networking

[peak cloak]

yeah, but your wifi spectrum isn't congested

[tame carbon]

hAP ac2 is like $60, add additional APs cost like 60 bucks as well

software configuration is quite nice

manage it as a single network

[autumn bay]

I want a all in one so i can just plug it in and done

[tame carbon]

then get unify

its more expensive

but easier to setup

[autumn bay]

The router i have is what the isp gave me and it sucks

[tame carbon]

but I've helped multiple people set up mikrotik devices in this channel before :P

so that is also an option

[autumn bay]

No idea

I just need a new router and idk if i made a right decision on buying the asus

[tame carbon]

@autumn bay https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2#fndtn-specifications

these things can do like 2gbit routing over ethernet

it does have wifi onboard, but you can add more APs always

[autumn bay]

I have a 300mb connection

[tame carbon]

@autumn bay yeah but these things are relatively cheap by comparison

its only wifi 5.. but we can set up multiple channels

[autumn bay]

hmm idk

I want wifi 6 i have all my laptops and phones supporting wifi 6

So what companies make good home use routers ?

Linksys was good i heard or netgear

[tame carbon]

what do you even need 300mbit to your phone for xD

I have 250/250M here

and I barely use wireless :P

I got everything wired up here, more reliable

[autumn bay]

I got everything on wifi

I just want it to be more reliable than my current router

It puts everything on 5 ghz and then i can watch youtube or do anything on my pc because it disconnects every 40 min

[tame carbon]

I've got like 100 days uptime on my AP, never have any issues, idk

[autumn bay]

Not the drivers or the wifi card checked that the router doesnt have a 24 channel i does it automatically and there is no way of changing it

[tame carbon]

like, I used to have all tplink here, but those kept having signal issues

or refusing to connect

[autumn bay]

My house it pretty small

[tame carbon]

there are certain limits to bandwidth

and also depends on how noisy the environment is

if you have other APs in the area

5GHz is already more stable, but doesnt propegate well through walls

[autumn bay]

Yeah but the point is my router is literally trash no options no channel scanning nothing i just need a recommendation

[ornate jungle]

the AX56U most definitely does have a 2.4GHz channel - you probably need to fiddle with the settings in the ASUS MerlinWRT interface though.
https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Networking-IoT-Servers/WiFi-6/All-series/RT-AX56U/techspec/

[tame carbon]

mtik: https://i.imgur.com/x5hMEOm.png

https://i.imgur.com/51QWVIc.png

[autumn bay]

I know that one does but my current one doesn’t switch any devices to it only the ones that only do 2.4gjz

[ornate jungle]

You probably need to turn off the Smart Connect (aka Bandsteering) feature. This will let you, the user, decide whether you want your devices connecting to the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz network. As @tame carbon pointed out, 2.4GHz goes through walls better albeit at slower speeds, while 5GHz works best with line of sight and at faster speeds. Not all devices play nicely with bandsteering, which can result in drops as they hop between the bands.

[autumn bay]

There is no option to do that

[tame carbon]

the solution:

more antennas

xD

[ornate jungle]

no no, hold up, I got chu: more extenders. preferably the $20 variety. 😄 (jk jk don't do this.)

[tame carbon]

phew

I was about to raise an insult

[ornate jungle]

I troubleshoot consumer grade + some low-level ISP gear for a living (among many other IT related consulting tasks)... extenders/boosters are almost always bad ideas.

[autumn bay]

So what router do you recommend i need a all in one type of thing

[tame carbon]

I'm biased af

I only run mikrotik here

[ornate jungle]

I don't understand why your router doesn't have the option ASUS lists on their website @autumn bay -- have you tried logging into the admin interface to check? (can you throw a screenshot here, with sensitive information blacked out of course.)

[autumn bay]

One of my family members said to get a ubiqiti AP but i just want a nee router

My current one not the asus

I got a free isp one it doesnt have any features

Everything is set to auto no way of changing it

[ornate jungle]

Oh, OK I was confused there - yeah no, most ISP gear is just bad. Or rather, the hardware could be good, but the firmware/software running on the hardware is crippled.

[tame carbon]

@autumn bay how many rooms do you need to cover? and do you have the option of running a cable to an access point?

[autumn bay]

3

No cables

[tame carbon]

that does limit your options

[autumn bay]

Yep

[tame carbon]

and probably wont get you full speed access all over the house

no matter what you buy

[autumn bay]

I just need reliability

Something that doesnt need to be replaced has huge ping spikes no matter who is using or how many people

[thick minnow]

How long does dns take to process?

[odd pier]

If a wifi AP can't cover three rooms in a flat I would think twice buying it.

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow up to 24 hours usually

new records generally get passed quickly

[rocky badge]

Depends on TTL

[tame carbon]

@rocky badge not every ISP honors those

[rocky badge]

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

And that matters why?

Google, Cloudflare, Quad9, Cisco honors TTL

[tame carbon]

not everyone uses those

[thick minnow]

I setup a hostname for my minecraft server

Don’t like giving people my IP address 😳

[ornate jungle]

Uh.... unless you configured a reverse proxy, people will still be able to get your IP from an A-record hostname.

[rocky badge]

If you setup an A record....

[odd pier]

well a DNS entry maps to an IP if you setup an A-Record

so a nslookup would show

[rocky badge]

or a SRV....because that points to an A record lmao

[odd pier]

^

[peak cloak]

Yep

[tame carbon]

anyone with a shovel can d0x you

[peak cloak]

You can just dig a hostname

[thorny vector]

All DNS leads back to AWS

lol

Just a comment on how prolific AWS (and cloudflare and akamai are)

I occasionally do website bug bounties, and 80% of the time I end up having to fight off a CDN's protection before I can actually do any testing on the site

[rocky badge]

Then its doing its job?

[odd pier]

I mean the protection is there fore a reason.

to keep bots out and humans in. Just because it takes 5 seconds to check you doesn't make it useless

[rocky badge]

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/what-we-do/

https://blob.rocks/ksGOZTdTnw.png

Akamai does ddos/attack mitigation

So does Cloudflare

and then with AWS you can use CloudFront and AWS Shield

If you wanted to protect your service against attacks, you'd be tunneling your traffic to them and letting them proxy it for you

[thorny vector]

Yeah, but when the scope of the testing is the site itself, I'm not here to test/verify the CDN, I'm trying to test the site

Making put waits in all my tests wastes time for me and the client

[rocky badge]

in the case of AWS, it would stay in your AWS VPC and ingress/egress at the Cloudfront/Internet gateway

[odd pier]

well then tell the client?

[autumn bay]

So what router should i get thats a lot better than the standard one and has mu-mimo

[odd pier]

I mean the client is the one that set this up in the first place

[thorny vector]

I pass it up, but I'm not on the customer interaction side of things.

[odd pier]

well then you just need to accept the fact that this is the situation

that's how things sometimes work in the real world. Customers are slow and don't change simple things

and if that slows down your testing, well raise the bill

simple as that

[thorny vector]

Might be able to do that when I work in the private sector. For now, my salary is ever-unchanging.

[lean pebble]

😆

Fighting with CDN can be pain.

Especially when you pentesting a website

[autumn bay]

do i just get a ubiquiti AP ?

[little schooner]

An engenius and mikrotik ap would do just as well

[rocky badge]

They want WiFi 6

[autumn bay]

yolo i bought a ubiquiti AP and a poe switch

hopefully that fixes it not wifi 6 but meh

when i move in to my own house i will just do AP everywhere and Ethernet runs all over

[autumn bay]

ubiquiti in the uk has the same price as all the ones u said

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge I use them

DDOS and dns cache

[rocky badge]

cf?

[waxen scroll]

Akamai

[rocky badge]

Ah

yeah

[waxen scroll]

Also you don't tunnel traffic to them. They send it to you and announce bgp for you

When traffic exits you to the requestor it goes out your internet untunneled

[rocky badge]

Yeah for Akamai

Cloudflare you tunnel to them

well, that's an option

[plucky cargo]

Anyone tried to build ipv6 to ipv4 tunnel by themselves on aws?

Tunnelbroker resulted in high latency and making my youtube region different

Problem with aws was that public ipv4 was not detected on eth0 device and I wasn’t able to use 6to4 program on github

[thorny vector]

@plucky cargo what GitHub project?

[plucky cargo]

This one

[peak cloak]

You selected a server closest to you right?

Or is there no server close to you?

[plucky cargo]

I reside in Seoul, but nearest server is japan

[peak cloak]

Ah

Makes sense

[plucky cargo]

resulting in 232ms ping

just curious if changing to Vultr would make the whole process more easier

I used more than three hours just configuring vps

[tame carbon]

@peak cloak can you change the country information on an HE tunnel?

turns out, if I try to go to netflix

it puts me on US netflix

[lean pebble]

.

[peak cloak]

I thought it's based on the tunnel endpoint location

[lean pebble]

I think all ipv6 addresses that comes from tunnelbrokers are registered in the united states that's why you get netflix US.
Because netflix geo location block working by IP address and checks where the IP is registered.

[little schooner]

i checked on my smartphone and saw that my carrier moved me to an ipv6 address for the data connection

progress

[thick minnow]

meanwhile in my country.........

still IPV4

[velvet shoal]

new wifi go brr

[peak cloak]

I have att mobile and I've have ipv6 for a while

[clear igloo]

If only ATT could implement prefix delegation properly I'd be happy 😛
(on their home internet)

[little schooner]

i have sprint

they are slower at any upgrade

[lone sun]

😃 No worries, IPV6 is overrated anyway and is a pain in the ass trying to decipher when troubleshooting. Some people believe IPV6 was unnecessary anyway considering they have already been using NAT to make new addresses with IPV4.

[thick minnow]

I know, it was a joke but thanks anyway

[lone sun]

😃 Sure thing...but it makes me wonder if IPV6 really was a waste of time. The main reason why they created it was because they ran out of addresses with IPV4. But they ran out over 20 years ago and have been NATing ever since. 🙃

I shutter to think they are trying to replace IPV4 entirely with that pile of shit. My head spins just looking at all those different addresses in IPV6.

[clear igloo]

Because CGNAT is so fun 🙄

[peak cloak]

You are joking right?

[clear igloo]

IPv6 is a different way of thinking but it's not a "pile" as you describe

[peak cloak]

Yeah, you can't directly translate things from v4 to v6

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/lufi3s/how_important_are_social_skills_as_a_sysadmin/

oof.

[clear igloo]

Yah, soft skills are very important

[waxen scroll]

i'd argue we're getting to a point where the no soft skill sysadmin wont be employed

[thorny vector]

Especially in 1-2 sysadmin shops.

There’s no more gremlins in the back

[rocky badge]

I wish my ISP did IPv6 😦

I'm using HE's tunnel broker rn

Doesn't really affect latency most of the time tho

https://blob.rocks/fCCcXImyez.png

[waxen scroll]

that feel when ur isp uses new fiber tech but comcast has had v6 for years

dont worry @rocky badge ive successfully failed at every company I work for to get an ipv6 project off the ground

an ISP has no excuse but companies who are working just fine without it do

@hollow marlin task failed successfully.

[peak cloak]

Same

Although I haven't deployed it until I get a better router or they fix it

Because if I have HWNAT enabled ipv6 speeds are unusable

[lone sun]

This is why I hope it never totally migrates over to IPV6, for the sake of troubleshooting alone. I'm perfectly fine with it staying exactly as it is with 6in4 tunneling for instance. 🤞....If the latency is hardly even margin of error, I could care less for it. 😆

[rocky badge]

[oak night]

Can i ask a question about Virtual machines here?

[lone sun]

🤷‍♂️ Well, yes...I have OracleVM, but I haven't used it in months.

[oak night]

Ok then I'm getting a server for myself and i would like to run Windows, linux and Xpenology on that server. How should i virtualize them? Type 1 or type 2? If type 1 what should i pick(Esxi, Proxmox Windows Hyper-V)? (This is my first time using a server with Vms)

[clear igloo]

Don't you know, in IPv6 you can only troubleshoot blindfolded and letters are spooky

[lone sun]

😨 Very spooky

[lone sun]

🤷‍♂️ Well, Type 1 is the better performing type of VM, if performance is what you are after. Don't ask me about which one you should pick though.

I have no idea

[oak night]

Ok thanks

[thorny vector]

ESXi is the industry standard

[lone sun]

I just know Type 1 is basically what's used in enterprise environments, and even on game consoles I recall. So I'd be willing to bet on that.

[thorny vector]

Games consoles don't use any kind of virtualization really.

[lone sun]

oh

[oak night]

So would you recommend that ?

[thorny vector]

Downside to ESXi is that the free license has limitations. Most homelabs don't really run into them, but its something to consider

[lone sun]

Type 2 is for layman chumps like me. 😔

[oak night]

Well i would use the Free version

[thorny vector]

The dev license (which I use) is 200 USD/year

[oak night]

And the cheapest?

[thorny vector]

Dev license is the cheapest. Enterprise/commercial licenses start scaling out. If you're looking for free, look at the free tier limitations, and if they're too restrictive, then try out proxmox

[rocky badge]

[rocky badge]

Xbox uses Hyper V

[oak night]

Ok i'll use the cheapest (FREE)

[lone sun]

I'd have to be doing some deadly serious I.T work to be spending 200 bucks a year on that, hell to the naw. 😬

[thorny vector]

200$ a year is great, what do you mean? Cheaper than most streaming services.

[lone sun]

Maybe, but I already have enough bills to pay though. 😬

[lone sun]

🤔 I recall they did. I thought the Xbox's O.S/main screen is basically a giant type 1 Hyper Visor.

[rocky badge]

home/UI runs in a VM, games run in a VM

Its running the core Windows kernel but with a lot of stuff gutted out

[lone sun]

🤔 Right....and they STILL managed to make the base O.S system files over 100 gbs. 🙃 ..Although I heard all that space is actually reserved to be used as extra memory for game developers.

[oak night]

But what about Proxmox?

I dont know what to choose between Esxi and Proxmox

[thorny vector]

Try esxi, its easy to learn, and has a lot of nice features to learn once you get more familiar with it

[oak night]

Ok i'll give it a try

For a server like that are 16 gigs of Ram enough?

[thorny vector]

Yeah. Don't expect to do anything big, but that's fine for a dev box

I used to have a travel server with that much memory

[oak night]

Ok

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo Why UPS slow :( I want my switch

[clear igloo]

They aren't done drop kicking your box around yet

[rocky badge]

its been sitting in their distribution center since Saturday

[oak night]

don't hate me but i will install windows just For IIS and its easy configs

[lone sun]

I'm guessing someone either lost it, or broke it, and they have to replace it. It happens a lot by my experience working for Amazon.

They aren't going to tell you that of course. 😶

[thorny vector]

I love windows. It's a great solution for a lot of stuff.

Every OS is a tool, and every tool has a place.

[rocky badge]

Well, it got their distribution center here at 7AM Saturday, which is past when they usually go out for delivery

[hollow marlin]

Don't forget only latency matters and NAT has no associated problems what so ever

[rocky badge]

And they don't really deliver on Sunday

For normal UPS ground

So I expected Monday at the latest, they originally said Tuesday

@clear igloo Fucking tax & shipping though oh my god

[lone sun]

🤐 Yeah, someone fucked up in the supply chain at some point. It breaking, or getting lost is pretty typical.

[rocky badge]

The product is $29.00

I paid $45.81

[oak night]

Not the only one

[rocky badge]

https://blob.rocks/KBGCukd1jR.png

[lone sun]

Sometimes, the stowers will misplace the product in the wrong bin, and the order picker marks it "missing" when it isn't. Stuff like that happens a lot. 🙃 ...human error.

[rocky badge]

Finally gonna have a PoE powered switch though

small too...I didn't need the 8 port switch in my room lol

[lone sun]

The only time I'd ever buy me a switch is if I plan on getting a L2 translating WIFI bridge. But my wifi works pretty well, so no need to waste my money, with me using strictly ethernet.

In other words, its wifi, but not really wifi, since it still ends up using 802.3 ethernet frames. WIFI is ass liquid for gaming unless its enterprise quality.

[peak cloak]

You got the flex mini as well

[rocky badge]

ya

[peak cloak]

Im having issues setting it up correctly but it's mostly my fault

I was so close but I forgot to change management vlan to all

@lone sun I honestly don't know if you are trolling or not sometimes

[waxen saddle]

I’m not even sure he knows what he’s talking about

[peak cloak]

fr

[tribal ferry]

Do I need to console into MicroTik switches for initial setup or can they be setup over the network?

[peak cloak]

over network pretty sure

[tribal ferry]

just wanted to know if i need a console cable before i purchase

[peak cloak]

you can use their winbox tool so you can do it over L2

[tribal ferry]

ah alright

[humble cloak]

I mean, I play over WiFi cuz according to my dad “I don’t need cable when you have wifi”.
Most games is give or take 20-30ms ping and still reaching 254 down 25 up

On a subscription for 250/25

But indeed, at school we have WiFi 6 and I have about 16ms delay, with gigabit down/up

(I also have a WiFi 6 laptop since last month)

[thick minnow]

What is the best way to get an internet connection from our house, trough our yard to a warehouse behind our yard?

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow point to point

[thick minnow]

You can just put those on your roof right?

[lone sun]

🤔 Well that's not bad at all actually. I personally just had a terrible experience gaming on wifi in NBA 2K especially. Never going back to it again unless its an L2 translating bridge. And that would make no sense at all since I'm right next to the modem. 🙃 .....Ethernet cable is all I need. 🙂 👍 👍

[ruby bramble]

Does anybody know how to reset a unifi ap?

[humble cloak]

It was Rainbow Six Siege that I mainly play lol

Players were visually stuttering even with 121fps

[thick minnow]

next to ethernet port

theres a button

[ruby bramble]

How many seconds to hold on the ap pro

[thick minnow]

until it starts blinking or something

just press it with an simcard remove tool

[thick minnow]

more than five seconds

led light shuts off after that

[ruby bramble]

It still won’t adopt

[thick minnow]

whats the problem

[ruby bramble]

It won’t adopt?

[stiff panther]

Any idea why my haproxy is extremely slow?

takes like 15-20 seconds to resopond

[tame carbon]

@ruby bramble you know there's a manual for these things right? :D

[ruby bramble]

It doesn’t work

[peak cloak]

modem?? You need a router

[tame carbon]

@lone sun wifi is just garbage in general

nothing beats wired ethernet

[humble cloak]

wifi 6 is a big step forward tho

watch me play rainbow six siege in class with 12ms ping over wifi

over 802.11ax

[tame carbon]

@humble cloak oddly enough, I'm using a hAP ac2 here, which uses wifi 5

and I get 1ms latency added to my 7ms on wired. Through a brick wall.

but its a bit jittery (3ms) compared to lan, which is 0.5ms

[plucky cargo]

wifi sucks after changing my firmware to OpenWRT :p

[peak cloak]

kinda expected

can't take advantage of optimized software for your specific hardware

kinda don't like openwrt for this reason

just get a good router

and then a good AP

no wifi router

[tame carbon]

or get gear that does remote wifi management

[plucky cargo]

i do have good router

i mean descent router

[peak cloak]

what is it?

[plucky cargo]

I just need it for ipv6 tunneling

EFM ipTIME A8004T-XR this one

its Korean brand

[peak cloak]

this?

[tame carbon]

that looks like a fridge

with handles at the top

I'd hit my head if that was ceiling mounted xD

[plucky cargo]

yes

its "decent"

its somewhere in the middle

[peak cloak]

seems like a bad ISP wireless router

[plucky cargo]

its $100 router wdym

[peak cloak]

features wise and everything

you said it couldn't do a tunnel

without openwrt which degraded perf

[stone drift]

im not an expert on networking and like mesh wifi thingies

but is a tp-link deco AX3000 good?

[tame carbon]

experts probably wouldnt use mesh

[stone drift]

eh

these seem to do very good

they do become a bit warm

[tame carbon]

129 bucks still expensive

[stone drift]

ye

but i got them for free

[tame carbon]

and tplink... lol, does only the most basic of things

[stone drift]

so whatev

[peak cloak]

wireless mesh kinda sucks

[stone drift]

they do better than the router i have so who cares

[tame carbon]

I also find the 3gbit speed suspicious

3gbit what. with what config?

[clear igloo]

3gbit wireless in the lab under perfect conditions with all combined radios

[tame carbon]

[plucky cargo]

yeah

that was my best choice at that time :p

[tame carbon]

@clear igloo yeah but what about routing lol. The routers they sell with 2.5G interfaces, kinda cap out around 1.7G

[clear igloo]

shhhhh

[hollow marlin]

But how are you going to sell wifi without big numbers?

[tame carbon]

@hollow marlin or any consumer routing gear for that matter

since its all equally awful, probably needs that PR pollish

[hollow marlin]

Well they typically just show the aggregate for wifi, I have not seen many advertise routing performance because its mostly trash

[tame carbon]

:^)

@hollow marlin do you know what is up with the whole low latency wifi 6 stuff?

because I get 1ms latency on my hAP ac2

wireless (2 brick walls inbetween me and AP)

[hollow marlin]

Wifi 6 is all about improving high density. Slap 40-50 clients on wifi 5 and you'll see the latency spike, wifi 6 improves on that with OFDMANMOP

[tame carbon]

the other day people here wanted a wifi AP recommendation, and were adamant they needed wifi 6

[peak cloak]

or in a congested area also with many routers/AP?

[hollow marlin]

Less about improving total bandwidth, more on smaller, even per application speeds

[tame carbon]

and I just wonder... below 10 clients, its just unnessesary though?

[hollow marlin]

Little improvements at such low density

[tame carbon]

right, so for SOHO, it still doesnt make sense then

I guess it would be nice if you have a big conference room

with many employee smartphones and laptops

[vestal sundial]

For modern office yeah. Many work laptops don't support wifi 6

[clear igloo]

QRSTUV don't forget it

[hollow marlin]

😆

[tame carbon]

ding

it took me that long to get it

stupid acronyms

people named a company after that

[hollow marlin]

I still am waiting on ROS v7 to fix where wave 2 is supported on 256mb devices but apparently its not all. I have 2 256mb AC2s and want to give it a shot updating. That said I do not have any issues on wave 1

[tame carbon]

@hollow marlin memory ?

the one I have, only comes with 128M

damn, they have an old kernel https://i.imgur.com/YnLjJjI.png

[vestal sundial]

2012 😬

[tame carbon]

I knew rOS was based on a linux kernel, just didnt expect it to be that old

[hollow marlin]

They released some with 256mb "accidentally", I have 2 of them with 256.

[tame carbon]

@hollow marlin collector's item

[hollow marlin]

Yeah 1 is my main and the other is still boxed when the time comes. I have 4 total from my previous job so 2 in use now, 2 standby

The 2 standby are global versions too, so pretty much unlocked spectrum vs the US models

[coarse storm]

is going from 2mbps down to 150 gonna be like a life changing difference? 😂

[thick minnow]

how is 150 lower than 2 mbps

and 2 is really slow

[peak cloak]

yes

[shrewd needle]

anyone ever set up a network folder with an hp printer for scans?

[tame carbon]

@shrewd needle networked printers I'd do with CUPS, Scanning with SANE

https://www.cups.org/
http://www.sane-project.org/

@shrewd needle though if you are on a windows system, you might be able to just add the printer as a multifunction device, and use the scanner directly

[pseudo hawk]

im looking for a nice home office server rack, 33in. deep, anyone got any suggestions?

[shrewd needle]

thx

[peak cloak]

honestly thinking of maybe getting a ER-4

already familiar with the cli with it

but want something Cavium based

Not MediaTek based which is what is causing issues

yes, GUI kinda sucks but I'm already used to the cli

or an ER-3 lite

but that has no SFP

[tame carbon]

@peak cloak how much is that ER-4 even?

[peak cloak]

200

[tame carbon]

oof

why not a tik? :D

[peak cloak]

will probobly go er -3

because I'm already familiar with the cli

idk

maybe a tik

[tame carbon]

the branding on the website for the ER-4

somehow reminds me of apple

https://i.imgur.com/wusgCxe.png

is it the font?

[peak cloak]

yeah

oh I saw front

lol

[tame carbon]

xD

[peak cloak]

unifi kinda sucks, but their edgemax lineup isn't too bad

tik is tempting with price though

urghh

I can get the Lite used for a pretty good price though

er-4 for 145 w/ shipping

and with rack mount

tempting

[tame carbon]

3.4 million packets/second?

hold on

5 million on the RB4011

that's at smallest packet size

[stable warren]

I use the edgerouter lite 3 and it does 500/50 fine.

[peak cloak]

yeah it should especially with hardware acceleration on

I forgot how fast my er-x can route

[tame carbon]

I managed to route between two subnets with 10G

with fastpath disabled lol

[stable warren]

and it doesn't matter what i throw at it, i haven't seen it go past 25% load

[peak cloak]

mikrotik price is nice, edgerouter's familiarity is also nice

[stable warren]

i got it for free

[tame carbon]

at full load on my NAS, it sees maybe 10% load https://i.imgur.com/mMNY1hW.png

[stable warren]

and everything beats a shit ISP modem

[peak cloak]

nice

[tame carbon]

when internet is maxed out, it uses 1-2%

[peak cloak]

well it's a router

for one

also I plan on making a bunch of firewall rules

[stable warren]

well the modem was router+modem if that's what you aiming at?

[peak cloak]

firewall slows it down

[stable warren]

put it in bridge mode now

[peak cloak]

yeah

I never got a modem

[tame carbon]

if you can configure PPP on your router

[stable warren]

wasn't even able to set a custom dns after last patch my ISP did

[peak cloak]

fiber ftw

[tame carbon]

you get it as good as you can

[stable warren]

cable :(

[tame carbon]

My ISP literally just installed a singlemode fiber patch box in my attic

[stable warren]

next option is DSL and that only goes to 20/2mbit lol when lucky

[tame carbon]

the package in the mail contained a 3 meter patch lead and an SFP module

[stable warren]

nice

[tame carbon]

but I'm using my own media converter

[stable warren]

if only, i got fiber at the end of my street

[tame carbon]

to go onto RJ45

[stable warren]

but connecting costs me 7500 Euro/200-month.. for i believe 100/100

so nope

[tame carbon]

I use the SFP+ port on my router for my LAN

[stable warren]

I use a Juniper EX4200 48p POE as switch :P

[tame carbon]

nice

https://i.imgur.com/gZoI4m2.png

I had to disable 6to4 :(

it was putting me on US netflix

and they don't have rick and morty for some reason

[peak cloak]

no native v6?

I thought your ISP was perfect

[tame carbon]

no they only provide v4 services at this time

but they peer with HE

so ping is the same

i get 7ms to dns server on v6

same as on v4

[stable warren]

i get no IPV6 in bridge mode

[tame carbon]

my WAN address is just a DHCP client on a vlan

and IPTV is another vlan with multicast

[peak cloak]

maybe havn't set it up correctly?

[stable warren]

i can do nothing about it, all in the ISP's hands

there are 0.0 options for me

[peak cloak]

in edgemax all ipv6 is in cli

oh you asked the ISP?

[stable warren]

nah cba, happy it works

[tame carbon]

in rOS you just add the v6 package https://i.imgur.com/FvkQNbM.png

and this menu item appears

[stable warren]

My modem doesn't give out anything

[fallen wind]

is it just me or have ubiquiti turned into a bag of dicks?

Just updated the controller after it being broken for ages to add a new AP, and it helpfully tells me my 3? year old outdoor AP is now EOL and i can get stuffed

[peak cloak]

yeah I've heard that

that's why unifi is eh

[stable warren]

I thought so already but confirmed it, my ISP doesn't have IPV6 when modem is changed to bridged mode...

[peak cloak]

edgemax is still alright

[fallen wind]

I mean, the AP's certainly work, this controller has been broken for a year

and the two AP's have happily chugged along just fine

[stable warren]

What's wrong with unifi controller?

[fallen wind]

it was installed on a PFSense router

and shat itself when PFSense upgraded

[peak cloak]

well, you really shoudln't do that

[fallen wind]

some issue with the package manager

[peak cloak]

pfsense is meant just for routing

not for also being your controller

[fallen wind]

i've pulled the backup and installed it on my laptop instead for now

so i've managed to add the new AP and its all happy again

[stable warren]

i run it on a simple J1900

on windows 10, which also serves as a file server

works just fine for me

[fallen wind]

My router was a chinese mini-PC with a N3160

[peak cloak]

I only have one unfi device, which is the usw flex mini because it's like the only managed poe powered switch that is affortable

[fallen wind]

but it broke very randomly at the weekend

[peak cloak]

and I just turn on the unfi controller on my pc whenever I need to change the config

[stable warren]

How much was that @peak cloak ? I paid 60 euro's for my Juniper EX4200 which is also managed :P

[peak cloak]

like 30 bucks

[fallen wind]

it outright refused to boot PFSense from the SSD, but would boot a USB stick just fine, i assumed the SSD had died

[peak cloak]

I needed it to be poe-powered

[stable warren]

and how many ports?

[peak cloak]

not for it to output poe

[stable warren]

mine is also

[peak cloak]

5

[stable warren]

oh ok

i c

[fallen wind]

until i put it in another PC and PFSense booted just fine

[peak cloak]

@stable warren I needed it to distribute ethernet on the second floor

[stable warren]

well you can't beat 48p poe for 60 euro's :P unless you got it for free :)

i think the edgerouter X or something is able to do that also

[peak cloak]

only passive poe

[stable warren]

not sure about that

[peak cloak]

I don't want to mess with passive

[stable warren]

installed a bunch of them and they do their jobs fine

[peak cloak]

no active poe

[fallen wind]

I'm fed up with PFSense now, going to try Untangle

[peak cloak]

get yourself a hardware router

vyos is also nice

no webgui though

all cli

[stable warren]

pff

the Juniper i got only does serial console :P

[fallen wind]

i prefer a software based router

[peak cloak]

why?

[tame carbon]

mikrotik is also quite good in the lower segment

sharp prices for good performance

[fallen wind]

because like this weekend when the hardware shat tiself, i was back up and running in 20mins using a random old PC

[quiet cairn]

I've got a Telus modem/router with 5ghz high and low channels. What's the difference?

[stable warren]

I think the edgerouter 3 lite is underrated, easy to use, easy to install and there's enough documentation for advanced options

[tame carbon]

@quiet cairn I'm not sure Telus even knows

there's no such thing as high and low channels

[peak cloak]

on the otherhand hardware is tailored to run what it needs to and is optimized and power efficent

[fallen wind]

yeah, i've tried both over the years

but keep coming back to Linux

[quiet cairn]

Ikr, but each option gives me different options for channels and bandwidth

[tame carbon]

@quiet cairn could be channel width

[fallen wind]

(which realistically is what many "hardware" routers run anyway)

[peak cloak]

only thing is, it doesn't have SFP

[peak cloak]

well pfsense is bsd

and so is untangle I think?

[fallen wind]

yeah which is why i got fed up with it

Untangle is Debian

[peak cloak]

ahh ok

[tame carbon]

rOS runs a custom linux kernel

[fallen wind]

BSD is familiar enough that you think you know what your doing

but different enough that you dont

😆

FreeNAS gave me rage for the same reason

[tame carbon]

^

its like on apple

[fallen wind]

Now i just run ZFS on Linux

[tame carbon]

basic shell commands, ur cool

but anything that has to do with the system itself: GL.

[fallen wind]

i moved house recently and spent literal hours trying to get PFSense to work with an iPhones USB ethernet

in the end i booted a debian live usb and had basic internet up in about 15minutes

So i'll give Untangle a go and see how i get on

[quiet cairn]

Is there any way to improve the 2.4ghz band? I live in an apartment and all channels I have access to are saturated

[peak cloak]

not really

ethernet

[quiet cairn]

Ethernet isn't really an option, and I have a few older devices (chromecast, google home) that only work on the 2.4 band and lose connection once in a while

[peak cloak]

more APs?

[quiet cairn]

I'd have to buy another router for that and bridge through for that though

[fallen wind]

why do you need another router to add an AP?

[quiet cairn]

My only AP is the shitty router/modem combo from my IP

[peak cloak]

you can just another AP

[fallen wind]

so turn its WiFi off and setup a decent AP

[peak cloak]

or just have 2

[fallen wind]

dont need to change the router

[peak cloak]

no, why?

[fallen wind]

i'm agreeing with you 😛

[peak cloak]

oh

lol

I read it as dont you need to change the router

[hollow marlin]

I wouldn't even take a 4200 for free, no way I am listening to that things fans nor want to pay for its power consumption.

[fallen wind]

Most POE switches are a bit whirry

is the 4200 especially bad?

[hollow marlin]

4200 is terrible for noise. Crap chipset that runs quite hot

Well my EX2200-c is passive, but only 12 ports, but the newer 2300-24/48 are loud but with a Nocutua replacements bring it down a bit

Enterprise gear at home makes little sense to me even at dirt cheap prices. @waxen scroll guy I was training before I left my last company had a Cisco 6500 running in his basement....not for a lab or study, just a personal switch he was "given" from his position at a hospital

[waxen scroll]

WHY

people no

power bill

no cisco chassis, no pfsense

DUMB

[peak cloak]

this monstrosity?

[waxen scroll]

i run my home 6500 in VSS

watch me flex

[tame carbon]

@peak cloak do you have a small nuclear powerplant in your backyard?

[peak cloak]

no

[tame carbon]

xD

those power supplies at the bottom lol

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo this is so smol

[clear igloo]

so smol

[rocky badge]

yayyyyyy PoE powered switch for my desk

[peak cloak]

yeah it's small

[peak cloak]

this is where mine is

behind the wall, hiding

need to mount it to the framing one day

[rocky badge]

nice 😄

[peak cloak]

need to re punchdown/crimp the other cable I routed there

my tester broke so idk which wire connection is the issue

[raw timber]

Questions hoe to decide if should go back to proxmos or psy for unraid

Pay

[peak cloak]

no unraid

[raw timber]

I have lot of data on it

[peak cloak]

proxmox is a virtualization soloution, not storage

[raw timber]

I need both

On one sever

[peak cloak]

proxmox, with vm with pcie storage controller passed though running something like TrueNas or plain old linux with ZFS or btrfs

don't use unraid

https://h.en0.io/raw/xtreks-unraid-rant

[raw timber]

Don't have pcie storage controllers or can afford it was thinking following https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-create-a-nas-using-zfs-and-proxmox-with-pictures/117375

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak 👌

[peak cloak]

seems good

[raw timber]

@peak cloak don't really say whu it bad it was so stable been using it for s years for free i just now have to pay if power go out

[peak cloak]

read the rant

it's kinda bad

if you value your data, just don't

[raw timber]

I did he jsut repeat him self over and over

So how do I move data off it

[peak cloak]

normally?

[raw timber]

Remember i just have one sever ther a lot ther

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo This switch sips power....

1.4W over PoE

[clear igloo]

poe powered?

[raw timber]

And no huge storage on my pc

[peak cloak]

then you could stay with unraid

¯_(ツ)_/¯

idk

[peak cloak]

yeah it's poe

[clear igloo]

Nice

[rocky badge]

Yeah

[raw timber]

Can proxmos import unraid data

[rocky badge]

https://blob.rocks/0pE1m1NESw.png

6-8 are APs

3 is the flex mini

[peak cloak]

mine uses 1.3 W

my AP uses 3.5 W

[peak cloak]

no

that guide shows using ZFS

unraid probably has some propriety shitty storage

if it works for you then

¯_(ツ)_/¯

pay for it

[raw timber]

Why is zfs better i have mixed drivers

[peak cloak]

industry standard, data checksums, parity data is striped among drives

each drive in a pool? or dev? needs to be the same capacity I think?

btrfs is also an option

[raw timber]

And work but no lxc support so i am stuck with docker which makes set upwhst i want for pilehole hard

[peak cloak]

wut?

pihole in docker is easy

[raw timber]

Hum i have big amd small driv

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-unbound-on-unraid-sever/38246

I can't do this

Lxc would be able to do it easy

[peak cloak]

that's for unbound + pihole

why do you need unbound

[raw timber]

I want unbound instead of use 1.1.1.1 dns or Google dns

[peak cloak]

you still need an upstream dns server right?

[raw timber]

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ nope

[peak cloak]

yes

[raw timber]

????

[peak cloak]

the root DNS servers

wait

let me check

yep

[peak cloak]

yep so it just directly contacts the authoritative nameservers

this also makes it slower

unbound can also be configured as a forwarder

[raw timber]

But more secure

[peak cloak]

in a way, yeah

depends what you define as secure

cloudflare is secure

google is secure

[raw timber]

That article say they could log you the reason i want it is you cna change at any time

[peak cloak]

?

I don't understand what you are saying

[raw timber]

??

[peak cloak]

I don't understand your english

yeah, I would call it more private, not necessarily much more secure

it is slightly

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo https://blob.rocks/pBeTAfNeYT.png

3 magical letters

That can fuck you over if you forget them

[peak cloak]

cli in a nutshell

[stable warren]

@hollow marlin it's quite OK, got a closet where all is located no noise at all and only 1 psu is on

[hollow marlin]

add has been ingrained in like 90% of people for the exact reason of forgetting it. commit confirmed is where its at

[rocky badge]

yeee

[clear igloo]

soon to nxos

[hollow marlin]

Bout time. Now just XE

[clear igloo]

I've heard rumors but not seen anything yet 😦

[hollow marlin]

Ive been getting into the weeds with XR and can't go back to NXOS/XE. XE would require a complete overhaul i'd imagine to implement it

[clear igloo]

Yah I'm sure although now with converged code for controller and standalone on XE it might be possible

[stiff panther]

installed plex media server but got no welcome wizard..

idk whats going on

just unable to setup

[dawn canyon]

Hey, my friends parents are tracking her on the wifi to make sure she doesn’t go to sleep too late, if she disconnects from the wifi and uses data will her parents be able to see she has disconnected?

[little schooner]

@dawn canyon yes disconnected, no to tracking

[minor girder]

Whats duckduckgo?

i think im saying it wrong lol

someone said to me it was like google?

[peak cloak]

search engine

[minor girder]

Is it better then Google?

Or bing ?

[peak cloak]

depends what you define as better

it's more privacy focused

[minor girder]

Like in the results?

I notice google tends to throw in sl.e weird links

Paid links probably

[waxen saddle]

There’s also swisscows, which has an interesting context filter.

[thorny vector]

@stiff panther Try Jellyfin. In my opinion, better than plex in every way.

[peak cloak]

+1 for jellyfin

[tacit mantle]

ive got an xbox 360 wireless adapter and i was wondering if it will have any use on my pc

this one

[cursive valve]

It won't be fast

But it should work. @tacit mantle

[tacit mantle]

it wont work apparently

there isnt a driver

[thick minnow]

hello

i found an old web page with information, i tried to read it but i have no idea what it really is

https://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html

its main focus is something to do with disabling syn cookies in your router?

[thorny vector]

Modern consumer routers normally do this anyways

@thick minnow

It’s why DOS-ing someone nowadays is pretty non existent outside of application specific attacks.

[zenith yoke]

idk if this is enough to run a small minecraft server

[thorny vector]

@zenith yoke yes.

[dreamy glen]

hi everyone, im currently setting up wired connections to two pcs from a switch. having trouble however 😑 . anyone have tips or recommendations?

[ruby bramble]

What’s the problem @dreamy glen

[thick minnow]

I hate that we cant just search wap anymore because of cardi b

[ruby bramble]

Thanks cardi

[zenith yoke]

True

[thick minnow]

Just a lot of ass on my screen

🥲

[lone sun]

🤔 For real?

[thick minnow]

just type wap in a browser

[lone sun]

Wireless access p#### 😆

Who needs wireless when you can just stick it right in the hole. 😆

[naive meadow]

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU503043/ASUS-Rog-Zephyrus-G15-GA503QM-HQ043T-RTX-3060-Gami hopefully getting this soonish

[thick minnow]

epic

[naive meadow]

just came into stock

[thick minnow]

i want one too

can you pay with kidneys

i only need one

[lone sun]

🤨 People still game on laptops?

[naive meadow]

doing animation, film and photo editing etcetera at school

also going to uni next year and I would prefer to be able to actually do my work out of my dorm room

[thick minnow]

have you watched the ltt videos on the new laptops

theyre promising

[naive meadow]

honestly the cpu performance in this laptop is possibly better than my desktop which is running an 8700K

[lone sun]

@thick minnow But the heat though. 😓

[thick minnow]

just sit in a fridge

[naive meadow]

from what I have seen for it even with the 3080 variant unless you are doing heavy work it does not get super hot

[lone sun]

😒 Don't worry, it will get hot.

[naive meadow]

of course

just not as much while doing most day to day things

such as writing

[lone sun]

Sure....I wouldn't do too much intensive stuff on it though. And who would buy such a laptop just to type? 🙃

[naive meadow]

as I said
I would also be doing photoshop, video editing, visual effects and animation on it

but when I would be doing those it does not matter if it gets loud

[dreamy glen]

all good now. just need to see whats up with my switch but connecting it straight to router works perfectly

[ruby bramble]

Ok

[random nest]

hate it, people keep saying WAP and I correct it as "Wireless Access Point"

[thick minnow]

yes

good

[random nest]

wait hang on, small content creators get demonitized for a swear but youtube promoted that video

and that is alot more worse

fucking hell

[thick minnow]

Youtube sucks tbh

stupid rules

[random nest]

i agree

anyone got any recommendations for any power over ethernet plugs that are stable and work (enough to play fivem at a decent fps) and is at a resonable price. GBP prices

[plucky cargo]

whyy....

[tame carbon]

@random nest you are looking for wat exactly?

since when does power over ethernet have an impact on gaming performance O.o

[random nest]

its not that

what the hell

k its that

Since the power lines ive got with my current ISP are shite

for latency

[tame carbon]

power over ethernet does not have anything to do with that

Its a standard, that provides power to a device connected over wired ethernet

@random nest I think you're confusing powerline ethernet with PoE

[random nest]

yeah think I am

its those powerlines things that are crap

[tame carbon]

yeah but their performance is heavily dependent on the quality of the house' electrical system

[compact bolt]

hello people, I recently renovated my home lan with cat 8 ethernet cables, but I am only getting about 950 mbits/sec over the network (tested with iperf). I figure this is due to the network adapters on the computers which are only gigabit cards, which was a miscalculation on my part (I thought speeds were in gigabytes not gigabits). are there 40gbps network adapters I could buy to use in these computers in order to make use of the cat8s? I realize I would also need to replace other network devices like network switches.

[tame carbon]

cat 8 isnt even recognized officially

@compact bolt beyond 10G, copper isnt feasible

use fiber optics

and measuring 950M with iperf on a 1G link, sounds about right

there's some protocol overhead

[compact bolt]

10G should still be doable on copper though, right?

I don't think I can afford fiber optics rn

[tame carbon]

fiber optics are cheaper than copper :P

@compact bolt 10G RJ45 interfaces are very expensive

and you are limited to 25 meters in ideal scenarios

[compact bolt]

hmm.. I see. €85 for 10G is kinda expensive, yep. I guess I went overboard :/

[tame carbon]

@compact bolt 100 meters singlemode fiber costs ~30 bucks

individual tranceivers (you need two) cost around 15-20 bucks

10G is still affordable with fiber optics

25G and upwards, gets expensive quickly

@compact bolt https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/776722183119699988/777646103775674368/IMG-20200922-WA0001.jpg

I have 10G local here

and little 10G switch

[compact bolt]

what about the pc interface?

[tame carbon]

SFP+ card

I got one of these in my server

SFP+ modules plug in there

Those modules can be fiber optic or RJ45 copper

[compact bolt]

oh wow.. this is all new for me, never explored post-copper lol

[tame carbon]

Router also has an SFP+ port

@compact bolt yeah, there's more network interface types than RJ45

[jaunty talon]

Which router is that? :)

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon shhh

[jaunty talon]

;)

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon I got yelled at the other day for only suggesting mikrotik xD

[jaunty talon]

Haha!

[tame carbon]

Its all I know and trust, coming from consumer gear originally

and making a recommendation, I'm even willing to help people set it up

which I've done on 4 occassions now

[jaunty talon]

I dont hate mikrotik =)

[tame carbon]

^^

@compact bolt once you get into higher speed networking, you'll find SFP in various types

SFP, SFP+, QSFP, QSFP+, SFP28, etc

[jaunty talon]

@tame carbon how is NAT performance in that router?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon err, I've not ran into any limiting factors on it.

[jaunty talon]

Might actually recommend it to a friend!

[tame carbon]

I've been able to push 10G on that, without fastpath

I use bandwidth queues here

so fastpath is a no go

[jaunty talon]

On the RB4011iGS+RM?

[tame carbon]

ye

[jaunty talon]

cool

[tame carbon]

this thing has enormous amount of horsepowers

[jaunty talon]

but its 1GBase-T not 10GBase-T?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon it has two 2.5G switching chips, each 5 1G ports

and the SFP+ is directly on the SoC with full 10G

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/RB4011iGSplusRM_180903.png

You're limited in routing capacity, which is the biggest fail of the RB4011

it should have a 2nd 10G port

but as a router on a stick, paired with a switch, its great :D

[compact bolt]

thanks, I'll need to read up a bit more on the subject. not sure my family would put up with re-laying all the cables through the house though lol.

[tame carbon]

@compact bolt Cat6a would do you good enough for 1G and even 10G I believe

[compact bolt]

problem is we've already gone through and did all the work on cat8

[tame carbon]

Yeah, but that is fine for house electrics

if you ran them to outlets

Fiber optics is just more reliable, and not subject to electromagnetic interference

[compact bolt]

not even sure I can route that through my house, I heard you can't bend it too much right?

[tame carbon]

nah

lemme find you the doc from fs.com

@compact bolt https://i.imgur.com/Iz5bf80.png

10mm bend radius, which is pretty good

[jaunty talon]

Might get a few of those and use them for my OOB network

[compact bolt]

what about multiple consecutive bends?

[jaunty talon]

Do they have routers with 4g/5g support alså?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon LTE?

[jaunty talon]

aye

as backup

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon some of their devices have USB interfaces for LTE dongles

RB4011 doesnt have USB or LTE

They do however, sell an LTE variant of the new ac3

[jaunty talon]

more looking at 19" stuff then

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon yeah but LTE antenna in a 19" rack

not ideal

[jaunty talon]

It's fine!

;)

Just need to do some SSH over it in worst cases

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac3_lte6_kit

This is their latest all-in-one-LTE-capable-router-wifi-thingie

[jaunty talon]

doesnt look like its rackable tho ?

[tame carbon]

Nah, none of their LTE gear is

[jaunty talon]

=(

do they have dongles then?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon if your routerboard supports mini PCIe expansion

You can just buy an add in card

https://mikrotik.com/product/r11e_lte

And afaik

the RB4011 does have PCIe

[jaunty talon]

CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS looks like a competent device

[tame carbon]

Here's an RB4011 (wifi variant)

regular RB4011 ^

You can see the mini PCIe slot

[jaunty talon]

yeah dont care about RB4011 anymore :D

[tame carbon]

oh that one

ye it has all the ports

@jaunty talon price difference is significant though

[jaunty talon]

dont care about price

[tame carbon]

and I don't see LTE on this device ;)

[jaunty talon]

same :(

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon

doesnt even have PCIe expansion

[jaunty talon]

meh

[tame carbon]

what a maniac ^

@jaunty talon cheapest LTE solution would be getting one of their USB capable routers and using a dongle
Most elegant solution would be an RB4011 or equivalent, with an LTE card

[jaunty talon]

do they have dongles?

or do I need to find a dongle that works for the device somewhere else?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Peripherals

they have quite an extensive list of third party modems

@jaunty talon the RB4011 (without wifi) has a vacant PCIe slot

so you can make use of that, using any generic PCIe modem on that list

[jaunty talon]

https://mikrotik.com/product/r11e_lte would work with RB4011 then or?

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon says it on the frontpage https://i.imgur.com/G13kl6G.png

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EXCEPTIONS?!

you fuckers

[jaunty talon]

:P

https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1009-7G-1C-1SplusPC this one with usb-4g then?

[tame carbon]

That might.

That one has a sweet ass CPU

no switching chips, purely routing

if you can find a compatible USB dongle with that one, I'm sure it'd work

[jaunty talon]

Yeah, dont need switch

just need a few SVI's

if you can find :D

that's not something i want to hear!!!

[tame carbon]

@jaunty talon I know we're steering off track with this, but have you considered one of these? https://mikrotik.com/product/sxt_lte_kit :D

they have a sim slot for backup connectivity

[jaunty talon]

yeah, dont want that

i want something rackable

[tame carbon]

I went through this list of USB interfaces

found one of those huawei usb dongles

for 120 bucks

which is very steep imo

[jaunty talon]

which one? :)

i dont care about the money :D

[tame carbon]

hold on, nah the one I found is listed as 'ppp' only

not LTE

I mean, I am just going through this list of vendor parts

that are known to work

most of them arent even sold anymore

Huawei E8372

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Peripherals#Cellular_modems

I gotta for now, getting a haircut after 4 months..

[clear mica]

hey guys, question about vpn and multiple ethernet/internal ips .. how would you go about the vpn only working on one interface, and the other interface being unaffected? if it is even possible

[peak cloak]

yes that's very much possible on linux it should be easy

idk how to do that on windows

[clear mica]

alrite, it is running windows

[thick minnow]

can anyone explain the use of 2,5gbit ethernet ports on motherboards

[compact bolt]

where can I find this stuff in Italy/EU and how much does it go for on avg? Amazon only seems to have industrial grade stuff, I'd be fine with like 2 SFP+/SFP28 and 4 RJ45

[peak cloak]

2.5 gbit copper ethernet

[thick minnow]

mmm

I think people who want faster than 1 gbit will just go for 10gbit

[peak cloak]

10 gibit is fiber territory

you could do it over copper, but at that point I'd invest in sfp+ and fiber

[thick minnow]

thats why the 2,5 gbit port is useless

you need to upgrade your home network to 10 gbit and at that point you just buy an sfp+ pci card

so it doesnt make sense

[peak cloak]

I mean you can get a copper multigig switch

to have LAN multi-gig

[thick minnow]

mmmmm

[clear igloo]

2.5Gbit works over Cat5e whereas 10gig technically needs 6 or 6a

6 can do 5Gbit up to 100m but 10Gbit only up to 55m in the best conditions

[tame carbon]

@compact bolt the CCR that @jaunty talon posted, CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS

https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs

This is around 600 euros

and getting your hands on this should be quite straightforward, since mikrotik is an EU company

@compact bolt if you value your money, don't buy electronics from amazon

[fallen wind]

Any thoughts on affordable DAS units that arent ludicrously expensive or loud?

I have a Dell MD1000, which works, but has a daft limitation of only being able to use one SAS channel when using SATA drives

[fickle glacier]

Does anyone know how to install a .pem certificate on a synology?

[clear mica]

RE: multigig switch, i looked a fair amount on QNAP QSW-1105-5T, which is a 5port 2.5g switch at a reasonable price

[peak cloak]

just discovered scrcpy, pretty nice to control my phone over usb or IP

[formal lily]

Anyone know why I cant ssh into my server from my ip. It was fine did a backup went back to ssh and I cant connect with my ip if I use a vpn it works?

[tame carbon]

can you even ping it?

[lone sun]

🤔 Thought cat5e can only do 1gig?

[peak cloak]

cat5e could do 10 gigabit if it wanted to

it's distance and interference that matters

over like 1 foot it could do 10 gigabit

it's not certified to, but it could

[lone sun]

Interesting🤔 ...They gave the impression in net+ that it can only do 1gig. Guess I remember it wrong.

[tame carbon]

there's direct attach cables for 25G that use copper

though only short distances