’t just missing it. Thank you

[orchid shell]

i want a bunch more space, is it a bad idea to buy a NAS off of fb marketplace?

actually, found a $45 desktop pc on marketplace, you can make a NAS out of those right?

its a dell optiplex 780

keep in mind i have no clue what im talking about

[peak cloak]

that thing is ancient

[orchid shell]

yeah but it's $45

[peak cloak]

but yes you can, that's what I did until I got a synology. The synology software is much more user friendly for family

[peak cloak]

it should be free

for 45 you can do much better

[orchid shell]

uhhhhhh

theres an hp pavilion for 30 bucks

[peak cloak]

look for local listings

[orchid shell]

i am

these are local

[peak cloak]

companies throw stuff like this out

that's how I got mine

[orchid shell]

i mean

my dad does work at a CAF armoury

he snatched me a laptop, all i had to do was buy an SSD and it works fine

yeah no the best i can do on FB marketplace is $30 or $50 for an old desktop

its the hard drives that are cheaper

[orchid shell]

seems pretty cheap and its just direct instead of network, does it seem like a bad idea?

[pseudo blade]

Not much to it. Uses a single-chip USB SATA pory multiplier+basic RAID chip, box you put disks in with USB

If that's what you want there's not much to say about it

[orchid shell]

ok thx

[candid bough]

Are these worth anything?

[pseudo blade]

Not networking, not sure why you think we'd know

[autumn ether]

Can I connect any SFP into any other SFP port using any cable like I can do ethernet, or does brand/cable/... matter?
For my specific usecase, I have a ubiquiti switch and a nic that has an intel sfp port - will they work together?

this one if you need model #

Or will I need to get one of them fancy "I can pretend to be a specific brand"-type of cables. I dont understand the limitations, I initially thought SFP was just a stadartized connector like RJ45 is, but apparently not?

[clear igloo]

If you're talking about a DAC cable then generally they're more forgiving in your case but if you're talking about SFP with fiber then that's different because you need to match the SFP wavelength and fiber type (single mode vs multi mode)
If you want to be safe go with a cable that's ubiquiti branded

[silent flax]

i think he meant Intel NIC SFP port wants SFP module with granted Intel compatibility (same with Cisco, Mikrotik etc).

the sellers sometimes ask or offer multiple models

[autumn ether]

I see thanks. It'll be a ubiquiti dac cable. Also apparently I can disable intel's brand check? https://community.ui.com/questions/Can-I-use-Ubiquity-SFP-modules-in-Intel-PCI-cards/917d7de4-4fcc-4d3f-875a-72c222ae2135

[tame estuary]

Where does everyone buy their domain names?

[clear igloo]

the internet
😛

I prefer cloudflare but I get people might not always like that, godaddy I would avoid, squarespace I think offers domain sales

[autumn ether]

cloudflare.

I used to use namecheap, but their dashboard is way to slow and annoying by modern standards and , common options require multiple clicks. And they're not very cheap anymore.
I tried porkbun, and it's not bad, but it being owned by the chinese made me uneasy.
Hover looks nice, but it's noticeable pricier by comparison.

So cloudflare it is.

[peak cloak]

porkbun

[peak cloak]

huh didn't know they are chinese

[opal pagoda]

i used a local seller, their .eu pricing at the time was excelent, 5 years for 13 euros
they run promos from time to time
https://plus.hr/en/

[tame estuary]

Thanks guys. I have asked this in a few places and it seems the general consensus seems to be cloudflare

[kindred thistle]

Hi guys and girls. Having network issues with windows laptop.
Tried to make it discoverable on my home network but i dont remember what i changed to make it do this.

On most sites i get a "This site cant be reached" with the error code being "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"
and "ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE".
Sites like youtube and other google sites work but nothing like online stores and government sites etc.

Windows network diag cant find any issues. Its really annoying as this is my only windows PC.
What settings would cause this?

[carmine crescent]

u try brave aswell?

[kindred thistle]

yeah

[carmine crescent]

you reboot?

[kindred thistle]

yes

does samething on my phone hotspot

[carmine crescent]

change ur dns

[kindred thistle]

to?

[carmine crescent]

whats it on?

[kindred thistle]

its in auto (DHCP)

[meager ginkgo]

Try setting it to 9.9.9.9 for primary and 1.1.1.1 for secondary

[kindred thistle]

for IPv4 or 6?

[meager ginkgo]

ipv4

[kindred thistle]

with DNS over HTTPS?

[meager ginkgo]

You can do that if you want but I’d try it without for now

[kindred thistle]

anything for IPv6?

[meager ginkgo]

just leave it empty for now.

You can go back later and add the addresses if this fixes it

[kindred thistle]

not fixed...

[meager ginkgo]

Try a network reset. It should be under advanced network settings

[kindred thistle]

can i just restart it now or to i have to wait 5 mins for it to do it itself?

[meager ginkgo]

It should just do it without a restart if I remember correctly

[peak cloak]

in cmd

do ping 1.1.1.1

what does it say

[kindred thistle]

That fixed it. Thank you so much

[meager ginkgo]

Glad that did it. I’ve been having some complex issues myself and almost thought it wouldn’t work 🤣

[kindred thistle]

Oh

It changed the protocol to Wifi 4 (802.11n)

And went to 2.4GHz

[meager ginkgo]

What WiFi card does the laptop have in it? If it’s older, that may be all it has. Or if it has a crappy WiFi card it may be falling back to WiFi 4 for no reason (I’ve had that happen)

[kindred thistle]

It’s always used wifi 5. Laptop is only like 2 or something years old

[meager ginkgo]

You should be able to manually force it in device manager properties to use a WiFi tech but it may be unstable.

[orchid shell]

seller says it works, good idea?

[kindred thistle]

Intel one

[kindred thistle]

In wifi 3 properties the protocol says Any radio type.

[meager ginkgo]

Ok that card isn’t a bad model. Maybe try moving closer to the router and see if it changes to 5Ghz?

[kindred thistle]

It’s directly underneath

[peak cloak]

imo too old

15 years

maybe for 5 bucks, but 90 is crazy

[orchid shell]

ah k

[rose flare]

Anybody able to help with some basic truenas stuff

[topaz patrol]

https://dontasktoask.com

[rose flare]

Sweet I have just updated my truenas server from core to scale and wanting to rearrange my folder structure in my dataset. This allow me to move smb share to a different folder instead of the main root folder to allow me to install apps. I am a novice and would love any suggestions and help. Cheers

[thick minnow]

Better off getting a ~5 year old workstation. Same price range, way better performance imho

[celest salmon]

• Guys could you pls explain how PKI is implemented in VPN , or generally in client's connection. I just can not understand ,does it usually denie access due invalid signature of uhmmmmm website ?
  I can't understand the objectives exactly in this case
• If mirrors are physical servers, how would person establish them on all places on the earth

[stone spindle]

should i use a time capsule in 2024
for what is technically lan-based storage

because i have a 1tb one atm

or should I just get a gdrive subscription

i hv to store raw photos btw

[opal pagoda]

Be honest is this homework question?

[mossy stump]

So upgraded internet is now in place. Whee.. 2.5 gig download and upload speeds over wire. BUT the RT-BE88U wifi 7 router can't hit those speeds. It's pulling about 1.2 gigabit over the wifi. (no 6ghz spectrum)

[opal pagoda]

What are the specs of wireless chipset of your endpoint?

[mossy stump]

BE1750W is the revision Killer (intel) wifi 7 nic.

My router doesn't offer 6ghz.

[celest salmon]

Not

or nevermind. gonna read more than just ask once

[violet spear]

can't decide between ax1500 or ax3000 whole home mesh (fully wireless, mesh nodes are not connected by cable)
do i invest in faster for more futureproofing (i also run a local samba share)? and can't decide between tenda or tp-link

tp-link has backdoors reportedly
tenda may or may not, last reported backdoor is 2013

[quartz root]

is this the about expected file transfer speed over a LAN from HDD to HDD

[violet spear]

yea

depends on the network, but that's better than mine at least

[quartz root]

cheers

[marsh sparrow]

Depends on local connection and drive speed.

[clear igloo]

What the actual F
How do you sell a $320 wireless router advertised as WiFi 7 and NOT put 6GHz on it?!?!

And they put a 6GHz client support disclaimer on the page, freaking Asus scummy bullcrap

[mossy stump]

IT's on the box and I prefer it over the other wifi 7 routers. Mostly because of the physical port avilability. And my single wifi 7 device performs just fine. 90% of my wifi if not 95% are not even wifi 7 compatible.

Give me this setup for a wifi 7 router with 6ghz for the same price and I'll be somewhat interesated. (by then I want 4, 5 or 6, 10 gig ports and 4, 1 gig ports.

[mossy stump]

That looks like a uSB 2 file copy.

[mossy stump]

I'd question if you were copying off of a external drive or internal drive.

[vivid plank]

Hey I have 2 Ethernet ports in my network card
Both are plugged in on both sides
I bridged both ports in control panel
No errors
It’s showing that it’s sending and receiving data and it’s at 2 Gbps and it has internet
It’s received over 12m bytes in 4 min
But any other app doesn’t detect me having internet

I think maybe it’s that I don’t have the Ethernet bridge selected in windows settings with it instead showing both ports individually

But there’s also no option for me to select it

[vivid plank]

Ok I got it working

I realized that I’m an idiot

I had a proxy enabled for a nonexistent ip

[little tendon]

Yeah that's fine for the most part.

[reef moon]

How is transfer speed between two drives within my computer based on network speed?

[amber urchin]

if you started the transfer from another computer over the network

[reef moon]

Oh

[spare tapir]

Anyone ever have a router just reset itself? It forgot everything and had to be re setup.

Iam wondering if it is nearing end of operational life

Yes. I will need to replace it.

[spare tapir]

Dang Why are Wifi7 routers in a dumb tower format.

I miss my wall spiders

found a lovely wall spider by a Company I wont buy from anymore... 😦 its arachnadorable too.

[clear igloo]

I would invest in a dedicated AP and then a separate router

[coarse rapids]

using router as access point on gigabit connection (getting ~920Mbit on speedtest when wired directly to ISP modem), only getting 100mbit, it's a gigabit router, both network cables are labeled gigabit

[opal pagoda]

what model is it?

[coarse rapids]

TP-link archer C1200 (V1 I believe)

[opal pagoda]

are you running stock firmware?

[coarse rapids]

not entirely sure

and now for some reason I can't access the settings page

[opal pagoda]

what about the device that you pluged this tp link into
is it also gigabit? Maybe it has lights to show link speed

[coarse rapids]

my PC with 2.5Gbit LAN

same device I'm getting my ~920Mbit on

getting one green and one yellow-orange LED on the LAN port

[opal pagoda]

check network settings for a link speed

[coarse rapids]

it shows 1.0Gbit

1.0 Gbps to be fully accurate

[opal pagoda]

try updating firmware

[coarse rapids]

I'll power off and power on my router because I can't access its settings for some reason

firmware is up to date

[coarse rapids]

lmao never mind it was the wall socket that's the issue

[mossy stump]

Yea if you have an older Ethernet over Power bridge it was pretty solidly limited to 100 megabit.

[coarse rapids]

it's a cat6 cable so it must have been installed poorly

[mossy stump]

Yea I woujld even say there is something wrong with the wiring job. Joing over a exposed wire or something bad to mess with a twisted pair wire that badly.

[coarse rapids]

if set as wireless access point with same SSID and password, is it treated as the same network, where devices will use whatever source has the strongest signal?

it's basically to spread wifi throughout my apartment so I can have strong signal everywhere

[mossy stump]

In effect yes, but if they are on top of eachother, and there is no management of the AP/source relationshipn it oculd cause issues with jumping routers/connections.

For instance Asus has their own router AP/Booster sort of setup that's managed by the software to help limit that you can even assign specific devices to specific routers to prevent that. (Good for fixed things like ALexa devices and whatnot.)

[coarse rapids]

I have another router that I will use for dedicated VR use, will use 6Ghz while the rest is 5Ghz, PC will be wired directly to that router. Does it make any difference whether I set that router as access point or not?

[pseudo blade]

Vs router mode? Autodiscovery will work and you'll get a slight performance bump if you're not routing and use AP mode instead

[pale apex]

what testers are out there to find the least used channels?

found out that bluetooth is interfereing with my internet since its 2.4Ghz, im wanting to change the channel and go to 5Ghz but i have to basically have a meeting with my landlord and teach him how to fix it, so i wanna get my ducks in a row and figure out what channel to change to before i sit him down

[peak cloak]

You can use the wifiman app

[muted beacon]

seconded on wifiman

[silent flax]

man, that Minisforums NAS looks cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llnf3Vnzcxs

[twin sphinx]

i am not gonna lie, i actually kinda want one

[silent flax]

i mean the M.2 slots are kinda meh, but then at same time, it has enough CPU power to be an actual server

[twin sphinx]

especially if they keep up with the modularity of it. buy a new chassis/backplane for cheap and just swap the old ms1 into it? drool

i got a pretty nice part of my home lab finished today. i managed to get nextcloud and immich installed and working via cloudflare today, so i have remote access to my servers finally

[silent flax]

i use tailscale instead as they are all internal only anyway

[haughty spruce]

Does anyone have any idea why my Samsung S23+ have 16/31/41ms (min/avg/max) latency over Wi-Fi 5 (5Ghz band, 833/833 link speed) while my laptop (Intel AC9560) and desktop (MediaTek MT7922) have like 1-2ms max (with same link speed and similar distance from AP)? Its same ven on Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz band) :/

[undone pagoda]

my business is called studio.mp4, we want a website called 'studio.mp4' and replace the .com with the .mp4 . Is this possible? Can I use a custom TLD?

[opal pagoda]

on your own local network sure, do whatever you want
on the internet
https://dev.to/kailyons/tutorial-make-your-own-top-level-domain-name-like-com-org-and-net-jhd

[undone pagoda]

loll thankyou. So its posible buit I do not have 150k in my bank so ill forget about it

[peak cloak]

MP4 is not a tld so no

Not without significant money

[peak cloak]

You can look through this list though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

I think .mov is one

But frankly I would just stick with .com or else people get confused

Can do studio.mp4.com

[undone pagoda]

the double dot looks confusing though

[opal pagoda]

someone probably owns mp4.com already tho

[undone pagoda]

might do studiodotmp4.com, as some of our social medias are named studiodotmp4 because studio.mp4 is taken etc

[peak cloak]

Oh yeah true

Duh

[undone pagoda]

thanyou guys for your help

ill come back with 200k 👍

[opal pagoda]

200k aint enough
you will have to have icann blessing too which is harder to obtain than 200k

[undone pagoda]

lolllll bet

ill do that then

[topaz patrol]

Keep in mind there is already a dotmp4.com around, and in your industry

It’s dead atm, but 🤷‍♂️

[thick minnow]

i thought this channel's name was straight up "not working" 😭

[grave void]

This is more networking than development I think. RDS server is fun...

Developing a way to redirect Remote Desktop folders to client folders

I've created this project so that users using remote desktop can access their client folders utilizing the TSCLIENT drive mapping feature built into Remote Desktop, which also works with RemoteApps. Trying to get where I can save videos to my Documents via RemoteApps. Some RemoteApps I've been testing this with are Blue Iris and a Minecraft server. The picture above is my software that redirects folders using Windows API "SHSetKnownFolderPath"

[topaz patrol]

I don't get the usecase for this

[vagrant granite]

So instead of the files you're using / download being on the remote machine they're all on the machine you're remoting from?

Whoops forgot to turn off @ I hope I don't get in trouble for that

[thick minnow]

does anyone have a good network harden guide for debian

[thick minnow]

that looks really clean

is that csharp or delphi?

[silent flax]

me raging how university/journalists waste this awesome domain name for a placeholder http://sourceco.de/

i mean that is a perfect domain name for something like github alternative 😄

[thick minnow]

gibhub

heh

[stone spindle]

YO
worth it or nah

||im kidding ofc, not doing that||

[pseudo blade]

If you can buy it later on, why not!
I just hope that your new orchard's OK with only having a very short uptime for its website and I doubt Apple would appreciate the black eye for their (necessary for this scenario) extreme incompetence

[coarse rapids]

How can I send a wake on LAN packet to my NAS from my primary desktop?

[opal pagoda]

What nas do you have? Can you run a container on it?

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll Debating moving to OPNsense from my Fortigate???

[clear igloo]

Dew it!

[rocky badge]

$500 + 10/40G NIC + SSDs

C3958 is a 16 core 2GHz Atom

[coarse rapids]

Custom built. I found a small application that I wrote a batch file for

[rocky badge]

Yeah it would consume more than 7W that the Fortigate consumes but I could have 10 or 40G on it

I wish Dell made something like this

@clear igloo is 40G overkill??????

the OPNsense wouldn't even do layer 3 routing

[clear igloo]

no, do 25/100g 😛

[rocky badge]

my switch doesn't have 25/100G

[tight pecan]

No

[clear igloo]

You can still use QSFP to do 40/10g

[rocky badge]

its a 9372PX

I mean the 9372PX is doing layer 3 routing

[clear igloo]

But then you can upgrade later and just swap optics 🙂

[rocky badge]

true

the OPNsense is just doing firewall and WAN lol

[copper sun]

Spaghetti

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

$45

[clear igloo]

not bad

[rocky badge]

I think my switch has 6 40G ports?

[clear igloo]

yup

[tight pecan]

Just make sure you actually have a pcie 3.0x8 slot with all 8 lanes available

[rocky badge]

So I could do 1 from the OPNsense or 2 lol

And then some from the servers

40G from the truenas box

[clear igloo]

Yah, just 1 from opn, lol

[rocky badge]

I don't think I can do 40g from my hypervisor

I don't have enough slots left over

unless dell makes a 40G ocp

[clear igloo]

maybe?

[rocky badge]

they do not

[clear igloo]

😦

[rocky badge]

I'm out of physical pcie slots my 10G NIC for that server is in the daughtercard slot

I wonder if I can even do more than 10G from my truenas storage lol

40G to the desktop

[clear igloo]

RAM cache 😛

[rocky badge]

holy shit

40G SFP+ single mode optics are expensive

[clear igloo]

yup

[clear igloo]

fs.com?

[rocky badge]

I don't wanna do a fucking MPO

multimode MPO QSFP+ is cheap but singlemode MPO or duplex is $$$$$$

QSFPTEK is cheap

qsfptek is just another finisar reseller lol

[clear igloo]

yup, lol

[rocky badge]

So around 4gbps lol

So 40Gbps isn't worth it 🤣 for the truenas

And ngl probably not for the opnsense either since the optics are gonna be expensive as hell

[clear igloo]

yup

I didn't think they were still that expensive, lol

[rocky badge]

SFP28 can accept SFP+ and run at 10G right lol

I'd love to get a decently recent NIC lol

Also debating on getting a separate UPS for network

[tight pecan]

Very good investment

[rocky badge]

Running at 39% with network & servers rn

[clear igloo]

Get an EBM 😄

[rocky badge]

lmfao

[tight pecan]

Wait I think that's the UPS I Have

[rocky badge]

oh fuck they're cheap through work

[clear igloo]

nice

Yup, that's the one I got 😄

[tight pecan]

I got them extra cheap from someone. Works really nicely so far, though I do wish it was a bit quieter

[rocky badge]

Yeah I have the 5PX 1500RT

[tight pecan]

1500RT gang 😮

[rocky badge]

At work I am starting to standardize on Eatons

Recent UPSes we bought for work

[tight pecan]

It's funny cause I don't have anything hooked up to the UPS right now because I haven't properly set up my network rack

[rocky badge]

From APC and CyberPower

[rocky badge]

I need a bigger rack for that

[clear igloo]

do it

[rocky badge]

"I'd never need more in the apartment"

[clear igloo]

rofl

[rocky badge]

I kinda want another R6415 but they are so expensive now

I wish the Supermicro server wasn't as loud

Also @clear igloo I have my windows open in my office to help cool down the server closet

and its working

Since its like 20 fucking degrees outside

[opal pagoda]

what os do you run on it?

[coarse rapids]

win 11

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1hz5n8j/issues_with_unifi_ap/

my brain hurts trunk native vlan 10 but tagging on the ap

[opal pagoda]

but why would someone do this
just switchport mode access

[rocky badge]

🤣 idk

they're in Ubiquiti subreddit that's enough explanation

[opal pagoda]

aw yep

[rocky badge]

also portfast trunk

[opal pagoda]

ubiquiti users trying to setup a real switch

[rocky badge]

they are stuck with UniFi treating everything as a trunk by default 😬

[opal pagoda]

couldnt even be bothered to ask chatgpt for port config

[rocky badge]

LMAO the new unifi shit is 99% like Cisco IOS config

this is so stupid

[waxen scroll]

arista ia 99% nx-os config

[rocky badge]

"hybrid" switchport

allowed vlan add 20 untagged
allowed vlan remove 1
forbidden vlan add 1,10

[lean bronze]

As a European, it took me a couple of seconds to realize that this was, fortunately, in Fahrenheit 😂

[rocky badge]

why not just do fucking access ports

Why is every port trying to be a trunk

hrm

it picks the correct querier

which is surprising from unifi

[rocky badge]

yeah

[opal pagoda]

that will be added as a beta feature in 2031

[opal pagoda]

do ubiqiti users even touch cli?

[rocky badge]

no

unifi will wipe all cli config when it hears from the controller

[copper ginkgo]

my trueNAS user ID changed, i can't figure out why, and it's preventing me from making any changes to my share

[grave void]

Yes exactly its really awesome

[grave void]

C# .NET 8, wanted something as native as possible. 165 lines of code so far

[astral hemlock]

I am trying to get a NAS on my old thinkpad laptop, what is a good free nas

[opal pagoda]

if you dont have lots of ram > open media vault
if you have plenty of ram > Truenas

[astral hemlock]

what do you say for 16 gb

[astral hemlock]

And when I tried true before I could not access it from my computer connected to the dame switch

[opal pagoda]

i belive for truenas it is 8gb minimum + 1gb per tb of storage

[peak cloak]

kinda, not really

[peak cloak]

from a former zfs dev:

ZFS memory usage doesn't work like that. It doesn't "need" any particular RAM amount (as long as it's not comically small) to work. The ram-to-disk ratio is more about high-performance servers and enterprise apps to get the most out of it. For home use, it largely doesn't matter

it's mainly just cache

[peak cloak]

16gb will be just fine

I personally run proxmox, that way I can run VMs at the same time

also pretty easy to setup a zfs pool

[astral hemlock]

I tried a bunch of softwars and my hardware canot run it

[amber urchin]

I only have 256GB for my four 4TB HDDs. lol

[opal pagoda]

did anyone try Intel 100HFA016 ?
they are really cheap for 100g cards

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-omni-path-in-the-homelab-for-direct-connect.30131/
nvm looks like they cannot do ethernet only omnipath (intel's clone of Infiniband)

[tall spear]

Was gonna say this is it...unfortunate. I really don't like broadcom (political) or Mellanox (not political) rn. Would really like cheap 100G net cards from intel...just got to wait 🙃

[opal pagoda]

Melanox is no more, it is Nvidia now
They should make a gpu with 25G or 100G port on it

[clear igloo]

+$15K 😛

[thick minnow]

nice

[tribal sequoia]

unless i'm mistaken i couldn't even get to the "secret cli" on the new models

older ones you can "telnet 127.0.0.1" and get to a real cli

on the new ones i didn't look too far into it but that definitely didn't work

[peak linden]

Does a synology nas allow me to access it from any device? Phone, tablet, pc?

[topaz patrol]

Yes

[peak linden]

Over the internet?

[topaz patrol]

Yes

[peak linden]

As in add and remove over the internet?

[topaz patrol]

QuickConnect allows client applications to connect to your Synology NAS via the Internet without the hassle of setting up port forwarding rules. QuickConnect can also work with Synology-developed packages, such as Audio Station, Video Station, Download Station, Surveillance Station, Synology Photos, File Station, Note Station, CMS, Synology Drive, and mobile applications.

[peak linden]

Ive been thinking about getting one

[topaz patrol]

Yes

Tailscale is also a free service that can let you remotely access your NAS securely

https://tailscale.com/kb/1131/synology

[ornate jungle]

Yes, Synology has apps that let you access various features of their NAS hardware.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Synology+Inc.&hl=en_CA

[peak linden]

Im on ios

[topaz patrol]

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/synology-drive/id1267275421

[ornate jungle]

Okay so then you could search the Apple AppStore. 👍

[peak linden]

Is there an equivalent nas os that is just as good or better?

[topaz patrol]

If you're buying consumer grade Synology hardware you can't really install any other OS on it

If you wanted to use another OS like TrueNAS you'd have to look at different hardware, or DIY.

[peak linden]

Thats kinda why i asked. Dont know if i want to just buy a nas or build one

[ornate jungle]

The main players in the pre-made space are Synology and QNAP. If you want the ability to customize beyond their systems, you would need to built your own NAS hardware, then install, configure, and maintain something like TrueNAS, UnRAID, or HexOS.
Pre-made NAS solutions are convenient if you want something that "just works" out of the box, but you definitely pay for the included OS through the hardware purchase. A custom-built NAS offers more flexibility but requires more knowledge too.

[peak linden]

I want to be able to access it from any device from anywhere and stream movies from it.

[topaz patrol]

You will be able to do that with any NAS OS. Synology and QNAP make it very easy to enable right out of the box, but it's not super difficult to do on TrueNAS UnRAID etc

If you don't want to tinker, and you want it to "just work", look at a Synology box

[peak linden]

Its all i can think of atm of things i want to do

And i do want it to just work. I tinker on my pc. Dont really want to do that on my nas.

[ornate jungle]

This. And even if you want to tinker a bit... it's not hard to get Docker / non-Synology server stuff working on a Synology NAS from within the DSM OS - just have to learn how to do it. (To be clear, it's a good place to start, but if you really get into it, you'll be looking for ways to break free of the Synology / QNAP OS very quickly.)

[peak linden]

Im very new to NASs in general.

[topaz patrol]

I'd get a Synology box in that case :)

[peak linden]

What do the ugreen nas use?

For os

[ornate jungle]

https://nas.ugreen.com/pages/operating-system

[peak linden]

The qnap nas look better hardware wise than synology but they don’t look quite as refined as synology for the apps

[ornate jungle]

This is generally what I have found in my limited research, too, though take that with a grain of salt, as I only have first-hand experience with Synology's DSM OS running on my DS918+ hardware.

[mossy stump]

So if I want a home san to rip all of my DVD's and blue rays to, 300 ish DVD's and about 100 blue rays, what kind of capacity and would you recommend a home NAS server, or a NAS All in one appliance?

[peak linden]

Im kinda looking at a ds1522+

[mossy stump]

for up to really 3 users at a time.

[peak linden]

Are you going to compress them at all?

[peak cloak]

I bought a synology for software

make it easier for family to use

plus the surveillance app is pretty good compared to any free software I could fine

[mossy stump]

maybe? I'm fine with comression if I need to. TV's are generally 4k but really the consumers don't care other than me really.

[ornate jungle]

Yee this is a large reason I went with Synology too - I've created user accounts for the family so they can backup their computers automagically, and have a secondary photo backup location too.

[peak cloak]

well what's the storage estimate

[mossy stump]

Let me run some numbers..

Honestly... 12 TB should do me fine looking at average data sizes. So I'd probably shoot for 20.

300 DVD's at 8 gig each woujld be 2.4 TB, and 100 Blue rays at an estimated average of 50 gig (max) would be around 5 TB so I think 20 would give me tons of room for any other media I aquire.

Not forever for but a long time.

[peak linden]

Then do a 20TB nas with some room for expansion

Personally, i would get 2 20TB drives and raid them together for redundancy and if possible, add one later for storage so you get storage of 2 drives and 1 for a failure drive

Im not sure if you can change a mirror raid to another raid

[mossy stump]

You can always un mirror a raid (though that can be a pain) and then re espand a raid to a multi disk raid but you'll either have to offsite the data to the NAS or find a way to do it on the fly.

[peak linden]

Thats all just iff you can add a 3rd drive to the mirror array for storage and not another mirror

That transfer would present an issue

Something im doing is getting a 5 bay nas and putting 3 18TB WD golds in it. 2 for storage and 1 for parity

Leave 2 bays for expansion

[mossy stump]

ZFS or a few others can do that from what I've heard. Never messed with it.

[west shell]

my dad has a mac mini now and gave me his old workstation. I plan on turning it into a file server but wanted to make sure SSH is configured to only allow lan connections. Does this look right?

[tight pecan]

Make sure ufw default is set to deny

[west shell]

would ufw take priority over the hosts file?

[tight pecan]

I'm not too sure on that, you'd have to check the iptables rules to make sure

But if you're going to use ufw anyways, you might as well consolidate your firewall rules there

ufw status verbose should show you what the defaults are for incoming/outgoing, which should be deny for incoming and allow for outgoing anyways

If it's a fresh install

[west shell]

hows this?

[tight pecan]

Oh yeah didn't notice you had an allow incoming for 22 from everywhere lol

[west shell]

I had to do that initially after starting the ufw service.

looks like thats it then, thanks for the pointers, I really appreciate it

this thing is gonna be on, and online 24/7

so peace of mind and your validation is appreciated

[tight pecan]

New server is always good to see

[tight pecan]

If you want more security, you could look into only allowing SSH keys for authentication

Not everyone's cup of tea though

[west shell]

casaOS would be the interface my other devices and family would use. Maybe you're right

that would be a good idea.

[violet spear]

years later and only tp link and netgear gives a damn about easymesh

and cross-vendor compat is iffy
even though that's the main appeal of easymesh, a common standard that works across vendors

[peak linden]

Im looking at a nas and synology looks good in the software department but qnap seems to have better hardware

I dont know what to pick

[opal pagoda]

which exact models are you comparing

[opaque kraken]

Got HexOS working finally so this will be my feedback and review as someone who has never dealt with any networking whatsoever asides from sharing folders at lan parties back in windows XP.
||(turns out you can't install it if you only have one storage HDD, they require at least some sort of raid 1 sadge)|| I had to buy some hard drives just to install this which was sorta a bummer, but I spose' that's some sort of minimum required protection against idiots like me that don't care about data backups. Setting up the folders was pretty easy though I noticed if you have certain names for a folder (like 'Music' for example) it will put them into a different category called System Folders instead of Your Folders? Dunno what that's about. Got other computers on the LAN to see it just fine and file transfers worked without a hitch.
I wanted to see if I could share a folder over the Internet to my phone and one user suggested I try Tailscale, but after getting it set up and logged in on both devices I really didn't know what I was spossed' to be doing as none of the folders in the HDD pool showed up in the android file manager so I'm guessing I got skill checked out of that and uninstalled it/deleted tailscale. I sorta wonder if it was because I created the HDD pools in HexOS and they didn't really seem to show up in Truenas_scale's UI so I wonder if things you install in Truenas_scale don't actually know what the HexOS pools are and can't use them? I dunno, don't know enough or really care enough to troubleshoot that jazz. I will just have to wait for the HexOS team to create their own solution in the future, kinda hope they will too as whatever magic I was looking at in Tailscale confused my normie brain, I just want to log into the HexOS deck on my phone from across the Internet and be done with it, not deal with extra apps, auth keys, whatever a magic DNS is and whatnot.

TL;DR, I paid 100 bucks to share folders from one PC to the next on my LAN I guess.

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo always adding more networking to the network at work 🤣

[clear igloo]

Needs more 400g 😛

[waxen scroll]

I wouldn't mix vendor either

One platform. Intuitive how to support it all

[limpid fable]

Hi. I'm able to browse the internet, open apps that require internet but my ping and tracert commands aren't able to connect on Windows 10.
I have ran the usual ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /renew, ipconfig /release and also reset the network from the Network and Internet settings page.
I'm not having any issues other than high latency in games. Even when watching 4K videos online, there's no issues other than the initial delay in connection.
Any ideas about what is happening? I don't understand why commands aren't able to connect despite other apps being able to do so

[pseudo blade]

Probably an upstream router blocking ICMP

Without it you can't use ping or traceroute

[limpid fable]

I connected the fibre optic cable provided by my ISP to an adapter and then the ethernet cable directly into my PC. So, does that mean that some ISP hardware is blocking my ping and tracert?

[pseudo blade]

If you can't ping from it, yes

[limpid fable]

Well then, how do other apps work? I'm currently messaging from the affected PC right now

[pseudo blade]

They don't use ICMP

[limpid fable]

Could any of these 4 ICMP entries in the Firewall be causing this issue?

[pseudo blade]

Not for outbound ping

They're enabled by default to stop others from pinging you

[limpid fable]

Yeah, makes sense. I'll check by connecting to a wifi router and connecting other devices. Thanks

[worn holly]

Question for the Cradlepoint users out there, Is there a way to do one of the following:
-Set a specific device MAC to be IP passthrough but all other devices are DHCP
-Set a specific port to be IP passthrough but all other ports are DHCP

[copper ginkgo]

i'm this close to clean installing trueNAS because i can't figure out why user IDs got reassigned in the last update, nobody can edit the files in their shares and i don't know how to fix that, the NAS is almost completely full, googling it doesn't help, and nobody has ever responded to my queries

[copper ginkgo]

i guess i'm getting an external drive and copying my files over, then wiping my NAS clean and starting over

both my NAS and cloud storage are running out and i need to reallocate space now which i can't fucking do when i'm not allowed to actually write or modify files

[topaz patrol]

Put the Cradlepoint into bridge mode and use a “proper” router

[worthy coral]

Woah that’s a cool Fortinet rack mount

Man 1u servers are neat but I hate screaming servers… so now I like cube servers.

Like the cubes are so much quieter

[pseudo blade]

They're designed for different purposes

You wouldn't want a datacenter of low-power SMB-targeted cube servers

I like the microservers for SOHO when cloud offerings aren't objectively better for the use case

Some of the small places I did MSP for would have been much better served paying the peanuts for a half dozen M365 business licenses and getting hosted exchange over paying for us to do maintenance on a shitty old Exchange server running on rust with a $15k upgrade bill on the horizon

Wonder why my boss liked selling and deploying unnecessary on prem servers so much. Maybe he liked money.

[worthy coral]

Damn. My work is still hosting a majority of services on prem, including exchange as well. Fun times. Still waiting to see if we will ever upgrade to 365. The bill is only getting bigger tbh.

All of the cube servers I have decommissioned were just AD/DHCP servers so they didn’t really do much.

[worthy coral]

Speaking of different purpose… I just found a decommissioned ArcServe UDP 8200 appliance just lying around. Looks like it’s just a super micro 1u server with a Xeon E5-2620v4 processor and supports up to 1TB of RAM, though it only has 32GB right now.

[rocky badge]

Lol we don't have anything that needs more than 10g, much less 400g

[topaz patrol]

M365 is more profitable lol

Unless he was charging a massive markup for hardware

[pseudo blade]

Well yes

[clear igloo]

Well not with that attitude you dont!

[iron trellis]

Hi, I'm new to networking, I have a Mikrotik hEX S that acts as my main router, firewall and switch. All of my main devices are connected to it including my home server, my PC and my secondary router (D-Link DIR-825 AC) that I only use for wifi. The problem is that devices that are connected to wifi cannot access my server, but if I'm connecting from my outside network, I can reach it, as well if I'm connecting from inside of my mikrotik network, because I have added a DNS rule to mikrotik config that if sees [redacted].duckdns.org gives back 192.168.x.x (my local server IP). How can I fix it so on my phone I can connect to my server through wifi without using my cellular data?

[carmine moss]

What mode is the d-link in you probably want to change it out of router mode to access point mode

[iron trellis]

I didn't find any options of doing that

here are my d-link options

[carmine moss]

Look up "d-link DIR-825 ap mode" there should be a video over where it is. I don't have that device myself but that should fix it

[iron trellis]

something is wrong with my router, it says its in router mode and to change it to AP mode I need to reset it and configure it in initial configuration, but after reset it skips over any initial configuration and just asks to change the default password

Also after factory reset wifi name is the name of my ISP

[iron trellis]

Nvm, called ISP and they changed its mode to AP mode

After an half an hour of talking...

[mossy stump]

Don't fool yourself many of the 'cube' servers are just blade chassis. 😉

[fallow wing]

you must install ALL THE GIGABITS, realize the prophecy of the INFINITE BANDWIDTH

one day the instant game download will happen and only then will we be saved from the anguish of choosing which game to install if we can install them instantly !

one must imagine CoD's 250GB instantly flashed upon your storage for immediate play state !

[mossy stump]

It's funny, back in the day we had instant games you could play. All you had to do was put in the floppy disk. 😉

Though I do love my 2.5 gig home internet. 😉 Not worth it for faster yet.

[pseudo blade]

If it's the ISP one and at your network edge you don't want it in AP mode

If it's working for you cool but as I'm currently picturing your network (ISP at edge, Mikrotik behind) it's a mess

If you're truly using it just as an AP it's OK but if so the ISP probably wouldn't be able to remotely reconfigure it for you

[iron trellis]

Yes, they asked me to connect it directly to outside for them to change it to AP mode

[pseudo blade]

Speaking of... they finally redid webfig
Y'all can stop crying about it looking like Windows 95 now

Quick Set's still no work of art though

All the context menus are still fixed size on large monitors and the size is somewhere around 1600*900

[fallow wing]

flash games

[fallow wing]

AP ?

access point you mean ?

[fallow wing]

I'd love to get the upper tier of my ISP just because the ISP router that comes with it is SFP+ in AND out, instead of only in like my current one has
I'd be able to finally leverage the whole bandwidth plan we have, would be fantastic

[fallow wing]

I am dying to get what I mentioned above so I can justify getting a fiber card for my desktop and get ALL the gigabits from my ISP

unfortunately for me, I don't even pay for internet at home so I'm not even the one who manages it

haaaaaaa, one day...

[opal pagoda]

A prophecy of network being faster than storage so all assets are being streamed in from it

[fallow wing]

bruh

[opal pagoda]

it can bite you in the ass real quick

and it can serve as some kind of DRM lmao

[fallow wing]

I never said to stream games from outside, latency would be utterly horrible

but insta install CoD would be funny

flash melting CPU RAM and SSD lol

[opal pagoda]

not streaming games, streaming game assets
aka your gpu still proceses your frames and not outside party

[fallow wing]

my bad, that's what I meant, just poorly worded it

[opal pagoda]

microsoft flight simulator already does it with map data

[stable mesa]

who knows the best way to safely access the internet from a windows 98 computer

[fallow wing]

simple : you don't

[stable mesa]

i do

[fallow wing]

although, I genuinely don't know if modern threats would even be retrocompatible with a win98 system

[fallow wing]

no, you don't

[stable mesa]

yes I do

[stable mesa]

I'm unsure if I can get hacked from just connecting

[opal pagoda]

with a static public ip on the w98 pc and no firewall

[fallow wing]

you don't
there's no way to access the internet safely for any OS in the world, everything is a risk of being targeted by something

[stable mesa]

I'm talking about the safest way not invulnerable

[opal pagoda]

it is very safe as it will be bricked in 5 minutes

[fallow wing]

possibly, possibly not, no one knows what happens at any point in time on the internet besides that it's a dangerous place

[fallow wing]

there is none
at best you'd only delay getting bricked

win98 security features are virtually inexistant

[stable mesa]

ik

[topaz patrol]

Nothing is safe

[fallow wing]

yes, that's what I just said

[hallow tusk]

The bigger risk with Win98 is that it won't support any modern encryption algorithms, so everything will be done in plain-text with unmaintained browsers. (And even then: A lot of the web will be inaccessible since they'll try to shove you over to TLS.)

The closest you can get to a sane connection is to hide behind a well-configured firewall and proxy. The proxy can handle modern TLS while also taking the brunt of attacks. (Plus it could scan everything passing through for viruses and malicious connection attempts.)

[mossy stump]

Don't ever EVER tell corporations that if we had the bandwidth they wouldn't even have to license software to end users just license access to software to them. I do NOT want that.

[stable mesa]

im planning on connecting it to another pc with something resembling a telephone line

something like that

would that work?

[stable mesa]

im not gonna use a phone line emulator at first just because of how hard it is to actually get one

[topaz patrol]

Huh

No? Not at all?

[hallow tusk]

You can do modem-to-modem if you disable dial-tone detection. I've done that in the past when I was messing around, although it's been a LOT of years. You'll still want to do a proxy on that 2nd PC though. Just a straight bridge/router will be too open for Win98 to survive unscathed.

[topaz patrol]

Heck, you can do VoIP dial up if you really hate yourself!

DoVoIP

[stable mesa]

i have ubuntu installed on it ive heard i can use it as a router

https://youtu.be/UV48Ody44qI?si=ELj3-Fqq1uqk4WXs

[clear igloo]

question, why do you want Windows 98 to access the internet?
Browers aren't going to work for the most part due to modern security standards of most sites

There are some XP workarounds but idk if they'll even work on 98

[stable mesa]

experimenting

[stable mesa]

would that work as an emulator?

[stable mesa]

im gonna make a full 90s pc

[opal pagoda]

i am not in that industry yet

[pseudo blade]

You're like 15 years too late dude, welcome to SaaS

[topaz patrol]

Thanks Salesforce!

[ornate jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/super-tr-gif-18865790

Someone said the "s" word. 👀 🤣 (To be fair, they haven't broken Slack... yet.)

[keen urchin]

..... That ship has sailed.

[stable mesa]

RGB fridge

[silent flax]

i feel so sorry for my gigabit switches, got one 16 port one too and it just sits in a box after i did the 2.5Gbe upgrade

[west vortex]

RGB everything

[opal pagoda]

is it managed or unmanaged?

[silent flax]

unmanaged. i know it is not worth much, more like "damn, all these switches/old routers sitting in a box" sad feeling

[shut vessel]

so ofcom says ill get fibre internet in 2026 is there anyway to speed that up?

[stray steppe]

Guys on my computer is it best to use 5ghz or dual band

[lavish hollow]

move to an area that already has fibre or is getting the work done sooner

[shut vessel]

i just moved here lol

[silent flax]

in US you could pay tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars. But most likely you have to live with it for now.

it's kinda hilarious how people do not consider internet options as major deciding factor when buying property. "Ah yes, i will pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a property and i am not going to check if i can get at least 50/5 VDSL there" 😄

[opal pagoda]

why not both

[hearty lily]

Can anyone recommend a indoor camera that does not require a subscription in order to view from a different location

[ebon wasp]

Eh, my country the Netherlands tend to have the luxury of an ISP landscape with some heavy competition. SO unless you are a farmer way outside the built up areas, ISP choice is not a problem

[silent flax]

speed is often an issue tho. At my location, i can have 1000/500 fiber or 1200/100 cable. But for example at mom's place (she lives on outer edge of a 13k city) her fastest choice is just a crappy 15/3 VDSL. For my brother (3k settlement), fastest choice is 65/10 wireless (ironically, one street down and he could have 1000/300 fiber.

[ebon wasp]

Never hard of 15/3 VDSL being the only option in built up area. KPN really didn't upgrade that part of the town in the past 30 years

[silent flax]

unfortunately outside of new apartment complexes in bigger cities the fiber expansion kinda freezed up, as the big ISPs are waiting for electricity companies to allow co-use of their power lines for backbone

[ebon wasp]

Define bigger, KPN, Odidoo and Delta have no problem laying down new fiber in Heerlen and Maastricht

[silent flax]

it's different country in Europe, and she most likely lives on outer edge of VDSL range, plus the DSLAM is probably fully loaded too

i mean i am not talking about Netherlands 🙂

[ebon wasp]

Well I was, because I know that Germany and Belgium have a really bad ISP market going on

[silent flax]

Netherlands is also kinda super easy when it comes to it being flat, vs my country where half of the country is hills and stuff

[ebon wasp]

You do know where Heerlen and Maastricht are located?

[silent flax]

never went to Netherlands, so no, unless you are asking about maps 😄

[ebon wasp]

In that case, they are both located in the hilly part of the Netherlands with actual hills.

[silent flax]

highest point of elevation in netherlands is a bit bellow the elevation of very small hills near where i grew up 🙂

[mossy stump]

Oh I know ALL too well... I just dont want gaming to go completely that way. Because with gaming there won't be a price point to have stand alone once they go all in.

[shut vessel]

council property : (

[opal pagoda]

As always IT is the afterthought
Last multimilion project i was apart of our network team lead had to ask project managers "hey you need any network in there" answer was obviously yes

[silent flax]

when i was buying the apartment, first question was what providers will be available (two fastest in the region were at the time, so OK) and then when we were doing the contract, they literally shown me a floor plan and told me "electric plugs will be here, here and here, RJ45 networking plugs will be here here and here. Do you want any modifications?". And i told them i want an extra set of RJ45 there and there, paid i think 100-150 euros on top of original price", and that was it

[shut vessel]

i couldn’t really choose

anyway what else could i do i’m on DSL at the moment

[opal pagoda]

maybe look at wisp or lte/5g options

[shut vessel]

might consider that

[opal pagoda]

you can also load balance your existing dsl and 2nd isp preaty easily

[shut vessel]

ehhhh

it’s just me and 1 other person

i think 5g in house internet is probably the best option

[opal pagoda]

yea if you are covered by it

[shut vessel]

three says i am

[stable mesa]

would that dial up simulation work and can i remove the switch and one ATA

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo hello. How do I TikTok from the united states?

[clear igloo]

It's back, go tiktok.com 😛

[urban mesa]

hey guys, is anyone familar with ip forwarding/masking in cloudflare?

[topaz patrol]

https://dontasktoask.com

[rotund ocean]

That Cisco Packet Tracer Drawing gives me the flashbacks

[topaz patrol]

If you had just asked your question, your problem probably would’ve already been resolved 😉 :p

[keen urchin]

how does ip masking work

[violet spear]

what am i doing wrong here?
my VM can reach 192.168.19.2
but not 192.168.19.1

[fallow wing]

Hey folks

I'd like a 10G link from ISP router to my router in SFP+, do you think a passive DAC could sustain the bandwidth ?
I googled this a bit, it's hard to find proper answers, some say passive DACs are no good beyond 3m, other beyond 7m, some say it can push 15m just fine

I found passive 10m SFP+ DACs but there aren't any reviews on them and active DACs are frickin expensive...

[dusk gulch]

can anyone dm me from this section?

[clear igloo]

Have you checked into FS.com?
https://www.fs.com/products/36679.html
I've used SFP+ passive DACs before up to 10m no issues though

[fallow wing]

That's an AOC, I need a DAC because there's a patch of carpet I must go under, fiber would break after some foot trafic, copper wouldn't

And FS' active DAC are stupid expensive

180+€
Cheapest I found active DACs going for, 100+€ and it was out of stock

[clear igloo]

Yah, I've run 10m passive before no issues

[fallow wing]

For SFP+ ? I can run 2.5G RJ45 just fine, but it's the first time I try to interconnect something in SFP+ that's not on my rack
The few guides I could find were recommending passive DACs up to 7m, some not even considering them beyond 3m, saying it's be needed to switch to active DACs instead
Super weird since 10m passive are fairly available at different brands so...

[clear igloo]

Yah, SFP+ 10g I've done 10m
I see some 15m ones but I'd stay away from them but up to 10m I've never had issues

[fallow wing]

Thanks mate, appreciate the feedback

[opal pagoda]

nowadays it might be cheaper to just run transcievers and om3 patch cable instead of dac

[fallow wing]

what's om3

cheaper than 40€ ?

[opal pagoda]

just a multimode fiber patch cable

[fallow wing]

can't do fiber

I have to pull the cable under a patch of carpet through a corridor

fiber would break

[opal pagoda]

transcievers are like 6$ a pop

[fallow wing]

it's not really a matter of cost right now

I know transceivers are cheap

[fallow wing]

this is why I need copper

[opal pagoda]

you can get armored fiber patch cables

like this

or cheaper on aliexpress

[opal pagoda]

you know that you can also damage DAC cables if you walk on them?

[fallow wing]

I've lived with a cat6 cable under carpet for the past 5 years, rolled over it with heavy stuff, accidentally placed furniture on it for months, I recently changed it because I needed an extra 2-3m, if there's wear, you literally cannot see it with naked eye

and fiber IS much more fragile than copper

[opal pagoda]

You should install something like this even if you will use DAC

[fallow wing]

those things are hella thick geez

[opal pagoda]

1st one is only 5mm

13mm height

[fallow wing]

I mean, still, just the RJ45 cable I had already was rather noticeable and it's only 6-7mm

[opal pagoda]

wider it is less you will notice

[fallow wing]

that's true

well

we'll see

I'd need to get the cable first, test is to see how it does
then one of these floor sleeve things to test

[opal pagoda]

if you have a 3d printer i bet you could 3d print something low profile

[rocky badge]

Fiber isn’t as fragile as you think in a good jacket lol

We’ve had fiber ran over by vehicles, sucked up into a street cleaner, and of course walked on all the time and it’s been fine

Buy something decent and you won’t have issues

$18 for 10m

$27 a pop for transceivers

And you’re good 👍

If it breaks it was only a $18 cable

“Single Armored, Stainless Steel Tube”

[violet needle]

[stone mist]

I don't really know anything about networking but does anyone know if the Poco F6 can support the 160mhz channel width on 5ghz and wifi 6?

[fallow wing]

LR transceivers ?? I need 10m not 10km lmao
10m passive DAC is still cheaper, plus, both routers run fairly hot, if I can avoid using a transceiver and increase the temps of the NICs then it's even better

[fallow wing]

isn't channel width dependent on the wifi standard ?

[opal pagoda]

Lr are for single mode fiber, SR are for multimode fiber

Sr are much cheaper

[fallow wing]

regardless, Lurick said 10m passive DACs work just fine, it's the cheapest and most practical solution, fiber still costs more and draws more power
if copper doesn't cut it then I'll get fiber on ebay or something

[slate berry]

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

[lunar spade]

A few months ago, my IP address was 123.045.067.080, and now it is 123.045.067.111. Is it normal for rolling IP addresses to be very close to each other? or is it just coincidence that the first 3 bytes are the same

[opal pagoda]

isp has bought that ip address space

they can use whatever inside of it

[hallow tusk]

Your ISP has that /12, any they might just allocate subnets off of that larger block to physical regions for sake of internal routing.

[fallow wing]

question

does any of you know of an SFP+ to M.2 NIC ?

[amber urchin]

You could probably get a normal SFP+ network card and use an M.2 to PCIE adapter, but putting SFP+ on an M.2 doesn't make sense since SFP+ is an external connector and M.2 is an internal connector.

[fallow wing]

https://amzn.eu/d/gYYMVes
https://amzn.eu/d/cdvs4h1

I tried to find the above

but with... better reviews...

'-_-

I mean, I guess I can get it, try it out and if no good, send it back...

https://amzn.eu/d/0WilEWZ

there's this one that apparently has a lot of good reviews

but
US price : 45$
France : 220€

that's rather suboptimal.

[amber urchin]

Why do you want it on a M.2?

[stoic obsidian]

Does anyone know can I buy a modem/router that takes the ONT connection directly

Because this thing is actually trash

[peak cloak]

what's wrong with it

also it depends, if it's gpon, probobly not unless ISP sells and/or supports an SFP module

ah says gpon right on the box, so prob not. If you say what ISP it is that could help

[peak cloak]

complain to ISP, thats not typical

[stoic obsidian]

Isp said its my AX6000's fault, I went ahead and connected the ONT to the PC directly with no middleman still got same results, isp said, it's still TP links fault

Whole chat transcript was kind of funny

[peak cloak]

could be something upstream

someone other than just basic support will need to toubleshoot

[stoic obsidian]

They won't allow it, because I'm not using their router, they place it on the router then end the chat, or call has happened now twice tonight, I am tempted to switch ISP's because they are actually awful

[peak cloak]

need to get to someone who actually knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[stoic obsidian]

That's why I'm here

[peak cloak]

no one here has access to ISP systems

[violet needle]

[topaz patrol]

Either keep contacting them, or vote with your wallet 🙂

[stoic obsidian]

Unfortunately, my options are them or starlink, monopoly over here, I just reached out to TP-Link to confirm it's NOT my router, we were able to verify this

It's $94 a month now, it was supposed to be $65, wasn't even a full year they bumped it up to $84, now they just bumped up to $94, for Just Internet, since I'm paying what I used to pay Comcast for cable and Internet, I feel like I should have very minimal issues with my connection

[fallow wing]

Yet another reason for me to be glad to not live in 'murica

[fallow wing]

Holy shit, man, that's brutal

Geez

[stoic obsidian]

I can switch to breezeline but when I started remodeling the first thing I did was nuke all of my coax lines so I would have to reinstall those if I wanted to go back to a cable based Internet

[fallow wing]

Can't you get a media conversation interface ?

Coax to something else ?

[stoic obsidian]

Probably, but I removed coax entirely

I don't even have the right lines running to the house, the previous owner was a dish guy so they would have to run from the pole to the house, then I would have to run at least 1 somewhere dry inside (I'm assuming)

I wonder if I could just buy my own ONT, if it would still work? Or if they ISP has to do some kind of activation on it, I'm not familiar how they work, didn't exist when I was in school

[ornate jungle]

Depends on the type of Fiber delivery method and the ISP. (And how good their encryption / authentication methods are, but you didn't hear that from me. 😉 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWO_4p4UP0

[stoic obsidian]

Gotcha gotcha, it's the standard green pon connector, it looks like I can get the ONT pretty cheap. $40-ish, I am not paying a rental fee for it, they wanted to charge me $19 a month for the router, which was some $60 3rd party no name one, I told them id gladly pay the rental fee if they could guarantee I would get the Nokia one they offer, they told me that's not possible to guarantee specific equipment

So I ordered my AX6000 and told them to pound salt with their garbage

[topaz patrol]

That green connector is an SC-A connector. Unless they specifically support BYO ONT they won’t entertain someone messing around with their ONT.

Depending on where you are it may also be unlawful to modify/tamper with their network (which ends at the Ethernet port on the ONT)

[stoic obsidian]

I do not believe in my area that is an issue, but I see what you're saying, I would also have some leverage with their placement of the ONT if it were to be disconnected and moved, which I've done because they had it originally run under a closet door to the middle of my office

Very ignorant placement, I'm going to just call them tomorrow and tell them to come out and diagnose it

[topaz patrol]

I believe basically everywhere it is an issue

Because you were messing with somebody else’s property, it’s common sense

[stoic obsidian]

Every time I open my closet it would of crushed the fiber cable. They had it run, through my floor from my basement, into a closet, then he ran the cable under the door, to the center of my office

Any time I open my closet door, it would have crushed the fiber line

Regardless that was a year and half ago, obviously it wasn't an issue

[thick minnow]

I have a problem with access points that lose internet connectivity after some time. To restore the connection, I have to unplug and reconnect the cables. The network path is as follows: main router (maniac) > switch > additional router (silownia) > switch > AP (SSID:Maniac), AP (SSID:Silownia). The access points are configured via DHCP
However, when I connect my laptop directly to the second switch, the internet works continuously without any issues.

[quaint siren]

hm, so I can change the cellular bands from my ISP router and choose what cell tower it'll take stuff from.
I made it so it would only what I assume are 5G frequencies but router switched to LTE-A mode...
For example I have band LTE_B3 and NR_N3 selected, one of them I believe is regular 4G band and other is 5G. but it's grabbing only 4G it seems like due to router going into LTE-A mode.. unless I'm misunderstanding something - what would cause this?

I did only see speed getting higher from the usual 50-70Mbps to 100+ Mbps but upload speed fell from 30Mbps to 15Mbps

[fleet field]

My room is directly above my router and the WiFi in there is horrible . Anyone know why is so bad when it’s not even that far it’s just straight up from router?

[peak cloak]

What's your building made of

Thick walls and rebar can make signal bad

[fleet field]

Idk drywall

[opal pagoda]

you you have in floor radiant heating?

[random siren]

floor aint made of drywall

[fleet field]

No

Wood

[tribal cape]

I am wanting to move from a combo wifi-router to independent hardware. A router, 16-port switch, and power on lan access point. The only thing I am having problems sourcing is an indepent router. Are there any options out there? This is just a basic home network. TVs, Game Consoles, a couple laptops, a couple desktops and a media nas.

[fleet field]

Do Wi-Fi extenders work?

[clear igloo]

They can only repeat the signal as good as what they can get
ie: they can only take a crap/slow signal and repeat it
I would avoid them tbh

[fleet field]

So if I put one in my room it wouldn’t increase the Wi-Fi?

[clear igloo]

Most likely not, if the signal is already bad there

A mesh setup with a dedicated backhaul would be better

[silent flax]

i would just get an N100 based computer with dual 2.5 gigabit NIC and install router OS of your choice

[thin hedge]

How do I utilize Multicast DNS (*.local)

[autumn ether]

confirmed everything is 👌🏻

[rocky badge]

Eh, not by much lol

10m of SMF from fs.com is $18 vs $26
SMF optic from fs.com is $27 vs $20

[opal pagoda]

on aliexpress cisco SR transcievers that fell of a truck are 6$ a pop

[rocky badge]

ok compare new to new lol

and not "fell off a truck"

[opal pagoda]

does it even matter?
i have not seen single transciever that has failed

[rocky badge]

Its nice buying real shit that isn't taking a chance if it works and is backed by support and some sort of customer service ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[opal pagoda]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

i have to buy from cisco anyway but for home i wouldnt hesitate to get ones on the gray market

opton (crd.pl brand i belive) is also really cheap

and that comes with a warranty

hell even BiDi is cheap there

[little tendon]

Which nic is that

[violet needle]

hi

[fallow wing]

I'd love to do that myself but unfortunately for me, the ONT of my ISP is baked into the custom design router they give us
there's actually a small community of people who are trying to jailbreak that router and flash the authentication into an SFP+ module but so far, to no avail

although, I'm not gonna lie, France's ISPs' custom design routers are (couple exceptions aside that I know for a fact are utter dogshit) remarkably well equipped

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Custom design?

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the only reason I'd have for trying to get the auth info into an XPON module would be because the router that comes with my plan doesn't have a LAN SFP+

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google literally any french ISP and check out the box that comes with the plans they offer and tell me which brand they are

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Tell me a french ISP that has a custom ONT

Google doesn't particularly like showing results in other languages

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two, maybe three

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O2?

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?

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And 3 are both UK companies

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never heard of tha- wait that's german, isn't it ?

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?

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Those are both ISPs in the UK