networking

[shut vessel]

that’s the mini box

[cedar igloo]

What does the main box say on the settings > status page?

is it connected to broadband router?

[shut vessel]

idk

[cedar igloo]

ok.. im guessing you have rebooted both of them by unplugging the power out the back for a sec?

[shut vessel]

yes

[cedar igloo]

Ok. on the main box, highlight "settings" and type '001' and press select

is wireless enabled?

[shut vessel]

wait a sec

what?

[cedar igloo]

press home. then down until you are highlighting settings

do not go into settings

then type 001 on the remote, followed by select

[shut vessel]

there isn’t any highlight settings

[cedar igloo]

like, press the down button until you are highlighting settings in the menu

[shut vessel]

there isn’t any

[cedar igloo]

go to this page, then back 2 menus

[shut vessel]

ye

[cedar igloo]

thats a mini box, so it will look a little different

[shut vessel]

yes

[cedar igloo]

but make it look like that on the left

then on the remote, press 001

[shut vessel]

yes

[cedar igloo]

and select

[shut vessel]

this came up will it affect the warranty

ffs

[cedar igloo]

it shouldnt

[shut vessel]

it didn’t upload

[cedar igloo]

its just an engineers menu

[shut vessel]

it said these settings should only be changed if advised by sky

[cedar igloo]

i mean, if you dont want to do this, give them a call but i dont see any reason why it will affect warranty

[shut vessel]

uhhh ok

i’ll go ahead

[cedar igloo]

you probably wont even need to change settings. its just ruling something out

[shut vessel]

if it affects warranty i’ll just say it was some random from discord lol

anyway what’s next

[cedar igloo]

what does it say for 2.4ghz and 5ghz wireless?

[shut vessel]

to turn wireless connectivity on or off

[cedar igloo]

but what is selected?

[shut vessel]

on for both

[cedar igloo]

thats fine then. can you quickly check one of the mini boxes to see if it matches?

[shut vessel]

no because of this

[cedar igloo]

oh. you cant get on any menus?

[shut vessel]

i’ll try my one upstairs

brb

oooo it’s on

[cedar igloo]

we havent changed any settings...

[shut vessel]

ikr

it says on for both

[cedar igloo]

oh nvm. i thought you meant it was working

[shut vessel]

ye the sky mini box upstairs is working

[cedar igloo]

id just reset the other one then. is there a reset pin in the back?

wait

[shut vessel]

the main one?

[cedar igloo]

no

[shut vessel]

the mini?

[cedar igloo]

hold the WPS button (looks like refresh button) on the main followed by the mini that isnt working

[shut vessel]

ok

[cedar igloo]

they should start flashing when you hold it down long enough

[shut vessel]

brb

[cedar igloo]

this should try to reconnect them

[shut vessel]

the main one is flashing orange and the mini (not working) is flashing red

[cedar igloo]

flashing orange is normal. red isnt.

maybe just try to unplug the mini that isnt working again? hopefully it will show a menu

[shut vessel]

they’ve both stopped

wait a sec

[cedar igloo]

wtf... the one that was working just stopped?

[shut vessel]

no it stopped flashing

AYY it worked

[cedar igloo]

everything working now?

[shut vessel]

idk but it says connecting

[cedar igloo]

so, the one upstairs fixed itself, and the other just needed reconnecting

[shut vessel]

k

i bet you it’s stuck on that screen now

[cedar igloo]

if it stops again, id get an engineer out to have a look

[shut vessel]

ye

tbh this isn’t even mine it’s my parents it’s just stopped working

i was bored so why not fix it

now it says this

nooooooooooooooooo

i’m resetting it now

[cedar igloo]

resetting what?

just the mini?

[shut vessel]

ye

[cedar igloo]

i guess all you can do is try... if it doesnt work, just get an engineer to sort it

[shut vessel]

ok

[cedar igloo]

not sure if theres a callout charge though.

[shut vessel]

thx for your help

[cedar igloo]

didnt really do much. the one that worked fixed itself

[shut vessel]

lol

i never i mean NEVER use the one upstairs

[cedar igloo]

just swap them around?

[shut vessel]

it’s connecting to my main box rn

[shut vessel]

wdym

[cedar igloo]

if the one upstairs is working, swap it with the one that isnt

if you dont use the one upstairs

[shut vessel]

that’s effort tho and i cba

ykw brb

[cedar igloo]

if it doesnt work after swapping it, there must be an issue getting the wireless signal to that room

[shut vessel]

k

my wifi for my phone and ipad work atleast

but my controllers don’t work

[shut vessel]

the upstairs sky box works here

[cedar igloo]

probably issue with the mini box then

[shut vessel]

ye

[cedar igloo]

controllers can just be repaired to the mini boxes

[shut vessel]

but i need 2 controllers becuase one turns the tv and one to use the sky box

[cedar igloo]

can you not hold down the power button to turn off the tv?

[shut vessel]

no

[shut vessel]

uhhh no it’s the room it don’t work

kill me now

[plain siren]

Bet
sounds of rattling ammunition in background

[low pond]

or just stand thru a windows installtion

[undone basin]

does anyone here have a synology nas and running plex wondering if you like it and it works well? thinking about buying a synology.

[plain siren]

This applies to QNAP and Synology but you gonna have a bad time unless you are getting the ones that cost the prettier penny usually for something like Plex

I have a tendency to suggest the following:
"Let the NAS be a NAS and focus on NAS things only so it can be a better NAS"

Now if you were to lets say... Plex Server on a diff machine thats more suited for it and use the NAS as a NAS and store the files on the NAS that plex can access, most mid-low and mid tier options from both companies and higher will do that just well.

[undone basin]

so than a custom unraid server is the way to then?

[plain siren]

Oh man, so thats a whole other oof for me:

Unraid is just like its name... Unfuckingusable to me. Its basically limited to single disk IOPs performance and to whichever the slowest disk is.

However, still the same recommendation as before: If you build a NAS, let it be just a NAS.

Build the NAS with cheaper hardware but capable of doing the needed disk amount and perhaps a decent nic, you wouldnt even need alot of RAM or a decent CPU to achieve the optimal

And then build a system that is meant for process services/servers with the better hardware and use that

[peak cloak]

in homelab server there's a dedicated rant for unraid lol

[plain siren]

Oh that long ass text file right?

The one where the guy sounds pissed writing the thing heh

Or, buy a cheap QNAP/Synology and then build a Plex/Whatever machine instead of the more expensive NAS'

[peak cloak]

ye

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

[undone basin]

what os would you recommend putting on a nas

[peak cloak]

ubuntu, debian would work

freenas is also good

[plain siren]

Me, I use Alpine of all things.

Its basically the optimal server OS for just about anything since its literally a very basic linux with only what you need to run a server with no redundant things like... networkmanager + systemd's networkd being both offered out the box (Config clutter in /etc/ is annoying to me)

Alpine + ZFS and you got yourself the cleanest NAS

Albeit without anything like a GUI/Desktop Env

[peak cloak]

it's funny since many people think of server OSs as very demanding and need lots of power to run

when the optimal server os is light

[undone basin]

I will look into it

[plain siren]

Yeah, You could stick an Atom Processor into something like that and still get full speed NAS

[undone basin]

Really?

[plain siren]

Yeah, my NAS is running on an i3 low tier piece of shit

[low pond]

Well servers.. technically are with the right applications running on it, but the OS in its own naaah, your average consumer OS called windshit is way more demanding

[plain siren]

My trashing NAS box I use as a temp storage

[undone basin]

Are you running a mirror?

[plain siren]

I do run a mirror on my bigger system

Quite a few tbh

[plain siren]

Windows Server Core is pretty damn stripped down.

And surprisingly little overhead so long as you aint stacking tons of roles on it

[plain siren]

Tbqh, you could even achieve a small but rapid NAS with a Raspi

Although limited in storage size and space

For a jank tiny storage machine, shit... you can saturate a 1Gbit link

[undone basin]

What about a cheap Synology?

For like 200 or 300

Cause I heard there os was fantastic

[plain siren]

So is QNAP's look into them too. But yeah it would work fine tbh

[undone basin]

I've never heard of QNAP

[plain siren]

They are basically what I would call the AMD of NAS' if Synology was Intel

they are just as big if not bigger at this point

[undone basin]

So better?

Or equal

[plain siren]

Both depending on what you can get your hands on

[undone basin]

Well I will do some research. Thanks!

[plain siren]

I usually recommend Synology and QNAP in the same motion most the time when doing these suggestions

[undone basin]

Ok

[ornate jungle]

I have a DS918+ with 2x 6TB drives in it running as a glorified Linux ISO seedbox. (Legit, I host various debian based Linux distros for those who wish to download them over peer to peer.) It was okay for Plex transcoding, but I uninstalled Plex because I just prefer opening everything using VLC media player and letting it do the decoding on local devices, even if that's not the most efficient way to do it. (With more time I'd probably get things setup better but alas, what even is time anyway?)

[plain siren]

The only time you will honestly need some serious storage computing power is if you are doing multiple multipath'd streams and consistent decent bandwidth file operations (Databases for example)

[plain siren]

Time is something all these pet projects eat too much of but I dont have enough of.

[peak cloak]

iirc there are some formats you can transcode to beforehand and then are directly streamed to the client

[undone basin]

I will only usually have 1 to 3 streams at most coming off of Plex a a time

[plain siren]

The only real optimization I can suggest is a SLOG Storage +/or a SSD Cache

When utilized correctly, it can be used to prefetch files being accessed and allow better saturation of the network link and as a buffer for writing large files to without having to wait on the HDD's to catch up

[ornate jungle]

Exactly yeah - the wimpy processor and 4GB RAM in my Synology can handle a couple Plex encodes before it hits close to 100% utilization, but as @peak cloak noted, you can save on CPU cycles by transcoding media into a more standardized and adaptive format prior to watching it. Best to also research the Synology or QNAP you plan on buying beforehand as different models have different hardware capable of more or less simultaneous encodes.

[plain siren]

Synology and QNAP both offer solutions with this

[plain siren]

The only issue with pre-transcode packaging is that its larger space requirement since it usually will be a transcode to multiple formats to allow support with many devices

Basically the same concept as compressing files

[ornate jungle]

Yee, you have to the space for it for sure, otherwise on the fly transcoding is the way to go.

[plain siren]

Yezzir

[ornate jungle]

Synology just released DSM 7.x - it has some issues to work out, especially among some of the unofficial packages published by the community, but I can confirm it feels way snappier than DSM 6.x felt.

[plain siren]

Synology has that dank NVR Solution which is really the appeal for their options to me is

[peak cloak]

I want to get some security cams up

[plain siren]

QNAP is otherwise the go-to for me since it is a bit more "open" and configurable. I really couldnt push one over the other anymore however since they basically are neck to neck

[undone basin]

hmm. Is it like unusable slow?

[plain siren]

I just did an entire rehash of my Security Camera Setup/Layout

[ornate jungle]

Same here. I've set aside a budget to get into Ubiquiti stuff in my own home, just haven't bit the bullet yet. I want a UDM with WiFi 6 (strictly so I don't have to replace it for years to come) or a UDM Pro with a couple APs and a 16port PoE switch. Then I could run a couple PoE cameras and have them connect to Synology Surveillance Station.

[plain siren]

UDM Pro tbh, the UDM is underwhelming if im being totally objective about it

[peak cloak]

I don't like ubiquiti, but everyone can do what they want

[plain siren]

I dont really like them either, its honestly at the core of what it is: Shit.

[ornate jungle]

It's kind of like running Windows 7 on an older system with only 2GB RAM - it's slower than a desktop OS because running a full blown interface in a browser is taxxing, but for the amount you actually have to login to the interface, it's very usable.

[undone basin]

I assume they will fix it in their next update

[plain siren]

There is so many problems with their raw network capabilities

[undone basin]

oof I bought UDM pro a month ago

[plain siren]

And if you want a potentially nicer NVR with much more going for it: Using a server with Shinobi installed on it (but still using NAS as storage) can give you some very nice control/command features and even extras like facial recog, ALPRS, and object detection + a proper motion detection/notification system.

Along with things like Alexa Show Display integration or an easy to access Matrix display

[ornate jungle]

There's nothing to "fix"... You're usually going to experience a more sluggish interface when accessing something as complex as an Operating system through a web browser rather than via a mouse and keyboard on bare metal or via something like UnRAID.
If you want snappy desktop like performance, you'd be looking at building an actual server and connecting a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, or at the very least, remote desktoping into it on the local network.

[peak cloak]

hmm, never heard of that. Will look into it

[plain siren]

Its fine for plug and play and "prosumer" people who dont need something like L3 Switching

[peak cloak]

what are the limitations of CE?

[undone basin]

I see

[plain siren]

Think of shit like LDAP Login

You can shove shinobi on a raspi and itll run just fine. Pair it with a NAS and good to go

[peak cloak]

and support I assume? so nothing major

nice

[plain siren]

I utilize Dahuahahahahahahah---- Based Cameras myself (Hikvision, Amcrest) which have basically the standardized communication functions instead of something stupid like a webserver on a camera (Ubiquiti...) and it works fantastic with Shinobi.

[ornate jungle]

Exactly yeah, I know there's better stuff out there, but I'm one of those lazy "small business" oriented IT jack of all trades master of none people. If I needed more advanced L3 networking features for me or a client, I'd probably defer to a 3rd party firm, though I'd use it as an opportunity to learn how they do stuff lol.

[peak cloak]

rtsp is the standard right?

or is there something else for control of cameras?

[plain siren]

Well L3 put simply is: Instead of sending your data all the way back up the chain of switches to the router then back down to a machine that is potentially on the same switch... L3 Switches can do the routing right there reducing hops greatly at times

Really helps with shit like VoIP and clusters of servers that talk to each other. Wont storm up the network

[peak cloak]

so your switch is also a router

basically

[plain siren]

Basically yeah.

But not fully featured routing like needing to do Router Advertising for IPv6 Prefixes, DHCP Options, etc

One cool thing you can do with L3 Switches is put your uplink on one side of the network but your gateway/router on another side down the chain and then forgo the typical placement requirements of edge router

"Router on a Stick" as its called

[plain siren]

Yessir, there is also ONVIF

ONVIF is however a standard really and ONVIF Capable devices use RTP/RTSP

[peak cloak]

Yeah I heard of that

[plain siren]

GB/T28181 is however a fun standard that is alternative to ONVIF

Its a China standard.

Set by the Ministry of Public Security

Pretty much all China Made Cams support this

Hikvision/Amcrest etc included

I just disabled it in each camera's configuration personally

[low pond]

Are all of these over IP or...?

Not familar with CCTV based protocls

[plain siren]

Yes, IP Cams

In 2021, if you are installing fresh wired Coax Security Cameras, exit the building and give up your credentials.

[low pond]

Pretty sure the place i am staying for a few days uses coax camera or so

Prem DVR

[plain siren]

It used to be that you would push Coax for security reasons (Network Security is hard) and things like physical cable protection from idk... MITM, but all of that is basically moot

One of situations an L3 Switch comes in handy is here since ideally the NVR + IP Cameras would all be on an L3 PoE Switch to isolate the network talking from eating up the routers resources/upstream links

Top it off, you would isolate communication upstream from the L3 Switch into ideally a single VLAN since (ideally...) it would be a dedicated camera switch

A hidden feature in many cameras is macsec support too

So the physical link between Switch and Camera is encrypted (The ethernet communication)

RIPing any MITM Attempts

And the only communication upstream should technically be NVR <> Router <> Client Devices and nothing from the cams would exit the L3 Switch.

L3 Switches can also run DHCP Servers alot of the times, so you can even serve the DHCP for the cameras in an isolated manner

[peak cloak]

https://www.microcenter.com/product/620641/nvidia-jetson-nano-developer-kit-rev-2

only 100 bucks, may be good for object detection and such for security cams

[heady brook]

My current house doesn't have a way to route ethernet cables through the walls, what's the best way to get a single (just one) wifi... extender type of thing that is effective?

[peak cloak]

best option would be another AP

do you have coax in the walls already?

[heady brook]

No, none of that. I have one coax line coming from the cable box

tag: @peak cloak

[peak cloak]

powerline I guess may be good, but may not be any better than just over wifi depending on the wiring

idk anything really about powerline or wifi extenders

never had the need to use it

[carmine moss]

powerline can be hit or miss and wifi extenders work but make it slower> If you really need the extra range look for a better access point if using the isp combo thing for sure. or move things closer if you can. @heady brook

[heady brook]

According to google powerline uses electrical wiring for this purpose, so yeah that's not a good option for this situation. This house has old electrical wiring in the house. I wonder what the best type of wifi extenders are

[verbal rapids]

anyone knows about japanese ipv4 over ipv6? I am based on japan and was looking to buy a router, but japan is using these non standard protocols, variations of dual stack lite named v6 plus, transix etc etc. Here are a list of routers from buffalo - https://www.buffalo.jp/support/other/network-ipv6.html

Apparantly router brands like asus do not have these features.

[peak cloak]

so "transix" is ds-lite

v6 plus seems to be some custom ipv4 over v6 tunnel

idk about "v6 connect"

@verbal rapids so you want to buy an "american" router for use in japan?

[verbal rapids]

@peak cloak
i just want to buy a decent router. All the japanese router I could not find proper review for them. There are some routers from TPlink but maybe not that great models? - https://www.tp-link.com/jp/support/faq/2383/
And from NEC: https://www.aterm.jp/product/atermstation/topics/warpstar/ipv6.html

Most of them seems to have shit UI. Compared to Ubiquity dream machine they seems overpriced.

[peak cloak]

Ubiquity dream machine is overpriced as well

what spec does your ISP use

[verbal rapids]

@peak cloak
Right now I will get connection from BB excite which uses Transix. but later this year (may be december) I was considering changing to Rakuten which is the only ISP right now using Crosspath (クロスパス).

[peak cloak]

hmm no clue what "crosspath" is

[verbal rapids]

Well, f**** custom technology which nobody is using aside from japan. They really love these galapagos techs.

[verbal rapids]

maybe it is written as xpass?

[peak cloak]

Probably just fancy names for normal things

[plucky palm]

Hey I need help with my pc

Anyone care to help out?

[tender hazel]

The use of transition technologies like DS-lite really limits what you can use on the router side

@verbal rapids in your case you might have the best luck finding a router that you can flash with something like openwrt which can support ds-lite

[verbal rapids]

@tender hazel
I presume there will be configuration depending on the variant of ds-lite here (tranasix, v6 plus etc). And information about those custom versions on the internet ought to be in japanese language.

[tender hazel]

yeah

but I think something like openwrt is your best bet probably in this case

you can customize it as much as you want, you can build your own firmware if needed with custom contents

a lot of the mikrotik devices work nicely for openwrt, mikrotik has not locked down their devices to only work with their firmware - they allow you to use openwrt instead if openwrt supports that device

not that you have to use mikrotik but whichever vendor you go with you have to make sure that the device you are getting can be flashed with openwrt

otherwise you might spend money on a device that you can't get openwrt working on

[verbal rapids]

Do you have any link to article/blog that have openwrt configured and running with custom ds-lite variations like transix?
Thing is this will be my main internet connection, and I don't want to get into system that "will work" on theory.

[tender hazel]

I've never heard of transix

and searching comes up with nothing - so no, I don't have a link to an article or blog for that

but @verbal rapids even though I do not use openwrt myself I know that you can do your own custom compilations of it that include whatever you want

and it has a package manager to install what you like

I can't say it will work, but of the available options if you don't want to have to use your ISP provided router, it is the best shot you have, and if it doesn't work, probably nothing will

[vapid rapids]

Hi guys I'm back after doing a bit more research on network cards for a future 10gbit setup. I've stumbled upon these cards for my 3pcs and I'm thinking these are going to be what I need. https://www.ebay.com/itm/353226740571?hash=item523df4535b:g:ROEAAOSw0Ktfe0k9 Does that and some DAC cables attached to a switch work together? Everything I've read says if should work out fine but would like a second opinion before proceeding 😀

[eternal mountain]

Looking for some smart people to help me solve my home wireless network situation. I need to cover a 150m2 / 1600 square foot house with a single network. I don't know if i need repeaters, access points or routers or whatever else there is out there. And i don't know which ones to use to avoid them creating different networks.

[waxen relic]

Hi My Asus RX-AX56U keeps over heating so I was thinking of upgrading to something with more bandwidth and true one Gigabit capable?

I’m not interested in WiFi

[twin zealot]

as long as every repeater or acces point or router hase the same ssid name and same password it will be the same wireless network and will show up as a single network

[twin zealot]

as long as every repeater or acces point is in the same network your only gonne need 1 router

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo @hollow marlin we're having the same issues. Lots of CCIEs who dont know anything

i remain confused how CCIE is a good cert at this point

[clear igloo]

paper tigers aka cheating in certain places is a huge reason people like that can manage to get them which waters down the accomplishment and makes them look like bad certs sadly

[peak cloak]

Hex by mikrotik is good

Or er-x by ubiquity too, although that one can't do gigabit without hardware acceleration which can cause issues with certain things like ipv6 which I had issues with

[waxen relic]

I was looking at milrotik is the hex good for high traffic that would kill a home router

[peak cloak]

It can do 2 gigabit duplex routing

[peak cloak]

Should be fine, as long as you don't have many firewall rules or something advanced

Routeros though is a bit complicated, but if you want to learn networking go for it. There is a quickset menu if you just want the basics

Phone app too I heard is better for newbie

[waxen relic]

I like security options

[peak cloak]

This is the web interface

http://demo.mt.lv/webfig/

[peak cloak]

It won't do anything automatically, you need to make the firewall rules yourself

So if you just want something plug and play, this isn't for you

[sour willow]

Is there a network cmd list somewhere out there? Trying to hook up a workstation printer and the computer cant see it, even typing the ip in

[peak cloak]

To list the ip?

Wdym by network cmd list

[sour willow]

Running out of ideas 😅

[peak cloak]

See if you can ping it

[sour willow]

It worked but we replaced a router with switch maybe that's why

[peak cloak]

Wut

[sour willow]

We had 2 routers in a row 🤣

[peak cloak]

Yeah

[wanton sphinx]

you might need 2 printers just in case the first one decides to go on holiday

[sour willow]

Also eero you can either A. Log into your Amazon account or B. Use a eero account which sends a SMS to account holder..

Cant help someone if you cant login a normal way...

[sour willow]

It's one of these trying to hook back up

[peak cloak]

why

[sour willow]

instead of a normal username and password like a normal router so you can access it easier if your helping someone 😒 so if there lets say in town which is 30min driving, it means they get a text message which they will have to call back

[plain siren]

this... this is fucking horrid

Actually, god awful

[plain siren]

And fun fact: the trick here wouldve been to hook the LAN from first Router to LAN to second router (if it was a Wi-Fi Router) which wouldve made the second Wi-Fi Router only function as a Switch + Wi-Fi AP with no Routing Functionality avoiding the Double NAT/Triple NAT

[peak cloak]

I should try this with my old aio

I only have 2 ports to my room which is fine for most cases, but if I ever needed more I could try that

[plain siren]

I cant even lie, after yoinking some AT&T AIO's once I ripped the Authentication Certs off them to bypass, Ive found they make damn good Switches and VoIP ATAs

[plain siren]

Just make sure to disable DHCP on the junk AIO first before you do this. Itll work as a switch just fine after. Usually they are some sort of modified version of Motorola's Open Source CPE Router Linux and those switches they use in them are using bog standard Linux Bridge driver. Basically means they work as beautifully as you would hope

[peak cloak]

Found it

It's a wrt160n v2

I remember I wanted to get a 3rd party software on it and it has too little space

So that was one of my main reasons to get the er-x

[plain siren]

Usually the actual Userland OS that is ran is an overlay instead of a direct run of the actual system files right off the drive. This prevents modifications from being saved unless the immutable install's core files are mounted as writable then edited there instead of that "Shadow copy" overlay running on top

So it may be worth checking to see if its just the overlay partitions space being only what the OS currently is instead of a "real" size

[low pond]

Is it somehow related to a actual ROM chip or something?

[plain siren]

Think of it this way, it copies the OS then runs it in RAM and does all of its "work" on that copy while the source of the copy is untouched and mounted as readonly

This is called "Immutable Install"

Its a way to protect the system from being modified permanently from its desired state

[peak cloak]

4mb flash

[plain siren]

Yikes

[peak cloak]

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt160n

[plain siren]

A fun project would be to see if its an easily replaceable flash chip and sticking a bigger on in its place

[low pond]

The only thing we can be harsh with by plugging in and out with no safe shutdown

[peak cloak]

I never soldered anything on a computer PCB

[plain siren]

No time like the PresentMonkey

🥁

tss

Honestly, its pretty easy

[peak cloak]

I've watched Louis Rossman

Like ik in theory how to do it

[plain siren]

easier than trying to solder a wire to a pad tbh

Although if its a SMD thats using some shit like a ball grid, ugh

But those chips with like the pins coming off the side like you would see on a BIOS Chip on your PC... EZ

[peak cloak]

Yeah

[plain siren]

Which I presume is what it is

[peak cloak]

I'd have to look at the PCB

[heady brook]

Can I replace this cable with this other one and have it work properly? I think so but I'd rather be completely sure than unsure

If anyone knows feel free to help, thanks

[peak cloak]

it's coax I don't see why not

but also why

why do you need a new cable

[heady brook]

I just needed it to be slightly longer to fit in a room that was next door to where it currently reaches, but i don't need to do this anymore thankfully

Tag: @peak cloak

[peak cloak]

You can just get a coupler no?

Instead of getting a long cable from the box

Just extend it

[ember grove]

So I want to build a Proxmox server with low power consumption but it's driving me crazy 'cause I don't know what kind of hardware to buy without spending to much...
Can anyone help me out here? Preferably a 1U/2U chassis.

And also since I'm European I don't wanna spend a lot in shipment fees.

[undone basin]

I would go with Ryzen if you want little power consumption but if you need an igpu then you can go with i5 or i3 I would also go with 16gb of Corsair vengeance memory

[ember grove]

I don't wanna spend more then 400-500€.

[peak cloak]

what do you want to run

[ember grove]

Virtualisation, mainly for test purposes.

And other stuff like websites, hosting Discord bots, game servers and I'm thinking on having VoIP servers as well.

Just random stuff that will come up to my head better saying.

[peak cloak]

right now, I myself just run an optiplex 3010

but it you want longevity you would want a custom build

[ember grove]

That's I'm trying to do.

Like I said it's to mount on a rack.

I wanted to use a Chenbro chassi but it's all out of stock...
https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/refurbished-servers/other-rack-servers/chenbro-servers

Sad.

[peak cloak]

do you already have a rack?

[ember grove]

Yeah.

[peak cloak]

ah nice

[ember grove]

One 42U, two 27U and one 25U.

Btw this new server it's to be mount on the 42U.

Got it recently for only 50€.

[peak cloak]

it's funny, larger racks are usually cheaper

[ember grove]

It doesn't have the laterals but it came with PSU, a CPU switcher and some patch panels.

[ember grove]

Not really. I can easily buy a small one for 100-200€ brand new.

[peak cloak]

well used

[ember grove]

No.

[peak cloak]

because no one wants the huge ones

[undone basin]

https://lttstore.com

Buy it

Now

[lean pollen]

SWAGs update caused my NAS to stop working today
Fixed it

[idle idol]

With vlans. And trying to get the most throughput.. is it better to use a lacp set up as a trunk or to do port based vlans to a switch?

[waxen scroll]

i havent seen a network yet that does vlan based load balancing

its all LACP or they use active/standby uplinks that meet the bandwidth needs

[peak cloak]

whole point of vlans is to avoid having each lan needing it's own cable

[waxen scroll]

@peak cloak vlan load balancing is mostly book theory. you can do it, but I dont know anyone who does

[idle idol]

It would all be going to a 24 port Cisco switch. But noore than 3-4 vlans.

I can do the same thing with a dual link lacp and just tag it as a trunk with etherchannels

[waxen scroll]

@peak cloak you make core switch A root for whatever vlans and core B root for the others

tadah, load balancing

now a days most people use VPC, VSS, or MLAG with LACPs

[idle idol]

Those are terms I've heard of but never researched. Heads to duckduckgo

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo I need to deploy a router at a site I don’t want to be married to 😩

[waxen scroll]

whats there to be married to. do a netgear and run away

[clear igloo]

I was going to say tp-link and hide 😛

[waxen scroll]

yep

they have a 1-800 number

[rocky badge]

Yeah… lol

[rocky badge]

👀👀 someone might’ve said mikrotik

/s

[waxen scroll]

well thank dooley-sama that all the mikrotik lovers are banned

this is UBNT chat now

[clear igloo]

Buy a cloud managed router and manage from THE CLOUD!!

[rocky badge]

Tbh

[waxen scroll]

so a cradlepoint

[rocky badge]

That would be super nice

[waxen scroll]

old company had 100s of them and it was cloud managed

[rocky badge]

Meraki would be out of budget

[clear igloo]

Meraki Go or Aruba equivalent are actually cheap

[rocky badge]

But with this we’ll just have to see what requirements the ISP has

Because business internet isn’t gpon

[clear igloo]

They are like -lite/small business versions of their enterprise counterparts without any constant license stuff

[rocky badge]

Yeah

Meraki go router/fw would be fine

WAN is only 100/100

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo So last time my phone number was listed on my resume was like.... 2014. I get a voice message this week from a recruiter.... "I have your resume here and you would be great for a consumer network support job I have..."

Me:
Me after I realize some idiot is using resumes as far back as 2014:

[clear igloo]

That's some great resume

[rocky badge]

Lmao

[waxen scroll]

Also this is why to never put your phone on a resume unless you submitted it directly to a company yourself.

[clear igloo]

Is admin fee the price or an added fee?

[rocky badge]

Price

As long as you can prove 501c3

Which this site is

[waxen scroll]

huh. i need to make a 501c3 for my home lab

[lean pebble]

Hey someone knows how to configure iscsi share from truenas on VMware esxi and ovirt?

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

[clear igloo]

The 1100s aren't bad but of course no cloud management either

[rocky badge]

Yeah

We’re finally getting this site setup with M365 for nonprofits

But probably keeping email and docs on Google Workspace

[hollow marlin]

Get a Juniper SRX300. A little more for a ton more features, no extra licenses and lifetime hardware warrenty

[rocky badge]

I asked my juniper shill friend lol

but he said don't bother if I don't wanna be married to it lol

[hollow marlin]

Non-sense!!

[waxen scroll]

no vlans either

one flat network

[burnt epoch]

Anyone know any good WiFi 6 WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS for relatively cheap?
[@ or reply so I can get notified of response]

[peak cloak]

I know tp-link omada make wifi 6 APs, ubiquiti does too

[burnt epoch]

Hmmm

I just looked it up. Might be a bit over budget ngl

Because I need to buy two of them

[peak cloak]

do you need wifi 6?

[burnt epoch]

That is unless..........

Is it possible to turn Google Wifi points (what I currently use, but using Ethernet) into regular ol WAPs in conjunction with a different router?

[burnt epoch]

Probably not. It's just because I might switch to Verizon FIOS and use their WiFi 6 router (it would come free)

[peak cloak]

I have fios, I use my own setup

ubiquiti has a wifi 6 ap for 100 bucks

Access Point U6 Lite

idk how good it is

[burnt epoch]

Do I need that Unifi Cloud key to make them work?

[peak cloak]

don't think so

@rocky badge ?

You may need to host a controller

[burnt epoch]

Oh boy

[peak cloak]

or use the cloud key which acts like the controller I think

idk this unifi stuff, I just have one unifi device which is a switch

[rocky badge]

Yup

[rocky badge]

Stand-alone mode using the app iirc

[undone basin]

you can use stand alone but ubiquiti said that they might require you with their next gen aps

[burnt epoch]

Because here's the situation I'm in to be more detailed for anyone in the server that can provide some insight:

Currently I am a Spectrum customer using 3 Google WiFi points as a routing and WiFi solution. However, I don't use it the advertised way where the points communicate to each other wirelessly; my house is wired for networking. I set up the primary point in my boiler room, which is where my patch panels are located, connect the Ethernet cable from it's ONE LAN port to my network switch, and have some of the ports connect to my Ethernet patch panel. This allows me to use some devices completely wired but it also allows me to connect the other 2 points using Ethernet (so long as they are near network wall jacks). It's nice because I have one network that provides decent (not perfect) wireless coverage in my house.

However, we might want to switch to FIOS, and the Gigabit plan gives you their (frankly really nice) WiFi 6 router. But then I asked myself the question as to what am I going to do about the other 2 points?

[tender hazel]

I don't know enough about google wifi

how does it work exactly? the primary one is a controller for the other two?

[burnt epoch]

Yeah essentially

[tender hazel]

you are getting rid of the primary one and replacing it with a wifi6 router?

[burnt epoch]

I would sell the whole thing if I can't somehow use the access points as 'third party' access points for the FIOS router

[tender hazel]

if I understand that correctly, what is stopping you from making one of the remaining two the primary?

if you are going down from three to two, removing the primary, it seems to me that you would just make one of the remaining two the primary instead

[burnt epoch]

The Google WiFi points communicate with the primary point (which acts as the network's router) through the Google Home application. Everything is set up through there

[tender hazel]

the primary one acts as a router?

[burnt epoch]

The question I was asking myself is if I can just use them as sort of 'dumb' access points in conjunction with a completely different router

[burnt epoch]

Yeah

[tender hazel]

https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/6240987?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en-CA

[burnt epoch]

I read that bridge mode just turns another router into a switch

[tender hazel]

you would put one of the two remaining Google Wifi units that acts as a primary in bridge mode

[tender hazel]

so that is the solution

yes, that is correct

[burnt epoch]

But not wireless access points

[tender hazel]

a wireless access point is the wireless equivalent of a switch though

a switch connects wired devices on layer 2 without routing, a wireless access point connects wireless devices on layer 2 without routing

a switch and a wireless access point do the same thing, the only distinction is whether the connections are wired vs wireless

[burnt epoch]

That I know

[tender hazel]

both connect the network on a layer 2 level

[burnt epoch]

The question is if Google even allows this to begin with

Wirelessly

[tender hazel]

so enabling bridge mode on a wireless device would turn it from a wireless router into a wireless access point

yes they do

it says so on the page that I gave you the link to

"Enable bridge mode on your Google Nest Wifi router or primary Wifi point (Not recommended)"

that's what you have to do

[burnt epoch]

I'm guessing it also explains it here:

[tender hazel]

yes, exactly

[burnt epoch]

Hmmm. I guess I'm just blind lol

[tender hazel]

double NAT will cause a lot of problems in this case especially if both are on the same SSID

you just have to put the google wifi into bridge mode and they will still work fine as access points

your devices will roam between the ISP provided wifi6 router and google wifi as they wish, the devices will make the roaming decision in this case

[burnt epoch]

And hey I guess I don't HAVE to have a working system immediately. Like say it turns out to have stability issues, I can sell my Google WiFi later.

[tender hazel]

you shouldn't have stability issues

if you can put the google wifi in bridge mode like that page says, they become as you want, dumb access points

[burnt epoch]

But what's this then:? Are they just over exaggerating it:

[tender hazel]

it should work just fine

[tender hazel]

if you put your google wifi in bridge mode you won't have double NAT.. if it is not in bridge mode, you will have double NAT

double NAT is not necessarily the end of the world if the only wifi you have is the google wifi, or if your google wifi is on a different SSID than your regular wifi

but I assume you want to use the same SSID for both your new router and the google stuff

[burnt epoch]

Ohhhhh ok. Also if even if it just somehow WiFi related, most of my devices are hardline anyway, especially those that game or have port forwarding rules set up to their IP addresses

[burnt epoch]

Yeah I essentially just want a seamless WiFi system that covers the house but doesn't require me to constantly change SSIDs everytime I move rooms, you know

[tender hazel]

right

so here is how it works.. when you connect your phone to a wifi network SSID with a certain name like MyGreatNetwork, it assumes any access point with that same SSID is bridged and on the same subnet as the others with that SSID

so it knows it can roam freely to other APs with that SSID without having to ask for a new IP or whatever

but suppose you actually connect up a wireless router behind your main router, but set the SSID the same as your main router - this causes a problem

if you have a wireless router behind your main router, they will have to be on different subnets by necessity, different IP ranges

your phone may be connected to the main router and get an IP from it.. then you go closer to the wireless router, and your phone sees the SSID name is the same and decides to hop on it because it has a stronger signal.. the phone also makes the assumption that it is the same subnet as the main router (bridged to the main router) so it doesn't ask for a new IP

but the old IP no longer works, because it is actually not the same subnet, and the phone won't ask for a new IP.. so you will be connected to wireless but the internet just won't work unless you reboot the phone or disconnect it from the wifi and reconnect it to the wifi, which would get really annoying if you had to do that all the time while walking to different parts of your house

that's why you have to put the google APs in bridge mode

if they have the same SSID as the main router, they have to be on the same subnet as the main router

and have to be bridged to the main router

the only way that you could keep the google wifi in router mode is if you made the SSID different from your main wifi6 router but then the roaming would be manually controlled instead of your device automatically choosing the ap that was closest to it

but if you put the google wifi into bridge mode, the problem is solved

[burnt epoch]

@tender hazel Thank you so much for clarifying the specifics and helping me out man. You're a real one 👍🏻

[tender hazel]

no problem

[hot hawk]

Ok in rn stumped
My network for some reason decided to crap out, and after some troubleshooting I am pretty sure it's my router having issues
But can't find a fix, even after a factory reset
My router is a rax10-100nas

[twin tartan]

hello anyone here that can help me please

[thick minnow]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[stark rune]

Probably a dumb question I know but if I just have a bare bones all in one router from my isp would buying a aftermarket router improve my internet when running through cable?

[past lantern]

Hi, am i able to ask Network questions on here or is this mainly just general network chat?

[west acorn]

Hey. I've been having an issue with my PC for a few days now and anything that people are suggesting doesn't work and I get the same error. I'm getting code 0x80070079 when I try to move files from one place to another. Any ideas on how I can sort this?

(Asking this in here because the code is to do with my network adapters - They are up to date too.)

[thick minnow]

You can ask, tho I (personally) may not be able to help

[past lantern]

It’s worth a shot I guess. Currently, any multiplayer game I play has me disconnected from matches. The games are a variety from EA, to steamed and some that run off their own client. My network seems to be fine as I’m still able to download stuff, watch YouTube, etc. it’s been like this since midday Saturday and I’ve tried everything I can and I’m not sure what to do anymore

I’ve reset my router, modem, network settings, restart my pc, made sure all drivers were updated, updated bios, and ran ping tests and everything seems to be fine, but no matter what I do, I still get disconnected from matches. So far it hasn’t affected discord(it was yesterday but all of today seems good, and I’m currently stuck on what else to do

[low pond]

Depends on what you mean "improve", buying a better router could have better wifi strength etc, but in terms of what speed/latency it would almost be very similar

[lean pebble]

Here we go again 😂 whops I fucked up my server network

[low pond]

Idiot

😆

[stark rune]

That's what I figured

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin $32 for 6! https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Tool-Free-Termination-Connector/dp/B074HG7SQN/

[peak cloak]

that's a really beefy connector

[hollow marlin]

Tool free, but in installation images shows required tools

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo Ugh I hate the onmicrosoft.com domain the person who signed up for M365 chose 😩

[low pond]

god M$ BS is bs

my father was dealing with some RDWeb BS and stuff

and its so buggy

[rocky badge]

m$

[sharp patrol]

My laptops wifi keeps lagging and disconnecting from it, sometimes it runs fine then suddenly it spikes up and dc's any help?

[trim valley]

have you dropped it or anything?

[sharp patrol]

um no

[trim valley]

since the thing that connects to the internet can have some problems

i have it on my older laptop

sometimes it works, sometimes doesnt

[sharp patrol]

i cleaned it recently

[trim valley]

also does it happen on your phone?

[sharp patrol]

so idk if i mightve touched something and no it doesnt happen on my phone

[trim valley]

then its the computer wifi thingy problem

you need to replace it or idk

this advice is just from my experience

tbh idk if you can even replace it

[sharp patrol]

um does an ethernet cable do something about it?

[trim valley]

yes it fixes the problem

for me atleast

[peak cloak]

check windows event viewer

can only guess if you don't have logs

[sharp patrol]

ive got it open where do i go now

[peak cloak]

https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfvh

[thick minnow]

Is there any point in getting 10/40/100 gig internet

[hollow marlin]

Data centers and service providers, all else, no

[thick minnow]

Not even 10 gig even tho I somehow use 2tb per month with 55mbps

[peak cloak]

not even 10 gig

one link won't saturate it

you need lots of devices

[thick minnow]

bottleneck Telstra??

[feral pine]

i think that the most servers that you will connected will not allow to only one link get from their 100gbps

[thick minnow]

But I can use multiple computers together to do something

[feral pine]

well in that is another use case

[lethal marlin]

if you live in australia like it seems you do, 10 gig is absurdly expensive and only selected areas can get it, its not worth it

[peak cloak]

that's called a ddos

[thick minnow]

stop expose

[hollow marlin]

You're not going to ddos a SP

[peak cloak]

yeah

especially if it originates from the same ip

[feral pine]

dynamic == multiple ips...

[peak cloak]

no

not at the same time

[thick minnow]

faster than 55mbps

[peak cloak]

v4 addresses are $$$

[lethal marlin]

get 100 or 250mbps internet

[thick minnow]

Too slow for me

[peak cloak]

doubt it

[lethal marlin]

what do you do that requires 10 gig internet lol?

[peak cloak]

you prob only utilize it like 1-5% of the time

no single person needs 10 gig

[thick minnow]

I use 100% of my internet constantly doing various things

[peak cloak]

ah yes

[lethal marlin]

also ill say it here as well, be aware of rule 11, your name may get changed

[peak cloak]

linux isos

[lethal marlin]

at 55mbps

[thick minnow]

yes and it takes forever

[lethal marlin]

then upgrade to 250mbps

[thick minnow]

No fiber because hills

Plus nbn don’t want me to use more than 2tb a month

[lethal marlin]

then you cant get anything above 100mbps anyway why are you asking

[thick minnow]

I can’t get 100 tho

I’m 4503km away from the node

[lethal marlin]

so youre on skymuster?

[thick minnow]

no nbn just forgets about my suburb

[lethal marlin]

???

[thick minnow]

Nobody has fiber where I live and everyone is so old they probably won’t need over 20mbps

[lethal marlin]

you said "NBN"

[thick minnow]

So I’m basically the only person in my suburb who is using that much internet

Yes I am sus

[lethal marlin]

are you on nbn or not?

[thick minnow]

Yes

[lethal marlin]

what connection type do you have?

[thick minnow]

Otherwise I’d be on dial up

Brruh copper

[lethal marlin]

so FTTN?

[hollow marlin]

He's on VDSL

[lethal marlin]

its the nbn

[thick minnow]

That node is basically a km away from me

[lethal marlin]

so you can theoretically get NBN100 plans and no higher

unless you pay to upgrade to FTTP

[thick minnow]

I get 55 down and 19 ish up

[thick minnow]

nope

[lethal marlin]

yes thats how it works

[thick minnow]

Way too far away from the node

[lethal marlin]

you can get the plans

why are you asking about 10 gigabit?

[thick minnow]

Wasting money because it won’t work

[lethal marlin]

well youre not on NBN50, you must be on NBN100 already right?

[thick minnow]

Wondering if I should even bother of getting my hopes up about protesting against the government

[lethal marlin]

you shouldnt

[thick minnow]

Special plan just for me

[hollow marlin]

Yeah once you mentioned distance and max speeds I knew you were talking about copper

[lethal marlin]

its a shit system and everyone knows that

[thick minnow]

The government is corrupt I want to get out of this hole

[lethal marlin]

then move

[thick minnow]

Someone give me a green card so I can live in the states just anywhere except this hellhole

[lethal marlin]

go to new zealand

[thick minnow]

Kiwis

I’d rather have the illusion of a constitutionally protected right than a right that can be revoked at any time by the government plus I think we shouldn’t be talking about politics in networking… even tho we are all getting spied on 😵‍💫

[ivory egret]

I have a 208GB file to copy to at least 50 computers on my network. What is the quickest way to do this?

[lean pebble]

Share folder between them

[frigid pine]

FTP/SFTP/SCP

[low pond]

The options listed above work, but I'd host a HTTP server and then just copy the local IP manually over 50 systems and letting it download

[idle idol]

So.. I'm debating something.. I just ordered lc lc fiber om3 for some transceivers that haven't had a dust cover on them in a year.. they are most likely fubar at this point right?

I'm starting to think it's best that I just use a lacp between router and switch instead of this unknown fiber

[hollow marlin]

Not necessarily, MM is not as sensitive to dust as SM is. Try it, if it links up then run iperf over the link as a test to see if there is an loss and if your router/switch can show interface statistics, look for any drops/errors.

[idle idol]

I'm changing out my entire network backbone. From a wrt3200acm to a Mikrotik RB4011. From a TPLink 16port managed switch to a Cisco Catalyst 3560-e. And a fiber connect between the two.

The only thing left is to change the Cisco out with a x2 transceiver for 10g back to the router

[ripe wing]

Greetings does anyone knows if the unifi dream machine can bundle 2 different lines?

[peak cloak]

apparently no

because somehow it's made so the LAN ports can't be configured to be WAN

I would expect to be able to, but I guess not

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052548713-UniFi-UDM-USG-WAN-Load-Balancing-and-Failover

[idle idol]

Another reason I chose mikrotik over unifi 🙂

[peak cloak]

UDM: has only a single WAN uplink port so Failover is supported only when using U-LTE

[ripe wing]

https://eu.store.ui.com/products/udm-pro

I'm looking at the pro, to be fair

It seems that it has fail over but not bundling

[peak cloak]

if you want the best bang for your buck unifi isn't the best

[ripe wing]

Since I'll have wireless link between my place and the provider (because reasons, if it will be super unreliable fttc could be an option but with the cabin at 500mt plus it is expected to go at max at 20 mbit...) i was considering getting a cheap lte modem to use as backup

[ripe wing]

It will be also used for domotics pourpose

[rocky badge]

I’ve got two connections on my UDMP and failover is pretty quick

[peak cloak]

domotics?

[rocky badge]

I only get a couple of packet loss, since it’s an active failover

[ripe wing]

Smart home hub

[peak cloak]

I'm not really into that smart home stuff

[ripe wing]

Sounds quite sexy

[peak cloak]

I want to DIY smart homing the garage tho

home assistant seems cool

[ripe wing]

Also early tests with the antenna on the roof peaked at a whooping 12 mbit down and 2 up, so having something more reliable attached would be neat

[rocky badge]

Interfaces

Yesterday when I was moving stuff around in the basement

[ripe wing]

Very nice indeed

[hollow marlin]

Wait until you have to deal with customers that want sub-sec with no loss failover

[rocky badge]

I mean, this is just home lol

[peak cloak]

just how hard is that to do?

[rocky badge]

AA failover?

[hollow marlin]

BFD, BGP multipath are the simplest ways. The problem is when you start lowering the BFD timers low enough it can trigger false positives, especially when the customers use underpowered hardware

Most the time though many customers don't understand why their failover kills active connections when not using BGP. 2 IPs and NAT mean the egress traffic now has a new IP so any existing connection has to be reset. Thats by BGP and ASN is a requirement if you want proper failover.

Doesn't matter for 99% of cases but this is especially important with voip as if its not setup that way, all calls will drop. All other day to day traffic is not really that big of an issue

[feral pine]

sftp & scp are slow because encryption, you can use FTP or HTTP

[feral pine]

and if the network is on same switch you can use broadcast to send the packet one time... is more quick

[peak cloak]

I did some research and would uftp work?

[frigid pine]

Just pointing out the options since we don't know if they need secure transfer or not.

[feral pine]

you're right...

can use uftp

[feral pine]

yes... use UDP Multicast..

[feral pine]

Already i have it

the power is that you can do with HA whatever you want, and code plugins to it is very easy

[peak cloak]

I have nothing to control yet

[feral pine]

some arduinos and some relays... and you can do many things... jejeje

i control every light and the electric moto charger

[peak cloak]

ye

I have an arduino and ethernet shield

just need time to get controlling something

like 3 years ago I made something similar, but the arduino ran a webpage

[ivory egret]

its going through a complete network from a NAS through 3 switches

[feral pine]

uff i think that in this case multicas is useless

[peak cloak]

no?

switches don't route, same l2 domain

[feral pine]

yes, but multicast depends a lot of the switches... many of them if are in another place phisical dont reply the multicast

[peak cloak]

oh yeah IGMP

forgot about that

[feral pine]

sometimes you need a igmp proxy

[thick minnow]

How can I add something like that to my website?

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ojhsnz/comment/h51v5f0/

[rocky badge]

😂

[peak cloak]

How to install gitlab?

[thick minnow]

no no, how can i add the info of my website like gitlab did

[peak cloak]

Ohh the embed info

[thick minnow]

yes

[peak cloak]

Quick Google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/8zjyky/add_discord_embed_to_my_website/&ved=2ahUKEwjewdrSleHxAhW7FVkFHaGPBfgQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0Mrg9YPXdwtUHMF3NQIGDS

[thick minnow]

but this embed info will be on all embed systems right?

[peak cloak]

Idk, maybe. Idk anything about the og tag

[thick minnow]

like if i will embed that to a wordpres or something like that

[thick minnow]

ok th u

[lean pebble]

Anyone know how to backup vms on VMware esxi and save the backup on external NFS ?

[paper valve]

Ovf/ova?

[lean pebble]

I need it to be automatically and push it to my nfs

[valid bough]

I gotta ask a really dumb question i already know the answer to prob but yeah.

Builtin local groups, when we are talking LOCAL within Active Directory, is that the specific machine, or all the machines in said network (not domain)?

[paper valve]

on the machine iirc

[valid bough]

So what is a point making a local group for example a specific department in a company (say import and purchase dep), if it's locked to just one computer? Or is it if the said company only has 1 computer with multiple logins? then having AD seems redundant in the first place

[idle idol]

So possibly a very stupid question.. but I'm curious.. has anyone ever bought a small block of IP address (5 or so) and had their ISP use them before?

[peak cloak]

Wdym, by had their isp use them before

@idle idol

[idle idol]

Had their ISP assign them to their modem

[peak cloak]

Ik people who have a block of ips

I have a /48 of ipv6

[rocky badge]

Why are you asking?

[idle idol]

How do you use them? My ISP wants 75$ a month extra for a static IP address. I figure by the time I pay that for 6 months I could afford a small block

[peak cloak]

So instead of NATing everything

[rocky badge]

Usually the ISP routes the IPs either to a private IP range and 1:1 NAT or gives you information for static IP setup

Varies from ISP to ISP

[peak cloak]

You can assign internal devices on a different subnet (I would use vlans to achieve this) to have public ips, instead of nated ones

Your average home router is not able to do that

[idle idol]

I'm getting a rb4011 mikrotik today. I'd assume with some configuration it should be able to?

[peak cloak]

Yeah routeros is powerful

[idle idol]

This is just research for me right now. Just curious if it's even possible for my setup

[peak cloak]

Yeah it'll be possible

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo I need a Mac 👀

[clear igloo]

ewwww

[rocky badge]

So I can enroll some iPads into our MDM in supervised mode

👀

[clear igloo]

lol

[rocky badge]

??? https://i.ryois.me/bLdz4qXQdL.png

you can't use a G Suite account to sign up for Managed Google Play

???

[waxen scroll]

no, i'm not aware of an ISP allowing the customers own IPs unless you buy DIA

[lean pebble]

I have 2 gsuite account that connected to google play services

But some companies block some services from being used from gsuite admin.
You can decide what services to allow and what services to block.

[low pond]

Same with O365 BS too

Can block some or open, have strict security that allows Outlook only from the client and not online webversion of it... etc

[lean pebble]

Sucks

[low pond]

O365 doesn't suck that much

I mean sure it's a M$ product but eh, it's pretty alright NGL

[lean pebble]

I never used outlook I don't like office 😅

[low pond]

is it reffered to as CRM software? (o365)

Huh...

[low pond]

Well yea I don;'t use Outlook stuff but I think their full blown client for it is actually pretty amazing

is quite feature rich...

[lean pebble]

Yeah I agree they added alot of features to it and amazing how much features they could include into it.
I just don't like office itself I prefer google docs or libreoffice

They did only one thing with teams.
They excluded it from the office suite itself and made Linux version without needing to install all office bs

[gentle garden]

Good morning, I was hoping I could get some assistance with a network issue. I ahve a desktop, a laptop, Brother printer, and a home routher. Everything is wireless. Currently the desktop can print and ping the printer, but the laptop cannot see or print to the Brother. I have checked the network settings on both machines. Both are connected to the proper network, have matching subnets, and DNS. Any thoughts?

[rocky hawk]

spot on, I've ended my previous contract because of MS tooling being unbearable to work with 😄

[lean pebble]

😆

[reef adder]

Just finished an AC replacement in this telecom closet

This is at a university dorm building

They've got network and cable TV stuff in here

[peak cloak]

no school right? so it could be down?

[reef adder]

Everything sounds like it's running

There's fans running

The students move back in in a couple of weeks

The fans were definitely running pretty hard when we had the AC offline for replacement

It's cool in there now

I think they may have had landline phone service in here when the place was originally built in the early 2000s

[formal steppe]

guys i have a problem where my shitbox of a pc has a wifi dongle and it cant get the wifi so fast as it should

[lone sun]

😕 SIGH...can someone tell why my damn ethernet is causing my device manager to constantly refresh? I know its my ethernet cable causing it because it stops when I unplug it. Thought I fixed this shit for good, and now it suddenly came right the hell back, out of the blue. Tired of this shit man. 🙄...Its causing stuttering in some of my games.

[plain siren]

So that would be because of a Device disconnecting and reconnecting constantly

It may not be the cable, it could be a driver issue with said Ethernet Nic, A problematic link between Switch/Router <> PC, or overall just a generic incompatability

Rollback your driver

[lone sun]

Its not letting me roll it back..I guess I'll have to get an older driver off the motherboards website.

😒 Was fine for months, and now it wants to start this shit again.

@plain siren 🧐 Actually I see they fairly recently released some new drivers for my motherboard. I'll try those and see what happens.

[sly wadi]

Random question - I have a laptop without a DVD drive and a server/NAS with a DVD drive that I use for DVDs. Would it be possible to somehow mount the server's DVD drive over the network and use its burning functions from another device? All of my devices run Linux

[peak cloak]

It's possible

Oh burning

Hmm, probably

[sly wadi]

Ye, I can't just use Samba or NFS because burning...

[peak cloak]

https://superuser.com/questions/316745/how-to-access-a-cd-dvd-drive-over-the-network

First answer?

[sly wadi]

sigh why did I not see that?

Also the person asking uses Gentoo xD

I'll try that out and see if it works

[lone sun]

@plain siren 🙂 Looks like I fixed it...dude on the forum suggested turning off Network Discovery, and it worked!!! Hope I never see that shit ever again. 🤞

[orchid anvil]

I know some older macs with a cd/dvd drive can do dvd sharing like one Mac can access the optical drive of the Mac with the drive in it

[crisp bay]

uhh so I installed php latest and well installed apache...I have nginx already so I autoremoved apache and it still shows me signs of it (error because nginx's using 80/443 alrd)..any idea to totally remove it?

[amber yarrow]

https://rog.asus.com/networking/rog-cat7-cable-model

Asus got their ROG gamer brand on everything, huh

[feral pine]

systemctl mask

or uninstall it

i see that's alredy masked...

ahh or you're seeing old logs from journal

[frigid pine]

I have about 3000 Mikrotik routers, does anyone knows a way to find the speeds of their running interfaces through a script?

[lean pebble]

Well I would open a nice little pxe server and run it over the network or use easy2boot for formating PCs.

With easy2boot you don't need to burn the iso you just install this little system on pen drive and drop your iso to the iso folder and that's all

https://easy2boot.xyz/

I'm using it for the last 4 years

[plain siren]

I use Ventoy personally

Much less intensive than E2B and has about the same level extensibility

[lean pebble]

Easy2boot have alot of features that I never used haha

[plain siren]

Yeah Ventoy is Click and Go and much more consumable

[lean pebble]

Easy2boot to

Click and go

At least mine

[plain siren]

Well... minus its whole... Whack old age iODD File Layout and mix mash of Grub4Dos, Grub 2, GrubFM, Clover, and Ventoy all together

I dont ever boot on legacy systems anymore so UEFI only works out

[lean pebble]

The only thing I don't like in it is I need to do contiguous on every new iso 🧐

[plain siren]

Yeah that is also a nice non-need anymore

Also... then there is this

[lean pebble]

Nice phone

[plain siren]

Its a flash drive

[lean pebble]

😆

Don't look like flash drive

[plain siren]

Can mount 1 ISO (Mounts as BD-ROM to PC) + 3 VHD's

https://www.amazon.com/256-bit-Secure-encrypted-Drive-512GB/dp/B07Y4FR9H7

It has a M.2 SATA SSD in it

[lean pebble]

Oh nice

[plain siren]

Drag and drop ISO's, select on screen, bang

[lean pebble]

I have SanDisk extreme pro and go, ssd powered to my extreme go has easy2boot on it

[plain siren]

if you change a ISO to IMG itll mount as an actual floppy to PC too which is funny af

[lean pebble]

Haha nice sounds fun to play with

[plain siren]

I got about 1000 ISOs on mine

Its actually my #1 Handy Tool in my IT Tool Bag

otherwise I just boot to the PXE server over net

[lean pebble]

I think easy2boot can act as pxe server

At the beginning I was traveling with my laptop that has a little pxe server in vm on it

[plain siren]

its got ability to add into it a pxemini thing but in reality e2b is just compilation of tools/BL's in a config designed to work together

What I personally did was add Ventoy to a VHD, then Grub4Dos, then GrubFM, etc all seperate VHD's and mount those off the iODD as needed if needed

Its honestly a nice comedown after years of E2B's clunky array of batch files and scripts

Then again, E2B aint even E2B anymore its kinda a GrubFM installer now heh

[lean pebble]

Hehe I never updating easy2boot I still have old version of it

[rose sparrow]

Hey! I just changed my ISP and they provided me with a ONU which has only 2.4GHz band. I already have a TP-Link Archer c6. Now the issue is I just wanted to bridge the PPPoE to TP-Link. What can I do?

[plain siren]

Well... uh first is this a Fiber or Coax so I know what kinda "AIO" were working with

[rose sparrow]

I have these options on the ONU, so if I put one of the ports on bridge mode and then connect it to my tplink router and then initiate a PPPoE session from tplink, will it work

[rose sparrow]

Fibre

[plain siren]

Bridge mode will just do IP Forwarding/Traffic Forwarding
No need for PPPoE since the authentication is handled already by the ONT

However, How do you know its PPPoE?

Fiber ONTs are typically 802.1X EAP to the Radius Server on ISP's Side

[rose sparrow]

By this

[plain siren]

TR-069
I wish all ISps made this shit that obvious

VOIP
You got a landline on this thing?

And wow they even list the PPPoE Endpoint which is an ASR Gateway.... damn thats most transparent ive seen yet out the door

[rose sparrow]

Yeah 😆

[rose sparrow]

Yes but they didnt provide a number as of now

[plain siren]

Easy way to find out if you have one: Call out ehhehee

[rose sparrow]

So if I do a bridge then will i be able to bypass the ONT?

[frigid pine]

You can set your TPLink WAN port to DHCP mode and connect it with ONU LAN. Simple.

[plain siren]

Naw but all you should need is Bridge Mode and what the curiosity is:
Does it do a TRUE BRIDGE or is it 1:1 NAT, because if the ONU still does "Routing" you would wanna put the TPLink LAN (not WAN) into the ONU's LAN

[rose sparrow]

Currently I am doing the same thing but thats increasing the latency by a bit

[frigid pine]

how much increase is there?

[rose sparrow]

2ms

[plain siren]

pfft

[frigid pine]

would this bother you in any way?

[plain siren]

Does that ONU have DHCP Still running on it after enabling Bridge?

[rose sparrow]

Will have to check

[plain siren]

If so, you can defer routing to the ONU by attaching to TP-Links LAN port and setting the TP-Link router to a Static IP

And avoid the whole double NAT bs

TP-Link Router would just be TP-Link AP

forgoing the use of the WAN port

[rose sparrow]

No, but I just wanted to squeeze out the maximum performance

[rose sparrow]

So you mean I used the DHCP of the ONT?

[plain siren]

Well if DHCP is still running on the ONU that means its still got its "Routing" functionality on

So it didnt defer it to the Bridge entirely but instead did 1:1

and that would result in cascading routers

[frigid pine]

I don't think it is worth the trouble you wanna take to remove 2ms latency from a home environment.

[plain siren]

but you can have the TP link just be a Wi-Fi AP with 0 Routing Functionality

And let the ONU still do all the routing

as such that 2ms would prob drop to 0

since thats about what additional routing logic would cost

[rose sparrow]

So if i turn of the DHCP and NAT manually on the ONU and the do the bridge, will that work?

[plain siren]

No no, just plug the TP-Link into ONU through its LAN port

[rose sparrow]

Like there's some VLAN situation also going on

[plain siren]

Ah you got VLANs setup?

[rose sparrow]

Trying it out

[plain siren]

Or are you talking the ISP because yeah itll run VOIP over VLAN

[rose sparrow]

Nope, The ISP has some VLANs

[plain siren]

VOIP is over a VLAN

[frigid pine]

Also there is a good chance with bridging also that 2ms won't go since these routers are having just okayish CPUs so there is going to be overhead in a cascaded environment.

[rose sparrow]

oh ok

[plain siren]

Honestly wanna avoid cascading routers anyways, Double NAT (And especially if CGNAT is being used @ ISP) will cause nothing but heartache later on if you get to doing shit like exposing stuff or P2P Tunnels

[rose sparrow]

If i do this -- I should be using the wan port of the tplink right?

[plain siren]

Oh cool lookie there

Yes.

How nice

[rose sparrow]

Thanks

it did improve

here are the old and new traceroute results. Thanks btw

[plain siren]

ay np

JIO

I know this ISP...

They got them Android Box TV's too

[rose sparrow]

Yup

But that's not my isp

IG my ISP is using their backbone

[plain siren]

Reselling

[frigid pine]

It's an ISP here from India

[plain siren]

Yeah, I got a box with their firmware on it that I cant read LOL

I had the login defaults to the Jio gateways too 😦 we couldve done some fun stuff if it was their equip

[rose sparrow]

Any idea why there's a double hop on 172.16.16.11

[frigid pine]

check your gateway ping. seems to be fluctuating. there is a lot of variance between pings.

[plain siren]

Loopback route

[rose sparrow]

@frigid pine which gateway?

[frigid pine]

157.....

[rose sparrow]

Sure

[plain siren]

Prob some transparent bridge being used to monitor traffic...

and it right after jio's IX Gateway which makes me guess that isnt there for "privacy" reasons since it appears to be in the DC

[rose sparrow]

@frigid pine seems fine

[frigid pine]

monitor with a -t

in your trace it was showing 4ms, 10ms, 4ms

[rose sparrow]

A few hiccups here and there. Rest seems fine ig

I guess that has something to do with GPON technology. I don't know much about fiber but afik each onu waits for it's turn to speek if I am not wrong

[plain siren]

Correct

[jaunty talon]

Without reading up too much, what's the issue? :)

Unstable ping?

[plain siren]

However, the spikes are prob just ARP Cache Flush Timers

Typical of any gateway/route primary device

[rose sparrow]

I guess then it's nothing to worry about

[rose sparrow]

The topic changed at some point

[plain siren]

Nope, wouldnt affect normal traffic either, ICMP Ping is more "abrasive" to revealing such things

[jaunty talon]

Pinging a IP address on a router is not a good way to troubleshoot, as most routers has limiters on ICMP in order to protect the routing engine

Which means QoS is applied on ICMP (and other traffic) when going against a IP on the router

[plain siren]

He was just grabbing latency

[jaunty talon]

That way latency may fluctuate when pinging a router

[plain siren]

But his ISP appears to be using a bog standard ONT with the default motorola software almost entirely unmodified, (which really isnt great but), so I am willing to put money on the fact there is prob almost fuck-all for proper IPTables-like filter rules that should prob be there

I bet the telnet is even open too lol

Wish every ISP was willing to be outright as transparent as these guys are tho

be it laziness or no-care

[rose sparrow]

It's just laziness

And they didn't even bother hiding the SSH of their ASR

no, now its hidden

[plain siren]

Omg i wouldve died

I got a github link that wouldve prob pwnt that

[rose sparrow]

ASR=CISCO?

[rose sparrow]

That thing is literally located in the basement of our building. It should be at the node right?

[low pond]

Yea cisco has a lineup called ASR for their industrial rotuers

[low pond]

I taught it was all passively distrubuted liek GPON BS, not activly but not sure

[crisp bay]

except welcome screen and some features are locked bc premium

[crisp bay]

clearly doing it wrong..

tried then removing it, shows no sign of apache

[rose sparrow]

It is passive

[frigid pine]

Does the thing in your basement have lots of optical fibers coming out of it?

[rose sparrow]

Sorry, I was wrong. That thing has nothing to do with the ISP. In our building, in fact all the buildings in our township have internal fiber cabling pre installed. So all the fibres from all the flats go down there and then the ISPs can provide the connection there

This is the situation going inside my house. You can see that fiber is directly coming from the wall and then getting converted to a patch cable which goes inside the ONU and after that I can plug in my router in any of the rj45 ports in the house

[rose sparrow]

And getting voice services is compulsory for our building (for safety) that voip thing is just for intercomm

[green jewel]

Does anybody have any experience in flashing Cisco phones from SIP to SCCP? Could do with a bit of help

[topaz mirage]

Hello

I have NFS and SMB share from my Linux NAS.

Is there some good software for managing the files?

Best if it had hardlink with few clicks. I'm sick off typing cp -alr [source] [destination].

[plain siren]

Christ it's a rats nest.

[plain siren]

Utilize ZFS for this.

[topaz mirage]

Thats a filesystem, not a software

How can filesystem help me?

[plain siren]

It has mount options that also auto expose SMB and NFS shares

And it has the LVM structure to it making management of file shares much easier.

[topaz mirage]

I already have these shares...I dont see a point in ZFS

I just need an easier way of hardlinking and managing it. I dont have a way to shuffle it to another filesystem anyway

[plain siren]

I'm on mobile else I would expand more but what I was kinda hinting at is changing the way you handle your file management to be more efficient with the Logical Volume Filesystems currently available

Because honestly when I hear the word NAS I shouldn't really be hearing the words hard linking and managing in the same sentence

And when using said file systems, you mount them where you intend to use them, not mount to arbitrary location then hardlink to it

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/58222345/80313064-6c424b80-881b-11ea-812f-ab3a99edef75.png Cockpit with ZFS manager also gives a nice UI

[small glade]

is there any chance of 802.11ah (900mhz halow) making its way to consumer routers and devices not just iot things and barely existing outside of on paper? throughput seems like it would be good enough for some general internet use. rural/countryside areas with non usable cell signals seem to come to mind. having like a starlink connection with 2.4/5ghz indoors/close to the house and a 900mhz not too fast but fast enough for some things wifi network that covers a good bit of your property could be a potential use.

[static owl]

Does anyone know if there's a translated version of the router Xiaomi AX9000 firmware?

[twin zealot]

the app is in English or you could let chrome automatically translate every page you visit

[idle idol]

What would cause loss of ipv4 connectivity while leaving v6 working fine>

[topaz mirage]

Sorry, but I get that you really like ZFS. You were fanboying this filesystem previously, but I have my NAS wroking and I just want easier way to hardlink files manually. I would have this extremely cool ZFS, but still hardlinking files like and A-hole

Plus ZFS isnt compatible with some things Im using

And I said --> I dont have a way to shuffle it to another filesystem anyway
So why doubling down on that idea?

[low pond]

What do you even exactly wanna do