networking

[lean pebble]

I once deleted my iptables by mistake and my crontab

[crisp bay]

ow

[lean pebble]

Yeah I did the wrong command for get the list of crontabs I did cron -r instead cron -l or cron -e 😅

[crisp bay]

so I did iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wg0 -p tcp --dport 25565 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.6.1 on a VPS and iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wg0 -p tcp --dport 25565 -d 192.168.6.1 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.6.2 on my home server, still not working...

wg0 because it's the name of the interface (wireguard)

[waxen scroll]

just... why? the ceiling is right there and the proper mount point

[plain siren]

CBA to get up into the tiles safely

[crisp bay]

@plain siren sorry for ping but, managed it to work with just cloudflare's proxy, seems to work, I don't know...also do you know more about mounting in Ptero? The fact is that the Docker can't find the jar file, assuming I mounted the directory wrong..

[bright oriole]

Im using an old pc as a nas, what free software should I go with? Is FreeNAS the best?

[primal ice]

any linux distro that supports zfs and samba - wsdd to announce to windows computers. I use fedora.

[plain siren]

I mean they all support it

[unborn sluice]

indeed

it's like saying which linux distro supports HTTP

[spiral bluff]

Anyone who can explain why the AP-AC-Mesh isnt graphed through a wire connection like the other APs?

Everything is working fine and it acts like an AP in the practical application, so cant really understand why it is graphed like this in the topology

[sharp patrol]

Hello, I need some help with my laptop wifi connectivity. So basically my laptop keeps disconnecting from the 2.4ghz band and will stay on the 5 ghz one

[spiral bluff]

Isnt that a good thing?

[sharp patrol]

um

surprisingly the 2.4 performs better

since the 5ghz ping keep spiking

[spiral bluff]

Mhm...

Band steering on the router?

What router you using?

[sharp patrol]

Um I don't think its the router its the laptop itself

cause I was connected to the 2.4ghz one until i made a recovery reset on the laptop

[spiral bluff]

Dont know if there is any standard windows setting for that

[sharp patrol]

"Oh, go to windows settings, and select the network, there should be an option to change the connection options There should be a thing there that allows you to select which band to choose", this is what they told me but I got lost and they stopped replying

[spiral bluff]

hmh...

@sharp patrol https://www.top-password.com/blog/change-preferred-band-for-wifi-adapter-in-windows-10/

[sharp patrol]

u

um thats the thing, it keeps disconnecting from the band im choosing

[spiral bluff]

Are you sure that there isnt something with the router

[sharp patrol]

no, i had a different router before and it had the same problem but i had the same laptop

i switched router not long ago

[spiral bluff]

Otherwise run a windows repair thingy for networking

See if it detects something

[sharp patrol]

nothing

Welp found the solution, I just had to turn this off

[spiral bluff]

Nah...

That shoudnt impact band switching

[sharp patrol]

Weird

[spiral bluff]

That should basically mean the entire wifi adpater is turned off in etc power saving move

[sharp patrol]

I'll go check into that

[tawny flint]

hi there so my Netgear ReadyNAS pro 6 is on the latest OS 6. something it been up for i think almost a whole month now it look like it crash or frozen i cant access the webpage for it should i hold it and let it restart?
It has E2160 Pentium duo core 4gb ram

[sudden jackal]

Yo guys. I want to upgrade my router. Is it just plug and turn on or there are few setting should i tweak?

Never done this

[plain siren]

Turn off Packet Coleasing

Cba to correct spelling but

idk why windows be jank with this

[dull mirage]

I have domain for a game. And when people connecting it work but few guys cant connect and getting unkown host. Any ideas?

[cedar igloo]

Does anybody here know of an open source or free loadbalancer that has support for VIPs? I know I could use something like NGINX/HaProxy with Keepalived but would prefer a single configuration.
I don't need Layer 7 but do require ssl termination

[spiral bluff]

Change standard DNS server. 1.1.1.1 is a good choice

[sudden jackal]

But the rest is just moved the cable and plug right

[frigid pine]

Probably not. Did your ISP gave you something like IPs or a username/password?

[sudden jackal]

Nah

Just wifi password tho

[frigid pine]

you have access to your router's login page?

[sudden jackal]

Yea

[frigid pine]

Show the WAN settings.

[peak cloak]

and I'm back

[peak cloak]

prob some unifi thing. Network side, everything is on one L2 domain

unless you have vlans, or different subnets

so unifi probobly isn't coded for this scenario

and falls back to the whole L2 domain thing

[plain siren]

Honestly, UniFi has been shit at getting the map right.

At random times itll send an AP off into the void

[sharp patrol]

Thanks this did the magic

Nvm its bugging out

It doesn't disconnect now but ut says I don't have wifi

[spiral bluff]

Do another factory reset, maybe consider doing an ISO reinstall as well.

[lean pebble]

Does anyone have experience with replacing lan card on Lenovo g40-80?

[hot hawk]

whats is the best protocol for a nas server

looking for speed

[tough cypress]

Hi everyone I just joined the server in hope to get some help with my question about some network stuff can anyone help me out here?

[hot hawk]

dont ask to ask

[crisp bay]

hi, so I did "maintenance" on my server (added an UPS), before that the domain I set up, was working (cloudflare proxied worked), but now it doesn't anymore...I can access the server using my public IP (verified with VPN)..

[tough cypress]

So the thing is that I decided to swap ISP cuz the current one gone pretty bad and the new one I checked has a package which is a multi gig connection 2gig down / 1 up now I know this is overkill and stupid but I was just thinking about it how could I make this setup like they said they give me an ONT which has 4 ports each 1 gig at max so if u need the full 2 gig speed u gotta have 2 cables go to your pc. Now how does that work really I read something about network aggregation. And could I do that like I have a network card in my pc that has 2 ports both supports gigabit connection and plug that two cables going from the ONT?

Also is there any chance to make this setup work on a laptop that has only 1 port which is 1 gigabit too? Could be possible to do it with the built in port + an usb adapter?

@hot hawk

[lean pebble]

I really need to get UPS for my truenas server and for my main pc with my network gear

[crisp bay]

agree, I need it, because I don't want to turn the server off while the thunderstorm reaches

[lean pebble]

Do your server have static ip?

[crisp bay]

yes

I can access ssh and that

[hot hawk]

yes u could have a usb to Ethernet for dual Ethernet ports

make sure its usb 3, autho why

[lean pebble]

I mean does your IP address change if your dhcp leases pass his time ?

[hot hawk]

unless your laptop is a server u dont need a full 2 gig

[crisp bay]

no, I set it up already using netplan

[lean pebble]

Ok

[crisp bay]

ahhhh who are u asking

[lean pebble]

You

[crisp bay]

ah

[lean pebble]

Let me turn my pc on and I'll help you

[hot hawk]

dont think network aggregation will do u much good, cat5 and cat6 only have a gig max speed, so you would just need more cables

[crisp bay]

everything's fine except the domain..static IP's been set up since the install, I'm suspicious about nginx stuff, but not sure (I haven't even touched it)

[tough cypress]

I taught cat5e can do 1 gig but cat 6 can do 10 gig

[hot hawk]

cat 5 can only do 1 gig

cat 6 can do 10

autho your pc would need to support hat

[rocky badge]

cat5e can do more than 1 gig

[hot hawk]

most consumer pcs only do 1-2gigs

[hot hawk]

i thought its maxes at 1 gig

[rocky badge]

nbase-t (2.5Gbps and 5Gbps)

runs over Cat5e

Specifically designed for 5e

[lean pebble]

For short distance right ?

[primal ice]

distance is the problem for cat5e

[rocky badge]

up to 100m, same as gigabit already

[lean pebble]

It can do 5G for 50m right ?

Can't do 5G for 100m

[hot hawk]

@tough cypressi guess nbase-t would work for speeds of 2gig or higher

depending on distance

but your pc/chipset also has to support that

[primal ice]

some school did a test on cat5e and yeah they got it up to 10gb at like 50m I think..

[lean pebble]

Didn't touched network cables for long distances for a long time 😅

I'm using only cat 6

[rocky badge]

nbase-t was designed for WiFi 6 APs in environments with 5e cabling already, so they can get 2.5Gig and such to APs without redoing wiring

[lean pebble]

Nice good to know

[rocky badge]

Although consumers get stuff slowly lol

@clear igloo @waxen scroll My school got 90W PoE switches 😳

Extreme 5520-48Ws

[tough cypress]

@hot hawk yes but the issue is that the thing they give me that u connect the fiber to that thing have 1gb ports so no use if I have multi gig supported network card and other stuff like that. They could give me a better ONT that has better ports like 5g or 10g supported ports but that would be super expensive I think that's why they do it this way with the 2 lan cable coming out from the thing to achieve the 2gig connection

[clear igloo]

I thought you were going to say 90w across all ports 😛

[rocky badge]

14 of them cost $56 grand

[hot hawk]

lol

could u like buy your own?

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo I also told you they got more WiFi 6 APs?

[tough cypress]

Anyway I was just wondering if I could use a laptop bult in port + and adapter to run them as one to have 2g on the laptop too @hot hawk

I could buy my own but that still would be expensive xd even then I have to buy expensive network card and still the issue remains with the laptop cuz u can't upgrade that :

[clear igloo]

no, nice

[rocky badge]

50 of them

Extreme AP310i only 2x2 WiFi 6 lol

[clear igloo]

2x2, lol

[hot hawk]

@tough cypressnot sure if this is a thing, but wonder if there is some sort of device that would take two 1 gig and use nbase-t to make 2 gig or more

[rocky badge]

They also got 2 copies of ExtremeCloud Virtual Appliance lol

$15k for the APs, 2 grand for the controllers

[hot hawk]

i mean unless u have 8 servers on your network

see if u can just get a 1 gig up and down

cuz u prob wont ever saturate a 2 gig connection at home

[rocky badge]

😳 https://www.cdw.com/product/extremecloud-adoption-license-100-devices/5843437

@clear igloo I wonder what the new IT director is going to do.... lol

[tough cypress]

@hot hawk I'm sure there is such a device but still if u have that the laptop is still have the only one bult in port with max 1gig support :(

I know its super overkill to have multi gig I was just wondering if it could work like that on the laptop

I might just go one package lower and have the 1000/1000 one then there won't be any issue like this and it's still a very fast connection.

Thx for the chat. Hope you have a good day/night

[hot hawk]

yea i would just use a 1 gig up and down if i were u

anyways hope you have a good day/night too

ftp server 100/100 any good

prob a cpu bottle neck on the nas side

well 10x better than my old setup of readyshare on a hot router/modem

wonder if there is a faster protocol than ftp

[primal ice]

my samba gets 113MB/s transfers on large files.

lots of small files normally drops it down to about 70MB/s or lower.

[hot hawk]

hax

im only getting 100/100 mbps

[lean pebble]

Better than mine...
I get 40/4

[hot hawk]

f

[round violet]

i got 250/12

[hot hawk]

im using an android tv box

[round violet]

how are they

[hot hawk]

well it worked

[primal ice]

yeah its probably hardware limited then :p

[hot hawk]

just finished trasfering about 200 gb of stuff

prob pics

[hot hawk]

:p

[round violet]

yeah probably cheapo adapter

[hot hawk]

quad core arm64 at 1.15 ghz

[hot hawk]

no it has a full usb 3 port

surprising

[round violet]

is it Ethernet supported?

[hot hawk]

yes, it has an Ethernet port

using it to connect to my network

[round violet]

okay that port might be a cheapo one

[hot hawk]

thonk

lemme try a speed test on it

my network should get around 500-600/40 mbps

[hot hawk]

yep crappy ethernet port

speeds are only 93 mpbs

this is what i should get

[rocky badge]

smb

[hot hawk]

thats almost a gig speed

not bad smh

[rocky badge]

iSCSI

[rocky badge]

more like 8Gbps

[hot hawk]

[round violet]

try the wifi adapter in it

[rocky badge]

992MB/s is like 7.9Gbps

[hot hawk]

u right

[hot hawk]

o yea

ok trying

[round violet]

okay

[hot hawk]

50 mbps

[round violet]

both are shitty

[hot hawk]

it is legit a foot above the router

i wounder

would a usb ethernet adapter be better

[round violet]

thing is would it register it

[hot hawk]

let me try

autho i need a bluetooth keyboard

cuz two usb ports

[primal ice]

yea I don't have 10gb lan :p

[rocky badge]

lol

[hot hawk]

looks like no

autho its a usb 3 adaptar

i could try the usb 3 port but would need to unmout the hard drive

[short condor]

Guys is this a good or bad idea? I’m planning of configuring my network like this. ISP Modem in pass through mode -> pfSense box -> UniFi Switch -> Devices outside of vpn. From UniFi Switch -> PcEngines Apu box running pfsense with openvpn on it -> switch -> all my units that needs to be begind a vpn.

[lean pebble]

Can my m.2 be that fast ? 😂
Without paying kidney for enterprise grade ?

[primal ice]

huh, mine are

[lean pebble]

I have 10gb network card but not switch 😆

[primal ice]

oh well yeah.

[lean pebble]

I bought 10gb network card for 25$ I just need switch with sftp port

[primal ice]

nice all the ones I looked at when I thought about upgrading were $180 + but those were multi port cards. I need at least 1x4 port 10gb card.

[lean pebble]

Mine is double 10Gb port but still haven't contacted it to my computer / server

[rugged fern]

sorry, late to this convo, just wanted to say, that optical cables and switches are cheaper than sfp and rj-45

so can try that instead

[peak cloak]

Wut

Fiber is sfp

[rugged fern]

sorry am tired, typo

worked for about 15 hrs today

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo o.O this ISP ran fiber all the way into the router on the 2nd floor in this Airbnb

[clear igloo]

nice

[rocky badge]

A Calix gigacenter lol

[peak cloak]

Isn't that what most do now?

Fiber to the all in one

[rocky badge]

They usually want it on an exterior wall

Holy shit lmao

[clear igloo]

just a bit of cable

[waxen scroll]

blob wat

[primal ice]

they wanted to make sure they could reach any where in the place. 😄

[waxen scroll]

i leave slack in my cables too

its expensive to rerun a cable cause you need the patch panel to move a few U down

[primal ice]

yeah I have about 9 feet of slack not 30 feet.

[waxen scroll]

since when

😄

[peak cloak]

and crystal is gone

[waxen scroll]

does that mean I can pitch UBNT with no resistance

[peak cloak]

Lol

[waxen scroll]

I was like I wonder what happened to them and typed @Doo and was like OOOOOOHHHH

[clear igloo]

blob is here, need to push that extreme networks stuff now 😛

[waxen scroll]

i used purple box a lot early career

its OK

i like their CLI better in some ways. you get better info in one spot vs cisco

[rocky badge]

Oof

[rocky badge]

This Airbnb’s fiber

[coarse storm]

how hard is it to cut an ethernet cable take the end off and re splice the end back in? i have a cable that got pinched in a door too many times and there’s broken wires and i wanna use ethernet

[frigid pine]

There is no way to properly rejoin the cable from the middle. But you can peel off the protection and then tie them (colorfully of course) together like you would do to a electric wire. This may give you performance issue if not done properly.

But if you wanna redo the end connectors you need proper tools for that, which generally are not available in a regular household. If you got the tools, it's pretty easy.

[peak cloak]

You can't use the same end connector twice

However if you just buy an end and a crimping tool, it's pretty easy

[crisp bay]

and what placement of wires matters

Crossover clears a lot of noise

[plain siren]

Crossover patch cables in 2021.
wot

[peak cloak]

Wut

[distant wedge]

lmao, imagine not having auto MDI-x

[daring relic]

If anyone network savvy here could help me, I found something that really confuses me. It can be found in the support channel

*tech chat 2

[crisp bay]

yeah, our professor has been teaching that, is it completely wrong?

[frigid pine]

Where's the noise coming from? Is the window open?

[hybrid nimbus]

Does anyone know if Verizon throttles your internet if you use a non-Verizon router?

because it sure seems like they are.

[crisp bay]

from nearby devices, interference

[clear igloo]

The only part of a straight through terminated cable that's not twisted is the connector, so the noise difference is very minimal if it is even measurable at all at that point

[hybrid nimbus]

@frigid pine you can try to buy shielded cables Cat 6a should do it

[clear igloo]

If your connector has enough interference on/near it to cause packet loss then you have much larger problems nearby than crossover vs straight through termination of the end

[frigid pine]

Guys it was a joke. 😁

[clear igloo]

probably traffic nearby 😛
need to build a fence to stop that

[frigid pine]

Why are there weird emojis on Discord. The default ones are the best.

Nevermind they are there too. Lel. Discord noob alert!

[crisp bay]

yeah that probably...I wasn't listening to online class on that subject haha

[peak cloak]

No, I have fios

[peak cloak]

Kinda, what you want is twisted

Not crossover

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo see you at LTX this year?

[clear igloo]

what's that? 😛

[clear igloo]

(shielded) twisted pair for the cable, straight through connections at the end, yup

[cedar igloo]

Why do all these loadbalancers default to strange ports rather than 80 or 443? How do they expect you to connect to them?

[frozen tundra]

what load balancers? not sure I'll really have an answer for you, just curious

[cedar igloo]

Fabio defaults to 9999

[frozen tundra]

oh, sorry I just think AWS when I read load balancer :)

[hollow sand]

I have a dsl network and i want to know a good dsl router with fast speeds

[cedar igloo]

the firewall forwards port 443 to 9999?

[sonic coyote]

Hi guys. Today I upgraded from 200mbps to gigabit, but for whatever reason my wireless internet is slower? I have an ax3000 router and on the 200mbps internet I got 200mbps on my wireless devices, but on the gigabit I'm only getting 100mbps. All the firmware and drivers are up to date on everything. If I plug my pc into the ethernet that goes to my router, it gets 1000/1000

[little schooner]

Did you verify that you are using the 5GHz band and not that 2GHz one?

also, the antenna array and band on the client will matter in terms of the speeds you can ultimately achieve

e.g. an intel ax wireless card supports 160 channel width and is 2x2

you can get really high speeds with something like that.

after speed halving, it should be about 1.2 gbps for receive and transmit in the most ideal conditions

@sonic coyote

[sonic coyote]

it is using the 5ghz band. i know it wont be a full gigabit, but why is it getting half of what it got before on my 200mbps internet?

[little schooner]

try rebooting your router. Turn off any QoS settings too. In my edgerouter, I wasn't getting my full speed because I had QoS enabled. You dont want a feature that disabled hardware offloading basically

[sonic coyote]

i have rebooted my router already, and ill try turning qos off

Before I had 200/15 internet, and I got 180/10 wireless on my phone and pc, but now we have 1000/1000, and only get 100/100 on my phone and pc

[little schooner]

that is odd, ill agree

[sonic coyote]

the router i have

[little schooner]

are you testing the speed next to the router?

[sonic coyote]

next to the router its 100/100, in my bedroom its like 98/98

not a huge difference

when i run the speed test directly on the router, it gets 800/400

the router itself i mean

interesting that it says 100mbps for lan2 when it should be 1 gig... does the cable matter?

[little schooner]

for lan2 no, for Internet, yes it matters

because wifi traffic will go through that cable to reach internet

Lan2 is never going to reach gigabit

[sonic coyote]

yeah we have the right cable from our ont box to our router

[little schooner]

whats on lan2?

[sonic coyote]

lan1 is an xbox and lan2 is my tv

[little schooner]

oh ok

yeah thats fine

[sonic coyote]

i dont need gigabit on the tv

i was just wondering why it says 100

[little schooner]

well the TV port is probably 100mbps only

[sonic coyote]

ah true

[little schooner]

for hahas, temporarily remove the cable from lan2 and try wifi speed test again

not sure if the router is making sure all devices have fair share of bandwidth

operating at the slowest speed

[little schooner]

yeah. now try the speed test

[sonic coyote]

i am

now its getting 150/150

[little schooner]

lol

[sonic coyote]

what the fuck

[little schooner]

thats some dumb design on the router

[sonic coyote]

it mightve been getting 150/150 before

i didnt test it before i started talking here

[little schooner]

hm

Do you have openvpn feature disabled too?

[sonic coyote]

yeah

[little schooner]

can you screenshot your current wifi settings?

like something like this

[sonic coyote]

yeah i plugged the tv and xbox back in and its still getting 150/150

[sonic coyote]

there are SOOO many pages

which do you want

[little schooner]

the one under Basic > Wireless

im just going off the manual

[sonic coyote]

theres nothing there but wifi password and ssid

[little schooner]

oh hold on

Try Advanced > Wireless > Wireless Settings

you can hide the password

[little schooner]

So I see you have smart connect on

[plain siren]

Doesnt the AX 3000 only do 5GHz as either the choice of AX, AC, or N and the 2.4 as a/b/g?

[sonic coyote]

i dont know

[little schooner]

Smart connect makes one ssid and it might be jumping to the 2ghz one

[sonic coyote]

i can confirm my pc and phone are on 5ghz

god please dont let this be a router problem

we just got this router 2 months ago and my mom would be pissed

[little schooner]

Encryption should also be set to AES, not auto

[sonic coyote]

why?

[little schooner]

im happy to see airtime fairness is disabled that would be another problem

tkip not as secure as aes

[plain siren]

Please tell me it as WPA3

[little schooner]

hehe

[sonic coyote]

maybe i should pull out our old netgear router and see if it works?

[sonic coyote]

it doesnt

[plain siren]

KRACK goes the router

[peak cloak]

What does wpa3 improve on?

Also, wasn't it also cracked

[little schooner]

Set it to the bare minimum. Disable OFDMA, disable Smart Connect, Set WPA2-PSK, Set AES, Transmit High, Airtime Fairness off

and try it

[sonic coyote]

if i do that

people are gonna need to connect to the network again

[little schooner]

you're just testing

you can always change it back

[sonic coyote]

yes

but they will still have to re sign in

even if i set it back

[little schooner]

they wont if you use the same password

What will happen is one ssid with have _5GHz appended at the end of the name

[sonic coyote]

im gonna pull out the netgear router we used to use and see if that works

[peak cloak]

It will autoconnect

[plain siren]

It fixes KRACK buut

[little schooner]

yeah it will autoconnect for other people just fine still

they wont notice you're making change

[peak cloak]

As long as it's the same SSID and password

[plain siren]

There is another issue that is outside any encryption and auth mode that can basically work around even a WPA4 if it was released

I forget the name of it

[little schooner]

Why not just make WPA-as-a-service then

[plain siren]

But its fun as hell to run around with an android and have free Wi-Fi all the time.

[peak cloak]

You need root tho?

[little schooner]

if its always flawed

[peak cloak]

Or not?

[plain siren]

Not if you are using a USB C Hub and Wi-Fi USB Adapter

[little schooner]

@sonic coyote you know by pulling out the old netgear router and disconnect the AX3000, thats more disruptive

right?

[sonic coyote]

Yes

[peak cloak]

Ah, but if you want to use the internal wan card, you need root

[plain siren]

There was some funny patch you can do to a Radius server to make it request you authenticate as if it was a Wired Connection and you just leave it as open Wi-Fi.

[sonic coyote]

So disruptive to have the internet go out for 5 minutes instead of making everyone re enter the password

[little schooner]

they wont have to re-enter the password....

[sonic coyote]

they did last time I did this

Playing it safe

[little schooner]

because you bought a new router

[sonic coyote]

no

[little schooner]

with a new name no?

[plain siren]

GTK Rekeying

Which is always fun

[little schooner]

the ssid was probably different

[peak cloak]

If it's the same SSID, it will reconnect, I had the same

[little schooner]

trust us, we know what were talking about :)

[peak cloak]

I replaced my old all in one router to an actual AP and set it up with the same creds and everything reconnected

[sonic coyote]

Lmao the old router gets 500/500

So ig my ax3000 is just fucked then

[peak cloak]

It prob is

time to shill mtik

[little schooner]

if your in your return window, best to just return it then

[plain siren]

GTK Rekeying is a fun little feature that if you enable it on WPA2/WPA3 Shared then suddenly move to WPA3 Only, The SSID may be same but all the devices will see it as if its a Diff SSID despite having same Name.

[sonic coyote]

We got it 2 months ago so idk if it's refundable

I'll talk to my mom about it and see

[plain siren]

So nothing will reconnect until you manually reneter pass

[little schooner]

sure

[little schooner]

huhh thats quite strange

[sonic coyote]

Shouldn't this old router be outputting 1000/1000? It has 5ghz support

[little schooner]

if its not AX, no

[sonic coyote]

Why is it doing 500/500

[plain siren]

I love that little issue, its like a "kick everything off without changing name/pass" feature

[sonic coyote]

Oh rip

Its not ax

[little schooner]

you need 160 MHz band + 2x2 antenna

to get at least 1.2gbps

[sonic coyote]

Its a netgear nighthawk r7000

[plain siren]

Wi-Fi as a whole needs an entire rework

[little schooner]

@sonic coyote you also could just understand wifi as a whole is always going to be a worse experience than wire

500/500 over wifi is nothing to sneeze at

[peak cloak]

500/500 wifi in my book is good

[little schooner]

yeah its great

[plain siren]

Im sick of the layered specification design in regards to RF Networking
Capsule the whole framework into a set start and end date then when its EOL, go back to start and do it all over again.

WiFi Alliance is made of paid off trash administration anyways

[sonic coyote]

Oh absolutely, I'm just thinking it should be closer to gigabit considering the routers max speed is 1900mbps

[plain siren]

someone rip them out their chairs while we are at it

[little schooner]

max aggregrated speed

[peak cloak]

Does it even have a port above 1g

[little schooner]

yeah

[plain siren]

And I mean by with your 2 bare hands

[sonic coyote]

Is it possible my cable doesn't support 1g

Or is that not a thing

[little schooner]

it does

your TV doesnt

[plain siren]

you mean the Ethernet Cable?

[sonic coyote]

How do you know it does?

[sonic coyote]

Yes

[peak cloak]

My Roku doesn't have 1g

[little schooner]

bc most tv brands use 100mbps port to save cost

[peak cloak]

It just has 100/100

[plain siren]

Unless you got a telephone cable, or Cat3, its Gigabit Ethernet Cable.

[sonic coyote]

Oh I'm an idiot nvm. I plugged the ethernet from my ont box into my pc and it got 1 gig

So def fast enough cable

[peak cloak]

Or split weirdly

[little schooner]

@sonic coyote wanna give those settings i suggested a try?

[plain siren]

Oh yeah like taking 2 conductors and using them for Telephone

Which is honestly the most stupid thing I see in 2021 from Installers

[sonic coyote]

Sure

[little schooner]

Please verify QoS is actually off too

[sonic coyote]

It is

[little schooner]

k

[sonic coyote]

The max speed of the netgear is 1.3g on 5ghz

So I wonder why I was stuck at 500

[little schooner]

again, the client you use to test will matter

tested with a phone or your computer?

[sonic coyote]

Phone

[little schooner]

what phone is it

[sonic coyote]

Note20 ultra

[little schooner]

k

[sonic coyote]

What the hell? Now the new router is doing 550/500?

[little schooner]

what did you change?

[sonic coyote]

This shit is seriously weird

[sonic coyote]

Nothing I was just testing it before I did your settings

[little schooner]

and you said you had already rebooted it?

plug the cable for the TV into lan2 and try again

[sonic coyote]

Yes, and it's already plugged in

[little schooner]

maybe it needed a power cycle, which unplugged it completely did just that

also some people report that the note can reach over 700 mbps

your speeds are within the acceptable range

its wifi after all

[sonic coyote]

Just tested again and got 400/400

What the hell is making it change so much

[little schooner]

ok, now make the changes i suggested

you still have smart connect on, which is probably broken

[sonic coyote]

Yeah

[little schooner]

you will get two ssids, apply the same settings to both

There are some extra settings that I wasnt aware of. Do you see "Mode" and "Channel Width"? What does "Mode" present as options?

[sonic coyote]

I changed the settings and am rebooting it again

I'll let you know

[little schooner]

ok

[sonic coyote]

Same speeds as before

400 to 500 range

[little schooner]

what was set for Mode and Channel width

[sonic coyote]

Let's see

[little schooner]

do they let you change those?

[sonic coyote]

maybe? i cant find it

[little schooner]

Advanced > Wireless > Wireless Settings

[sonic coyote]

not in there

[little schooner]

hmm, then this manual is not updated

[sonic coyote]

tested my internet speeds on my pc again and its still getting 100/100

[little schooner]

PC via wifi or wire?

[sonic coyote]

wifi

[little schooner]

channel width can play a part in this

if its not set to the highest one

you will never reach the speeds you want

[sonic coyote]

i cant find anywhere to change channel width

[little schooner]

as for mode, I was wondering if its downgrading the connection to support legacy wifi

[sonic coyote]

yeah possibly

but i cant find that either

[little schooner]

it would be where your SSID and wifi password settings are located

they are not there?

[sonic coyote]

no

[little schooner]

weird.

idk then.

the router has terrible defaults

[sonic coyote]

idk what this is

[little schooner]

I dont remember if Group Key update period should be 0

[sonic coyote]

if i were to be looking for a new router, whats a good one for fairly cheap?

[little schooner]

i dont think so.....

put in 3600

[little schooner]

yeah but then clients are constantly recycling this key

i would think that affects speed

at 0 its doing unnecessary key updates over and over and over

or maybe 0 means disabled... hmm.

ok the manual does say 0 is fine

[sonic coyote]

Went and tested the wifi on my phone again and now it says 90/90

What in the hell

[little schooner]

change it back to 0

[sonic coyote]

I didn't change it

[little schooner]

k

just need to find that channel width and mode setting

or return the router.

lol this router has alexa support

funny

"Alexa, make my wifi faster"

[sonic coyote]

If I were to be able to return this and get a new router

Whats a good one

there is no channel width or mode settings

[frigid pine]

You may also wanna have a look at your client device. Maybe it's Wifi chip is the bottleneck. Just saying.

[sonic coyote]

you guys aren't understanding at all

I got 200mbps from this router before from my 200mbps internet

Now I get 100mbps from my 1 gig internet

nothing has changed with the router or my devices except that we have gigabit speeds now

[frigid pine]

How do you know you have gigabit internet when you are getting 100Mbps?

I would first check with the ISP if they have configured the speed properly.

[short condor]

I get stuck in this when I try reinstalling pfsense. Any good ideas? 😕

[frigid pine]

What is the image you are using? What is the system you are installing in? Clear full picture of your screen!

[frigid pine]

Nevermind, I just read the old chats which I decided to ignore earlier. Did you try resetting the router?

[wild hare]

@frigid pine i have the same problem on my computer, and i reset the router, and even got a new Cat 7 cable for my pc, i tried to reinstall my os (Win 10 pro) with no luck...

[little schooner]

@sonic coyote just get a better router. You'll save yourself the headache since you can't find the settings that are necessary to narrow down the problem.

@short condor did you try wiping the disk completely before reinstalling?

[short condor]

Yes. I tried using a usb 2.0 8gb thumb drive and it worked. A usb 3.0 64gb one did not.

[compact patio]

Maybe some gpt/mbr partitioning issues 🤔

[compact patio]

@short condor Depending on your system when you make a install usb with Ruffus then make sure that you select MBR or GPT probably you'll need MBR and also make sure that the disk that you want to install pfsense on is formatted correctly

[waxen scroll]

Solarwinds, infoblox, bluecat

@hollow marlin

[hollow marlin]

Sadly that is spot on

[low pond]

Really?

I actually taught NOC was a cool room

[waxen scroll]

Nope. Those rooms are useless and are mostly to make execs go OOOOOOH

When I worked noc it was a cube farm

Nobody used the marketing room

When I worked data center it was the same. They put two TVs up and slapped a graph on then

Looks cool for tours

[low pond]

huh. i see

[hybrid nimbus]

Anyone have a recommendation for a wifi router that can handle a 1GB internet connect?

apparently this one isn't cutting it and/or it's going bad: https://smile.amazon.com/NETGEAR-R6700-Nighthawk-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00R2AZLD2

linked the wrong one

i just want something as fast as possible... i dont need any fancy features, it doesn't need to look cool, and is under $300, will hopefully last longer than 2 years

nevermind, i saw a $340 router on sale for $180 refurbished. just gonna jump on that

[peak cloak]

1g wifi ?

Because 1g ethernet is very cheap

[hybrid nimbus]

my wifi is just fine tbh, i asked for some help on reddit and the concensus my slow internet speed is because my router either sucks or is dying

me speed is like 10% of advertized

which is gigabit fibre

so they told me i need a "more powerful" "more expensive" router

my internal network speed is fine. it's the internet that sucks

and i already called my ISP, they couldn't find anything wrong

[peak cloak]

If you want to learn networking, something like an er-x or hex, would work just fine. Idk about any plug and play solutions for an ethernet router. Maybe someone else can reccomend something

Also, what is the max speed you are getting

On ethernet

If you can check, just so we can verify the router is actually slow

[hybrid nimbus]

https://www.speedtest.net/result/11633556150.png

this is the best test i got yesterday

[peak cloak]

Ah, so yeah router

[hybrid nimbus]

https://www.speedtest.net/result/11628578738.png

this is the woest

when i plug my PC directly into the ONT, it's not a whole lot better imo, but it's better

[peak cloak]

I mean, if it's fluctuating that sounds like isp issues as long as you are testing with noone using bandwidth

[hybrid nimbus]

when I use the verizon speed test tool (with my PC plugged directly into the ONT), of course it says it's OVER 9000

but none of the third parties even get close

[frigid pine]

did you try changing the servers?

[hybrid nimbus]

yeah, it only gets worse

[frigid pine]

verified the optical powers?

[hybrid nimbus]

whats that mean

[frigid pine]

your ONT. It has a fiber coming in?

[hybrid nimbus]

i think it's coax actually

[frigid pine]

okay you were saying ONT so I thought you had fiber.

[peak cloak]

You have fios right?

So you are plugging your router into their router?

And their router is connected to the ont with coax?

Coax could be the issue?

[hybrid nimbus]

actually, i took a closer look, it is fibre

i just didnt recognize the wire, it's a thick black one thats a bit flat

mistaked it for coax

fibre into the ONT, ethernet to my router

no verizon router at all

[peak cloak]

Ah

[hybrid nimbus]

so it's super slow through my router, but only sort of slow directly plugged into the ONT

unless i use verizon's speed test tool

in which case it's awlays maexed out

go figure

[peak cloak]

Oh then it's not router

It's isp issues

[hybrid nimbus]

yeah, so i think they're throttling me because they want me to use their router

[peak cloak]

New router won't help, unless the fios speed tool is speed to ont?

[peak cloak]

I don't have issues using my own

[hybrid nimbus]

but everyone on reddit said that couldn't be the case

[peak cloak]

Verizon makes it pretty easy to use your own

[hybrid nimbus]

see, they said my router is junk, so i bought a "better" one. mine was only 2 years old

and i asked specifically "should i replace my router OR get Verizon's router"

and everyone said not to use verizon's router

but then verizon support will ALWAYS blame my router

and won't help me

[peak cloak]

Well yeah

You got work around that, plug your laptop/computer directly into ont

And work from there

[hybrid nimbus]

yeah but then the speed is like over 9000 and they're like "nothing wrong"

[peak cloak]

You got to get over the level 1 techs

[hybrid nimbus]

i did actually

it was my 3rd call, and they called me back

and it was not someone from east asia

[peak cloak]

Could be congested link or something too

Idk

[hybrid nimbus]

starting to think i should get their stupid router

and just return it once i get it sorted out

[peak cloak]

I really doubt it will fix things

Oh, didn't see the second part

[hybrid nimbus]

no it wont, but at least they'll talk to me

[peak cloak]

It costs a lot tho

[hybrid nimbus]

i was going to rent it from them

temporarily

[peak cloak]

There may be a min time or something like that

Read the fine print, just so you are not surprised

[hybrid nimbus]

yeah...

oh, worth noting that when I used ookla speed test when connected to the ONT, it was better but still not good

[peak cloak]

Exactly

So it's not the router

[hybrid nimbus]

yeah

so if i buy a better, newer one. it might help

but, verizon will continue to blame my router

[peak cloak]

No?

You literally connected without a router and it didn't help much

[hybrid nimbus]

ok so then i dont replace my router, then what

'cause in my current situation, verizon won't do anything

ugh new router won't fix that either

in any case, new router "might" help

prob wont fix it though

[ornate jungle]

No point in replacing the router if the problem still exists between a client device and the ONT... I would be running multiple tests from multiple devices over a wired connection to rule out limitations with the devices or speed test sites.

You can also prove out your speeds by running multiple tests from multiple devices at the same time then adding the totals together. Internet speeds depend on a huge variety of factors, and can fluctuate by the minute, making it hard to get an accurate representation of what you can actually receive sometimes.

[hybrid nimbus]

problem is, verizon will only care about speed tests from their speed testing tool

which always gives great results so long as i don't use my router

[ornate jungle]

Sounds like it's time to switch ISPs he says as he cries in only 2 ISPs available in his area, making switching kind of pointless.

[hybrid nimbus]

oh yeah i'll switch to comcast

lol

[ornate jungle]

Most ISP testing sites connect to a server in their headend - they'll still reveal your provisioned speeds, but won't represent what you can pull from non-ISP servers. If the speed test server you connect to is overloaded or limited in speed, you'll only be able to pull what it provides, even if your ONT is provisioned for gigabit speeds.

That's why I recommend running multiple different speediest sites from multiple WIRED devices at the same time, then adding the totals together.

[hybrid nimbus]

what if they say "dont do that, it doesn't count" lol

im trying to get them to come out and look at the box on the pole outside

[ornate jungle]

Why would you care what they say if the speeds add up to your total package? 😉 if the speeds don't add up, then you know they're not providing close to what you're supposed to get, but if they do add up, they've done their job.

[hybrid nimbus]

i doubt it will. its not just my speedtests that are bad

all it takes to fuck the whole houses' internet is watching a youtube video

[ornate jungle]

Oof if that's true, something is wonky indeed. Is the house wired for ethernet by chance? And when did this issue begin happening? (For example, is this a newly moved into house?)

[hybrid nimbus]

been here 5 years, the past few months it's been slow, but manageable, now it's almost unusable

[river cosmos]

I had purchased a 5 tb 100 mbps plan from my isp for a year and 10 mbps as fup . I thought that 10 mbps is 10 MB . I finished my 100 mbps 5tb within 5 months . And once that got over I realised that my epic store is downloading games a t less than 1 Mb so I did some investigation and found out that 10mbps is 1MB . And now im never gonna pay for his internet evr again .

[hybrid nimbus]

most of the time, it runs at about 40% of the advertized speed (like 400/120)

when it gets really bad

it's like 120/12

and i live in a major city, so they should have the bandwidth

as for the house wired with ethernet - my computers are in the basement, where the ONT is. Gigabit ethernet down here.

only the laptops and phones and stuff use wifi

ok so i cancelled my router order, will maybe try that some other time. i rented to the Verizon router... will rent it long enough to troubleshoot the connection

if it just fixes it... i might just keep it. I'd rather not

but i need to work from home, as does my wife and our connection currenty SUCKS

[cedar igloo]

As long as it's all on the same power circuit, I dont see there being an issue with powerlines. I dont know about the Cisco stuff though

[ornate jungle]

Check into whether or not the Cisco gear requires a software license to function. Not all of their stuff does, but some of it literally stops working if you don't pay the yearly license fee.

I have yet to find a Ubiquiti product that requires a license just to function. There are add-ons you can purchase, like licenses for more IP cameras in their surveillance station software, but after you buy the hardware it runs without further payment.

Of course, always do research. I recommend Crosstalk Solutions and Lawrence Technology Systems YouTube channels for everything Ubiquiti.

All hardware will eventually reach end of life - this just means it's not getting updates anymore, leaving it open to unpatched security vulnerabilities or simply unable to keep up with the demands of new client devices. It'll still function though.

[rocky badge]

AFAIK, Protect doesn’t, Video is EOL and no longer supported

Protect is just limited by hardware and storage

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge that feel when your surface pro 3 still works fine and windows 11 wont support it

[rocky badge]

lol

[waxen scroll]

maybe ill get an SP8 if thats a thing

im sure the 3 will die soon when I least expect it

[bronze swift]

Guys if I were to connect 1 Ethernet cable from my modem to a network switch then to my pc in one room, then another Ethernet cable from my modem to my pc directly without a network switch, would the speeds be the same assuming the pc parts are the same?

And if I were to make a network share folder with them, would it be as fast as the download speed? (Idk what speeds the network share folders use)

[upper garnet]

my download speed is so less compared to my upload speed

My internet package is of 50 mbps

btw I am on ethernet cable on PC and my laptop gives like 6 or 7 mb with wireless connection

😕

[somber ember]

It sounds like you’re using the Combo modem/router/switch/AP from your ISP, it would already have a switch built in between the Ethernet ports on the back and this is usually a 1 gigabit switch. So assuming your own switch is at least 1 gigabit and your pcs support 1 gigabit Ethernet(specs don’t really matter besides the interface speed) so you’ll be looking at ~110Megabytes/second from pc to pc

[somber ember]

And yes the speeds will be the same between the pcs if nothing else is connected to your switch

[distant heart]

moving this here

in short, using my old router as a wireless access point for my new LTE plan is only getting me 0.5mbps down, but im not sure where that throttling happens

but i could check the ethernet cable

[south blade]

What do I need to do to connect to my modem 192.168.100.1 from behind PFSense 192.168.10.1

[distant heart]

cable is fine, didnt think it was that

im not worried about the ip leak btw

[waxen scroll]

if the cable is fine and the wireless is not, probably too many access points on the channel you used

[distant heart]

if you mean theres wireless interference, there arent any other networks in range. im in a rural area

if not, i dont know what you mean

can i test my connection speed to a router with no internet?

[vestal sundial]

iperf3 between two machines?

[bronze swift]

What if the switches had let’s say, 3 PCs connected to them, not talking about transfer from pc to pc speed but download speed, would it be slower since 3 PCs are connected to the switch?

[clear igloo]

Depends, are all three downloading at the same time from the internet?

[rocky badge]

Just having the 3 PCs connected, no. But if all 3 (or some) are download that will affect download speeds

[somber ember]

What Luke and blob said, so with networking your speeds are always going to be limited to the weakest link in the chain, be it your internet or even a switch. So if you have 3 pcs all downloading at the same time the weakest link (9/10 times, your internet) will be spread across them, just having them connected shouldn’t pose any problems :)

[ivory pivot]

https://twitter.com/ElectroBOOMGuy/status/1409218712633167872?s=20 mehdi explaining networking quite well

Mehdi Sadaghdar (@ElectroBOOMGuy)

How Network Nodes Communicate https://t.co/xhSsMW5yoi

Twitter · Jun 27, 2021, 6:34 PM

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo >luke

[gilded kite]

does someone here have experience with swag on unraid? I want to access my nextcloud instance over http/https via dyndns.
I've set everything up so far that I reach the swag page over the domain, but now I struggle to route that to my nextcloud instance.
can someone maybe help me?

[primal ice]

need to change your network to a /16 - but my question is why do you have the modem behind pfsense? is the pfsense getting a wan connection? if pfsense is getting a wan connection then pfsense is acting as the modem would have and is the router now.

[bronze swift]

Probably not 3 of them at once but mostly 1 at a time, and less often 2 thx for the help

[thick minnow]

i set up an srv + a record for my minecraft server to use a subdomain but i cant connect through the sub domain (it shows up on minecraft server check sites) ive port forwarded already and ive allowed 25565 inbound and outbound in my firewall but still wont connect to the server, im using cloudflare to redirect the dns stuff

any help?

[south blade]

Modem > PFSense > Router > To all my devices... did I say it wrong? >_>

Ended up going to Walmart and buying a replacement modem (same Arris SB6183), used the same power cable and internet light was just blinking green, nothing else turned on, 30 mins on the phone with ISP they set up an appointment for a technician to come Tuesday, 2+ days without internet!? I thought, what haven't I tried...couldn't be the damn power cable...sure enough I swap out what I thought should be a fine power adapter from the old modem with the new one and I get more lights on the replacement modem. So I don't know if it really was the power cable, enough of a difference in my 5 year old SB6183 and the new one? Or it just so happens that something on their end was taking a while to configure.

But anyways, I was able to get to the Arris GUI only WHILE it was still configuring, after it got it's config and I was online suddenly I can't see it anymore? I don't understand. And you say I need to change my network to a /16, not sure what that means.

I feel like you're going to tell me I have something setup wrong, modem is 192.168.100.1 (which I would think isn't changeable) PFSense is 192.168.10.1 handling DHCP at 192.168.10.100-120, router is 192.168.10.10 with DHCP disabled. Actually just thought of doing a speed test, for WEEKS I thought maybe my VPN had changed something to throttle users, I was sure I was stuck with 1/4 my bandwidth now (I stay behind a VPN) but I just did a speed test again and I'm back to 3/4 my speed again! So my modem must have been slowly dying for a while.

[primal ice]

pfsense will just route to the 192.168.10.1/24 so anything that does not match 192.168.10.XXX will get passed out to the gateway but will not return -- the modem being 192.168.100.1/24 won't be able to send anything through the pfsense cause pfsense goes that is not from my subnet. if you change the subnet on each device to a /16 then it will match 192.168.xxx.xxx and pfsense will go okay that matches let it through. the other thing you can do is set the pfsense box to the same address range 192.168.100.4 and then change the router to 192.168.100. 6 .@south blade

[primal ice]

btw delete the speedtest.

[tender hazel]

in this case the pfsense is probably doing NAT again, so probably it is a double NAT scenario

I assume the router being mentioned is a wireless router that is not being used to route (i.e. they bought a router and used it as an access point)

[primal ice]

he could also set up forwarding rules etc, but lets just keep it simple.

[tender hazel]

if there is double NAT happening, changing to /16 without understanding the topology could cause their internet to stop working

the best thing to do in this case would be to put the arris into bridge mode if possible so that the pfsense gets a public IP on the WAN port

[south blade]

_> I have this enabled under NAT in PFSense

[tender hazel]

can you reconfigure the arris into bridge mode?

that's the ideal way of setting this up

because otherwise the arris is acting as another router and you are doing NAT twice

[south blade]

...maybe triple? Cause...my TP-Link has this enabled:

[south blade]

I don't know, and as I said as soon as I get internet access I can't access the GUI anymore

[primal ice]

yes triple nat

its the subnets you have set up.

[tender hazel]

check on the pfsense to see what IP address the WAN interface is getting

[primal ice]

192.168.100 does not equal 192.168.10

[tender hazel]

it may not be triple NAT depending on how the TP-Link is plugged in - if you don't have anything connected to the Internet/WAN port on the TP-Link you might not have triple NAT happening

[south blade]

WAN_DHCP starts with

[tender hazel]

ok so then the arris is already in bridge mode

because otherwise the pfsense would be getting something like 192.168 or 10. or 172.16 on the WAN port

if I were using a wifi router as an access point, the way I would do it is by disabling dhcp on the wifi router and plugging in only one of the lan ports to the uplink, and not the WAN port

doing that essentially converts the wifi router into an access point

[south blade]

Yes, this is how I have it...so that should be fine then?

[tender hazel]

yup

[south blade]

ok, so it's got to be something I got to change on PFSense to get into the modem GUI

[primal ice]

and yes with the modem in bridge mode you will not be able to access it.

[south blade]

But it's just a setting thing isn't it? Had I had GUI access before modem died I mightt have had some idea why I was getting 20% of my speed maybe.

Port Forwarding, 1:1, and NPt are blank, only here is where I have stuff setup right now.

[primal ice]

you would have to hard reset it. to restore factory settings. make it a modem router again to get to the web interface.

[tender hazel]

I wouldn't say that is always the case, I can get access to the web interface on my modem even on bridge mode

but sometimes it takes extra config on the device

I'm not sure why your first rule is there

[south blade]

I was hoping it was just a port forwarding issue or something simple

[tender hazel]

wan source 192.168.100.0/24 to 192.168.0.0/24

that doesn't make sense to me

I don't use pfsense but I don't think that rule is doing anything helpful for you

[south blade]

hmmmm, I followed a guide on setting up my VPN on the PFSense box (so I can get more than the 100Mbps my desktop was able to get from the VPN software)

[tender hazel]

what network is 192.168.0.0/24? you did not mention that network

[tender hazel]

and still even with the VPN guide I don't see what that has to do with that rule

[south blade]

hmmm, yeah guess I don't have anything that's supposed to be in 192.168.0.ANYTHING

[tender hazel]

what that rule does is says if the arris was plugged into the LAN side of your pfsense (not the wan side) and if it was trying to go to an IP in the subnet 192.168.0.0/24, it should be NATted through your public IP

that's why I'm saying it is nonsensical

you wouldn't plug your modem into the LAN port of your pfsense router

because otherwise there is nothing plugged into the WAN port of your pfsense and you have no internet

and even if you did plug the modem into the LAN port of the pfsense for no reason, why would you care how the wrongly-plugged-in Arris modem gets to non-existent network 192.168.0.0/24?

so I think that rule is there as a result of a misunderstanding of how things work

[south blade]

probably, I don't even remember what guide I followed but it allowed me to be able to toggle specific devices off the VPN, I didn't question it cause it got me what I wanted. 😛

[tender hazel]

anyway, that rule is not doing anything practically so it doesn't really matter

I don't know how pfsense works, but here is what you would need to do to be able to log into the modem

you probably need to have the pfsense get two IP addresses on the WAN port - one DHCP to get your public IP to get online, the second one static, something in the management range of the arris modem (ex. 192.168.100.2/24)

then you would need to create a NAT rule that says that if anything in 192.168.10.0/24 wants to go to 192.168.100.0/24, it has to be NATted through that special arris modem management IP (192.168.100.2/24)

I haven't used pfsense so I don't know how to do all of that

but in your screenshot above you would need to have a NAT rule with source 192.168.10.0/24, destination 192.168.100.0/24, NAT address "Arris management" or whatever you call it

because you need to trick the arris into thinking that when you are going to its web UI that you are actually coming from something on the 192.168.100.0/24 network

[south blade]

Ok, I see what you're saying

Found this guide https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/11/10/modem-webui-pfsense/ but I don't see how to add the same interface twice, poster said to look at a Netgate guide on how to do it but to me it sounds the same, still no way to add the same WAN port twice to give it a different address

[tender hazel]

it is sometimes called a "secondary IP address"

when you need to add another IP onto a port like that

I just did a quick google search and found this: https://bobcares.com/blog/pfsense-multiple-wan-ip/

I think that is probably what you want

so if you add an address in that Virtual IPs screen like 192.168.100.2/24 with description "Arris management", probably you can create an outbound NAT rule for source 192.168.10.0/24 to 192.168.100.0/24 to use "Arris management" as the NAT address

I am just using conjecture here as I have never worked with pfsense myself

these are just educated guesses based on work on other routers/firewalls

[quasi cliff]

Ok here is "probably" a simple problem to solve but I have no clue how to solve it.

I have a 500gb SSD attached to my router which then attatches to my Laptop and TV, my problem is my TV (Samsung series 7) doesnt seem to properly read what is on the SSD but my laptop does.

[round violet]

does your router support UPnP

[peak cloak]

Upnp has nothing to do with that

[round violet]

UPnp media server

the computer sees it because of smb/samba

[quasi cliff]

Yep it supports UPnP and its turned on

My TV also has a static IP address

[round violet]

okay then find a app on your tv that works with UPnp media servers

it's also called DLNA

[quasi cliff]

I cant find anything like that, the only thing I can find is when I can directly view the content on the SSD

[peak cloak]

No such thing

Upnp is automatic port forwarding

[round violet]

Do some research Asus routers support it

[peak cloak]

That's it

[peak cloak]

Ik what upnp is

You don't need it

@quasi cliff what type of media share is the router doing

Samba?

[quasi cliff]

I honestly I have no clue, how do I find that out?

[peak cloak]

What router

[quasi cliff]

Archer VR600v

[waxen scroll]

Pro tip to people wanting to upgrade to windows 11. You don't need a TPM module in many cases. It turns out that a lot of mobos being used for gaming support onboard TPM in the BIOS and do not require a module to be added on. You can still do so if you wish, cause there are advantages to a module.

Maybe LTT can do a PSA cause theres a lot of articles out there saying TPM required and TPMs are being sold out.

😄

[peak cloak]

Ah so it supports samba

Show the settings for the media share?

[quasi cliff]

Its ok, have found out my TV doesnt support DLNA

[hot hawk]

how do i connect a lan connection to a phone

i have a usb c hub that has ethernet

but phone doesnt detect a lan connection

my s20 is able to access the internet via lan, but my lg k40 cant

the device does support otg

the adapdar does show connected

but the data light is not blinking

[lean pebble]

Did you turned otg on ?

I think Samsung should support it

[viral glade]

anyone know where i can get a older version of my software for a huawei b315-936 ?

[frigid pine]

Google my friend.

[low pond]

<@&750150305383186585> ^ (problem resolved... message deleted)

[lean pebble]

@low pond

[tidal frost]

Can anyone help me with truenas? Im trying to add a group (family) to easily handout access to my wife, her mom, etc. The problem im having is users cannot access the dataset unless in "wheel" group. According to the ACL, "family" group should be able to access. But cannot

Like ive spent the last hour googling and everythings telling me to do exactly what ive just done

[slow pivot]

SMB share?

[alpine walrus]

hey, I need some help

I am having a work laptop(MI Notebook 14) it got no LAN port, I want to know if I should buy a USB type A adapter or a Type-C adapter ?

[tidal frost]

@slow pivot yes its set as smb so windows can see it.

My main user profile can access the server fine. The only issue that has is deleting files from other people which is whatever ill do that through command line when needed. Other users access it fine when in wheel.

[slow pivot]

I seem to remember that SMB can have permissions set both on the service and on the files

[hot hawk]

Wasn't a samsung device

Acectel 7

Otg is supported

Best guess is they didn't put drivers because dumb :/

[lean pebble]

It doesn't mean that rj45 otg supported.

[hot hawk]

yea prob not

if i had to guess, phone maker didnt put drivers for it

same thing happens on lineage os

[primal ice]

to annouce to windows system use wsdd (https://github.com/christgau/wsdd) if you want everyone on the network to access the share try in the smb.conf file

    comment = Media 01
    path = /sharemedia01
    inherit owner = yes
    create mask = 777
    directory mask = 777
    force create mode = 644
    force directory mode = 775
    read only = yes
        writable = no
    guest ok = yes
    write list = (users you want to have write privileges)

available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes

[next media device if you have more than one]```@tidal frost

[deep walrus]

Does anyone have experiences with Wi-Fi Mesh routers in a apartment that has thick concrete walls, would this be better than using powerline adapters?

[flint ember]

I’m building a home network and smart home. So far I have ubiquiti wifi 6 LR and 1000 ft of cat6, and a 24 port patch panel. Im undecided on what switch to get, or if i should just build a server and host VMs. Idea is everything would stay with the house. I am planning on getting 4 NVR cameras, and all Lurton smart switches. Any advice is greatly appreciated. This is not my forever home. I plan on selling within the year.

[flint ember]

What is the question ? Or needs further explanation

[flint ember]

I personally would never use power line adapters.

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo @hollow marlin i hear cisco about to eat cienas lunch

appliance coming that does what ciena does, plus layer 3 built in

i dont remember the name though. we're having a sales pitch next week I think

[hollow marlin]

Ciena has some barebones L3 in the standard image but if you want more you need to flash the device with a more router focused image. I am pretty sure that image as well is only manageable via their controller software. God I hate Ciena more and more lately

[cobalt canopy]

will not be the best, i life in a house that is relatively Old and got Massive Walls, tried Wifi, but its not really a good Experience, Powerline where better but the wiring is really old (part of it where made in the 80s). If you have relatively recent wiring i would probably Opt for Powerline, mostly due to being less restricted by the Thick walls.

i dont use Powerline anymore tho, got some CAT7 runs down and the difference is night and day

[clear igloo]

So long as it's a 9000 something to not confuse with all the other 9000 series XD

[grave ferry]

depending on your usage PLC could work but I would never recommend it (unless you have a crazy clean and brand new electrical network).
Running a few clean rj45 cables around the appartement (with PoE AP at the end for simplicity and cleanliness) is the goto solution for me.
Ofc your main desktop machines are better off wired.

Not exactly a networking question, but sysadmin kind of profile are probably more around here so ...
A friend is having two Synology RackStation RS10613xs (2014), barely used, collecting dust for years for years, so I'm thinking about buying them from him (planning on using them as offsight "cold" backup for my home server). But neither him nor I have any idea how to price those (as we cannot find any in the market). Anybody from that field could advice me on what would be a fair price ?

[muted needle]

so our modem has the ability to do sort of a router/bridge hybrid at the same time, assigning some port its own public IPv4 address... and I did that and seems like I can't connect to the server (through its public IPv4) from the main network anymore

why the hell?

like I can connect to it from my mobile data but I'm unable to connect from the Wi-Fi on the same modem

[peak cloak]

wut

[grave ferry]

when on your wifi, do you try to access your server through your public ip or it's local ip ?

[grave ferry]

if you're using the public IP, most router do not allow hairpinning (NAT loopback)(when you try do access the public interface from inside your network), at least not by default

[muted needle]

I think you're misunderstanding:

Modem —> Router (and all devices connected to it)
|
V
One bridged port (where the server is)

the server has a different public IP from the others

and so the server (via its only IP, it's not behind a NAT) can't be accessed through the NATted network

[rocky badge]

oof no hairpin

[grave ferry]

You sure the server does not have a local ip ? (you can check easily by running ip a/ifconfig/ipconfg directly on the server)

[rocky badge]

Can you traceroute to it

See where it dies

[muted needle]

yes, its IP is 81.###.243.###

[muted needle]

ah, not a bad idea that

wait I forgot lol I was connected via phone

[peak cloak]

what woudn't work

unless you have 2 public ips

or modem is doing NAT

[grave ferry]

I think he has multiple public ips

[peak cloak]

I doubt it

[muted needle]

1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500
1: no reply
2: no reply
3: no reply
...

[muted needle]

yes, I get up to 5 public IPs, right now I have 2

[rocky badge]

Is this from your PC

[muted needle]

yeah

(linux PC but still)

[rocky badge]

Yeah, that's linux ping lol that's why i was asking

[rocky badge]

What about tracerouting from the router, if possible

[muted needle]

so I go see what the public IP of my laptop connected to the wifi is, it says 81.###.245.###

on server the NIC has been assigned the IP 81.###.243.###, which is also the public IP

[rocky badge]

And I saw stuff outside can, ie your phone?

[muted needle]

yeah, my phone's mobile data can connect

[rocky badge]

How are you testing connectivity?

web browser? ssh? etc

[muted needle]

ping, curl, SSH

[rocky badge]

is it a timeout or conn refused?

[muted needle]

just timeout

[rocky badge]

Sounds like a routing issue then 🤔

[muted needle]

yeah it probably is

but it's so weird, maybe it could be a bug in the router firmware that it's saying it knows the route but just doesn't say it

actually I should try if I can get to it through an SSH tunnel via an off-site server

yes, that works lol

[rocky badge]

So somewhere between you and your modem, its not routing properly. You said it was a different subnet though?

What's your WAN subnet size/mask

if its small enough where 243 and 245 aren't in the same subnet, it would have to route through your ISP outside of the modem I guess?

[muted needle]

ah, a few secs

[rocky badge]

Then again, I'm not that great at troubleshooting for someone else 😂

[peak cloak]

yeah me neither

[muted needle]

255.255.248.0

hmm, time to do some maths

[rocky badge]

So 240-247

Hmm 🤔

its probably your modem then....or ISP

Is there a web gui for your modem?

[muted needle]

yes

[clear igloo]

I'm a bit perplexed as to why the ISP is giving such a wide range of addresses though, usually, even though they would have it on on a large subnet they would give you a few consecutive addresses from that pool

or I missed something up top 🙂

[muted needle]

it's DHCP'd somehow

[rocky badge]

yeah, if they're gonna give you X addresses, why not give it in like a /29

[clear igloo]

Sounds like the modem might have a firewall built in and maybe a firmware update said no more hairpinning?

[muted needle]

maybe I just have to hook the server up to both networks

but in that case I'd need to get another NIC, FreeBSD doesn't play well with one of them

but yeah thanks a lot guys, I'm pretty sure it's a firmware issue

[clear igloo]

Yah, that's what I can glean from all of this too, something updated and changed something that's not obvious or transparent to you on your side/GUI

[muted needle]

as some context, I assigned it an own IP just today and have been scratching my head for 2 hours, so it's not an update, probably a bug

but yeah

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

[clear igloo]

@rocky badge 2.5Gbps yes?

[rocky badge]

👀

@clear igloo https://bgp.he.net/AS32096

[peak cloak]

that's a good price

if it's a no bs one

iirc verizon's 1gig is actually like in the hundred somethings

I actually got a thing in the mail saying there was a new internet in town and was excited for a sec, but then I saw it was just T-Mobile shitty LTE internet

and they were charging 60/ month for it

no mention of speeds anywhere

[grave ferry]

wait, GBps or Gbps ?

[rocky badge]

Gbps

[hollow marlin]

My payment is $79.99 for Fios gig

[peak cloak]

how long have you had it

[hollow marlin]

1.5 years

[peak cloak]

I heard they jack it up after 2 years

[hollow marlin]

They definitely could, we'll wait an see

Just checked the bill and it says $79.00, no expiration. Quick glace at reddit and looks like they changed the price structure over the past year or 2

[peak cloak]

diving in to the fine print of Verizon’s website reveals that even if a customer is eligible for the $70 per month price, that service is actually a $195 / month plan which is reduced to $70 through a $10 online discount and a $115 "special bonus discount,” which is only valid for either 12 or 24 months. (The site isn’t totally clear.)

that was written in 2017

[hollow marlin]

Looked like the change was made in Jan 2020. My bill is literally $89 for gig, -$10 for autopay. Both marked with "no expiration". It will eventually go up but for the meantime it doesn't appear to be a thing anymore

[peak cloak]

huh

we'll see what increase we get here

on 300/300 since no need for gig or 500/500 tbh

[hollow marlin]

Oh I definitely don't need gig, most dont. But with working from home and some of the large files I need to pull, saving a min when there isn't enough time in a work day as is, its a nice perk

[peak cloak]

yeah

neither parents work with large files, so no need

[plain siren]

I observe things like 4K Streaming and ever increasing device amounts do start be chewing chunks out of gigabit WAN links now

[peak cloak]

I don't even have one 4k screen in the house lol

although at school there are some pc's with 4k displays and they are crisp

[grave ferry]

man I love Switzerland (in practice I have symmetrical 8Gbps)

(but yeah, unless you have a very specific usage, 300/300 is more than enough)

[crisp bay]

bruuu I have 300/75, but 8Gbps is overkill

[waxen scroll]

200 is overkill

I'm comfortable on 100/10

[rocky badge]

When I move out, my parents are downgrading to 250/250 from Gigabit lol

Because the only speed below 250/250 is 25/3

[crisp bay]

oof

I had 20/2, changed the ISP, now 300/75 their lowest packet for less price than the previous one

[hidden socket]

how much a gig for you cost? 🤔

[rocky badge]

$65/mo

[grave ferry]

that's the only offer this ISP provide, and it's cheaper than any other ISP here

[crisp bay]

true

[rocky badge]

250/250 will be $50/mo lol

[crisp bay]

I'm paying like 35€/mo

[rocky badge]

Which is plenty for them, and they're saving $180 annually

[hidden socket]

well damn I could get 530/36 for that money (though website states thats average)

with my provider

[crisp bay]

here 500/500

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo Playing around with WPA3

[hidden socket]

Im waiting for fibre optic to come to my neighbourhood so I can get 1gb

But i fear that would take a few years

[rocky badge]

The only device that doesn't support is my dad's Surface Pro 6 😐

[dusk saddle]

What's the point of negotiating trunking? If you know a link is going to move traffic from multiple VLANs why not just make it a trunk port?

[peak cloak]

negotiating trunking? never heard that before

[dusk saddle]

You can set trunk modes

Like auto or dynamic desirable

[peak cloak]

where?

[dusk saddle]

In the CLI on a cisco switch

[peak cloak]

ah

[dusk saddle]

switchport mode dynamic desirable is the command

[peak cloak]

maybe @hollow marlin would know

[dusk saddle]

I was thinking the same haha

[hollow marlin]

DTP and VTP in Cisco are enabled by default and really meant for an average IT person to purchase a few switches, connect them up, create a few VLANs and it just works.

[tender hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwBv2ZSJc5w

@hollow marlin your handle always makes me think of that

[hollow marlin]

Setting up VTP as transparent and always setting switchports to access/trunk are pretty much the standard.

[tender hazel]

@hollow marlin so I spent like 12 hours or more troubleshooting this adtran

which stopped passing all customer traffic after upgrading

finally the support guy gets back to me, and we were working on it for like an hour

and then he sees that we are not using an adtran optic and explained that in version 8.7 adtran added a "feature" for third party optics to block customer data traffic but allow management traffic through

I didn't think it was the optic because it worked before the upgrade, and after the upgrade it was still passing management traffic

[hollow marlin]

@tender hazel welcome to 2017 when we upgraded a fully populated 5k. They must have changed the code because at the time when it rebooted, no interfaces came back. It was a hard no support at all.
We immediately reached out to support when we found out the change where no 3rd party SFPs are supported. At the time there was a critical security patch that was needed, we wouldn't be able to get optics for a few days and used the power of E911 to escalate it. One of their engineers provided internal firmware of the same version that had this "fix" that restored support for 3rd party SFPs.
From that point on we had an even mix of Adtran and Calix and tossed the 5ks for E7s.