networking

[crystal shale]

192.168.178.0 to 192.168.188.0

but disallow the other way

aka WAN ping to LAN

(Home to VM)

if you want to see anything else just let me know

imma turn on loggin on everything for now

btw my live view seems to be constantly blocking bogon networks via IPv6 from Home/WAN

on port 5353 udp

[opal pagoda]

does it say which rule is denying traffic?

[crystal shale]

label Block bogon IPv6 networks from Home

clicking rule ID

[opal pagoda]

this one

[crystal shale]

it redirects to interfaces -> block bogon networks

which is on

[opal pagoda]

now either create a new rule above it allowing protocols you want or delete/move the rule

[crystal shale]

well.. i dont even want ipv6 support internally tbh

well..

perhaps i should put ipv6 configuration type to none then

welp i killed ipv6

opnsense reboot time

btw, should i enable promisicous mode? whatever that is

[worn gate]

I have a question for ya'll, any sources you would recommend for learning how to configure BGP besides for just doing it

[opal pagoda]

i bet now it will be blocked by bogon ipv4 networks from home

[crystal shale]

ill see

[opal pagoda]

as by default ipv6 is always preffered on windows/linux/otheros

[crystal shale]

sure, fine by me

im.. still getting ipv6 bogon..

[opal pagoda]

create a rule above it allowing your specific use

[crystal shale]

i cant create rules above the automatically generated ones

thats the issue im facing..

(been at this for 3 days, im slowly going crazy)

[opal pagoda]

opnsense UI seems really obtuse
fortimanager UI for comparison

[crystal shale]

looks from a quick view the same to me

does it support wireguard? is it foss-?

(no wireguard is fine, i can just jam a vm that does wireguard)

[opal pagoda]

foss
nope lmao

[crystal shale]

does this mean it is foss and no WG, or that it isnt foss-? ^^"

[opal pagoda]

it isnt foss

[crystal shale]

ah..

[opal pagoda]

in fact quite oposite

[crystal shale]

yeah thats kinda a dealbreaker.. especially if its paid

[opal pagoda]

eacs
expensive and closed source

[crystal shale]

@opal pagoda

do you get smart out of this?

Pinging 192.168.188.10 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.188.10:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Users\TheCustomFHD>```

like..

[opal pagoda]

did you somehow block ICMP on the VM side?

aka on windows firewall

[crystal shale]

no, its allowed

and firewall is off atm on windows

[crystal shale]

for this, pingin from vm to home, it obviously blocks

but pinging from home to vm doesnt block, but ping times out

[opal pagoda]

maybe it doesent properly track sessions so you need another rule allowing icmp from vm to home

i usualy have allow icmp any any

and dont deny it

[crystal shale]

id like to avoid ping to anywhere where its not supposed to look into

but i suppose icmp cant be a security issue

[opal pagoda]

then just allow source 192.168.188.10, destination 192.168.178.20, service icmp

[crystal shale]

currently doing any to see ifg it even works

as rn nothing is exposed so., no issues

vm now can ping home

but home couldnt vm

but adding the rule there too

nothing.

didnt help

imma delete the rules again

[crystal shale]

found two more ipv6 related settings, turned em off

[crystal shale]

welp i justz added another network interface, pointed it to the fritzbox network aswell

and have the vm network on the OPT1 for now

lets see if thast less resstrictivealso imma turn off nat i think

[opal pagoda]

what tf do you need NAT for?
thats what fritzbox does for you

[crystal shale]

i dont know, its on by default

all i want is my vm's in my proxmox host to be routed through the opnsense so that the fritzbox only sees one address at the end

and then some firewall rules so the vms can go into the internet

my homenet can get into the vmnet

but the vmnet cant into my homenet

at this point it dont gotta be opnsense but like

it should be foss and have a webgui

..

openwrt??

Could be of interest but idk

Install seems cumbersome

[mystic latch]

What's the recommended home VPN service these days? WG easy?

[peak cloak]

I've been using tailscale

[devout cairn]

Thinking about starting a small home lab and I'm currently looking at switches. Specifically just basic TP-link gigabit switches. Is there any downside to getting larger size switches, like 5 port vs 8 port?

[twin pier]

downside? no, unless you need it to be small, or if the cost is a significant difference

5 port is too small to be particularly worth it so yeah i would say 8 port

[devout cairn]

Alright cool. The 8 port is like $ 3 more so I'll get that.

Not familiar with networking equipment. I wasn't sure if it would perform different or something

[paper valve]

You may want something that supports 802.1q for future use

[twin pier]

yeah that, if you can forsee yourself ever wanting to mess with with networking

[topaz patrol]

If you really want fun, look for 802.1ad support :p

[twin pier]

idk that one

[topaz patrol]

QinQ

[twin pier]

i wonder if i have it'

[topaz patrol]

Highly unlikely

[devout cairn]

Looks like the tp link "smart" managed switches support 802.1q

Not sure what that is but i could spend a few extra dollars if it will benefit me

[topaz patrol]

Support for VLANs

[devout cairn]

Actually this one might still be unmanaged, but it supports it.

Ah

[topaz patrol]

TP-Link Easy Smart switches are "kinda managed"

[devout cairn]

Probably good enough for me for now

[fervent brook]

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/collaboration-endpoints/unified-ip-phone-7900-series/212061-How-To-Make-A-Cisco-IP-Phone-Console-Cab.html

[topaz patrol]

Lol why do they have a console port

[fervent brook]

For managing settings

[topaz patrol]

Auto prov or web gui

If you're using Cisco phones you're going to have more than one, so auto prov

[fervent brook]

I can't say something nice, so i won't

[clear igloo]

why don't you have a console port?

[topaz patrol]

Go ahead

[clear igloo]

CUCM and Java 😛

[topaz patrol]

It's 2025 and IP phones are disposable, having a console port is stupid :)

[fervent brook]

I love by myself and don't have a pbx. I don't even know what I'm gonna do with it

[topaz patrol]

IP phone without PBX

Host the config file on github pages for all I care :p

[fervent brook]

If i have a fast ethernet hub, and i connect gb lines to it... Is there anything stopping it from still being gb?

[clear igloo]

ASIC and SerDes lanes

[fervent brook]

What if...we made a gb hub?

[clear igloo]

I mean in theory it was possible but never happened because switches are better

kind of like how gigabit technically includes half duplex support but in reality doesn't

[fervent brook]

What if we just spliced some gb cables together manually?

Or...gb coaxial...

Half duplex fiber...
Im sorry

[clear igloo]

I mean simplex fiber is a thing 😛

[fickle lily]

what will be the cheapest mikrotik router that will have gigabit and have arm instead of smips

[fervent brook]

I get the feeling it's used in pairs

[opal pagoda]

same reason cisco ap has them

[clear igloo]

It's not, generally used in GPON with different TX and RX wavelenghts

[fervent brook]

So, like wavelengths that would never harmonise?

[clear igloo]

something like that, yah

[fervent brook]

like binary...im not sure how to explain it

[clear igloo]

1490nm for downstream and 1310 for upstream transmit

[fervent brook]

300 is red...or ir...i think iirc. I'm not a colorologist

700 is red...i was pretty close

looks like 1300 is non-thermal IR

[clear igloo]

yah, different types of IR light and I guess they don't collide due to different frequencies

I've never looked too much into the technical details

[fervent brook]

I was gonna say "do you know the chances of photons actually colliding?". and then I realised light traveling through fibre will probably ways collide if it's the same wavelength. I have no idea

[opal pagoda]

Tldr light is wierd

Take a look at dwdm lmao

[shadow tinsel]

would it be smart to bond/teaming my 4 port nic card for my gaming server machine? recently ran into a issue of it deciding to use a different port after a system update and restart

[trail cosmos]

Does anyone know how to make a single one-off DNS request via terminal to an IP running a DNS server?
I want to see if a DNS server is actually valid without connecting to it machine wide.

[twin pier]

try dig

you may need to figure out what package it is under in your distro

[trail cosmos]

Thanks

Been Googling for a long time but all I keep getting is irrelevent answers.

[tight pecan]

nslookup also supports using a specific dns server iirc

[twin pier]

I didn't even realize that

[analog ice]

https://a.co/d/f42TYFh Just ordered these with the intention of replacing my ISP provided solution. Any comments or concerns? Ultimately I’m gonna set them up and do my own testing, but is there anything I need to know?

[opal pagoda]

Are you planing on connecting them together with a ethernet cable or mesh?

[analog ice]

WiFi mesh. Connecting them via Ethernet kinda defeats the purpose of a mesh system no? lol.

If I could wire them I’d just get standard APs

[lone crane]

why cant it just come back in stock

[opal pagoda]

No, benafit of a managed ap's with 802.11r support is still there and they are even better as radios can be fully utilised for client to ap communication

[novel gust]

Hey, we are moving to a quite large house to the point where we need quite a few mesh wifi/access points. Which ones would you recommend? I have found these but are there any more good ones?

https://amzn.eu/d/gSaNGyN

https://amzn.eu/d/j6Yf2LZ

https://amzn.eu/d/7eLNanE

[peak cloak]

can you run ethernet to wired APs?

[novel gust]

Technically yes but it’s an old house but the wiring was recently updated so there are some rj45 jacks around the house but only 6 and they are all kinda in the same place, two upstairs in bedrooms, two in living room and one in sitting room. So not rlly no

[fervent brook]

Comment: They look like speakers

[topaz patrol]

TP-Link sells models that literally are speakers

[lean palm]

if you are moving in to a large house i would consider somthing like the TP Link OMADA system instead

[topaz patrol]

ER7212-PC and a couple APs would make for a great setup

[analog ice]

Thanks for the comment

[fickle lily]

pi hole and vm network are not working together lmao

[peak cloak]

setup issue

[fickle lily]

yea

[lone crane]

dat is not great

[prime summit]

Hey, im looking at swapping old cell phone/coax lines ran in my house to cat cable. I remember before a landline box was on the side of the house, which was removed a few years ago.

I pulled one of the landline ports off of the wall, and this is the wiring.

Does this wiring mean that the landline runs are most likely single connections, and are not daisy chained to the other ones?

[ornate jungle]

Depends on what that jack was wired for previously. If it was wired for analog phone connections, all phone jacks might be wired back to a central location, or they might be wired in series / tied together. You'd have to rip apart your walls to find out, or get the original wiring plans.

If you can find a central spot in the home where a bunch of similar looking cables all come together, it's more likely that each wall jack was wired individually.

[prime summit]

Yeah this is a 100 year old house. However I turned a light on in the basement, and I can see light from the landline port. I’m trying to trace it as we speak

Luckily a tiny section of the basement is drop ceiling so I can get in there

[ornate jungle]

Even if each wall jack is run individually, it's possible that each wire is physically stapled to wall studs inside your walls, which means you won't be able to use the existing wiring to pull new CAT6 cable. 😦 If you're lucky, they used some kind of conduit.

[prime summit]

I have that thought too. A lot of factors play in this. 2nd floor originally was attic, then converted to living space. It was converted within the last 30 years, but somehow a landline port is up there

One observation I made is that all landline ports are on interior walls

[ornate jungle]

It was very common to have phone jacks in the master bedroom and most common living spaces for any homes built in the last 30-50 years.

[prime summit]

This house was built in 1927

[ornate jungle]

Over almost 100 years, it's likely been through a few rennovations. 😉 The phone jacks wouldn't have been installed in 1927.

[prime summit]

You’re right it’s probably been through a lot

[prime summit]

Dual ports on the second floor, interesting

Looks newer

I’ll keep tracing for a while lol

[ornate jungle]

Is this room suitable as an office / den? (Like, could it be used for this purpose?)

If so, it's likely they wired it this way to have 2x phone lines there, or a phone and a fax line (which is really just a 2nd phone line.)

[prime summit]

It’s used as an office now, probably was before. One thing I’ll say is every single room has a landline port, besides the basement.

The one I showed on the 2nd level has a port on the other side for another room, and a separate wire is ran for it, not daisychained

[topaz patrol]

You’re dreaming!

[waxen scroll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4MM3VvgE0U

@clear igloo @rocky badge

[rocky badge]

Wild

[amber urchin]

Sounds like s***y situation

[opal pagoda]

bottom tier subcontractors

[prime summit]

Welp I found the central location. Seems like maybe one wire comes out of this and goes outside to the landline box that used to be there. They are technically individual runs to the wall jacks, they just chain together somewhere else.

However some cables are stapled to a joist, but I would have to find out later if any of the cable is stapled in the walls.

One of the cables said cat3 on it.

[ornate jungle]

Bingo - typical CAT3 based phone jack wiring installation from the 80's or 90's, give or take.

[fleet field]

Is it hard to run Ethernet from 1st story to 2nd?

[prime summit]

Yup, maybe some of it is useable, just takes trial and error. When I say useable I mean to route new cable with the existing cable. Could always do outdoor cabling but I’d rather avoid it

[frosty stone]

Oh god

Burn it

[ornate jungle]

Depends entirely on how a given building was constructed. Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes you're better off bulldozing the home and starting from scratch.

[fleet field]

How do I know which home I have?

[prime summit]

I would have to pay my city money to do that because my house is considered apart of history

Chicago bungalow, but it’s worth a shot messing with old wiring

Also I only checked out the phone lines, I have coax cable ran all over the place in similar spot I found the central point

[pseudo blade]

try to gain access and see who squeals
Try getting stuff done and see if it's a problem or not

[prime summit]

It’s still good just throw some connectors on it, right

[frosty stone]

Burn it.

[prime summit]

Connect it to my modem for dial up

[prime summit]

This stuff is older than me

[frosty stone]

Exactly

Commit insurance fraud and rebuild the house

[prime summit]

Run cat cable outside and back in

I remember seeing an LTT video a while ago with using existing coax, but you need to buy receivers and adapters, seems like a lot

[ornate jungle]

Ask the contractors for your home's original building plans, including wiring diagrams.

[fleet field]

I don’t know the contractors bro it’s my parents house

[peak cloak]

you look, there's no other way

you will probobly need to cut open bits of drywall

[prime summit]

Yeah I don’t get the issue, you have to explore around like I did, if you see the pictures I’ve been sending

[peak cloak]

I had an unfinished basement so that helped

[fleet field]

Will it mess up the wall around it?

[ornate jungle]

Then I would recommend someone hire a professional low voltage electrician to investigate the viability of running in-wall Ethernet cables to various rooms in the home. It's well worth the cost if you're unfamiliar with the home and not comfortable attempting to run the cables yourself without damaging the home.

[fleet field]

My neighbor used to be a woodworker u think he could help and do it? He built a room above his garage and put Ethernet in there.but the room he built and it wasn’t already finished

[ornate jungle]

If you want to DIY, these videos may help.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5XePwAO4m0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN1PTdOak6g
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kss3GBOj9F4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVtOmrULE2w

[fleet field]

Ok

[prime summit]

Is this valid cable run?

[fleet field]

How much faster is Ethernet than WiFi?

[prime summit]

Usually a substantial difference in speed.

Usually whatever internet speed you pay for, you get. Within 100mbps

[fleet field]

What about ping? I like to play games where ping matters and mine spikes a lot and is inconsistent

[prime summit]

More consistent ping

I went from 15-20ms to 1-3ms

[fleet field]

U know why sometimes in Fortnite it will say 0 ping but im actually like really laggy and feels like 100. And then later into the game it will go to 30 and feel normal

[prime summit]

Do a speed test on your phone and post the results here

[fleet field]

Why on my phone?

[ornate jungle]

While I'm not familiar with Fortnite, if any piece of internet connected software claims "0ms" ping, it's likely lying to you or otherwise mis-reading the results. (this is an oversimplification, as there are exceptions to this, but almost all consumer software / games aren't without latency over the internet.)

[prime summit]

I only said as everyone has a phone, you can do it on pc or console if you’d like

[fleet field]

Yeah it feels crazy laggy and idk why but it goes away later in the game but is annoying for the first half

My room which is almost directly above my router gets like 30mb but my brothers room which is farther from the router gets like 200mb

[prime summit]

How much speed do you pay for

[fleet field]

I don’t

[prime summit]

Yeah you would have to ask your parents

[fleet field]

But my brother laptop got like 360 with Ethernet

[prime summit]

If it’s right above you, you could possibly drill a couple holes if the home owners allow

[prime summit]

Welp, not the greatest. Ethernet will still help, but highly recommended upgrading

[fleet field]

Is that bad?

[prime summit]

Well for gaming what really matters is your ping. The speeds you will notice when you download things, browsing online.

Ethernet is still highly recommended

[fleet field]

What do u get?

[prime summit]

Wired or wireless

[fleet field]

Both

[prime summit]

Okay

[prime summit]

^

[fleet field]

How much u pay?

[prime summit]

$75 usd

[fleet field]

Is that a lot for Wi-Fi?

[prime summit]

Fiber 1gb

Seems pretty standard

[twin pier]

pretty standard for large cities

[peak cloak]

also it's not wifi, but internet

two different things

[swift eagle]

Do yall have any insane set ups? And why if so

I can’t find a super good reason to go above 1 gig

[lone crane]

how big is your NAS?

[swift eagle]

I have an external hard drive connected to a laptop mounted as “external”

[lone crane]

yeah you would not get it

[swift eagle]

Tbh I don’t even think it’s a proper nas

But I can access it via Termius and sftp

[lone crane]

is it network attached storage as in does it have SMB or smn?

[swift eagle]

So it works fine lmao for what I need it for

I have no idea

I just do mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/external

0 idea what protocol it is

[lone crane]

i have a NAS with 96GB of ram and 14.5TiB of usable space in a way where i can get some GOOD speeds but im stuck at 1Gb of transfer speeds making large file transfers long and annoying

[swift eagle]

I’m to poor for that

• o want a power efficient system

• my system maxes playing one direct stream lmao so it couldn’t handle proper nas shit

[lone crane]

got this for 380usd (converted from nok) 3 psues, 2 750w tier a and 1 850w tier b, gtx 1080 ti.
i9 7940X 14 cores 28 threads 96GB of ram at 2666MT big boy noctua cooler
i7 6700 32GB ram
i3 6100 16GB
and 54TB of HDDs

the NAS has only 1Gb (for now) but it has 6 4TB HDDs in a raid z1 split between 2 vdevs

a good NAS does not have to cost a lot

[swift eagle]

Like that’s good

But think about power consumption

My shitty laptop mainly for me is 45 watts max

[lone crane]

its like 50w idle i think so like 1$ a week

[swift eagle]

Oh that’s fine

But like in the USA economy, good luck getting anything close to that

[lone crane]

not really

[swift eagle]

Idk I think the most I’d do for my purposes is buy a pi tbh

Maybe a maxed out pi 5

[lone crane]

a basic workstation pc is like 50$ then slap some HDDs in and have a good time

[swift eagle]

Oh?

[lone crane]

and they tend to not idle horribly

[swift eagle]

I’m running a r5 2450u is any thing better than that?

[lone crane]

a lot

[swift eagle]

Mmmm

What specs should I go for for a basic
Nas
Pihole
VPN (rarely)
Jellyfin server for up to 3
Do you think?

[lone crane]

the laptop idle should still be better then a workstation but its possible a modern desktop is more efficent then that laptop

[lone crane]

what budget

[swift eagle]

You decide

Up to 500 I’d say? But I’m tryna be good with money here

Which is why I stated the functions

[lone crane]

OOOOO i have something fun i found

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv_NCI/edit?gid=0

[swift eagle]

Thanks :))

Gtg

Maybe I’ll set up a server on my main pc and if I know I’m having a lot of people over, I can use that and use my laptop as my main server

[paper valve]

Separate nas and tmm host with docker for the rest

[swift eagle]

I’ll probably buy a cheap pi for the pi hole

[lone crane]

a 12100 and ddr4 should be amazing

the 12100 igpu is just fantastic

you can also just get any cpu and throw in a a310

[crystal shale]

I personally went for a Ryzen 7 5700G

But only because its my main server and needed some oompf while being energy efficient

At idle i draw 28W with 4 ssds, under full (synthetic) load i draw ~85W

I have my cpu limited to 25W via PBO and lost barely any performance according to OCCT benchmark

Went with the G, because igpu (acceptable for video reencoding, even if not recommended (its good for h265 so its fine to me)), and monolithic to be more energy efficient with the infinity fabric

[amber urchin]

A pair of 10gig cards and an SFP+ DAC between the two. Or if you're feeling frisky could do 25gig and an SFP28 DAC. Or the 40gig/100gig quad varieties. Tho, do be aware that your disk speed may limit you depending on what your drives are. I have the 25gig myself but my 4 hard drives are not even capable of saturating 10 gig.

[lone crane]

eh its more about a switch for it that is the issue

[amber urchin]

You need multiple machines to connect to it at full speed?

[swift eagle]

Unsteredting

[swift eagle]

How much do u pay for 25 gig

[amber urchin]

30.35 for one card that came with a pair of 10 gig transceivers, 21.20 for another card and 47.93 for a 3m 25gig cable to connect the two cards together.

looks like same cable is $55 currently. https://www.ebay.com/itm/196477903907 and the cards can be had for $25/ea at the moment. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175703607110

But you could also go with any mellanox connectx-4 card and probably also get away with generic SFP28 DACs like from 10gtek

I just didn't want to risk it over a small price difference since the HPE cable was available cheaply enough at the time.

[crystal shale]

Im sorry english aint my native language but.. wdym?

[swift eagle]

What’s the plan cost though

[amber urchin]

What are you talking about? There is no plan.

[swift eagle]

I said understandable, I just also suck at English (even though it’s my main language)

[swift eagle]

The…internet plan?

[amber urchin]

These cards are not for internet. They are for local network.

[swift eagle]

oohhh so it’s 25 gig lan

My only question is why

[opal pagoda]

why?
1g is completly unsuitable for high capacity/high performance nas builds

[amber urchin]

high speed connection to the NAS.

And because I could. I mean I coulda gone 10 gig. It's not like my current drives make use of more - but eventually I will be able to.

[swift eagle]

But like why even have a nas? Why do you need a high performance nas anyway

[opal pagoda]

our netapp is connected with 8x 25g and each server with 6x25g

[amber urchin]

Why do you need a computer at all?

[swift eagle]

Good question

[paper valve]

1gig is 125mbyte/s excluding ip overhead, not enough to saturate a modern hard drive

[swift eagle]

So instead u build ur own home network? Where are u transferring files between

[amber urchin]

In my case, I don't want to have a heap of hard drives in my desktop and it's also nice to be able to access the media from anywhere in the house.

[swift eagle]

That’s fair

[amber urchin]

Plus in general it's fun.

[swift eagle]

True…

Ts don’t even matter for me tbh rn im being limited by cpu

[opal pagoda]

it seems that you wandered into a wrong channel haha

[opal pagoda]

RDMA compleatly bypasses cpu

[swift eagle]

Hmmmm

[analog ice]

Update: the TP-Links beat the shit out of the Eeros I have lol. Numbers are ordered as Download, Upload in mbps.

The only one that was worse was my bedroom, and I think that’s because it’s still grabbing the upstairs AP down the hall, instead of the main AP right below my bedroom. Either way. Thoroughly impressed with the performance of these mesh routers considering they’re nearly half the price of the Eero’s.

I have never actually hit my full half gigabit bandwidth over WiFi before now lol

And I’m really happy about the bump in speed on my desktop pc wired into the second mesh AP. Gained a full 100mbps basically

I’m really happy with the results

[opal pagoda]

try twisting the deco 15-25 degrees and run the test again
your bedroom might be in antenna weak spot

[analog ice]

maybe lol

[crystal shale]

Ahh makes sense.

[crystal shale]

Its funny that the fritzbox wifi is faster than its lan lol (1gig lan vs 1600mbit wifi (about 1400mbit real on a good day)

Also, HUH. I never bothered to calculate the mb/s from a gig ethernet..

So me hitting about 80-100MB/s via cifs is actually crazy good

And considering my storage can seemingly do 8.5GB/s sequentially and ~500MB/s random.. i should be fine for using it as a nas + vm host

No clue how much of those speeds are compression related or cache related, but probably a bit..

I should perhaps switch to zstd then, huh..

Although fast read with low cpu is nice and lz4 is good enough

[silent flax]

i also hate seeing people have their routers on low ground

[silent flax]

the wifi isn't really that fast. Most state their shared bandwidth, plus that is a physical link speed, where you can't reach that speed on full duplex unlike ethernet.

[crystal shale]

Well sure, not up and down at the same time- but running iperf3 i got higher speeds via wifi than lan

Though, we are in a fairly remote area, so not much noise around us

[crystal shale]

Not by much and not worth the extra risk, but yeah, like 8MB/s faster

Sometimes more

[queen kraken]

Anyone know of a cheap and easy to use nas

[peak cloak]

You can get cheap, you can get easy to use but not generally together

Depends on your skill set tbh

I got a Synology because it's really simple to use for my parents

For cheap you can get a linux box and setup zfs with smb for file sharing

truenas also works

[opal pagoda]

If multiple vm’s storage will be hosted IOPS is very important and one metric that cheap ssds fail at

[crystal shale]

They seem to hold up perfectly fine so far with zfs

[opal pagoda]

is it a ssd array, hdd array or some sort of hybrid

[crystal shale]

Ssd's only, wild mix of drives, Perhaps cuz im running raid5/z1 im getting speed bonuses in random, and the vms aint starved of ram, and most will be lxc so using the host FS, no FS virtualization.. i should move my vms to virtio-blk but i haven't cuz of ssd emulation + trim.. (yes virtio-blk can do trim, but idk if itll show as a ssd, so that software with a ssd mode will treat them correctly)

Went with different ssds cuz yeah, eliminating the chance of a bad batch

And zfs dont care

[swift eagle]

I had set up port forwarding to my Jellyfin server and it worked last night. It doesn’t work now

Any ideas why it doesn’t work now? Is it because I need to stay within range of my router even if not directly connected to internet?

[lone crane]

lets start from the base, what does your setup look like

there is zero need for port forwading if its only on LAN as it should tbh be

if you wanna access it away from lan just setup tail scale

[thin hedge]

yess

[swift eagle]

It’s a laptop connected to a router

I should clarify: the server still works it’s just port forwarding that doesn’t

[lone crane]

why are you port forwading

[swift eagle]

So I can watch my anime anywhere

legal anime

[copper cedar]

Hey guys! Im looking at upgrading my WiFi setup at home and need some advice on what to buy. I made a Whirlpool thread with details so I can ask my fellow aussies, but feel free to respond here :) https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/974pkr0z

Really hoping someone can help

[fickle lily]

thus this mean my device dns ?

[prime summit]

@ornate jungle sorry to bother but quick update
I picked up a tone generator and confirmed the ports are wired together, and I found the cable that went outside to the landline box.

Probably next step is to separate the wires and actually label each room. a lot of the wires are triggering the noise, hence because they are chained together haha

Then i have to figure out if stapes are in the wall

[opal pagoda]

I would just stick to tailscale and avoid whole port forwarding and ddns fiasco

[patent elm]

Hello everyone, before I start is this the correct channel to ask about my wifi problems?

[ornate jungle]

Oh nice! This is more than most people do when trying to figure out house wiring so great job!

[silent flax]

luckily all i needed to figure out is ethernet, so i just hooked one end of etherent testers on one end and then ran around the apartment with the other end, and if i seen the blinking lights, boom, found it, labeled it 😄

[stuck grove]

yes

[keen urchin]

When I connected to my wireguard VPN from work, I get 4ms ping to home.

Which is ridiculous

[lone crane]

nice

[proud coyote]

DAMN that's fast

[compact maple]

how do i setup a synology nas to my wifi router

do i just put in the ethernet in the back of the router

or do i need a switch i know nothing about nas

my synology is model 220J, my router is an Asus AX3000

[proud coyote]

If there is a free port on the router, you can use it. It will not be ideal in terms of speed, but it will work.

[compact maple]

ok thanks

[lone crane]

you just plug a cable from the router to the NAS

then in the internet inteface or on the NAS/ a screen next to it find the ip that you then type into your browser

[compact maple]

thanks

[swift eagle]

Are they not the same

Isn’t tailfin just more robust

[peak cloak]

Why not?

[proud coyote]

Well most routers are not very good as a switch

[peak cloak]

A switch is pretty basic, basically all consumer routers have a switch chip in them.

Adding an external switch just to connect a NAS if anything technically adds more latency due to being another connection

[light rover]

i need some help accessing my jellyfin servver outside my home network

im not paying for anything

so dont tell me to go buy a vpn

[opal pagoda]

tailscale
install it on a server and devices on which you would like to view it outside the home

it is free for stuff you need

[crisp thorn]

if I'm behind CGNAT is it possible to use a VPS with a public ip for port forwarding WHILE KEEPING the remote client source ip without proxy protocol?

[opal pagoda]

https://xyproblem.info/
just tell us what the original problem is

[crisp thorn]

that is the original problem, skill issue I guess

[light rover]

I also need it to be foolproof and easy for non techsavvy ppl to use

Its for my fam

[topaz patrol]

Netflix

[opal pagoda]

Possible Underlying Goals (X) vs. Stated Question (Y)
Y (stated question): Can I forward traffic through a VPS while preserving the source IP without using the PROXY protocol?
X (possible actual problem you're trying to solve):
You’re behind CGNAT and want external access to a local service.
You need the original client’s IP to be visible at the destination (e.g., for logging, geo-restrictions, rate limiting, etc.).
You might be trying to avoid the PROXY protocol due to software limitations.
Better Ways to Approach the Problem
If you just need remote access behind CGNAT:

A reverse SSH tunnel or VPN (WireGuard, Tailscale) can expose your service.
These methods usually replace the client IP, but that might not be an issue depending on your use case.
If you specifically need the original client IP preserved:

A tunnel-based approach (GRE/IPIP/WireGuard with routing) is required.
A SOCKS5 or reverse proxy setup on the VPS that supports X-Forwarded-For could work depending on the application.
If you're avoiding PROXY protocol due to software limitations:

Some applications support reading the X-Forwarded-For or True-Client-IP headers, which may be a workaround.

a ai answer to low effort question

[crisp thorn]

its not a low effort question, you just dont have the proper skills to understand it.

[peak cloak]

It's the solution you are trying (VPS), not the context of the problem

[crisp thorn]

what

[peak cloak]

Just say what the context is that you need remote clients source IP to be the same

[crisp thorn]

just because I need it?

[peak cloak]

That's what everyone is asking

[crisp thorn]

that doesnt matter

[peak cloak]

...

[opal pagoda]

aw yep

[crisp thorn]

you are dumb dudes

you are asking for completely useless info that shouldnt interest you, its not even related to my problem.

[light rover]

No

Why would I be asking this if I could afford netflix

[topaz patrol]

You said foolproof and easy to use

[light rover]

Ok

[white prairie]

so i have xfinity for my internet, and my plan says at least 35 mbps upload, yet i get anywhere from .5-2 mbps, and have to restart my router to fix it, this happens often, what do i do

[topaz patrol]

Contact xfinity

[opal pagoda]

call the isp

[white prairie]

they tried adding "advanced security" to fix it

[opal pagoda]

yea that wont help

[topaz patrol]

lol

[white prairie]

what do i even do

[opal pagoda]

if they cant help only option is to switch to another isp

[white prairie]

could it be bc i have their router

or "gateway"

[opal pagoda]

is it coax, dsl or fiber?

[eager bison]

what's the best decently priced wifi mesh system?

[swift eagle]

What’s the point of Ethernet switches if usb c is faster

Isn’t thunder bolt like 20 gigs

And 10 gig usb c ports are common now a days ish

[topaz patrol]

There are many reasons

Most notably distance would be very limited

[swift eagle]

Ah

[topaz patrol]

And also whether you mean replacing Ethernet with USB or just using Type C connectors for Ethernet

[swift eagle]

Replacing Ethernet for home practices

Home practices is a key word here

[topaz patrol]

As in Ethernet, the protocol, or “Ethernet” referring to twisted pair cable with 8p8c connectors

[swift eagle]

The cable

[peak cloak]

Ethernet cableing is much versitle and also has been used for networking for over a decade

[swift eagle]

And like a usb c switch rather than Ethernet I guess

[peak cloak]

can't imagine field terminating usb c

[topaz patrol]

Distance, backwards compatibility, repairability

[peak cloak]

ethernet is much more practical

[swift eagle]

True I just feel like for home uses, at this point, usb c networking is viable maybe

[peak cloak]

no, not at all

[swift eagle]

Cause also now a days more mobos come with 10 gig ports

[peak cloak]

then use a usbc NIC

[swift eagle]

So u don’t need to shell out an arm and leg for a network card

[topaz patrol]

You would still need to if you wanted to use the Ethernet protocol

[swift eagle]

I spent like 15 bucks on a 1gb one for a laptop to be a server just to end up buying a dedicated server pc lmao

Also does ether net stack

[peak cloak]

usb C standard wouldn't work with networking

it's meant for P2P

[swift eagle]

Like if I slap the nic and a reg Ethernet cord into my build do I get 2 gb networking

[peak cloak]

no

[swift eagle]

Mmm

[swift eagle]

Why not

[peak cloak]

not on a single connection

if you have two gig downloads, sure

but not 1 2 gig download

[swift eagle]

Can’t I just split the download into 2 1 gig

Or for Like a nas, it’d make sense since more devices would be uploading at once no?

[topaz patrol]

Yeah you’ll just need some sharp scissors 😉

[swift eagle]

Ok but like if I have a request of 8 videos that are 8 gigs each, I’d just split them up no? And it’d effectively download at 2 gigs a sec

[topaz patrol]

Not all “gigs” are equal 😉

[swift eagle]

Gigabit

[topaz patrol]

https://www.ncta.com/whats-new/why-do-we-use-bits-measure-internet-speed-but-bytes-measure-data

[swift eagle]

Lord knows I can’t afford gigabyte internet bruh

I wouldn’t be trying to diy 2 gig download speed if I could afford gigabyte internet

[peak cloak]

I can get 8gig if I wanted to

but it's like 250 a month

[peak cloak]

you can't, bandwidth is like a pipe size

[swift eagle]

We’re adding a pipe not increasing it

[peak cloak]

if you get 500mb/s service, you can't get more to the internet

[swift eagle]

So we can do two seperate downloads at max speed now

[peak cloak]

you can add a pipe, but the pipe to the house is still the same

still restricted there

so adding a second one is useless

[swift eagle]

Wdym my house supports multiple 1 gig outputs

[peak cloak]

no, what's your ISP plan

[swift eagle]

Idk

But it’s not like my whole house gets a total of 1gb

Wait does it?

[peak cloak]

well that's your constrain

[swift eagle]

Does my house get a total of 1gb per second

[peak cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/how-the-fuck-how-the-fuck-im-supposed-to-know-how-would-i-know-gif-24117011

[swift eagle]

Is that common

Either way I was talking more lan

Like if two devices send 2 1 gig per second thingys to my nas, then it’d be able to utilize both at the same time

[peak cloak]

yes, but it gets tricky

since iirc you would need to setup LAGG so the NAS has the same IP for both interfaces

idk how it exactly works, could be wrong

[swift eagle]

Sounds hard

Why do people have network switched into other network switches

Like bro fill up the first switch before buying a second one I don’t understand

[stuck grove]

different locations, or they had filled the first one but now their layout has changed and they just never removed the second switch

[swift eagle]

Like dog fill the first switch

And why are they just going into each other seems odd

[topaz patrol]

?

I think you’re mistaking the patch panel for another switch

[swift eagle]

Oh

That’s wild

[twin pier]

Not to my knowledge. But it might be possible to rewrite the source IP in the packet from vps -> you to be the original IP, not sure if that would have bad consequences

I think you're better off using proxy protocol or similar things (http headers if using http) to encapsulate the source IP in a way that can't cause issues by misusing an existing field

[nimble sable]

Having odd issues with my wifi (Netgear wax630e + pixel 8 pro and Acer 714 Chromebook).

If I have an ssid set to wpa3 using both 5ghz and 6ghz. But, regardless of 802.11k/v being enabled both devices jump to 5ghz even in very close proximity to ap. I live in an apt with tons of commercial property around me, 5ghz channels are very full, literally no one anywhere around me broadcasts anything 6ghz at all. There should be absolutely no reason to prefer 5ghz anywhere in my apt, even considering 5ghz is only 80mhz wide. I have only one AP and the differences aren't much. I even tried a "wpa2/wpa2" setting even though I'm not sure how that works, with the same effect

At first I tried one ssid for 6ghz and one for 5ghz (no 802.11kv etc obviously ) but unless I "forget" the 5ghz ssid on either of those devices it'll switch to 5ghz at some point during the day for no reason

The only thing I can think of is, the AP has 4 5ghz antenna but only 2 6ghz ones. Would that cause 5ghz to recv inordinate preference?

Basically, unless I have an ssid that's only 6ghz and do not tell my phone about any other ssid, the phone will never connect to 6ghz wifi

[topaz patrol]

This is the easy solution

[nimble sable]

Yes pretty much. It was tougher before but I have nothing that can't do 6ghz except iot stuff so might as well. I just would like to know why

[topaz patrol]

If it's just IoT that needs 2.4ghz and wpa2, you may as well put it on a segmented VLAN

Two birds with one stone ¯_(ツ)_/¯

All this fancy 6ghz.
Back in my day, all we had was 802.11ac

[opal pagoda]

1u is patch panel
Secondly one could be higher than gigabit switch (2.5g,10g) and other just regular 1g, you put devices that supooet multi gig on better switch and low bandwidth devices on 1g switch

[topaz patrol]

The middle switch is PoE

I'd say that's the reason

[opal pagoda]

Or that, another great use

[nimble sable]

Yeap that's what I did. But until last month I had a mix of 5 and 6ghz devices on main vlan

[nimble sable]

Lol. I hear they have a wifi7 now too

[topaz patrol]

It’s likely just devices picking 5ghz as they think it’s better

[topaz patrol]

[topaz patrol]

They likely are seeing that 5ghz has a stronger signal, and moving to that

[opal pagoda]

Could be that devices dont have hardware for 6ghz

[nimble sable]

Fr though, I have issues with the name. I think 6e should've been called pre7. Because the introduction of 6ghz even though is not a big standard change, is the biggest difference maker for regular usage

[topaz patrol]

They said all devices have 6ghz

[topaz patrol]

6e should’ve been 7

[nimble sable]

No I can connect to 6ghz if I force it, but basically every night I have to force it it's odd

[topaz patrol]

7 should’ve been called 8

Stupid marketing people

[nimble sable]

Yes. Cuz now u get "wifi 7 (no 6ghz)" which is...lol

[nimble sable]

Yeap that's all I got so far, no idea why. I'm guessing it's a Google thing cuz my MacBook doesn't do that

[topaz patrol]

Wifi 7 is still a clusterfuck

[nimble sable]

Really? Like too early days?

[topaz patrol]

Yes

[nimble sable]

I hate apple as much as the next person but what I will say is, once apple puts something on their devices that's when you know it's good to go.

[topaz patrol]

Not everyone implements things as well as apple

[nimble sable]

Are there like non standard stuff? Like wifi in general is a cluster. And great, that shd keep me from the temptation of buying a wifi7 AP

[topaz patrol]

Heaps of APs and heaps of devices advertise WiFI 7 but then are missing a bunch of features

Heaps of APs without MLO

[nimble sable]

It was ratified like only earlier this year right?

[topaz patrol]

In the last 12 months or so I think

So I'd say it just needs another 12-24 months

And so much stuff released before it was ratified

[nimble sable]

Lol oh good, now I'm imagining "wifi 7. (No 6ghz, no MLO, limited to 160mhz due to country policy)" I just know that's a thing somewhere

[topaz patrol]

Sounds like something Ubiquiti would do

Except MLO would be "coming soon" and the 6ghz radio would be there, but it was also "coming soon"

[nimble sable]

I found ubiquiti to be better with that than Netgear tbh. I remember ubiquiti letting me choose channel 14

[topaz patrol]

Oh 100% netgear makes my blood boil

[nimble sable]

I unfortunately got a Netgear AP. And now I just hate it so much

[topaz patrol]

It's a learning experience

[nimble sable]

I'll say. I was learning vlans at the time and Netgear just got me so confused. I tried tplink, it wasn't the best but I could figure out what was happening as. Newb

[topaz patrol]

They make a doorbell with a fingerprint reader and advertised it as coming soon, except that "soon" was almost 5 years

[topaz patrol]

What kind of TP-Link?

Omada, Aginet, Archer, Deco

[nimble sable]

Omada. I still like the UI of unifi better though

[topaz patrol]

Ah, were you using the cloud controller, software controller, hardware controller or standalone?

How long ago was that?

[nimble sable]

Cloud for Netgear, the hardware with the cloud thing for tplink when I tried it

I might switch back to tplink if I can sell the one I have

[topaz patrol]

How long ago did you use Omada?

[nimble sable]

Hmm over a year? It was after COVID

[topaz patrol]

They've completely redone the UI now

I think they took a few notes from Ubiquiti

[compact maple]

no dont get tplink

[topaz patrol]

If you do, I'd highly recommend the free Omada OCNA, the first hour or so is basically just a sales pitch, but after that it's actually really helpful https://training.tp-link.com/

[compact maple]

it spys on you

[topaz patrol]

They also give you merch if you pass the (free) exam

[topaz patrol]

So does Discord

[nimble sable]

I'm just waiting to see on the 770 cuz it comes with DC power

[topaz patrol]

One of my co-workers did it in January and got a mug (🤣), tshirt and pens

I only got a tshirt that no longer fits me :(

[swift eagle]

Like money Saving shit

Don’t put the bad devices on the good switch

Also how does one even use that much slots

I guess I could see cameras using a lot of slots, maybe a pc and a printer but like nothing to insane

[opal pagoda]

at work i manage over 10000 ports
so yea this thing isnt even close to my smallest idf

[swift eagle]

How many unique items?

[opal pagoda]

wdym unique?

[swift eagle]

Like 2k pcs is 1 unique item

2k cameras is 1 unique item

[lone crane]

mac addresses?

[swift eagle]

Just cause I want to see if any normal person would be using that

[swift eagle]

No unique items kind of like
“How many different types “

[lone crane]

what

[swift eagle]

I guess

[lone crane]

you mean mac addresses?

[swift eagle]

NO

[lone crane]

then what in the hell are you talking about

[swift eagle]

Different items

[lone crane]

clients

[swift eagle]

If u have 3k pce, 2k camera 1k printer. That’s 5k but only 3 unique items

[lone crane]

omg

just no

[swift eagle]

Because a pc is 1, the cameras is another, and the printers are 1

[lone crane]

pleas

[swift eagle]

I just wanna know what different things u can plug into it man

[lone crane]

it does not see them as different devices all it knows is that it can do ethernet

[lone crane]

anything that can do ethernet

[swift eagle]

But what though

[lone crane]

ANYTHING that can do ethernet

[opal pagoda]

i dont know or care what OT device they plug in

[swift eagle]

Like what specifically does he use them for

Cameras, printers, any

[twin pier]

are you trying to ask how many vlans?

[swift eagle]

just what devices do they have plugged in

[swift eagle]

Really?

That mean my image is going to all computers 😭

[twin pier]

i am a little confused

[lone crane]

i am very

[opal pagoda]

industry secret

[swift eagle]

What kind of devices do u plug into

[lone crane]

what

[swift eagle]

Like printers, machines, why do u need 10k ports

[lone crane]

coffee stop having so much coffee

[swift eagle]

What r u using them for

[lone crane]

pleas

[swift eagle]

Dawg

[twin pier]

probably a lot of computers for a large office

[lone crane]

but then you vlan

[swift eagle]

Also is my wall Ethernet gonna be limited to original speeds or i

[lone crane]

up to the spec

also what original speed

[swift eagle]

Is that it? Do they have camera? Do they have printers?

[opal pagoda]

offices are like 5-10%
most devices are OT

[swift eagle]

That the cord is

[lone crane]

what???

[swift eagle]

Or r they always top of the line like cat 8 for most upgradability

[lone crane]

life is pain

[twin pier]

cat 8 is bloat

[swift eagle]

Is it common for houses to have the best Ethernet plugs or just what’s needed in the walls

[twin pier]

cat 6 gives you up to 10 gig so that's generally what you would install

[swift eagle]

Ot?

[lone crane]

if more then fiber

[twin pier]

6a if you need slightly longer distance

[lone crane]

how old, how long

[lone crane]

slightly

[opal pagoda]

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

[swift eagle]

Oh. I a little bit want to build one then store all of my games off my main pc and just transfer when I need them but lowkey idk the point cause I can fit them on the main rig

[topaz patrol]

All PoE blinds

[lone crane]

you mean NAS

[swift eagle]

Not long in terms of wiring through to the house. Maybe 25 years old? 99’ I think

[opal pagoda]

all ports are poe yes

[topaz patrol]

🤩

[lone crane]

that does not have ethernet cables you can use

[swift eagle]

Yea I just bought a m910t for Jellyfin and want to also expirement on it. I know it can’t handle to much but ideally it can do this. Should I just plug it in via usb c tbh. The pcs are right next to each other because I have a shallow personality and want them to both be in photos

[lone crane]

you cant

[swift eagle]

Damn. Well, they work for gigabit

[swift eagle]

Why not? USB c transfers files hella fast

[lone crane]

what does NAS stand for

[topaz patrol]

N-USB Attached Storage

[swift eagle]

Dawg it’s not really a nas, it’s a pc

So I could do both, no?

[lone crane]

no

[swift eagle]

And I haven’t even set up the nas part yet

[stuck grove]

usb hdd/ssd would be more like a DAS

[twin pier]

if you don't need the files on multiple computers then often the best solution is to just install more drives in your computer

[topaz patrol]

I think you'll find doing it via USB-C will be incredibly complex, if not impossible

[swift eagle]

It would be both then ideally

[lone crane]

it is the definition of a DAS

[swift eagle]

Is it not just plug in and click allow to transfer files

[topaz patrol]

No

[lone crane]

directly attaching storage to a client

[topaz patrol]

That's not how USB works

[swift eagle]

Why not

[twin pier]

dude i wish

[lone crane]

google.com

[swift eagle]

I can do that with my phone

[topaz patrol]

USB is built with master-slave functionality in mind, and your computer cannot switch it's ports between master and slave, they will always be master

[lone crane]

in short its a nightmare to do

[swift eagle]

This sucks

[swift eagle]

Oh u mean only one can send data?

[topaz patrol]

Essentially

[lone crane]

what switches are those

[swift eagle]

So then how do das work

Not usb?

[opal pagoda]

c9200l-24P-4X

[lone crane]

o my layer 3

price per unit is like half my lifes worth

[topaz patrol]

USB, but not the same "type" of USB as you will find on a standard desktop computer

[stuck grove]

USB, SAS, nvme, just depends

[swift eagle]

[topaz patrol]

They're only like $2k AUD

[swift eagle]

Tbh nas would be just as fast anyway my hdd guarantee don’t hit 1 gigabit

[lone crane]

in Norway they are 20k nok i have like 30 in my bank at the moment

soooo yeeah

[swift eagle]

Do bottom line. Can’t just connect 2 pcs with usb c and call it a day?

[lone crane]

not cheap

[stuck grove]

no

[topaz patrol]

Ah, that's quite the difference. +50% increase

[swift eagle]

That’s tragic

[lone crane]

yuh

[swift eagle]

That’s actually be so nice if I could

[topaz patrol]

No, unless they both have Thunderbolt and at least one is Thunderbolt Share Certified

[opal pagoda]

Eh
cisco gives "generous" discount to us

[lone crane]

true

[swift eagle]

Yea my m910t don’t have that

[lone crane]

layer 3 is still hella expensive, but for the environment they are meant to be used in they are worth the price

[swift eagle]

It is a vpro cpu though. Is that good? Main focus is it can be used through lan

[lone crane]

vpro is good

[topaz patrol]

vPro is just intel's built in OOB management. Absolutely nothing to do with the performance of the processor

[swift eagle]

Does it boost my anime watching expirence

[lone crane]

vpro meant good things for a NAS that i forgot what they were

[topaz patrol]

I guarantee you that you've never used vPro, because hardly anyone does

[swift eagle]

Uh network booting, power cycling installing is remotely. Basically u can use the pc over internet and don’t need it to be running to use it

[opal pagoda]

can confirm

[lone crane]

i have not owned anything with vpro

[swift eagle]

Do you can install os remotely

[swift eagle]

Is it at least a better bin?

[lone crane]

or a 50$ KVM will be able to do all that too

[topaz patrol]

Also, um, lots of vulnerabilities lol

[lone crane]

and it will be better too

[swift eagle]

I guess it’s built in

[opal pagoda]

it is a sticker for all you care

[topaz patrol]

No

[lone crane]

dis why better the not vpro move

[swift eagle]

34 bucks for a i5 7500 8 gigs, 320hdd

It’s not better when the whole build is cheaper

[lone crane]

normal price for it but a nice cpu tho

[swift eagle]

Yea tbh I was shocked at how cheap that was

Cause I think it’ll be good for some basic server things

[lone crane]

the i7 4770 in a NAS i setup yesterday is pretty darn good for basic stuff

just do not worry about power use and everything will be fine with that

[swift eagle]

Tbh I’d be down to buy another one for a 1080p 30-60 build

Cause lowkey I saw bench marks with a 1060 and it wasn’t to bad

[lone crane]

1060 3GB is sad

[swift eagle]

No but it’s like 60 bucks

[lone crane]

its usable but its the performance of a budget igpu well kinda budget igpu

[swift eagle]

I’m gonna invest in an a310 eventually

[lone crane]

that is only for transcoding

[swift eagle]

Yea I run Jellyfin off it

[lone crane]

and the quick sync you already have should be good enough

[swift eagle]

Allegedly I set up transcoding

[lone crane]

Allegedly

[swift eagle]

But idk how to like make sure it’s up so we hoping with this one

[swift eagle]

Allegedly it looks good but their was one message that looked sketchy BUT it was green so 🤷‍♂️

[lone crane]

wut

[swift eagle]

Like when I did a status check it said “va api not found” but the message was green not red so 🤷‍♂️

[twin pier]

That means you don't have hardware transcoding

[swift eagle]

Idk I think it’s working. I set it up on Jellyfin and it didn’t shit it’s self + it loaded faster than my 2500u which is allegedly faster

[lone crane]

loading speeds means nothing

[swift eagle]

It does for me tf u mean

That’s all that matters

The video, from the time I clicked it to the time it played, decreased so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

[lone crane]

the 2500u aint great but its not bad, how bad was the loading speed

[swift eagle]

Pretty bad. Sometimes failed to launch

[lone crane]

what

[swift eagle]

Idk

Over WiFi it was slow

[lone crane]

what OS did you run and what do you mean failed to launch

[lone crane]

there is ZERO NASOSes that allow for wifi out of the box

[swift eagle]

Debian cli

[lone crane]

ffs

[swift eagle]

It’s not a bas wdym

[lone crane]

it is

wifi is horrible

[swift eagle]

It’s a m910t, a Lenovo oem

[opal pagoda]

probably used same wifi to watch too

[stuck grove]

well…

[lone crane]

this is coming from a guy who spent a few months using 2 APs one in bridge mode

[swift eagle]

Crazy. It’s connected to Ethernet I meant my phone was on the WiFi

[twin pier]

I love wifi

[lone crane]

it worked well but like just do copper to copper or such

[twin pier]

nothing wrong with WiFi until you gotta do like a full gigabit or low latency gaming

[stuck grove]

wifi can be faster than wired in some cases, but usually the latency is worse

[swift eagle]

I mean idk if it works it works

[topaz patrol]

Eh, not really. This is running off a wireless bridge

[lone crane]

in short wifi is nice but you always have a price to pay for convince

[lone crane]

not great i did get 500/500

[swift eagle]

No? It’s just connected to my router

[lone crane]

main issue was more just it going down over time and sometimes i think due to both being asus did bad stuff and nuked my network

[twin pier]

I have some ubiquiti WiFi 6 APs so my WiFi is awesome

[topaz patrol]

There's no new-fangled WiFi 6 in my house!

[lone crane]

my AP is wifi 6 but my phone is 5

[swift eagle]

Oh yea that reminds me, was iPhone 6e WiFi chip that bad

[stuck grove]

how old is your phone

[topaz patrol]

I think all of my non-IoT WiFi things are 6e

[lone crane]

but asus APs are nice as they do have everything you really do need while the OS on it is REALLY open about what you can do as i think they just use openwrt but re-skinned

[topaz patrol]

But the APs are all 802.11ac

[stuck grove]

i want wifi6e for the non-cluttered 6ghz band

[twin pier]

540 Mbit/s through 2 walls and a mirror

[opal pagoda]

i will probably upgrade straight to wifi 7

[lone crane]

2020, will be losing security support this year, galaxy note 10 lite

[topaz patrol]

Yeah, same. Once it matures a bit more I'll be grabbing some new APs

[stuck grove]

i guarantee no one near me has wifi 6e or wifi7

[topaz patrol]

Even if they did, it'd struggle to get to you anyway

[lone crane]

early wifi 7 APs lit themselves on fire

[stuck grove]

i might need to add a fan to my networking closet soon

[opal pagoda]

i am eying this one for main living space and other rooms will get a wifi 6 ones

[stuck grove]

my udm se gets toasty in the zero ventilation coat closet it’s in rn

[lone crane]

how toasty

[stuck grove]

almost too hot to leave my hand on the outside of it

[lone crane]

how much is it reporting

[stuck grove]

lemme check real quick

[lone crane]

all i want is the UCG fiber to come back

i have been waiting so long

[opal pagoda]

what features do you want from it?

[lone crane]

all of it

just playing around with it would be so darn nice

great thing with all the unifi stuff

2 10Gb sfp+ ports and one 10Gb rj45 port

with 4 more 2.5 ports one with PoE+

[opal pagoda]

to me it sounds like you just want a 10g switch

[lone crane]

it does

since that is the case but sadly Norway is not great when it comes to that

i was looking at the QNAP QSW-M408S but its only 100$ converted from norway monies cheaper and ofc non of the unifi features

[topaz patrol]

ER7212PC + SX3008F

:p

[lone crane]

that is like 500USD for me

but many sfp+ ports

[topaz patrol]

Here it is cheaper than a UCG Fibre, and has more features

[lone crane]

that is the issue with Norway

funny thing together they only have like 1.2GB of ram

[opal pagoda]

how bad is the import fee from eu?

[lone crane]

25%

possible to save on somethings like i did with my 3D printer

but not always

and the used market is horrible

with that type of stuff

[lean palm]

I have one of these

My reccomendation is dont buy one

The ethernet ports on mine failed within the first few weeks

And even once they started working, I’ve had to force them down to 1gbe for stability

When it works though its solid (6ghz, 360 wide channels, no other interface)

[pulsar dawn]

hey im in need of assistance

[devout cairn]

Im assuming this is the place to ask about proxmox. I'm looking at setting up a cluster as a learning experience. Is there any reason I should use 3 similar systems vs 2 and 1 dummy arbitrator? I'm using used 1L systems so cost isn't a factor.
Additionally, is clustering even worth it if I don't need high availability?

[opal pagoda]

if storage will be ceph that has a minimum requirement of 3 nodes
using 2 nodes and 1 arbitrator is fine if ceph isnt used

[thin lance]

Guys I have 2 routers 1st is the main (tp link archer400) and the 2nd (d link dir 825)
I want to use the d link router to extend my main router signal with ethernet cable between them
How to do it properly because I screwed it 😑
Do anyone knows?

[topaz patrol]

You will need to put the dlink router into bridge mode

[tight pecan]

Not bridge mode, AP mode.

[topaz patrol]

lol yeah this my brain isn’t working

But also bridge mode and/or AP mode means a slightly different thing for every brand istg

[hidden maple]

Hello,
When I watch a stream or a Video online, Internet sometimes is consumed quite a bit, but then the consumption stops at 0kbps then when the Video I am watching starts buffering, a few seconds later internet consumption continues again to some Mbps and then the cycle continues.
How do I make sure the internet consumption doesn't pause so that I can watch my video without buffering

[novel gust]

Id always go Ubiquti

I have the U7 In-Walls, they are great I highly recommend.

[novel gust]

unable to resolve dependencies due to a connection issue with the Unity NuGet registry

check ur internet, check firewall and verify ur proxy settings

[pulsar dawn]

yeah i tried sorting that stuff

[novel gust]

do win + R, cmd then run this ```echo %HTTP_PROXY%
echo %HTTPS_PROXY%

[pulsar dawn]

alr ty man

[novel gust]

nws mate

[white prairie]

coax

[north spindle]

Free

[topaz patrol]

Only 15+ years old :p

[north spindle]

The switch is

[topaz patrol]

That server would be too

[opal pagoda]

is it gigabit?

[north spindle]

The cpu is x2

[opal pagoda]

excelent space heater

[ornate jungle]

Nice. 15 year old servers are still fine for basic homelab stuff, if you don't mind the power bill.

[topaz patrol]

Except also a horrible space heater

[frozen osprey]

Networking setup + an RPI for status monitoring

[silent flax]

or a perfect space heater - it heats up the room while also doing other work, unlike a real space heater

[rose flare]

I have a question. I am running a we home nas setup with truenas. I have it set up with a 10gb switch and cards between the nas and my workstation pc. Now this server only has 2 ironwolf drives in raid 1 and a i5 7500. My question revolves around when I do file transfers on this 10gb link. I start off with around 500mb which I understand is the sata and drive speeds. But then it drops off down to 1gb speeds. Is this a hardware issue. Eg processor can’t keep up. Or something else. Just would like to know. Cheers.

[novel gust]

We are moving house, the past owner has set it up with Unifi U7 In-Walls already and its all networked up to a UDM Pro and a 48 port switch. Would anybody recommend any other networking stuff? There is currently 12 access points.

[thorny osprey]

how do I make roblox send me to singapore or indian servers or servers near me instead of US servers man

[pseudo blade]

Downside: when it's hot enough, you must either waste heat or lose the compute.
Good for folding at home or (long ago, when it used to be worth the effort on that hardware) crypto mining.
Bad for Active Directory, databases or web servers.

[silent flax]

i mean my main server isn't an ideal deivce either 😄

but still probably somewhat less hungry at idle or load

still makes some heat tho with all the storage

(removed 4x 8TB Seagate Archives, cause they were dropping out once in a while for some reason)

[amber urchin]

SMR? Yep, SMR. Probably why you were having trouble.

[silent flax]

it wasn't in RAID. It just completely decided to drop out of the motherboard SATA controller after few days

[amber urchin]

ahh. I still put it on SMR or the fact it's Seagate.

[silent flax]

at least i was not caught in the fake new Seagate scandal

[amber urchin]

I have very low opinions of Seagate but it's not a Segate scandal. They were not distributing the drives.

[silent flax]

well it entered the distribution chain pretty high, so it must be at least some official Seagate distributor

[amber urchin]

I just got some drives myself. A nice big loaf of 4TB SAS 12 HGST drives that were $13/ea.

[silent flax]

i mean it must have been at least a major EU distributor who either added the drives to the chain themselves, or were duped by other major distributor

[amber urchin]

20 drives weigh a ton.

[paper valve]

Very nice

I’d cry if the hgst factories ever shut down

[amber urchin]

These were lots of 10 drives from multiple manufacturers so when I opened the pack and was pulling out these drives and they were all the same and not Seagate; It was a strange mix of excitement and remorse (I was debating buying 3 lots to increase my chances of a good match set - but they only had two left after I slept on it - they sold 70 drives while I was asleep).

[thin lance]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1352861252400975953
Anyone has any thoughts because I still can't figure it out?

[novel gust]

set ur location to it in settings of roblox, then use a vpn

[thin lance]

Guys if I have a main router and an AP how to set IP to the ap so I can access it's settings

[livid zodiac]

@main flume

so like, i coulnt find any am4 systems

[ancient elk]

check yoyr dhcp leases for a new device and thus for the ip to access the ip.

or connect directly physically to the ap.
listen with wireshark grab the ip it sends from.
set ypur ip statically to the same subnet then access the ap

[topaz patrol]

Or use the vendor's discovery utility and not have to worry about all that

[ancient elk]

if such a thing exists,sure

[topaz patrol]

Any good AP will be able to be discovered automatically by its controller or a PC

[ancient elk]

very bold and very untrue statement.
this veey much depends on vendor and model.
This is not true for cheap or enterprise aps.

and even on prosumer/smb ones there have to me some requirements to be met for your statement to be true.

[topaz patrol]

Show me an example

[ancient elk]

any cisco ap
any arista
any cheap tplink
tho their more modern can be via omada but requirements need to be met like them being reset.
Even unify won't discover if your setup is wrong.

[rocky badge]

99% of shit I deal with does dhcp by default and if not they either do something in the APIPA range or default static...
Cisco, Aruba, UniFi, etc can all discover by default by different methods: layer 2, DHCP options, (m)DNS, etc.

[topaz patrol]

Every Cisco AP I have used has had some automagic discovery tool in the controller

Fortinet aps automagically discover

TP-Link sells like 2 non-omada APs

[rocky badge]

🦗

[topaz patrol]

TP-Link's range of non-omada APs

They're all passive PoE too for whatever reason

[rocky badge]

Cisco does: DHCP opt 43, DNS for cisco-capwap-controller, layer 3 broadcast, and any static config lol

but most do some sort of discovery

aruba does very similar

[topaz patrol]

It's all HP

Juniper HP

[rocky badge]

DOJ blocked that for now

[topaz patrol]

Lina Khan isn't there anymore, I'm surprised they're doing anything

[livid zodiac]

hai

so uh ive been thinkin

a dell sff

https://www.amazon.com/Sparkle-Low-Profile-Single-DisplayPort-SA310L-4G/dp/B0CSFJN835

that

but someone said https://www.ebay.com/itm/197127422482 is the same thing

[livid zodiac]

ima get the radeon pro

and the optiplex

so i can upgrade in the future if i wan

:3

(besides the gpu i wanted sold )

[pseudo blade]

...Not sure why you're posting it here, it isn't networking

[opal pagoda]

Cisco procedure
Configure switch port to AP vlan
Take ap
Plug in ap

No per ap configuration needed

[opal pagoda]

No no
It is HPE

[topaz patrol]

:( HP needs to be reunified :p

And HPE needs to start doing lifetime warranties again

[clear igloo]

Out of Cyan

[opal pagoda]

Your subscription to lifetime warranty has ended due to declined credit card

[pseudo blade]

Sorry, disk 3 is out of TBW so your server won't boot

No it doesn't matter that disk 1 and 2 are a RAID 1 for your OS and so are your data drives, why do you ask?

Replace with a genuine HP spare or it still won't boot

HP is proud to announce HP Instant Disk - where you can have a payment plan of 1M, 10M, 50M or 100M IO's per month. Your server will shut down until the next billing period if this limit is exceeded unless you contact our billing team to increase your plan.

Join other HP customers in waiting on the phone for "as long as it takes for you to give up and use our chat support we can stick an LLM on"

[rich inlet]

Can a network switch be mounted in a european attic? Like do i have to worry about summer temperatures frying that mf'er

[lone crane]

probs not

[silent flax]

HPE was "you need to have an active subscription to download BIOS updates" for a while

[fervent brook]

On the day i pick up a serial port breakout, look what i find at goodwill...

[topaz patrol]

I’m pretty sure they still do this

It’s not uncommon

Yeah you still need a service contract for driver and firmware updates

[fervent brook]

Back when I was in School. Cisco did something similar. They probably still do.

[topaz patrol]

They do

Juniper does the same

It’s industry standard

[fervent brook]

My industry standard is to just use Google

[fervent brook]

Woo. It worked...

[thin hedge]

Ip phone

[long scarab]

iOS and IOS are different. They had the perfect opportunity to call their phones the IPhone

not iPhone, IPhone

[topaz patrol]

Cisco literally had iPhones

They sued apple, it was a whole big thing

[long scarab]

I thought that was only over IOS and iOS

[topaz patrol]

The original iPhone

[long scarab]

you weren't kidding holy shit

[long scarab]

the best iphone

[fervent brook]

Mine just constantly complains it isn't connected to a server

from what I remember, it loads it's operating environment from TFTP. Which is either local or on the internet. But my current NAS doesn't seem to support TFTP. My old one did. But I broke it

[long scarab]

you broke it because of course you did

homelab moment

[fervent brook]

No, it's normal behavior. It's assumed your in an office environment. And your IT has the phone's operating environment managed and stored on a TFTP server on-site or remotely

Back when I had a TFTP capable NAS, I got it working, but I didn't have a PBX...so it didn't work as a phone.
Also, I only have one...so even if I get it working...there's nothing I can do with it

[mild needle]

I’m trying to port forward ports 25565, 8080 and 5657 but it won’t work, I’m using firewald and this is all my port config stuff

[swift eagle]

Can you run a whole of off Ethernet

With 100gigabit networking you could right