networking

[quasi bramble]

This is where I am now

Forgot to change the modem, its dhcp is off now

If I turn dhcp off on the downstream router I can't get into it to change settings again. If I turn off nat I cant connect to the internet through it

[ashen warren]

Thx for all your IP addresses lol

[quasi bramble]

Bridge mode worked on it but doesnt allow me to use the nas functionality so I dont want that

[ashen warren]

I am new to networking

So I don't understand what you mean

[peak cloak]

private ip's, doesn't really matter

[peak cloak]

Your network is just....

What you want is to have ONE main router

with Plex connected to that one

and the NAS

with the downstream routers being just wifi points

[lean pebble]

I'm looking for creating a dedicated plex server that not sitting on my pc

[ashen warren]

That sounds better cuz it more simple

[lean pebble]

no nas or something

[ashen warren]

Also what is a plex server

[jovial haven]

plex is basicly self-hosted netflix, spotify and icloud photo

[ashen warren]

Ok

[quasi bramble]

What I'm trying to do is the router connected to the modem is the main one hosting the nas with plex content. It also handles wifi. Downstream router has no wifi but 4 wired clients including the plex server itself as well as it's own secondary nas

[ashen warren]

So lol your own mini Netflix that you can only access on your network

[peak cloak]

no

[ashen warren]

Ok

[peak cloak]

you can have it accessible over the internet

[quasi bramble]

You can access it outside your network if it isn't a mess like mine

[ashen warren]

Pls explain

[peak cloak]

just on YOUR server

just make it publically accessible

[lean pebble]

i have a private plex hosted on my dedicated server

[ashen warren]

Can i use a plex server for homework

[lean pebble]

but my internet sucks right now so can't use it

I want to host it at home

for low latency

and faster loading

[jovial haven]

you can put any video, audio and photo content on it

[ashen warren]

Ok so not any file

[jovial haven]

not as far as i know, but i haven't tinkered with it yet...

[ashen warren]

Cuz I understand how to build a pc and stuff and now I want to learn networking

[quasi bramble]

@peak cloak any suggestions for getting my network to this setup? Or is that even possible?

[ashen warren]

So I thought it would be a good idea to build a server for homework and stuff

[hexed vault]

Can anyone recommend a decent managed 8-16 port gigabit switch. With proper dot1q handling and PoE+ (at least a couple of interfaces). For home use.
And preferably it not costing an arm and a leg =)

[peak cloak]

@quasi bramble you need to get the modem in passthough mode

[ashen warren]

Idk what that means lol

[peak cloak]

so it doesn't NAT

just passes the connection on

to your router which does NAT

[quasi bramble]

I have dhcp off

[peak cloak]

that's not passthough

[quasi bramble]

It doesn't have a setting for nat or passthrough

[peak cloak]

dhcp just gives out addresses

what's the model?

[lean pebble]

Present what do you say what will arrive faster the technician or my mikrotik ?

[peak cloak]

mtik?

how long is shipping, it feels like it's taking forever

it would take at most a week here

[quasi bramble]

Alcatel hh41nh

[jovial haven]

you can do that too. you'd have to set up a NAS (Network attached storage) for that. You can do that on any hardware you want. a pretty popular NAS OS is trueNAS core (formerly freeNAS). you should be able to set something up so you can access it from anywhere on the internet, but I haven't looked into that yet.

[peak cloak]

oh your on LTE?

[quasi bramble]

Yeah

Settings are very limited

[peak cloak]

oh, depending on the ISP, but most LTE providers do CGNAT

at least here

[lean pebble]

Its already in my country

passing customs

[quasi bramble]

It's at and t

Through Roger's roaming

[peak cloak]

yeah I have att and they CGNAT

[quasi bramble]

What does that mean for me?

[peak cloak]

you can't port forward

or run any services

[quasi bramble]

Yeah I dont care if my plex server is accessible outside my network, just want it accessible from both routers

[peak cloak]

at least not without a tunnel

[jovial haven]

is it possible to set you're second router so it only functions as a switch?

[peak cloak]

doesn't seem to support turning off nat

[quasi bramble]

It has a dmz option

[peak cloak]

yeah that's not it

I looked at the manual

I think mtik has a LTE router

[hexed vault]

A lot of mtiks can work with lte/3g usb dongles.

[peak cloak]

ah ok

[quasi bramble]

I dont think I can change the lte modem, its allegedly flashed with some custom firmware to make the roaming thing work

[peak cloak]

why does it need roaming?

you aren't moving or anything rapidly?

like a van?

[quasi bramble]

No lol I'm canadian

[hexed vault]

I think he ment mobile roaming

[peak cloak]

yeah, but that shouldn't matter right?

[hexed vault]

You're on another operator ?

[peak cloak]

if it's just at home?

[quasi bramble]

It's an at and t sim but I connect to the Roger's (canadian telco) network

[hexed vault]

Doesn't that cost an arm and a leg?

[quasi bramble]

It's a grey market loophole since at and t lte is way cheaper even while roaming than any canadian provider's

Its pricey but better than satelite that struggles to get 1mB/s

[hexed vault]

Data roaming? Cheaper? O_o

[quasi bramble]

Its unlimited data roaming or otherwise

[clear igloo]

Roaming on cell allows you to connect to other networks that are not the native provider's network. Not roaming between towers @peak cloak

[peak cloak]

ohhhhhh, ok

[quasi bramble]

Yeah, I think the company providing it for canadians routes things through some servers of their own to make it less obvious that we're using it as home internet and not roaming americans

[hexed vault]

Bump

[hollow marlin]

That feeling when you live right on the Canadian border. "Welcome to Canada! rates are only $1500/1mb of traffic" text are awesome

[clear igloo]

Is that canadian rupees or freedom dollhairs?

[hollow marlin]

Freedom dolls!

[quasi bramble]

Yeah previously we were just straight through a canadian telco, the cheapest we could find and it was about $100 for 50gb and $5 a gb after that

[clear igloo]

Yikes! That's insane!

[quasi bramble]

Anyways, @peak cloak from what you were saying I'm getting the impression my options are buy a new lte modem, use bridged mode and lose the nas on the downstream router, or just connect all my plex clients to the downstream router?

[hollow marlin]

Yeah its like $10/100mb I think, I have the unlimited roaming for the sheer reason some spots I only get Canadian tower signal so I forget the exact amount but its insane

[peak cloak]

tbh if you are not hosting anything you don't need a new modem

have NAT on for only the modem and the main router

so you would be doing double NAT, but still

that one NAT from the modem would only have one device

[quasi bramble]

Okay yeah just worried about getting the two routers working as one local network

[peak cloak]

and then turn off NAT on the rest of the routers

that way you have one flat L2 network (except the modem-main router)

and then I would connect all the servers to the main router

[stone swan]

@hexed vault what kind of price point are you looking at for your 16p switch?

[hexed vault]

I would prefer ~200$

I would gladly buy a mtik, they only started switching properly from the 3xx series

And there's only the 24 port version with poe

[stone swan]

I am a lover of Unifi/Ubiquiti gear. https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/usw-24-poe is a little higher price but more has some l3 routing capabilities,ports/rackable/etc. the https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/usw-lite-16-poe is more in line but lacks some of the higher "l3" capabilities

[peak cloak]

ubiquiti is eh, it's like the apple of networking

it nice and works until it doesn't

[stone swan]

I have loved their gear since day 1 but it does seem their pricing seems to be going a bit high of recent days

[waxen saddle]

Ubiquiti's security solution is sky-high pricing-wise

[stone swan]

are you referring to their "protect" line with the cameras etc or network security?

[waxen saddle]

Camera's and such

[peak cloak]

there's this, but you probobly already seen it

https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_24p_4s_rm#fndtn-specifications

[hexed vault]

That's the one I was talking about. The problem is I think it will be loud as hell for a home setting. I have no possibilty to install the switch in some isolated environment.

For the Ubi 16 lite I have questions to its poe budget. It says the switch has 60W psu, that doesn't leave much for poe...

[stone swan]

@hexed vault

[hexed vault]

The psu is for 60W, switch itself - up to 15W. That leave ~45W FOR POE budget.
That's 2 AP tops. That's basically 0 reserve for my case

[stone swan]

What kind of APs are you looking to run?

[hexed vault]

2 CAP ac
Maybe will swap them up later on

[stone swan]

this might do a little better with 85w available for POE but its.... Netgear.... eeek https://www.newegg.com/netgear-jgs516pe-100nas/p/N82E16833122595?Item=N82E16833122595

[hexed vault]

Only 802.3af, no 802.3at

And I actually have no idea how good do they switch 1q traffic.

[stone swan]

I suppose the bigger/better question if its just a couple APs, what about POE injectors? I'm not a fan of them, but they can help address issues like this without needing to expend extra cash

[half summit]

Asking for a friend;

What would I need to get a full home wifi kitted out, currently have a https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/28932-tp-link-eap245-3/

[peak cloak]

@half summit get more

And omada controller

You can install on a pi I think too, or get a dedicated hardware box

[half summit]

Thank You, I will relay this info to said friend.

[primal ice]

its the downstream router is your problem the 192.168.0.3 from the diagram. what model is it? it is the one that you need to disable NAT on. NAT will be on no matter what on the WAN port of it unless you can reconfigure the WAN port. normally that is not doable with the stock firmware. you would actually be better off changing it to just a switch. Though if you can flash dd-wrt or openwrt onto the device those firmwares/OS's should allow you to reconfigure the WAN port over to just another switch port.

[quasi bramble]

Yeah I thought of that, I actually had ddwrt on it like a week or two ago but went back to stock because I found the nas features way harder to use

It's a linksys EA6500v1

[primal ice]

yeah dd-wrt or openwrt use samba for nas access which means more setup.

[quasi bramble]

I'll probably end up doing that eventually but for now I think I'm just going to connect all plex clients to that router, I'll just turn on 5ghz wifi with broadcast off and manually connect all the clients to it

Samba should work fine for what I need it to do, that nas is my dedicated ps2 smb

[primal ice]

still going to have an issue with any thing trying to connect out to the internet through that device - they will be triple NAT'd -one from the ISP one from the main router and then one from that router, but OK.

[quasi bramble]

It's been working fine so far, I actually lose internet access on that router if I turn nat off for it

[primal ice]

yeah its probably just shutting off the wan port when you disable nat on it.

[quasi bramble]

That would make sense except I'm fairly certain I had nat off when I had it on its own subnet and the wan port worked fine

[primal ice]

that is a screen shot of my dd-wrt buffalo router with dhcp shut off and nat disabled.

basically an L3 switch. its accessable at 192.168.0.10 on my local network. is what your trying to do.

[quasi bramble]

Oh dope, definitely gonna give that a shot when I have time

I've got an exam wednesday so I've already spent more time on this than I probably should have for now

[orchid oar]

Question to someone familiar with BGP

So i am pretty new to this and i have recently bought a /24 range and am running bird on all my servers to announce my ip range.
If all my hardware is co-located would i need to co-locate a router and have all the servers connected to it if i only wanted to run the BGP server on one system (instead of every one), or is it possible to visualize this and assign ips to each server without them running bird on each?

[hollow marlin]

@orchid oar Not familiar with BIRD but unless you plan on using anycast for the entire /24 on each, which I doubt, you'll want to have a a pair of virtual routers advertising the /24 and iBGP peering between the servers and routers advertising the /32 for IPs. If you needed a /24 I'm sure it's at a scale where you want redundancy

[thorn escarp]

boys i got my comptia sec + cert in the mail today

[primal ice]

#grats#slowclap

[versed nebula]

Hey guys i have the hitron cda-res modem and i wanted to verify if puma 5 chipset has ping/latency/jitter issued

[flint python]

Okay so basically i have 1gig Internet and get around 920mbps down on ethernet on speedtest.net, but when installing games i only get 100-110mbps down, is this something that can be fixed? help

[rocky badge]

Where are you downloading games from, Steam?

[flint python]

From anywhere, Epic, Steam, Microsoft store

Blizzard

[rocky badge]

Steam shows downloads in MB/s by default, not Mbps.
If its 110MB/s that's around 880Mbps

There are 8 bits in a byte

So capitalized B is a Byte, lowercase b is a bit

So you're getting around what you pay for, its just a difference in how its measured and displayed.

[flint python]

I just installed CSGO which is 10gb in about 2 mins which should take around 2 seconds with 1gig? is that just delay?

[rocky badge]

if you downloaded CSGO in 2 minutes, you're downloading at around 900Mbps

to download CSGO in 2 seconds, you'd need like 10 Gigabit+

[flint python]

ohh i was thinking 1gig is 1gig per second

my bad

[rocky badge]

Yeah, 1 Gig in ISP world is usually 1 Gigabit, so 1000Mbps

Would be amazing to have 1 GB a second.... 😂

[flint python]

yea, thanks, i was just kinda confused i went from around 40mbps to 1000mbps as spectrum just installed lines for it, Thank you tho

[rocky badge]

No problem 👌

[flint python]

One more thing, is their any tweaks i could do to the internet on window's side to get lower ping?, i get around 20-23ish but ya know lower ping is always nice

[rocky badge]

you mentioned you're on Spectrum...I had Spectrum and I usually got around that. Since Spectrum is cable, usually cable has higher pings.

So that's around average for cable

[flint python]

oh, i got you, well i mean thats still pretty damn good from my old internet lol. Thanks for the help

[rocky badge]

np

[unborn sluice]

[primal ice]

at its max range in a perfect test environment with nothing in its way it can go 122m omni directional (all directions). will you see that. I doubt it.

depends on what they say if they are not beam forming then yes the antenna's are omni directional.

yeah if they are beam forming that means they are directional in some way.

[solemn nymph]

How you can become an IT ethernet networks (routing, siwtching, designing networks etc.) specialist in US? Are there any special schools or something?

[unborn sluice]

Are there any special schools
network schools

IT ethernet networks

[tame carbon]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/law-banning-rental-fees-for-customer-owned-routers-takes-effect-sunday/

[thick minnow]

can someone help we with port forwarding?

ik its easy but im stuck with something

[dusty osprey]

Yeah post it here

What's wrong

[tame carbon]

@solemn nymph there are various certifications depending on what you want to do. Formal education often covers these as well

like CCNA for Cisco Systems, or CompTIA for non brand specific knowledge

I'm an armchair network technician, self taught, with a professional background in software engineering

[tall pagoda]

Can someone tell what this means? I didn't change phone number or provider at all

It just show random on my home screen

[tame carbon]

@tall pagoda call your ISP

carrier

whatever

though this might be iphone specific crap, is this iMessage?

[tall pagoda]

Nope. It just came up of nowhere

[lean pebble]

I got the mtik

[dusty osprey]

[peak cloak]

nice

[tall pagoda]

It was the provider that moved people on their antennas

[thick minnow]

I know there are sometimes problems that ISP's face but

what could be the cause of SPECIFIC SITES not working

i mean discord is fine as wine right now

Just trying to go in messenger

i have some relatives to send messages to xD

Youtube works fine

But those 3 sites are not

NOt working too

oh fuck now discord is having problems

Good for u bud 😦

LOL

its spreading now

i am on ethernet

5 times already

with 5 min intervals xD

no suspicious lights on it too like red LEDS and such

Its oki

HAHA

Good Luck on school

Its okay, imma jkust wait

its probably server now

which nothing i could do

even a VPN won't work

i mean

VPN works but the site does not load

like FB still won't load with VPN on but youtube does

it did HAHAHAH

lol

HAAH

wait

no it is not

ahh oke

yes

F

Oh i won't

i tried it

and

it caused the router to not work as it should again

yes

[thick minnow]

we had to call the ISP's technicians to fix it LOL so yea, not resetting it again

like speedtest?

yep

both gud

i mean i can google no problem

i can even chat with you on discord no prob

its just for specific sites which is kinda a bummer

f

Imma log off for now and fix other stuff while its down xD

[wraith pivot]

traceroute [any ip that works outside ur network]

see if it gets to ur isp

also ur in either kansas or the middle of the usa some where

[sweet nebula]

if some sites work and others don't it's probably not you. Your DNS seems to be working fine so you are reaching your ISP

[versed nebula]

Anyone can help me with the intel puma chipset problem

[thick minnow]

Facebook is working now, somewhat, but still slow

[thick minnow]

im in the Philippines

[thick minnow]

yep i noted this

[wraith pivot]

😦 usualy it goes to the closest facebook ip intresting

it seems like ur isp to me

[sweet nebula]

@thick minnow here: https://downdetector.ph/status/facebook/ it's not you

[thick minnow]

But even online shops don't work

viber also

[sweet nebula]

i'm not sure you can open it 😆

[thick minnow]

facebook works now just slowly

yea

for now im fine, i could wait for it

Thanks for the help fellas 🙂 I'm really interested in this networking stuff

hopefully in my Computer Science course, during the later years, i would learn much@!

[sweet nebula]

it's not really an easy subject

[thick minnow]

nothing really is easy

but im interested so willing to face it hehe

[primal ice]

no worries its the solarwinds hackers using all that data they gathered to do things. :p

[thick minnow]

yep, facebook is still crappy as of now

its working alright

[peak cloak]

I usually ping 1.1.1.1 to check internet connection

then I go to other ips if it doesn't work like 8.8.8.8 (google) or 9.9.9.9 (quad nine)

as a last resort I would ping my isp's dns server

[thick minnow]

how do u know dns server of ISP hehe

[peak cloak]

dhcp?

@tame carbon

@lean pebble got his mtik

[thick minnow]

alrighty

[lean pebble]

Not yet

The technician will come at Thursday

[thick minnow]

F

its gud

just have to deal with the slowness

on specific sites

[lean pebble]

Ya it'll not make any difference 2 days 2 years 2 months

[thick minnow]

[sweet nebula]

you can probably see it on your router. Your pc is most likely using the router if you didn't change it.

[thick minnow]

all done now hehe, thanks again so much!

[sweet nebula]

you don't need internet anyway, the dry season probably started, enjoy nature 😛

[thick minnow]

i need to pass my requirements 💔

its the finals of my 1st sem

[sweet nebula]

gl with that

[tall pagoda]

The “New” 4G is actually terrible. 200 before and now 110 mbps. And 10 upload instead of 60

I want back to Old Tele2

[dusty osprey]

those speeds seem amazing tbh

[versed nebula]

so, anyone has heard of the puma chipset problems?

[lean pebble]

My lte speed is 9Mbps down

So your lte speed is perfect

[quasi bramble]

@peak cloak you were right, couldn't get through to xbox live on the downstream router without turning nat off. Thankfully it just worked when I tried this time

[tall pagoda]

“My” (eehm loan from the provider) Ziggo connectbox have intel Puma 6 chipset

https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/789051/ziggo-connect-box/reviews/

Use Translate option to your language and you will find many angry and also funny comments

The law says that they must accept any EURODOCSIS 3.1 or 3.0 modem but they do not wanna activate them. I will maybe change ISP

[lean pebble]

Well that's just weird af

Somehow I can download things again without packet loss

Oh nevermind

At least I can use rsync for downloading files from my server without issues

But from firefox I can't keep failing

[ashen warren]

Guys

I need help

I want to build a server I can access from outside my house, for me and my friends to use as we are all into game design and like to share our content together

[peak cloak]

Ok

Anything can be a server

[ashen warren]

Ok

But how do I set it up so my friends can access it

[peak cloak]

VPN

or over the internet plainly

are you under CGNAT

[ashen warren]

Idk what that means

[peak cloak]

what's your router's WAN interface address

you can blur the last octet

[ashen warren]

Idk

[peak cloak]

example of mine

[ashen warren]

I am away from home rn but when I am back I will tell you

Or whoever can help when I am back

It is a sky router

Does that help???

@peak cloak

[shut delta]

You could setup gitlab or github with LFS to setup a repo for your content. Or open a port on your router pointing to the internal IP address of the server. Ex: 192.168.1.145 Port 22. Or setup a VPN on the same server, open up a port on the router and setup clients for your friends

[peak cloak]

no

you need find the ip of the wan interface

login and you can check

[ashen warren]

That makes no sense

[peak cloak]

it makes sense

[ashen warren]

Not to me

I should probably go watch a yt tutorial lol

[peak cloak]

not all yt tutorials are good

understand the basics

[ashen warren]

Ok

[ashen warren]

Ltt ones are good lol

[peak cloak]

kinda

not really for networking though

Level1Linux is nice

[ashen warren]

Ye lol

[cursive mist]

Quick question why does the wifi adapter on my laptop work fine then the speed drops to a crawl, 5mpbs, but if I restart the wifi card via device manager it works fine again

For A little while

Then I gotta restart the card again

[silver needle]

Would anyone have any more ideas/insight on how to set this up?
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/comments/ge638m/using_a_vps_with_dedicated_ipv4_for_a_game_server/

[desert briar]

just make a dumb forwarder with linux iptables or a windows equivalent

https://my.esecuredata.com/index.php?/knowledgebase/article/49/how-to-redirect-an-incoming-connection-to-a-different-ip-address-on-a-specific-port-using-iptables/

[silver needle]

Could this be done via ddns? @desert briar

Trying to have a static ipv4 for some servers/services

where as my residential ip changes every 24hrs

[desert briar]

dns points to vps, which is set to forward all the traffic of a certain port via a iptables rule

ud need to handle that on the server then

update the iptables rule to redirect to a new IP every so often

or just point it to ddns as you said

[silver needle]

Will look into it, thanks!

[desert briar]

need to have root access to the VPS though

Never used OVH, mostly used AWS or DigitalOcean

[silver needle]

Makes sense

Will have a shop around

[velvet mason]

yo! im wondering a few things about getting a new router, i just want to find out how they work (as in do i need a provider/do i need to pay extra to my provider) because i want to get a better router for downstairs in my house

[peak cloak]

do you know what type of internet you have

like dsl, cable, fiber?

because some ISP "routers" are actually modems and routers together

so either you put your ISP modem/router in passthough mode (no NAT, I can explain that) or buy your own modem

[velvet mason]

please do explain that

also ill look up what i have

i know it isnt fiber

[peak cloak]

Modems convert DSL/Cable signals to ethernet, or ONT's convert fiber signals to ethernet

[velvet mason]

okay

wait would you be able to tell via what i use for my router

like the cable

or do all of em use a coaxial

[peak cloak]

You get one ipv4 ip from your ISP (ipv4 looks like this: 10.10.10.10, ipv6 works differently but that's another topic.) The problem is that you have multiple devices, so NAT was developed so multiple devices can "share" one public ip. The problem is that you can't host services without port forwarding or play some console games as they use upnp which is automatic port forwarding. You don't want double-NAT, which is NAT behind NAT, so you would put the ISP modem/router combo into passthough mode (no NAT)

@velvet mason you can kinda tell by cable, are you in the US?

[velvet mason]

canada

[peak cloak]

so you have coax?

[velvet mason]

yes

[peak cloak]

so coax going all the way to the street? (I'm asking this because some ISP's that have fiber do fiber to the ONT, and then MOCA or ethernet to the router)

[velvet mason]

honestly the only thing i know is that i dont have fiber. im getting pretty damn confused here

[peak cloak]

ok. 99% sure you have a dociss connection

do you know what model router you have rn?

[velvet mason]

yeah, had to change the settings once so i can get the model number and such

[peak cloak]

yeah that would be great to know

[velvet mason]

nevermind

im brainless

i do have fibre

i have the model name

[peak cloak]

paste it here if you can

[velvet mason]

ok

TG3482ER3

i think thats the model

theres 3 different vrsions that look the exact same though, ill log in to se what one i have

the name is shaw fibre+ gateway

[peak cloak]

ah ok, so it's like verizon here sometimes

so, do you have a box in your basement or on the side of the house?

I'm asking this because

It may have an ethernet port, if not, you will need to get a moca -> ethernet adapter to use a normal ethernet router

[jagged plaza]

dog of wisdom.

[velvet mason]

im not quite sure. i dont actually own the place and half of the basement is a suite. what would it look like

[peak cloak]

ah ok

so I think it's moca

or maybe it's dociss, idk

they may be advertizing fiber-to-the-node

@velvet mason https://www.reddit.com/r/shaw/comments/evs33n/using_my_own_gearrouter_directly_to_ont/

[velvet mason]

huh

[peak cloak]

From what I gather, depends if you are in one of the rarer area's you have fiber-to-the-home

Other than that, you have fiber-to-the-node

which is like every single cable ISP

because they say hybrid fibre coax network

and this

[velvet mason]

this just got a lot more complicated yikes

[peak cloak]

300 down / 15 up is very dociss like

from the reddit post, it seems like you can just put it into bridge mode

[velvet mason]

i was just hoping to be able to plug in another router downstairs no sweat. time to find out how to do this i guess

[peak cloak]

you could, but then you would have double-NAT

[velvet mason]

ah

ok

welp, off to youtube for the rest

@peak cloak one thing, once its installed do i have to contact my provider or does that vary

[peak cloak]

no, you shouldn't need to

[velvet mason]

alright, thanks

[peak cloak]

the reddit post mentioned that you may need to contact them to put it in passthough mode

[velvet mason]

alright

[peak cloak]

what router were you looking to buy

[velvet mason]

i dont know yet, i wanted to find out the details before deciding on one

i was going to ask about that here too lol

[peak cloak]

I honestly can't provide any good all-in-one router (router + switch + wifi) suggestions for newbies that is easy to use

[velvet mason]

fair

its just for ethernet if that helps

[peak cloak]

wdym

like ethernet in?

[velvet mason]

im just getting one for my xbox and my pc

[peak cloak]

oh to "split" ethernet?

if so, just get a switch

[velvet mason]

im not 100% on what that means lol

[peak cloak]

so I don't really understand what you are tyring to do

if it's "just for ethernet"

[velvet mason]

i am trying to get something be it a router or whatever to use an ethernet cable instead of wifi with my pc and also my xbox

[peak cloak]

doesn't the gateway have ethernet ports on the back?

[velvet mason]

it does but i dont feel like networking a 100 foot ethernet cable around the house and down the stairs. and i cannot move the gateway as it has a phone plugged into it.

[peak cloak]

wait, so how would a different router help then?

so you want a wireless bridge?

gateway -> wifi -> wifi bridge -> Ethernet?

that won't help

you would still be going over wifi

[velvet mason]

thats exactly what i dont want to do

[peak cloak]

so what are you trying to do?

I'm confused

[velvet mason]

listen, i am just trying to get a faster connection for my stuff downstairs because the wifi SUCKS.

[ashen warren]

Bro

[peak cloak]

the only solution is ethernet

[velvet mason]

exactly

[ashen warren]

Use power line adapters

[peak cloak]

those are eh

sometimes slower than wifi

[ashen warren]

Kk

[peak cloak]

wouldn't reccomend

[velvet mason]

and id rather not network a cable so i am looking into any other way as i have a coax in my room downstairs

[ashen warren]

I have some bt ones and they work really well

[peak cloak]

I'm confused by networking a 100 foot ethernet cable around the house

@velvet mason oh, then moca

depending on how the coax is wired

[ashen warren]

Hi

Lol

[ashen warren]

How do you do that font

[peak cloak]

@velvet mason https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-MoCA-Network-Adapter-Ethernet/dp/B088KV2YYL/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=moca&link_code=qs&qid=1608691658&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-3&tag=wwwcanoniccom-20

[ashen warren]

'like this"

'hi'

[velvet mason]

aight

[peak cloak]

@velvet mason the problem is that you don't know the house wiring do you?

[ashen warren]

hi

[peak cloak]

so it may not work

but idk moca, it's black magic to me

[velvet mason]

i do not. i honestly havent a single clue

all i know is from when the basement had no celing

(it was getting renovated)

[peak cloak]

moca basically transports ethernet over coax, but there are some intricacies that idk how it works (like does it need to be a straight 1-1 run or it can it have splitters, or do the spitters need to be special moca splitters)

[ashen warren]

Can't you just plug a ethernet cable in, route the ethernet cable where you want to go, then get a switch board and split it and send it to do all the stuff you want it to do

[peak cloak]

yeah, plug an ethernet cable to your gateway

and run it where you need it

[ashen warren]

Ye

[peak cloak]

I did that

[ashen warren]

I am new to networking so don't spend money cuz I have advise

[peak cloak]

it's a mess https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/387022787480387605/789118646718562314/20201217_081457.jpg

I need to get a patch panel

[ashen warren]

But I can help lol

Is the optiplex a plex server

[peak cloak]

nah

it's running proxmox

and on proxmox a VM with a mc server

hosting it for a school server

[ashen warren]

Idk what proxmox is

Lol

Mc server cool tho

[peak cloak]

@ashen warren

[velvet mason]

whatever. i have been saying that i cant really run an ethernet cable across the house without it being in the open

[peak cloak]

yeah moca would be your best bet

[velvet mason]

and id like full speed so splitting a cable would lower that correct?

[ashen warren]

I understand now

[peak cloak]

you can't just get another gateway and plug it into a coax port

that's won't work

@velvet mason yeah I think, but idk exactly

https://www.screenbeam.com/wifihelp/wifibooster/how-does-moca-work/

[velvet mason]

yeah i get that now, i was unsure about just plugging in another gateway in the first place

[peak cloak]

you need one router in the house

any more causes trouble

if you need more wifi coverage get some Access Points

if you need to "split" ethernet get a switch

I'm simplifying a lot here fyi

[velvet mason]

i understand that. i cant go too complicated here anyways, the place aint actually mine

[peak cloak]

yeah I understand

[velvet mason]

otherwise i woulda just hired someone to drill holes and such to network cables

[ashen warren]

Quick question @peak cloak

[velvet mason]

ill try moca, doesnt seem too complicated, if it doesnt work i can just return the adapter i guess

[ashen warren]

How much storage do you need for a mc server

[peak cloak]

depends how big

let me get you the backup folder size

[velvet mason]

ill most likely get them from best buy because id rather not have a package stolen

jbob i just run one on my laptop, it has 100 gigs of free space and works fine

you wont need a lot

unless yo get plugins

or have a lot of players

[peak cloak]

@ashen warren my whole mc directory is 2.6G

[ashen warren]

I will literally have like 10 players in a std survival world lol

[peak cloak]

yeah you'll be fine, you don't need a lot

if you are running a big server you would want to use an actual database

[velvet mason]

anyways, thanks @peak cloak ill try a moca. if that doesnt work i guess ill have to just get a 100 foot cable

[peak cloak]

alright, glad to help

[ashen warren]

Do you need a fast processor for mc server

[peak cloak]

you would want relatively high speed, like 3 ghz

[ashen warren]

Cuz I have a old Chromebook with the firmware flashed

[peak cloak]

older xeon server chips aren't great

[ashen warren]

Kk

[peak cloak]

mines't 3.7

[ashen warren]

I might buy a old tower second hand and setup a server

Kk

[peak cloak]

I really need to migrate the mc server to debain

I liked centos

but it's going to be rolling release now

[ashen warren]

Idk software atall

Like what the hell is debain

[peak cloak]

*debian

it's a linux distori

[ashen warren]

Kk

[peak cloak]

proxmox and ubuntu are based off it

[ashen warren]

Like Ubuntu

[peak cloak]

ubuntu is built on top of debian

[ashen warren]

Cool

[peak cloak]

same package manager

apt

centos/fedora/red hat use yum or dnf

[ashen warren]

ok

[peak cloak]

you can also do this hello

[ashen warren]

I use windows not linux

Ok *cool* lol

[peak cloak]

and code like this js function test(input){ console.log('hello'); };

[ashen warren]

Super cool

[peak cloak]

I use popOS now

[ashen warren]

Also

[peak cloak]

I will probobly move to debian

or ubuntu

[ashen warren]

How do you host the website for mc server

[peak cloak]

I don't

I used to host a website though

[ashen warren]

Like mc.ltt.gg

[peak cloak]

oh, the domain

[ashen warren]

Ye that

[peak cloak]

I bought presentmonkey.tech

if you are a student, get github dev pack

[ashen warren]

Ok

[peak cloak]

you can get 3 free domains for a year

[ashen warren]

What do you get with github

I have never understood github

[peak cloak]

github itself is nice for code

[ashen warren]

Ok

Brb

[peak cloak]

learn git

github is just basically an advanced git origin

and you collab on code easily

with pull requests, forks, and all that fun stuff

[ashen warren]

Ok

Cuz I want to learn the software side of things more

I understand hardware and I can build a pc but I can hardly code unless you count ue4 as code

[peak cloak]

Kinda

Idk what language that uses

@ashen warren you know how when you work on something and you have like final.png then final2.png then finalfinal.png

Git is to eliminate that

With code that is

Also git does not equal github

There are other git platforms like gitlab or gitbucket

[ashen warren]

Ye

I'm gonna learn git tommorow

[ashen warren]

Blueprints, basically a really technical version of scratch

[peak cloak]

I myself need to learn git cli since I have just been using vscode's implementation of it

@ashen warren ah, I know unity uses c#

[ashen warren]

Ye

You can also use c++in ue4 but i CBA to learn lol

[peak cloak]

I started programming with arduino

That's cpp

[ashen warren]

Ok

[reef surge]

hy guys i want to ask

for the good sysadmin learn what programming

[lone fossil]

hey guys

so i wanted to setup a local storage server on my desktop, so looked up into samba and got it installed and working

however on my windows pc the shared folder are not showing up in the Network explorer

they only show up if i navigate to the ip using the run box

[unborn sluice]

Yes

[lone fossil]

Yes?

Is that how it's supposed to behave?

[unborn sluice]

If you installed samba on linux (for example) and you expect it to show up in explorer then yes

[lone fossil]

So, it's not gonna show up?

Is there a way to make it show up?

I don't want to have to type the ip every time

[unborn sluice]

Yes

[unborn sluice]

I don't too

[lone fossil]

Ughm.

How do i do it? From the smb.conf file?

[unborn sluice]

You mean it should show up in the windows explorer (client)

[lone fossil]

Correct

Here is the weird part

Using "Cx File Explorer" on android

i am able to see both my Linux file share, and my windows file share.

however on my windows PC, unless i type in the ip i cannot see the folder in file share explorer

I also cannot see the windows shared folders on my linux system

[lone fossil]

Update ~ everything is fine

i followed a very detailed guide and i managed to fix it!

https://devanswers.co/discover-ubuntu-machines-samba-shares-windows-10-network/

[lean pebble]

Thanks for update, I'll look into it

[zealous dock]

Someone PLEASE FUCKING HELP ME

WHY IS THIS I HAVE HAD THIS PROBLEM FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME

[cursive mist]

Weak wifi possibly

Use Ethernet if possible

[zealous dock]

Dont have thar

That

And that problem do i have in every single game

[cursive mist]

Sounds like a computer issue or your wifi is weak or the router you isp gave you is weak router

Those are my guesses

[zealous dock]

No No and no

I have a 500 megabyte line and my stik is really good

[cursive mist]

You mean 500mpbs?

[zealous dock]

Yes

[cursive mist]

Still could be computer issue, I have a same issue with my laptop wifi card

[zealous dock]

Yes

Ok lissen

[cursive mist]

Yes?

[zealous dock]

When i overklocked my pc to 5ghz to se if it worked and it did
And the Internett was fine

But when i clocked it down to 4.7ghz since my pc crashed

The Internett started doing 0 download

[cursive mist]

That's super odd

[zealous dock]

And when i clock it up to 5ghz again i get normal download

[cursive mist]

Hmm

[dusty osprey]

How does processor clock has to do anything with this wifi

[zealous dock]

I am trying different things

[dusty osprey]

Do you mean 5GHz wifi? That's a thing

[zealous dock]

Idk but that is how it workd

[cursive mist]

I'm wondering the same thing

[dusty osprey]

Do you mean 5Ghz wifi and 2.4GHz, those are the 2 common bands we use

[zealous dock]

Can i friend you and show you

[dusty osprey]

me? i mean sure

[cursive mist]

Who? Me or bkj?

[zealous dock]

Because that is the only way to explane

Both

[dusty osprey]

Oh sure I don't mind i will try helping from the best of my knowledge

[cursive mist]

Fine with me

[tame carbon]

yawn

[dusty osprey]

[unborn sluice]

[dusty osprey]

xD

[tame carbon]

overclock your wifi

[dusty osprey]

yes

how to overclock my wifi

[tame carbon]

turn up dat gain

[dusty osprey]

crystal

can I overclock my IP adress

[lean pebble]

Someone have a recommendation for home nas server ?
Like synology and etc

[unborn sluice]

DIY

[clear igloo]

If you want simple then QNAP is my preferred but if you don't mind DIY then it's going to save you $$

[little schooner]

qnap is the cheaper version of synology and often has better specs @lean pebble

[nimble sable]

i need some suggestion, looking to switch out my Unifi Wifi. It's a nice AP and has soem good functionality but the controller s/w is NOT for me. I din't MIND having smthg that needs to run on a server, but the list of dependencies on that shit is quite concerning (libX*...really?)

[nimble sable]

what @clear igloo said, i ended up throwing smthg together if you have some old mobo/CPU's lying around from upgrades you made (e.g. i just upgraded my mobo/CPU on my desktop so the old CPU and Mobo is just doing nothing and it's not worth it to sell) all the better. throw smthg together and put like FreeNAS on it (I just put FreeBSD, but i'm sure <insert your fave *nix OS here> will be good. Just need to pay for a NAS HD like WD Red

i cannot say enough good things about ZFS though

[peak cloak]

I have a tp link Omada AP, I'm not running the controller, but I have tried it out once. It looks similar to the unifi stuff. Idk much about the dependencies, but it needs JRE, Mongodb, jsvc, and curl

https://static.tp-link.com/2020/202008/20200821/1910012864-Omada SDN Controller User Guide.pdf

[nimble sable]

"but it needs JRE," thats a BIG nope 😦

i have a particularly powerful, if illogical dislike for Java

esp. cuz on my system (FreeBSD) JRE anything ends up pulling in all sorts of nonsense like libX11, freetype fonts and cups...why the hell do i need cups

[peak cloak]

ah ok

idk anything else tbh

[nimble sable]

google wifi sounded like a good idea, but they're not APs they're routers...you CAN bridge mode them but they're intended to replace routers

[peak cloak]

also google

@nimble sable maybe microtik APs

[nimble sable]

microtik makes APs?

hot diggity

[peak cloak]

yeah

@nimble sable https://mikrotik.com/product/cap_ac

[nimble sable]

hmm what are yalls thoughts on just sticking a wifi card into my router?

[peak cloak]

I don't think they have a controller software you can download, but they use their own thing called CAPsman which is on routerOs

and the APs run routerOS

@nimble sable pfsense?

[nimble sable]

yea

[peak cloak]

I dislike software routers as main home routers

[nimble sable]

CAPsman sounds like a really odd superhero ngl

what is a "software router"? (in contrast to its opposite)

[peak cloak]

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CAPsMAN

[peak cloak]

I meant like a machine that isn't dedicated to being a router, so it doesn't have any hardware acceleration

[nimble sable]

oh u mean like running a router on the cloud, or virtualized? yea that's dumb. no i have a dedicated pfsense box...built BY and for pfsense. I thought about throwing my own machine together but jsut ended upbuying a netgate dealio

[peak cloak]

ah ok

one of those netgate boxes?

[nimble sable]

honestly, i may get another netgate dealio rather than throw another one together for my 10Gbe network

yea

[peak cloak]

they are bit expensive though?

[nimble sable]

all in all a case+some extra NICs are gonna set me back $400, and a 10Gbe capable netgate box is like $900

yea they are, but worth it IMO, they're purpose built to be small low power boxes, if you want to do that from scratch it'll be cheaper but require you to get ARM CPU's and those small PSUs etc, not worth the trouble to me

[peak cloak]

this thing looks like a beast

https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs

not too expensive either

[nimble sable]

wow nice

[hollow marlin]

Do you actually need 10gig for FW/routing or switching? Because if its the latter then thats a waste of $900

[nimble sable]

not at all...esp not for routing. otoh I'd like something rack mountable

wud still like a good wifi ap though, I have a cheap unifi right now

preferably one that can do Gigabit

[hollow marlin]

What end point are you tunneling to where you need that kind of throughput?

[lean pebble]

Ya I have but I don't have enough time to test what is wrong with my old i7 computer

[lean pebble]

Diy will be pretty expensive right here in my place.
Here is an example GPU that cost in the US 1500$ here costs 3326$ before tax.

[unborn sluice]

then i assume the nas (pre-built) would also be expensive

leading to the conclusion

more often than not, it's cheaper to DIY

[lean pebble]

That's why I'm looking in Amazon about pre built nas

I just need between 6/8tb right now I thought about synology and add one 8tb seagate ironwolf and 1 ssd for acceleration

[nimble sable]

i know a few of my colleagues@work (non tecchy ppl) who have synology at home and love it, so that's something

[lean pebble]

Or if someone have a recommendation for a good option to host all my 2/4k movies and tv shows for my plex home server it'll be great.

I just think rj45 is faster than usb

This is an old pc with old usb 3 port

First generation of usb 3

[peak cloak]

usb 3.0 is 5gbs

[lean pebble]

The first generation? 🤔

[peak cloak]

faster than 1000Base-T

[lean pebble]

So should I buy external 8tb disk ?

[peak cloak]

eh, you always want redundancy

ZFS

or something similar

[lean pebble]

I don't mind it because I have it on my external plex to

I have 2tb seagate that sitting on my desk for a year now

I have an old dedicated server in my room but it's making alot of noise all the time

HP G6 tower

With raid controller on it

2.5 inch disks cost a lot

And I couldn't find any with 3tb or something

[clear igloo]

Now they're like $20 over their 3.5" counterparts for 2.5" drives

There are a couple 4TB 2.5" drives out now but they are 15mm thick drives

[lean pebble]

I just thought now to get 8x1tb SSDs from teamgroup

And try to reuse this server and find how make it more quite

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F6W1WP3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_lO24FbZJVZZG7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

This one

I need to check if this raid controller is sata or something else

Damn it's sas

[clear igloo]

SATA can work in SAS but not vice versa iirc

[lean pebble]

Are you sure ?

[clear igloo]

I'm pretty sure but I'll need to double check

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/connecting-sata-drive-to-sas-controller-006170en/
Yah, seems I remembered right

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo thats not networking speak

[dusty osprey]

its ok

sysadmin and linux things are very quite near to networking

and they are always discussed here

[little schooner]

@waxen scroll I'm already getting pushed to enroll in my school's masters programs for networking. They can't let me have a break for a little bit after earning my bachelors can they??

[waxen scroll]

For free?

[little schooner]

No, I have to pay out of pocket

[waxen scroll]

Fuck them then

[little schooner]

And my job doesn't cover full tuition, they only cover the difference in cost

[clear igloo]

Get job, acquire currency, make work pay for masters if they want it

[little schooner]

That's still a lot of money

@clear igloo yes

That's what my sister's friend did. The company paid him to get masters in exchange to work for them 2 years or something like that

The job did it because it allowed them to take on different contracts or something

But yeah better to get the company to pay for my masters

Especially when money is tight for me now

[clear igloo]

And a masters degree could make employers think you want lots of money and cause you to miss out on jobs if you lack the experience. Not always true by any means BUT it's possible

[hollow marlin]

God I hate STP

[little schooner]

@hollow marlin I hate how VMware workstation loses my snapshot disk data after going backwards to a 2nd snapshot from a 10th snapshot. Then, I created an additional new snapshot under the 2nd. When I tried to restore back to the 10th snapshot, the vmdk file is no where to be found. I don't know if this is the fault of corsair ssd or software but it almost ruined the following work day for me.

I lost all my progress and had to start from scratch

I stayed up until 1am to fix it so I could leave early next work day

[clear igloo]

I hate when I find an issue and I know it's an issue. I can reproduce it several times, then I go to show it to the support folks or file a bug and I can't reproduce it for them 😠

[little schooner]

Yeah, that's awful. I had to do that for Cisco webex

They couldn't reproduce our camera crashing issue even with their diag tools

Oh wait I read that wrong

But in my case, they couldn't reproduce it

[clear igloo]

Yah, and then they disappear and BOOM it's back

[little schooner]

Yeah no fun.

[clear igloo]

But I'm off for the next week and change so time to decompress and forget about that stuff for a bit 😄

[little schooner]

Yes very nice

[waxen scroll]

@little schooner What's the difference in cost

[little schooner]

@waxen scroll I haven't looked at that. That's what my supervisor was explaining to me though. I'm guessing what they compare it against is the per-credit cost at the university vs. the per credit cost at the college I work at. The college doesn't have the same program available at the university, so I doubt it's based on matching cost of programs existing at both places.

If it is per credit, the different is 600-200 = $400 payback to me per credit

If the degree is 30 credits that's about $12000 in savings

And that makes real tuition cost 6000

Not include fees

I've been in school for a long time. I want a break from school and focus on work

That's not to say I can't learn more stuff on the side

Of course I can

[south blade]

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/routers/pfsense-2-4-5-openvpn-setup anyone know what these different DNS servers are supposed to mean?

"10.0.0.241 — this can provide access to all three of the following"

I don't understand what they mean by that lol

[brazen bay]

Me and my friend can't seem play which uses peer 2 peer connection type

Tekken 7

But when one of us uses nordvpn it works

We both use the same internet provider and are able to play with other ppl

Both me and him have our upnp enabled and shit

Tag me when someone decides to reply

[little schooner]

@south blade meaning .241 offers the services described for .242, .243 and .244 in one package

if you only want dns but not MACE, then you would select .242

[south blade]

Hmmm, so what does using their "Custom Options" make my OpenVPN do?

persist-key
persist-tun
remote-cert-tls server
reneg-sec 0
auth-retry interact
dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.241
dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.243

they list .241 and .243

I mean, I see what you're saying, but since .241 is like all in 1 what are the affects of using those settings lol

I'm kinda just doing as they said to set it up, better to just get rid of one of the dhcp-options and try just 1?

[tawny moat]

Is this a good 10 Gigabit switch ? https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/unmanaged/xs508m

[peak cloak]

any ideas on why my mc server's tps is really bad under ubuntu, but it was better on centos

could it be java 11 vs 8

[peak cloak]

when I switched to java 8 the lag seems to be much better

now constantly at 20 tps

now why is this?

papermc will soon drop support for java 8

I will need to figure out what the issue is

[little schooner]

@south blade There's two DNS addresses in the config for redundancy. You can use only one DNS server if you'd like and remove the 2nd dhcp-option DNS entry

[waxen saddle]

What is TPS?

[unborn sluice]

That per second

[lean pebble]

I can try help you with that

[dusty osprey]

Ticks per second in Minecraft. 20 is like the normal "smooth" rate

[dusty osprey]

Wait, I have run paper with java8 as far as I remmeber

[tulip magnet]

Building my first unRAID NAS. Already put the system together, backed-up my data off of my first single-drive OMV NAS, wiped that drive, installed it and a new identical drive into the SFF rig, purchased unRAID Basic, and now creating my first array. Neat.

[lean pebble]

Well the technician is here now he going to replace their gear I hope it'll be good after this

[tame carbon]

@peak cloak What engine are you using?

HotSpot and OpenJ9 have wildly different performance

java 11's hotspot engine is also a lot faster with mc

And paper dropping support for java 8 is correct

June 2021 afaik

[raw charm]

my NAS just died on me (software wise)

[unborn sluice]

NASn't

[little schooner]

@raw charm the recovery shouldn't be that difficult

[raw charm]

well my GRUB has had no entries and the system has no working kernal...

but im already at the point where im executing sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade in my new install so....

but I already fricked the first install up (no working tabs in the web interface and apt didnt trust anything in sources.list

• I installed the old one without network so one half of the system was missing

luckily I had a hardware raid instead of a software raid

[peak cloak]

wdym by engine, I don't really use java so idk what that means. On ubuntu, the package I used was openjdk-11-jre-headless and openjdk-8-jre-headless.

[unborn sluice]

there we go

it's openjdk

[peak cloak]

Oh in the package desciption it says using hotspot JIT for both

[peak cloak]

should I use something else?

[vale reef]

How do I correctly set my pihole docker container in portainer to have the IP x.x.x.9, while the only IP is currently x.x.x.12? I tried setting it in the network tab of the container and it says "user specified IP address is supported on user defined networks only"

[peak cloak]

wait, set an ip that is separate from the docker host ip, or am I reading it wrong?

[vale reef]

Set a seperate IP from the host but just for the container

[peak cloak]

@vale reef yeah I don't think that's possible

requires mac spoofing I think

[vale reef]

Oh ok

[peak cloak]

maybe there is a way

I wanted to do the same thing a while back, but I never got anywhere

@vale reef https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34714891/assign-lan-ip-address-to-docker-container-different-from-hosts-ip-address

[spare bay]

docker networks are a thing

100% possible

[little schooner]

Yeah I did it once

[peak cloak]

yeah, it is possible (I maybe wasn't looking at it correctly back then)

[little schooner]

But I don't use the docker anymore

[vale reef]

the one thing I am confused on is why is the subnet and ip range have /24 and /25 instead of just /24

docker network create -d macvlan —-subnet 10.0.0.0/24 --ip-range 10.0.0.128/25 —-gateway 10.0.0.1 -o parent=eth0 mynet

[midnight sphinx]

Hello everyone, I'm looking to upgrade my modem. Currently, I have the Zoom 5341J, and my ISP is Charter Spectrum. My package is 25/3, and I was wondering if someone could recommend me a DOCSIS 3.0 modem under $80. I'm considering the Netgear CM600, or the Arris SB6183.

[obsidian token]

Why get a better router with a connection this slow?

[soft copper]

Hi, does it matter which network cable brand you use?

[dusty osprey]

no

type matters

cat 5e, cat6 etc

[zealous dock]

Halp

Do day plz

Wait nvm

[analog nova]

hi guys, I have a question, I just set up a new wifi router to go along with the thing that came from my isp and I noticed that there is like two networks on both 2.4 and 5ghz each

anyone have any idea what they are?

so it's something like this

both are exactly the same and when I turned off the wifi, both are gone

but they have different name and the other one doesn't appear anywhere

it does appear as perhaps "hidden network"

[dusty osprey]

one is a 2.4GHz band, one is 5GHz

they are seprate bands, and each can be set with own names and such.

its there so legacy devices which don't support modern 5GHz can still conenct to the woiofoi

and 5Ghz is usually short ranged while 2.4Ghz goes pretty long

[analog nova]

no they're not

both of those are 2.4Ghz

the same thing is happening on the 5Ghz one

but both have different name

when I searched the name of those it appears that they are the mac address of a tp link router

also, whenever I adjust the smart band forming or what it's called where it can automatically search for the most optimal band, both are sticking to one another like glue both on the 2.4 and 5ghz

weird

[midnight sphinx]

@obsidian token I'm looking to upgrade my modem, for reliability issues. It's not about the speed I'm getting.

[nimble sable]

question for ya'll. how do you guys do media sharing? i currently just have a NAS setup with SMB, but want to try to set smthg up for remote usage. I've tried plex and emby but i don't want o be paying fees (isn't that the whole point of my own server?) or "phoning home"

[clear igloo]

Buy a lifetime plex pass?

[nimble sable]

does plex phone home?

[clear igloo]

Not that I know of

It will "phone home" only in the sense of external authentication, ie someone signing in with their plex account that you've granted access. Beyond that it will fetch metadata for media but you can disable that easily

[nimble sable]

oh nice

[split storm]

Plex ftw

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo too expensive for me

I use plex free with other suckers who paid plex on their servers

[primal ice]

look into jellyfish

nvm that. that wasn't it. now I have to find it again.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/ jellyfin* was close :p

[little schooner]

@soft copper quality of the cable matters too. Some brands, like the one I bought from, made a shielded cat6 but had internal cable issues that would make it downgrade link speed from 1gbps to 100mbps

My own cable did better and solved the problem

Maybe it was a CCA type

[short oriole]

is anyone here knowledgable about how mDNS work in apple devices? it gets too chatty on my local network on 244.0.0.251, blasting mdns broadcasts almost every 5 seconds. when i inspect packets, it seems to create links between devices guessing it creates mesh network?

[versed nebula]

which one is better surfshark vpn or pia ?

[tall pagoda]

One main and one guest?

[versed nebula]

just dont buy any modem with an intel puma 6-7 chipset

[analog nova]

guest wifi is switched off @tall pagoda

[tall pagoda]

Chromecast does make a hidden network i know

[midnight sphinx]

@versed nebula I know that part, do you have any recommendations?

[magic rivet]

Maybe a silly question. Is it possible to use 5G internet instead of my slow phone line? I mean to play games and do other things.

[midnight sphinx]

Some ISPs do have cellular data plans, yes.

There are 4G and 5G offerings

[tall pagoda]

Why not? I have always a good connection on both 4G and Cable

[magic rivet]

I get an Unlimited 5G broadband from Vodafone.

Unfortunately no any other option I’m my house :/

[tall pagoda]

On TruckersMP I have 16ms on Cable and 23ms ping on 4G

[magic rivet]

After the 29th I can give you more update how it goes.

[magic rivet]

22ms is not bad at all right?

[desert ferry]

Anyone got idea for CHEAP wireless router that supports VLAN tags? most of cheap ones don't and even if they do - it's 100Mbit on WAN which is

1. lame
2. ridiculous
3. having 300Mbit on wireless is also pointless then
   THX

[topaz temple]

I finally set up my Edgerouter Pro, but it says that "Internet connectivity test failed". Is there any setting on my router that I need to toggle? Because the switch is right now treated as a normal device on my router.

[obsidian token]

Not bad not good

[hollow marlin]

@short oriole it's just discovery services like air drop. Its chatty so devices can discovery quickly. It's the same with Google home. It has no impact on your network.

[tall pagoda]

Just as 3.6 röntgen

[peak cloak]

mtik

[desert ferry]

anything specific from mikrotik you have in mind?

[peak cloak]

https://mikrotik.com/product/RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC#fndtn-downloads

this?

I never used it

but it runs routerOS which can do alot

[desert ferry]

i prepared "diagram" because i have feeling that I didn't explain it enough or something and people propose solutions i'm not looking for

[peak cloak]

http://demo.mt.lv/

[desert ferry]

NSFW (sorry for lack of visio 😄 )

[peak cloak]

@desert ferry why not get Access points instead?

[desert ferry]

i was browsing through some APs for last 30m (they seem like best solutionhere)

but majority of them have 100Mbit WAN intarface

[peak cloak]

I have an EAP225

[desert ferry]

or even they are just wireless repeaters

[peak cloak]

you only really need a router if you are doing NAT or routing

for wifi it's just AP's

[desert ferry]

this EAP225 you mean TP-LINK AC1200?

[peak cloak]

no

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/ceiling-mount-access-point/eap225/

ubiquity is also desent

microtik also makes access points

[desert ferry]

checked out specs - this TP is awesome, VLANs, PoE and all

but pricetag on it is a killer (not making fun, I need a lot of those so it REALLY matters)

i was hoping these little APs (like 4xAA battery charger) can do all that, but so far no luck. Best I foud is PoE support

[tall pagoda]

I have too EAP225

[peak cloak]

@desert ferry there are also these in-wall ones

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/omada-eap/#wall-plate-ap

if you are doing it by room, maybe these would be good

some even have an ethernet port

[desert ferry]

this looks dope, let me check availability here and pricing

[tall pagoda]

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/742823/tp-link-omada-eap225.html

[desert ferry]

1 gbit in 1gbit out is all I would need

[tall pagoda]

I paid 54 euros for it. But price increased

[desert ferry]

like i said - i need A LOT, so trying to overthink it, not overpay 😛

[tall pagoda]

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/742823/tp-link-omada-eap225.html