networking

[leaden cosmos]

But still doesn’t work

[low pond]

maybe someone knows, but how do I make it so I can stream "locally", so a another device on my network can just enter the IP of this system and see the stream if it makes any sensehttps://media.discordapp.net/attachments/184324186284621824/890983761968259122/unknown.png

[peak cloak]

basically looking for obs to be a RTSP server?

[low pond]

Yea as long as someone externally can just put my IP on the browser and see a video stream of whatever is being streamed thru OBS I think

[peak cloak]

found this https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-rtspserver.1037/

[low pond]

MMm okay ill see

[crystal shale]

Anyone willing to figure out ddclient with me-?

I wanna use https://dynv6.com, but only need to update ipv6 as my router only is able to correctly set ipv4

[autumn bay]

what are some useful things i can do with my pi apart from ubiquiti controller and a pihole ?

its a 4gb model if that helps

[crystal shale]

we aren't going to get a quick answer id say..

Id say maybe an apache webserver.

Like a small personal website

[autumn bay]

because im thinking of making a home NAS out of a pi

or should i just buy one ?

[crystal shale]

Ah, well, thats also possibly, im hosting a mc server + webserver and probably a ftp server aswell on an ThinClient. So yeah, simmilar performance

anyone? please?

im starting to loose my nerves on this.. ive been trying for 4h now..

[worthy orbit]

Anybody here know a good switch with at least 2.5gbe ports that are poe or poe+? I want it to be managed and not to loud/energy draining.

[autumn bay]

which OS should i be using in my pi to do all this stuff ?

[magic sand]

Arch

[low pond]

No

I'd say Debian or the RPI OS itself which is Debian

[autumn bay]

802.3af/A PoE & 24V PoE // (4) PoE+ IEEE 802.3af/at (Pins 1, 2+; 3, 6-)

so the one on the right is the switch and the one on the left is the WAP will i need to run a PoE injector still ?

[peak cloak]

switch supports 802.3af, AP does too

you're set

[autumn bay]

oh ok because i had a read and some said they my WAP wasnt supported but it says its supported on my the box

[autumn bay]

also if i want to make it all ubiquiti can i get a router from them and run a WAP with it. Or do i get a dream machine ?

[peak cloak]

why couldn't you use a WAP

ofc you can

[autumn bay]

idk i thought it would be easier/ better to get someone that does it all

i got the ubiquiti switch lite 8 poe its basically the us 8 60w but newer

[robust bone]

it’s no longer using then OpenVPN protocol

[autumn bay]

will i be able to do seamless roaming if i go all ubiquiti ?

[peak cloak]

don't need to go all ubiquiti for seamless roaming

just to use a controller for the APs

[autumn bay]

i got a pi

[sudden kayak]

anybody having any luck finding ubiquiti stuff these days? i still haven't been able to get a replacement for my fried ER-X

[autumn bay]

i got a router downstairs that does the job covering downstairs and i got a switch upstairs and a WAP

[autumn bay]

i wanted the US 8 60W

[sudden kayak]

got an RMA number but i double checked and was like "do you actually have replacements in stock" and they got back to me a week later and were like "oh uh sorry actually we were just gonna take your return and then make you wait until march 2022 when we have more coming"

[autumn bay]

but they said they are waiting for them to release gen 2

[peak cloak]

look on ebay

[sudden kayak]

oh interesting

[peak cloak]

and on r/homelabsales

[sudden kayak]

yeah i might just buy one there

its just gonna be a pain to wait, the whole reason i jumped on this one was cuz it was available immediately

[autumn bay]

i just got the lite 8 port switch

its basically the same

edge routers i only found used or super overpriced

[autumn bay]

so say i have the controller i will be able to set the same ssid ?

[peak cloak]

you can have the same ssid without controller

just it won't be seamless

1-2 second drop in connection

[autumn bay]

oh but if its the same brand it will ?

[peak cloak]

no it needs to the same brand with a controller

the controller controls the AP clients and does the seamless part

that assumes the client supports seamless roaming

[autumn bay]

oh ok i get that

thanks

[thick minnow]

F

[worthy orbit]

Anybody here know a good switch with at least 2.5gbe ports that are poe or poe+? I want it to be managed and not to loud/energy draining.

[clear igloo]

Then you're looking at about $450 700 to $1000 for PoE+ and managed
Otherwise a non-managed 2.5GbE switch without PoE can be had for around $150 to $200

Netgear ms510txpp seems to be the cheapest

[worthy orbit]

I don't mind more expensive if they're a little older since switches go good on second hand market

and I got a ruckus r650 so now I don't want to cheap on switch

[clear igloo]

Yah, I'd poke around online and get reviews for 8 or 16 port switches available with the features you need

[worthy orbit]

@waxen scroll looking at your emotes you don't agree?

[rocky badge]

non managed 😩

[clear igloo]

gotta pay that managlement tax 😄

[rocky badge]

A well worth it tax

[worthy orbit]

If you're an old person with 0 experience in networking non managed isn't that bad

[rocky badge]

Well yeah, but for me its a well worth it tax

[clear igloo]

Yup, love managed gear 😄

[rocky badge]

go switch go https://i.ryois.me/Giv4OZA4Kb.png

@clear igloo This site I manage....they put a smart thermostat on the guest WiFi 😩

[clear igloo]

haha, whoops

[rocky badge]

And a wired-capable printer on WiFi

https://i.ryois.me/dzCe8pGJ4K.png https://i.ryois.me/6yRcNrTNe4.png

[worthy orbit]

guest friendly heating

[rocky badge]

Guests still can't access it anyways lol

[worthy orbit]

sad

[rocky badge]

LAN to WLAN multicast & broadcast are blocked except coming from the router and clients are isolated from each other

@clear igloo I should try and get them to get a Cradlepoint 4G LTE failover

[clear igloo]

Dew it!

[feral bear]

My router keeps disconnecting from the internet, last thing I did was take the fiber cable out to cable manage it

I put the cable back in good, I know it's not the issue, can someone help me troubleshoot

[peak cloak]

dust could have got in it

[feral bear]

The cable or the router?

[peak cloak]

both

on either end of the fiber connector

[feral bear]

The router is clean, idk about the cable

It seems to be fairly stable now, I'll check if it disconnects again

The cable isn't something that can break easily, right?

[peak cloak]

the cable not really, it's probobly high bend rated

the connectors are sensitive though (to dust and other contaminants)

[feral bear]

Shit, I dropped the one connected to the router connector-side down, doesn't seem to have any damage tho

Not really dropped but it hit a piece of wood when cable managing

(edited) oh

[peak cloak]

yeah

idk if they can be that damaged that easily pysically

[feral bear]

Well it appears to be stable now, I'll check for dust if it disconnects again. Thanks

[rocky badge]

@clear iglooooh

LAN in

[nimble sable]

sadly, i don't think there's a non managed poe+ multigig switch, BUT trendnet has some good unmanaged multigig. I have MS510TX (without the final poe) and...i DO NOT like the software/OS

[rocky badge]

lol

[nimble sable]

also, ms510txpp was impossible to find for good price here in canada 😦 so i just got some injectors

[clear igloo]

Actually there are a few unmanaged 2.5Gb switches in the sub-$200 range

[nimble sable]

WHAT? where?

[clear igloo]

Qnap has one and Trendnet TEG s350 come to mind

https://www.servethehome.com/trendnet-teg-s350-5-port-2-5gbe-switch-review/

BUT no PoE options that I know of that are unmanaged

[nimble sable]

oooh that was it yea, i wanted an SFP+ port, i was ok with giving up the POE (cuz i only have one poe powered device so injector was fine)

netgear did this ddumb thing where it refused to use DHCP upon connection was a PITA to configure on first boot

are there any Wifi APs that have (and make use of) a 2.5GbE port? or one that's actually just a wifi AP BUT does not use Poe but a power adapter?

[clear igloo]

There are but they're usually $$$ (for now)

[nimble sable]

oh yea thats what I thought...what about any that use a power adapter instead of poe?

i just...i don't trust poe

[clear igloo]

There are some I know of that have the option for both

[nimble sable]

i found a few that are either $$$ or not Aps but actually mesh router things

[clear igloo]

I know the newer Ruckus models have that option, Aruba does on some, and most Cisco APs too but again those are all going to need a controller of some kind (built in or cloud based at least) and will likely set you back a bit much

[nimble sable]

i guess wifi AP are still geared towards businesses

[clear igloo]

Yah, consumers just want things that work and they don't have to think about

[nimble sable]

so...i have somehow ended up with a cat5e 2 pair...i didn't even know that was a thing. also a cat4 cable

[peak cloak]

Why not

[nimble sable]

no good reason

[peak cloak]

You sure it's cat5e

It's in the wall?

[nimble sable]

that's my question...IS IT? CAN it be a cat5e is its only 2 pair?

[peak cloak]

Could be the weird thing some do to put multiple phone lines onto one cable

[nimble sable]

the cat4 i have no idea how i acquired it. the 2 pair cat5e is the cable that came with phillips hue

[peak cloak]

Huh

They maybe just terminated it badly?

[nimble sable]

like its not old either i have at some point in the last 5 years acquired this cat4 cable

[peak cloak]

And the cable itself is fine? Idk

[nimble sable]

uhh no it is not, it won't do poe OR >100mbps

[peak cloak]

You terminated it yourself?

[nimble sable]

nope, the cat5e cable, is labelled as such, 2 pair and came with my phillips hue

my question is, doesn't cat5e necesitate 4 pair?

[peak cloak]

Cuz the cable jacket can say cat5e and have 8 wires in there but it's just terminated with 2?

Idk

[nimble sable]

oooh

[peak cloak]

Just thinking of possible things

[nimble sable]

ok that makes sense, so someone bought a cat5e cable but terminated it with only 2pair, yea that makes sense

cuz why would a lightbulb need 4 pairs

[peak cloak]

Does the cable feel thicker than just 2 wires?

[nimble sable]

oh yea look at that...4 pairsinside

now, what is the easiest way to tell how many cats are inside a cable

[peak cloak]

What it says on the jacket?

[nimble sable]

nothing

jacket is blank, i'm curious about this cable i just found it with my things and it's clearly not cat5e bcuz it chopped my connection speed down to 100mbps

[nimble sable]

has anyone here done offsite VPS hosting a dns server?

[peak cloak]

Generally it's not reccomended to run a public DNS server

[nimble sable]

yeaa that's what I thought, I'm trying to think of the easiest way to get my dad some dnsbl

I could buyand install a pi or router in his house but thats potentially costly

And he has shudder "community wifi"

[north mulch]

i run a pihole at the house, you can get pi's pretty cheap.

[nimble sable]

yea but...community wifi

[north mulch]

block ads for the community?

[nimble sable]

I wish

[north mulch]

i'm not familiar with how to set it up, but i think if you could get him to VPN to your network where you have pihole or other dns filtering running, that could work.

[nimble sable]

community wifi is the ultimate dumbing down of internet access and technology. basically the isp manages the router, the modern, the wifi everything . no one has any access to any of it, u just get a wifi login as if you're in a hotel

[north mulch]

you could also maybe configure opendns or something for him

you would just have to manually set the dns server in the computers network config

[nimble sable]

oohi like that idea. is it possible to use the tunnel for only dns.?

[north mulch]

i'm sure there is a way, i'm just not sure how

maybe someone else has a good answer?

[nimble sable]

cool Ill look into that good idea, thx

btw community wifi makes me want to cry. like the idea that it's a thing

[north mulch]

i mean in that case i'd definitely have them on a VPN like PIA

[peak cloak]

but why...

[rocky badge]

A local ISP provides community wifi downtown and such.

Its nice since they prove really good speeds downtown compared to VZW

And since its the same ISP that I have at home, i get around 5ms to home, so VPN is easy

[hollow marlin]

You just have a blip with Fios a few mins ago?

[peak cloak]

v6?

I haven't been monitoring

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo That question I had the other day regarding runs to the sound desk...We're just gonna run 4 Cat6 🤣

Have dedicated Cat6 for everything back to the switch

[nimble sable]

oooh yea that kind of community wifi is awesome. What i mean is when it replaces your home internet...and you're not allowed to get another

[rocky badge]

ohhh

[nimble sable]

yea its weird. for the ISP is aewsome, you have a condo or apt building and you just put one big router in and abunch of APs, gotta be tonnes cheaper than giving everyone a modem and router thing. whenever someone moves and wnats internet you just create an account on the wifi thing for them and charge them the same amount of money as usual. No Ethernet cables to consumer equipment just wifi APs and a big router in the basement or smthg

[rocky badge]

🥴

[latent bobcat]

yea 1 gigabit networking is kinda slow ngl

upgrades people, upgrades

[crystal terrace]

Hey guys, I need some help with upgrading my WiFi setup. I've a 1200mbps dual band router which is a bit far from my room so I don't get the 5ghz signal and rest of the devices in my room struggle to get good network bandwidth from the 2.4ghx signal so I was thinking of buying a dual band router which also works as a WiFi repeater but I'm not sure if it will simultaneously take the dual band signal from the main router and then extend both of those networks to my room. Can you guys tell me if that's how it works?

[tiny glacier]

Soo I was tasked for my assignment to plan out an internet cafe..
I wanted to do a NAS system.. and I'm kind of confused.. For the client side, I don't need any SSD or HDD right? since everything will be in the server unit.. or do I need an SSD for every client unit just for boot drives?

tell me if I do make sense.. I'm bad at english

[long tulip]

You could do PXE boot, but that would require robust networking setup.

[tiny glacier]

Yeah.. but I dont need to kind of storage on my client unit right? I dont need to put an SSD or HDD on it

[feral bear]

Woke up today, network keeps disconnecting. I checked the fiber cable for dust etc. found nothing.

It disconnects like every 10 minutes and comes back 20-30 seconds later

[cedar igloo]

In enterprises, what software is typically used for PXE boot on the server side?

[clear igloo]

Nice

[nimble sable]

unless you do pxe boot, which is iirc booting off of a network, which is a whole thing you have to setup - you need at least SOME sort of boot drive, possibly with at least a bare minimum os installed on it

[long tulip]

No clue

[fast vessel]

Hey. I have2 routers in my house one is a shitty isp router (i have to keep it or my internet craps itself) and a Asus rog rapture. The Asus router keeps disconnecting and when its "UP" it can only access certain websites.

[little schooner]

@latent bobcat 25 gig a good upgrade

[latent bobcat]

wym

[thick minnow]

yay

much better than before

before i got like 40-80 download and 40-60 upload

[thick minnow]

ok

i didnt see that

[waxen scroll]

is that a window size for ants? how is discord usable

[thick minnow]

vertical monitor

[feral bear]

You simply turn off member list

You don't need it anyways, I always have it off

[slow pivot]

TFTP

Along with a DHCP server that supports BOOTP

[plain siren]

iPXE, Fog, Digital Rebar, TinyPXE, Windows Deployment Service.

[vital terrace]

so.. ive been having a lot of problems lately

[drowsy sand]

I am currently planning on building a Plex Server for my media consumption. Mostly music, but also movies. The CPU is a Ryzen 5 2600 and I am looking for a GPU. Should I just go for CPU transcoding or is it smart to go with a more powerful dedicated GPU?

[knotty hamlet]

If you're not going to be streaming like 5 4k videos at the same time CPU is plenty fine

[drowsy sand]

Cheap-ass GPU it is, thanks!

Found an NVS 450 on a local used market

19 bucks

[feral bear]

@peak cloak The issue was with either;

My router was overheating
The antenna cable

I got a new antenna cable and it works now
I also put a desk fan next to the router which is blowing onto the router

We'll see if it breaks again

[plain siren]

Yikes, that usually means the Antenna was either Out of Tune or shorted to Shield

[feral bear]

I have no idea what any of thoose means but I know it's the cable because that's the only thing I messed with

[plain siren]

Out of tune then

[feral bear]

Oh. Nah don't think so

It was fine for like 5 years but it broke just when I messed with the cables

So I very much doubt it's out of tune

[plain siren]

Cable Length is what determines the Tuned Frequency

[feral bear]

It was still fine for 5 years with the same cable

[plain siren]

Although if that was the case, then what most likely happened is the cable broke inside and part of it was becoming the radiator instead of the antenna itself

Mismatched Radiators to Transceivers turns the power it cant radiate into heat

[lost lily]

well... fuck you then

how is the base address invalid

trying to set up IPv6 because i want the full /64 block

still on the ISP modem/router because i am broke and when i buy one ill need VLANs so ill not waste money now

ill give up and buy a better router

[peak cloak]

Isn't that a link local address

You need to get ipv6 prefix from isp

[lost lily]

yes thats for DHCPv6

[peak cloak]

why are you using DHCPv6

you really shouldn't

[lost lily]

i can use outbound IPv6 without DHCPv6?

[peak cloak]

outbound? you mean public ipv6 addresses?

[lost lily]

yes

[peak cloak]

and yes

[lost lily]

without 6to4

[peak cloak]

DHCPv6 was an afterthought, the right way to assign v6 is SLAAC

android doesn't even support DHCPv6

https://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2154680

[lost lily]

the ISP supports IPv6 since 2006 according to their page

idk if i wanna believe them

[peak cloak]

this has nothing to do with isp

[lost lily]

i mean for outbound

[peak cloak]

I mean like for SLAAC

[lost lily]

yes thats unrelated to the ISP

[peak cloak]

I mean ipv6 was initally conceived in like 2000

[lost lily]

i cant get outbound IPv6 if the ISP doesnt support it

[peak cloak]

well, you can with a tunnel

[lost lily]

yes 6to4

[peak cloak]

that's what I use

[peak cloak]

no

[lost lily]

but it has issues with big MTUs

[peak cloak]

6to4 is something different

unless I'm wrong, but isn't that for having v6 over v4

[lost lily]

no the other way around

[peak cloak]

yeah

[lost lily]

having IPv6 packets inside IPv4 packets

and since they are bigger you have issues with MTUs bigger than around 1400

well... ill just use a static local address

since i already have a static IPv4 local address anyway

[peak cloak]

why

I just don't get it

why do people like making things static

[lost lily]

because this ISP router is shit

i was using a custom DHCP server but my pi's HDD died

so ill just change router in a bit

[peak cloak]

also about this, even if you were using DHCPv6 you wouldn't use a link-local address

people have a hard time understanding in v6, that there is no more NAT

your devices get public IPs

[lost lily]

yes ik

i should have a full 64 block if i read the ISP docs correctly

[peak cloak]

imo ISPs should be giving at least a /56

with a /64 you can't subnet it at all

without breaking core principals of ipv6

[mortal stirrup]

i get internet over coaxial, then into my bridged router from my ISP and then it goes into my opnsense box. the problem is im loosing WAN IP time to time.. i spoofed my MAC adress, but i still loose the ip. how do i troubleshoot it? im "new" to linux routers. but i have some linux experiance. but not sure how to troubleshoot it.. where to check and all that :)

[peak cloak]

opnsense isn't linux btw, there should be a dhcp log, see what it's saying

[mortal stirrup]

@peak cloaktrue, but Linux and BSD are pretty close to eachother. ran FreeBSD on some systems a few years

cant find dhcp log for wan..

[peak cloak]

Hmm, I'm not too familiar with opnsense

[mortal stirrup]

wait, found now

trying to understand, haha

https://pastebin.com/UpGUszdB

looks like my bridged router/modem goes down.. without any warning

the funny thing is my isp has not support if i put it in bridged mode.. so im pretty much stranded.. cant get any logs on my isp modem..

[dark sphinx]

Need some help replacing my router I currently have the Netgear r6300v2

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge friend who uses the dumb google router was asking me about a ubnt 6 LR today

🤩

[iron canopy]

my port forwding not work

fix it

[spiral anchor]

Hi, I'm studying about data communication and checksum. When adding the bits together to get the checksum, do we do normal binary addition or do we do XOR?

[coarse kraken]

Hi i have a very weird issue. i got HG8342R from a friend and when i try to connect it to my system it doesnt give me ip(dhcp is off) and i cant access the login page as it default login ip is also not working.

[old goblet]

Try the reset button using an ball point pen then it should go to factory setting allowing you to use the login page with the default login

[coarse kraken]

i tried no luck

[old goblet]

Maybe a dumb question but was it powered on?

[coarse kraken]

yep

169.254.107.255 i get that through IPIPA

no gateway

[pulsar thorn]

that's because dhcp isn't on, so your computer is just broadcasting on an autoconfig ip of it's own

try looking in the manual online and seeing if you can follow the reset instructions

[pulsar thorn]

ok lads, looking at redoing home network with some ubiquiti APs, what are your suggestions on rack mount switches I should get?

[worthy orbit]

I'm searching for a 2.5gbe or higher switch. Preferably quite and cisco.

Anyone know a switch like that?

[thick minnow]

Why is my wifi running at 5.745 ghz

[pulsar thorn]

You joking or serious?

[thick minnow]

I'm serious 😅 am I stupid?

[pulsar thorn]

I’ll explain in a minute

[peak cloak]

wifi isn't just 5 ghz

it's a range

[thick minnow]

Ye ik that

[peak cloak]

each channel is a different freqency

[thick minnow]

But I didn't know it was that wide of a range

[peak cloak]

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

[pulsar thorn]

Exactly what I was gonna send

[peak cloak]

can go up to 5895mhz in the US if used indoors without registration

[thick minnow]

Oh niceee

[peak cloak]

after that you need registration

well

[thick minnow]

Soo the higher the better right?

[peak cloak]

in Japan, in other countries you just can't use it

[pulsar thorn]

yeah kinda

[thick minnow]

Mine is running at 5745 so it's pretty good ig

[pulsar thorn]

it all depends on the situation

[rocky badge]

no

Whatever has the least APs broadcasting on it is the best

[pulsar thorn]

^

[thick minnow]

Ohh okay

These are all the aps broadcasting nearby none of them is on the same channel , (removed ssid to not dox)

I'm on 149

[pulsar thorn]

Is channel 2 a printer or smth?

Or 2.4GHz AP

[rocky badge]

2.4GHz probably

[thick minnow]

That's the direct connection of my pc or my tv

[rocky badge]

There's no channel 2 for 5ghz iirc

[thick minnow]

Yeah my pc

[pulsar thorn]

yeah ok DIRECT

[thick minnow]

My 2.4ghz band is also on same channel

[pulsar thorn]

that's why i presume a printer

[thick minnow]

Ye

[pulsar thorn]

for me, 5GHz channels make a heap of difference

[thick minnow]

Some lights are connected to the 2.4 channel , nothing else

[pulsar thorn]

fair enough

[rocky badge]

This is why I had to plan freq for this 😩 https://i.ryois.me/l2uxFBEXZZ.png

[pulsar thorn]

omg

[rocky badge]

(nearby APs)

[thick minnow]

Wut

[pulsar thorn]

ohhh

[rocky badge]

263 nearby APs in the last hour

[thick minnow]

Wtf lmaoooo

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/sUel54owQH.png

996 in the last day

[thick minnow]

Only 18 for me

[pulsar thorn]

You can guess which network sucks

[thick minnow]

U live in an apartment?

[rocky badge]

no

[thick minnow]

Oo

[pulsar thorn]

Bro probably lives on a highway or smth

[rocky badge]

My main SSID is 5GHz only

[thick minnow]

Lmao

[rocky badge]

IoT is 2.4/5

[thick minnow]

My iot is 2.4 only

[pulsar thorn]

My current AP can't do split

[thick minnow]

My main is 5 only

[pulsar thorn]

I'm not running VLANs or anything, so I just have different APs with DHCP off

[thick minnow]

I have a pretty low end tp link router

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/Re3ZHcfKPj.png

[thick minnow]

But it works fine

[thick minnow]

I only have 1 ap works for my entire home

[peak cloak]

same

house is small

[rocky badge]

I have 3

[thick minnow]

Yea mine is like 1400 sq.ft

[rocky badge]

Adjusted the transmit power on them lol

[peak cloak]

I may get another one for basement, but it's not finished so whatever

[thick minnow]

Another blob yay

[thick minnow]

Why are so many showing up? Running diff bands at the same time?

[rocky badge]

Those are clients

[thick minnow]

Slow internet moment

[thick minnow]

Ohh okay

My 5ghz only has 3 clients connected atm

Probably the tv, my phone and either my mom's or dad's phone

[rocky badge]

We have around 10+ clients even when nobody's home.... 😂 https://i.ryois.me/lmWzHMJfyU.png

[thick minnow]

I have 0 clients on 5ghz when no one's home

My security cam is also on 2.4

I have around 4 clients on 2.4 on 24/7

[pulsar thorn]

sick

Is there any point running 3 google homes on a seperate SSID?

[peak cloak]

why

[rocky badge]

[pulsar thorn]

?

[rocky badge]

Run all on the same SSID

So devices can roam

[pulsar thorn]

like same ssid as main network?

[peak cloak]

usually it's more

[peak cloak]

why on different SSIDs

[pulsar thorn]

My current AP is an expensive tri-ssid thing (1 x 2.4, 2 x 5)

so I thought I might as well use second 5ghz for something

[peak cloak]

?

[thick minnow]

Mine is dual ssid

[peak cloak]

oh I get you

tri-ssid ain't expensive?

[pulsar thorn]

one of these aliens

[peak cloak]

why

[thick minnow]

Wait nvm my router does do 4 ssids

[peak cloak]

having multiple SSIDs ain't that novel

[thick minnow]

Mine does 4

[pulsar thorn]

we bought it when we could only get 12/1 because adsl

[thick minnow]

Bruh

[peak cloak]

mine can do 16 SSIDs

8 5ghz, 8 2.4ghz

[thick minnow]

Woaaaaa

[pulsar thorn]

now we have nbn (that shit thing) we get 100/20 but modem doesn't have a proper rj45 WAN port so I use it as an AP with a pfsense rig

[pulsar thorn]

does the job fine, until we start losing reception on the other side of the house

[rocky badge]

With more SSIDs, more beacons, which means less actual air time for data

[peak cloak]

yeah, I only have 2 rn

[rocky badge]

This is 802.11g, AC will handle it better, but that can still happen.

[thick minnow]

20 upload

Just get ftth

[peak cloak]

300

[thick minnow]

300 what?

[pulsar thorn]

Mum ain't paying $3.8k for 15 metres of fibre

[peak cloak]

300 mbps upload

[rocky badge]

We only have 500Mbps and I want it to be symmetrical with our download

[thick minnow]

Ew what isp , mine ran the fiber for free and is giving me 2 months 150 symmetrical + calls + TV channels free

[pulsar thorn]

we can get 100/40 but our ISP doesn't allow it

[thick minnow]

And after it ends it's 10$ a month for 100mbps symmetrical + calls

[thick minnow]

Copper bad

[pulsar thorn]

everyone who had 100/40 got kicked off their plan and now has 100/20 for the same price

[rocky badge]

Our ISP ran 3 miles of fiber for my friend for free

And he gets gigabit/500 for the same price everyone else does

[pulsar thorn]

if g.fast was a thing they would turn on I would be much happier

[thick minnow]

How much for gigabit symmetrical per month?

[rocky badge]

They don’t offer gig up :(((

[thick minnow]

What about gig / 500 ?

[rocky badge]

$65/mo

[thick minnow]

Kek

55$ for symmetrical gigabit here

[rocky badge]

Better than the only other fiber ISP, AT&T

[pulsar thorn]

wtf it costs $69/mo for 50/20 here

even on fibre

[thick minnow]

And what about 10 gigabit?@rocky badge

[rocky badge]

$90/mo for gigabit/gigabit and it’s not even everywhere here

Not an option from anybody.

Local ISP is going to get service everywhere before going multi gigabit

[thick minnow]

Oof

[peak cloak]

Tbf, most people don't need gigabit

it's only useful sometimes for downloading/uploading

[rocky badge]

they’ve been around for 2 years and gotten to 150k customers/50% of their target range ¯_(ツ)_/¯

So that’s pretty decent progress

[pulsar thorn]

not all services can handle it anyway, look at google

[rocky badge]

Considering their team size

[peak cloak]

that's what I mean, more than gigabit is really for lots of people

not for high speed single connections

[thick minnow]

I think 10 gigabit was around 200-250 a month here

[thick minnow]

lmfao

[thick minnow]

yeah I think 200-300 is what most people can utilize

[pulsar thorn]

Yeah, my local RSL took me behind the scenes into their server room, they have 1Gb symmetrical and that's more than enough for them

[thick minnow]

why does LTT need 10 gigabit

[pulsar thorn]

because they can

[thick minnow]

they don't

[thick minnow]

yea exactly

[peak cloak]

I mean there is value to it

you can have multiple people downloading games at gigabit

[pulsar thorn]

Exactly

[peak cloak]

they have over 20 people now

[thick minnow]

uh

over 50

[peak cloak]

wait what

[thick minnow]

yeah

over 50 employees now

[pulsar thorn]

and Linus just bought a huge house

[thick minnow]

and was considering a million dollar TV

[pulsar thorn]

yeah haha

Do I bother moving my pfsense machine into a rack mount case, or just leave it on the floor?

[thick minnow]

idk

[worthy orbit]

I'm searching for a 2.5gbe or higher switch. Preferably quite and cisco. Anyone know a switch like that?

[nimble sable]

hey guys, i upgraded my network to 10Gigabit, connected NAS --10Gb Fiber-->MS510TX -- 2.5Gbe--> windows desktop. Ran iperf and no matter what i do i CANNOT go above 1.2Gbps. Any advice on what to look at, what am i doing wrong?

[peak cloak]

you sure you have sfp+ module on NAS?

and sfp+ module on switch

[nimble sable]

physically it's all there, switch, server and desktop all report correct physical connection speeds

[peak cloak]

troubleshoot invididual segments?

[nimble sable]

idk how...

can i test the speeds to a switch?

[peak cloak]

try to test to a different computer on switch?

[nimble sable]

hmm yea, unfortunately this is the only >1Gbe computer i have

it DOES go above 1Gigabit, unless it's a calculation mistake i DO get higher than 1Gbe (1.1, 1.2 etc) but it kinda stops tehre

[nimble sable]

OMG...i installed the realtek driver, and that did it, never mind, wow that's dumb

[peak cloak]

nice

[cobalt musk]

if it was 90$ cheaper I would buy it lmfao

[nimble sable]

🇨🇦 ?

[bold drum]

70 a month for symmetrical here, I need to call to see what 2 gigabit costs.

[nimble sable]

what is the disadvantage of going jumbo frames btw? are there going to be some devices that just fail to cnnect?

[nimble sable]

2Gb is an option for you? nice

[cobalt musk]

i got 1 mb download and upload halp

[peak cloak]

both sides need to use support it, and there isn't much benefit at a small scale

[bold drum]

In 3 months

[cobalt musk]

linus is lmg staff does that mean linus doesn't own ltt?

[peak cloak]

it's used to save bandwidth on IP headers by putting more data in a frame

[cobalt musk]

my life is a scam

[bold drum]

The buildout got paused because the contractors kept breaking sidewalks and not fixing them so the city pulled their permits.

[nimble sable]

so what happens if i try to connect to my jumboframe NAS with my non jumbo frame chromebook?

[peak cloak]

I mean that's not how it works

[nimble sable]

isn't it?

my NAS is configured to do jumbo frames. my chromebook is not...what happens if i try to download a file from my NAS on my chromebook?

does the naas know to use 1500MTU, does the switch convert?

[peak cloak]

don't think so, routers do

[peak cloak]

or just don't use jumbo frames?

[clear igloo]

Path MTU Discovery

[nimble sable]

?

[peak cloak]

huh interesting

never knew about that

[clear igloo]

It discovers the max MTU allowed across the path, it doesn't always work for IPv4 but on a local network it should

IPv6 codifies this into the protocol whereas IPv4 does not

[nimble sable]

oh cool, thanks

oh man yet another reaason to do ipv6

[peak cloak]

but generally I don't think it's recommended to use jumbo frames

[nimble sable]

oh...does jumbo frames not offer big increases? (or enough to make it worthwhile?)

[clear igloo]

Correct, jumbo frames are only really useful in data centers, you won't ever get jumbo frames over the internet

[nimble sable]

ooh

[inner moth]

Hey everyone! building a new home network. looking at the TP Link Omada line or the Ubiquiti stuff. So I'm looking at firewall/router, managed switch, and 2 APs (wifi 6). No need for a separate device controller since I'll have direct access to everything. YT shows several of the latest TP link routers having an easier to use interface. Ubiquiti has a large following. Any thoughts which route to go? TP seems more prosumer styled which I'm kinda leaning towards.

[peak cloak]

TP Link Omada is really only good for APs

I don't like ubiquiti unifi line routers either

also for seamless wifi roaming you want to have a controller

[inner moth]

is there another line of network gear that I should be looking at then?

[rocky badge]

I wanted everything at home under one management....that threw some stuff out. I also wanted super easy and simple. So I'm running UniFi at home. Since I was willing to pay a little, the price wasn't that bad. I would love Meraki stuff but that's $$$$.

And since school & work, I haven't had much time to fuck around with stuff. So its nice that I don't have to touch it ever. 😂

[inner moth]

i do like the idea of having everything under a single management interface.

[peak cloak]

Unifi is good for that

[thick minnow]

its true.....

im a cisco shill

[clear igloo]

Spin up a DNAC cluster in your home? 😛

[thick minnow]

not yet....hoping to get away from cat6

[peak cloak]

What's wrong with cat6

[thick minnow]

nothing....if you only want cat6 speed

[peak cloak]

I mean do fiber then

[thick minnow]

yeah thats the dream

[peak cloak]

10gig on copper be like...

[rocky badge]

os2 sm

@clear igloo Thanks Wireshark 🤣 https://i.ryois.me/CmpznvQW1D.png

[thick minnow]

i get rid of my old homelab equitment last year and just kept the best...so I have like 5 switches and some other stuff but thats it.....i need to finish my desktop upgrade before i work on networking

[nimble sable]

aren't Cisco stuff expensive?

[nimble sable]

isn't copper basically capable of 100gb in short runs?

[rocky badge]

Speaking of expensive. 😩 😩 https://i.ryois.me/6t2POs6bFQ.png

[thick minnow]

New they are....i got a massive haul a few years ago at a really good price.....had to sort through it all and sold some of the stuff to cover the initial cost but i considered it an invenstment into learning the command line for cisco switches and a big learning opportunity in general

[rocky badge]

Looking up ProfiSharks

[peak cloak]

Yeah

Well

Misread that, thought it said 10

[rocky badge]

Yes

Copper can do 100Gbps

[nimble sable]

aah, I do have one old Cisco switch I got for cheap. the other thing is they seem big and power hungry

[peak cloak]

I mean DAC s can?

Idk about rj45 cat 8 or something

[thick minnow]

can confirm...they are power hungry

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/VAn7n9Ihty.png

All the way up to 400G

but if you want distance, fiber

[peak cloak]

Copper actually has less latency than fiber

[nimble sable]

I just got 1 fiber run for the cool factor

[rocky badge]

Old Cisco Catalyst, 48 port Gigabit PoE+, 2960S. Used 40W just on boot

Not actually switching anything

[thick minnow]

fiber is good for the body.....but i like fiber cuz its smaller in size

[nimble sable]

which is hilarious cuz there's no actual way for me to saturate that 10Gb link even for testing

[thick minnow]

yeah...the boot powerdraw on some servers is rediculous

[nimble sable]

WOW

WHY?

[rocky badge]

Old hardware ™️

That's why I don't use it

[nimble sable]

are new ones better?

[thick minnow]

new stuff in the DC's are much more efficient

granted ur using 3 phase

instead of single

[rocky badge]

or a DC bus bar

[nimble sable]

3 phase?

[thick minnow]

and normally not 120v

[rocky badge]

DC to DC to remove AC/DC conversion in each unit

[peak cloak]

3 phase wouldn't affect efficiency on the actual device?

[thick minnow]

3 phase power is common in DC's its more efficient

[nimble sable]

oh

[rocky badge]

I'm using like 350W rn in my lab

[thick minnow]

not that im awware of

[rocky badge]

2 servers, 3 switches, 3 APs, router

[nimble sable]

ooh that's not bad

[peak cloak]

I mean 3 phase just has more power, idk about efficiency

[thick minnow]

what are the 2 servers

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/Dt2Ux80tIY.png

[rocky badge]

R620 and DL360pG8

[peak cloak]

Ik higher voltage is more efficient tho

[thick minnow]

A three-phase power supply delivers power at a steady, constant rate. ... three-phase power, three-phase power supplies are more efficient.

[nimble sable]

TWO servers?

[rocky badge]

Yes

[thick minnow]

proxmox?

[rocky badge]

ESXi

[rocky badge]

lab/prod and strictly prod

[thick minnow]

how much was esxi again?

[nimble sable]

aah ok

[rocky badge]

$0

[thick minnow]

i use proxmox....granted iv had stuff offline for a while cuz I had a storm issue...and the power bill hurt

[nimble sable]

idk how u guys afford all this network gear, that shits expensive. upgrading to multigig cost me like $600

[peak cloak]

Mines budget

You're not alone

[thick minnow]

I spaced it out over time and budget it out

[rocky badge]

My entire homelab is like $2.5k

[peak cloak]

Mine is like 500 bucks

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/x9GWbNUxBx.png

[thick minnow]

big tip: graph price flucuation for whatever you want to add....then debate if its worth it

[peak cloak]

My next thing is ups

[thick minnow]

ow lord....id never afford a UPS

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/dFmKRkaVuZ.png

[thick minnow]

iv just given up

[rocky badge]

Oh my UPS isn't even included in this, it was free lol

Anything free isn't on here

[nimble sable]

unless you do this insanity

car battery hooked up to a Chinese something for control and power output

[thick minnow]

yall know how painfull those nuts are in server racks when ya got to remove them....i aint never forgetting that

[rocky badge]

I could spend more money on my homelab but I'm gonna buy a new laptop

[rocky badge]

Rackstuds

[thick minnow]

yeah

[rocky badge]

https://www.rackstuds.com/

[thick minnow]

those hurt

[rocky badge]

no, rackstuds are different

Cage nuts are what hurt

[thick minnow]

ow my b

[nimble sable]

aww nice
im debating between pixel 6 and a nice chromebook tablet I think there finally a couple potentially good ones coming out

[rocky badge]

I'm about to spend ~$2.8k on laptop + accessories

@clear igloo Parents said if they ever build/gut and renovate a new house, they'll let me do all of the networking :)

[clear igloo]

Nice!

[rocky badge]

OS2 SM everywhere, Cat6A everywhere, APs everywhere

[thick minnow]

ik my next purchase is going to be a ssd cuz im on a hard drive and its so slow.....its nuts

[rocky badge]

14-30R in the server room pls

[clear igloo]

AP on the toilet? Check
AP on the stove? Check
AP in the shower? Check

[rocky badge]

[thick minnow]

AP in the rack?

[clear igloo]

Now that's just silly

[nimble sable]

aww nice. I'm hoping to convince my sister to let me do the cabling in her new house

[rocky badge]

AP in the rack oof

[nimble sable]

ooh yea, man makes such a difference I didn't believe at first

[thick minnow]

I believe....sometimes the lag when im opening stuff is like in the seconds

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo https://i.ryois.me/dysxEwQ5On.png

How much is this sucker

[nimble sable]

I've been pondering ssd for my nas as read cache. even red ssd is cheap enough but I gotta upgrade my mobo to do it

[clear igloo]

Probably 3K or so 😛

[thick minnow]

ssd for nas cache.....depends on what your using the NAS for

[rocky badge]

https://i.ryois.me/3tKoEupPTd.png

Existing SKUs, not custom

[clear igloo]

Less than I thought

[rocky badge]

switched & metered too

[thick minnow]

port mirroring is good if you want to do logging

[rocky badge]

This is a PDU :P

[thick minnow]

ow

i honestly couldnt tell....i thought it was listing power requirments

idk...i had a brain fart

[rocky badge]

I would so totally run a house off of an ASA tbh lol

[thick minnow]

calculating subnets and ranges for IPV6 hurts compared to v4

[peak cloak]

it's a small sacrifice to pay

[thick minnow]

true

I wonder when it will become manditory for ISP's to support IPV6

[peak cloak]

neither ISPs here support it

Optimum (Atlice) and Verizon Fios

[thick minnow]

RIP

[peak cloak]

Verizon has some intention of doing it

Some have it for a little

some ra's

as for optimum, I have no clue

switched last year

[thick minnow]

I have a python script logging my internet speed....hoping to connect that up with a grafana dashboard

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo https://i.ryois.me/twpA3E0LnG.png

https://i.ryois.me/EFHaq5jP6e.png

[cursive mist]

Wow what’s going on with spectrum? I’m supposed to get 200mpbs and usually get 235 but it’s a bit higher today? I’m not complaining but that’s higher then normal

[hollow marlin]

Thats actually decent price/performance

Only downside is its an ASA

[rocky badge]

"Slightly bent"

[stone timber]

I have a quick question, I tried starting a dedicated game server for my friends and it didn't work, so I port forwarded the port, disabled my firewall for that port, and now every time I use canyouseeme.org it now says connection refused, is there anyway I can fix this?

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo

[nimble sable]

i don't see the problem, i mean, maybe with #2 but ther'es plenty of gaps in the thing it's not like it's a faraday cage

[thick minnow]

Howdy folks, I'm looking for a good Wi-Fi 6 (preferably 6e) router, any recommendations?

[undone basin]

I would recommend ASUS 6-Stream Wireless AX5400, unless you are looking for really high end equipment

[thick minnow]

Does it 'split' into two different networks for 2.4ghz and 5ghz?

[humble cloak]

Damn my dad for his work (walkie talkies) has to suddenly learn fibre optics because he’s not allowed to plug into a RJ-45 port by the network provider and now will use 3 pairs of dedicated fibre optic cables for 10kb packets over a distance of 600 metres

That’s the government for ya ^

(It’s for a location where there are “spare” fibre optic cables buried underneath the ground by the national internet/telecom infra provider just in case but the repeaters for walkie talkies are not allowed to be plugged into their own network so they will use three dedicated pairs of fibre optic capable of 400 gigabit for 10 kb packets)

For the three locations

I sent my dad the video where Linus explains a bit of the different options in fibre optic when they were installing 25 gigabit lol

[thick minnow]

hey anyone here use pfsense

i need your help

i am having problems port-forwarding and i think it might just be something stupid i have overlooked

[cedar igloo]

There are quite a few people here that can help. What are you trying to do? What problem are you facing? What have you tried?

[primal ice]

did you make firewall rules to allow the open ports through ? https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/port-forwards.html

[thick minnow]

yes

i am remaking them at the moment to see if that will do anything

thats what it looks like rn

[clear igloo]

Just gotta curve the bits to get them in

[clear igloo]

That's a good deal, have fun with power and cooling though 😛

[worthy orbit]

How good are netgear switches? I found a pretty good deal but don't know anyone that can vouch for them compared to cisco

[rocky badge]

dual 1.2kW PSUs

[clear igloo]

Yup, and pretty loud 😄

[waxen scroll]

Not even lurick recommend ASA

[nimble sable]

anyone know Cisco gear? wth is SASR1KHXK9

[nimble sable]

I've never had any issues with them . compared to Cisco, they seem more geared toward consumer space, soho, enthusiast etc. their sw ux for managed stuff leaves much to be desired though

[nimble sable]

u know what's odd, I never understood that. doesn't the fw have a "allow all outbound" rule anyway? at least in my case, "pass in on $if from any to any port 80 -> $server port 80" is the only rule I need and that's just the nat rule, the traffic then matches the "pass out all" rule

[waxen scroll]

Looked up in the ordering tool. That doesn't exist. Tried a few variations.

[worthy orbit]

With google this is the best I could find

[lyric tundra]

Is this channel for connecting with people or internet networking?

[worthy orbit]

It's not about the networking knowledge we learn, it's about the friends we make along the way.

but in all seriousness just read the channel description

[pine zinc]

hi can anyone help me convert this nginx reverse proxy config to apache? i tried for 2 days and cant find a working reverse proxy with the websocket header for apache2...

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    ssl_certificate /path/to/tls/tls.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/tls/tls.key;
    
    server_name the.domain.tld;
    
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:5001; 
    }

    location /api/socket {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:5001/api/socket;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
    
}

[lyric tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/think-about-it-use-your-brain-use-the-brain-think-brain-gif-7914082

[pine zinc]

my current apache2 reverse proxy config

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName the.domain.tld

        ProxyPass / http://localhost:5001/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5001/
        ProxyPass /api/socket http://localhost:5001/api/socket/
        ProxyPassReverse /api/socket http://localhost:5001/api/socket/

        RewriteEngine on

        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} upgrade [NC]
        RewriteRule /(.*) "ws://localhost:5001/$1" [P,L]

        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ProxyAddHeaders On
        RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"

        SSLCertificateFile /path/to/tls/tls.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/tls/tls.key

        SSLProxyEngine On
</VirtualHost>

[pine zinc]

solved

[nimble sable]

yea descriptions are very unhelpful i know it's a built in component of asr1k but...no idea

[clear igloo]

It's a license

[warm atlas]

'Ello! I'd love some help figuring out the best, cheapest solution to help my partner set their networks up on their room

They have an ethernet cable coming from the router and they'd like to have two to connect to two pcs and private wifi. I'm not knowledgeable about it but maybe any router in bridge (?) mode would do? I'm afraid of spending on a good router only for it to be OP for the situation

[peak cloak]

wdym by private wifi?

as for ethernet, just get a switch and connect the existing cable

[warm atlas]

oh, separate from their family's wifi

[peak cloak]

if it's on the same ethernet network it won't be seperate

[warm atlas]

oh, fair enough

[peak cloak]

you can have a different SSID (name) but it will be on a network level, the same subnet

[warm atlas]

On my room I have a splitter and use two ethernets but i don't think that's what they're after @.@

[peak cloak]

use a switch for "splitting" ethernet

Access Point for wifi

[warm atlas]

is it worth buying one just to have two ethernet cables running from it?

[peak cloak]

if you need too sure, they ain't expensive

[warm atlas]

is this garbage or will it do the job?

[peak cloak]

no clue, need specs

[warm atlas]

ohh fair

[peak cloak]

most switches are at least 5 ports

[warm atlas]

do they need extra power, too?

[peak cloak]

oh lol it's a literal switch

to switch between networks

[warm atlas]

oh LOL

[peak cloak]

need something like this

https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Splitter-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG105/dp/B00A128S24

[warm atlas]

it has a 1 in 2 out setting, didn't even cross my mind that it was for literally switching between networks lol

i'm from brazil btw, over here it costs 125 reais (kinda expensive) @.@

oh fudge lol

13,50 is such a good price, wish it was on my currency though x.x

[peak cloak]

could look for some local brand of network switch

[warm atlas]

this one seems reasonable, but I don't know their internet speed

tbh it's probably not over 200mbps

[peak cloak]

it's 10/100 so it uses the 10Base-T and 100Base-T ethernet standards, so it can't do over 100mbps

[warm atlas]

if their internet is 100mbps and they want to use this switch for two computers, will it be enough of will it result in sluggish internet?

[peak cloak]

theoredically it will split

so one gets 50mbps and 50 mbps of bandwidth

[warm atlas]

oh...

is this any different from running two cables straight from the router/modem?

[peak cloak]

not really

the 10/100 link may be tho

with this specific switch

but other wise no, I have 2 switches I use in the 2nd floor because I can't run more ethernet cables without ripping out drywall

so there's only 2 cables going from basement to 2nd floor

[warm atlas]

yea, at any price range below R$200 I don't think I'll find anything other than 10/100 :<

[peak cloak]

10/100 is usuable if that's what you can afford

[warm atlas]

oh cool!

[peak cloak]

if you can run a second cable, that will be cheaper

[warm atlas]

one last thing, is it possible to use one of these things to both split internet and make another access point?

[peak cloak]

what is that?

specs?

[warm atlas]

oh, just a regular router

TP-Link TL-WR849N 300MBPS

it's ports are also 10/100

[peak cloak]

yeah you could, but you may run into problems with double nat, since it will basically isolate the clients behind that router. With most cheap routers you may be able to get around that by turning off dhcp and trying to plug the ethernet from main router to the LAN ports instead of WAN to make it basically act as Access Point and switch

[warm atlas]

i'd have to go to my partners house to set it up and it's not really a possibility at the moment, so I'll probably just go with the switch solution, hmm

[peak cloak]

double nat isn't THAT big of a deal

[warm atlas]

oh shoot, their internet is 300mbps LOL

[peak cloak]

just if you are doing anything with port forwarding or maybe something with cast to TV, or anything that utilizes broadcast

[peak cloak]

yeah need gigabit ports to support that

[nimble sable]

oooh ok that makes sense, thanks

[warm atlas]

Okay, so I was just talking to them and I misinterpreted their goals

They want to have another wifi access point and pass 1 ethernet cable through it to use on their pc

so it'd be fine to use any gigabit router as an access point + ethernet passthrough? (no clue how to configure this but I can google it afterwards)

[peak cloak]

Best way imo would be to use a switch and then get an AP, but if on budget that would work too

Tplink sells these APs, with switch in them, idk if it would be out of budget

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-sdn-access-point/eap235-wall/

Wall mount, Poe powered

[warm atlas]

idk what poe is

[worthy orbit]

power over ethernet

so you can power a device and transfer data using only an ethernet cable

[peak cloak]

^

[warm atlas]

ok, it's obscenely expensive here lel

[peak cloak]

Rip

[warm atlas]

actually that's really smart, lemme see what i can get

[warm atlas]

ok no, that ends up vv expensive, unfortunately :'c

So, if i can use any cheap gigabit router both as an access point AND as an ethernet pass-through, would it be hard to set-up? (you mentioned subnets and NAT and i'm not really sure i know what those are and how to mess with them)

[peak cloak]

You can get it to just access the internet just fine by setting it up the normal way, Ethernet from main router into WAN port, PCs into LAN and that's it

But the problem with that is that the devices behind the router are isolated behind the single router IP, as it's doing something called NAT

So you can't let's say access the second router webui from the main router network

[warm atlas]

oh, that's fine

my partner wants to do this set-up on their room and manage it by themselves

[worthy orbit]

@warm atlas look for second hand gear. You can probably get a ap and poe switch for under 30 euro

[warm atlas]

I use BRL and things are expensive @.@ i was just looking for it

i can get aps for cheap but they're all 10/100

[worthy orbit]

how fast is your network?

[peak cloak]

Oh ok, in this situation using a router will be fine

[warm atlas]

i'm doing this for my partner, their internet is 300mbps

[warm atlas]

awesome!! Thank you so vv much!!!

[nimble sable]

Question for you guys. Is there a point to running Fiber (vs Ethernet) for like 50-60 ft?

[peak cloak]

depends on situation

location? purpose?

[nimble sable]

Cable run from my attic/closet where the GPON box is to my router. It runs along a conduit inside the wall to a neighbouring room, then along the wall again across the room to the next eroom where the router is

[peak cloak]

are the walls open right now?

if it's something that would expensive to ever upgrade again, then fiber could be good, but if it's something that will is just running along the wall, then nah imo

[nimble sable]

ooh no walls are not open, half of it is outside the other half is old wires in a conduit easy enough to pull

[thick minnow]

Guys how to upgrade my cat 7 cables to cat 3? Idk where to plug them in!

7 cats is too much!!

I cant take care of all of them

[umbral tide]

My speed is 60 mbps planning to increase to 100mbps next year
I'm looking for router with highest rage without speed drop no need of 5hz band i probably never use it because if i sit in next room there will be 3 concrete walls bewteen me and router currently using backup router which is wnr614 which is giving only 0.5 mbps next room I'm about 9to10 meters away from router
My budget is under 22$ 1600inr
My previous router provided by ISP was wr840n which was giving me 15to20mbps in next room

[umbral tide]

Your suggestion will be very helpful thank you🙏

[thick minnow]

i use my isp ap/modem, this is the speed thru 4 concrete walls

So its probably good enough

what isp?

[umbral tide]

My ISP modem is ded no replacement because out of warranty

I looking to buy tp link wr845n

[thick minnow]

https://www.mi.com/global/mi-aiot-router-ac2350/

my friend has this

its very good

[thick minnow]

can you get them still?

[umbral tide]

Yes

[thick minnow]

What price? The xiaomi cost my friend like 30 dollars

[umbral tide]

Not available

[thick minnow]

oh

[umbral tide]

I really don't prefer to buy Xiaomi products

Don't last long

[thick minnow]

Yeah, i only use it to have outdoor wireless

[umbral tide]

70 dollars

[thick minnow]

Then avoid the xiaomi

Btw i think the tp link is a solid router if you can get it

Another great option is mercusys, its tp-link but cheaper

[magic sand]

Mikrotik are also good IMO

[peak cloak]

Yes

But routeros is advanced

[magic sand]

True

[thick minnow]

yes, the cheap hap lite is good

i have mikrotik hap ac2 at my other place

[wooden magnet]

wts this channel for

[low pond]

Networking?

[wooden magnet]

yes

im new to desktop stuff just figuring things out rn xd

[sterile galleon]

Its where you can talk about anything network related, so routers, switches, LANs, Internet, etc.

[wooden magnet]

ohhh

🤔 is there a way to get portable internet for a laptop (not wifi)

i mean no hotspot

😦 i cant talk today xd

[leaden cosmos]

I just downloaded arcolinux on my 2015 macbook. Wifi works perfectly in the live enviroment, but after install it cant find my wifi card (wlp4s0)

[thick minnow]

You might have to isntall some driver that might've been present in the live installer but not in the installed version

But I don't really know much

So, I could be wrong

[thick minnow]

lte modem

which is hotspot

basically

[wooden magnet]

but does it run as good as internet form a internet provider company

[thick minnow]

depends on isp

it has on par performance, but bad ping

[peak cloak]

it all depends on lte singal strength

expect similar performance to your phone

[thick minnow]

i get this on 5g

30 ping

[peak cloak]

you can't beat a wired connection

[thick minnow]

i think this is more than enough when you want it to be portable

[thick minnow]

ofc

i have 30 gb lte for 4 eur

its not that good as tmobile/telekom

but its more than enough for me

[thick minnow]

Hi I wonder if I'm using vlans, do I need to combined them also with Bridges or not, like their is s point? (Using mikrotik)

[hollow marlin]

@waxen scroll Geo-IP databases need to be purged. Nothing but problems

[waxen scroll]

just update them

[hollow marlin]

Not all can be. For SP near the borders its an unnecessary battle

[still quarry]

[lost cedar]

i got a problem with my router not giving slow speeds on windows only

i posted it on ltt forum

am posting it here

i got a 100 mbps fiber connection recently

It works flawlessly on every device except my 2 laptops while using windows with the same Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174A wifi card.

I have a pop os(ubuntu distro) dual boot on one of those laptops and on pop os i easily get 110-120 mbps up and down while downloading something / using speedtest

However on windows on both laptops i am only able to get around 25 Mbps or so. I have tried

1. Reseting everything network related on both laptops (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/internet-download-speed-is-slow-on-only-one-device/65528449-efc9-4582-8d70-4220b43e0a6c)

2. Changing the wireless mode on both laptops (https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/550011)

3. Perform a clean boot on both laptops (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows)

4. Uninstalling, disbaling, enabling updating the wifi card drivers on both laptops
   However nothing has worked
   NOTE:-

5. I am using 5 GHz on both laptops and on ubuntu and windows

6. Both the laptop and router support AC Wifi so have a lot of extra bandwidth to work with

ALSO: The local file transfer speeds are abysmal like i am getting 16-17 mbps on doing that while using my phone's hotspot as lan easily gives 200 mbps

After assessing the situation

1. the problem cant be with windows since in my friend's house i easily get 100 mbps on wifi also the hotspot lan thing works well

2. the problem cant be with my router since i get proper speeds on linux.

where is the problem then

[livid aspen]

have you looked at the connection stats on the device?

[lost cedar]

as in?

you mean this?

[livid aspen]

like start button, cmd , netsh wlan show interfaces

[lost cedar]

netsh elan show interfaces above

[livid aspen]

and that's what it looks like while the issues happening?

have you looked at the router? Like are there any bandwith controls , parental controls?

[lost cedar]

wait

am sharing the settings page

wifi 5ghz basic

wifi 5 ghz advanced

[livid aspen]

do you see anything in there about qos?

[lost cedar]

yes

[livid aspen]

could try turning QOS , see if it results in a change.

[lost cedar]

am sending you all the qos pages

plz suggest what i should change

[livid aspen]

ip qos from enabled to disabled.

probable have to save

might have to reboot for the change to be effective

[lost cedar]

ok trying

[livid aspen]

you might want to check the other qos pages as well.

[lost cedar]

yes

turning off ip qos literally slows the internet so much it doesn't even connect to a speedtest server

[livid aspen]

that's strange

like what is using up all the bandwith?

[lost cedar]

nothing

i tired with ip qos off on fast.com

it does work there

but speed's the same

[livid aspen]

I meant the comment about "turning off ip qos literally slows the internet so much it doesn't even connect to a speedtest server"

[lost cedar]

i dont know maybe its a speedtest issue

i use fast.com or google speed test

[livid aspen]

interesting

well if QoS being disabled doesn't change it. seems less likely to be a qos issue.

[lost cedar]

yes

[livid aspen]

did you check traffic control?

[lost cedar]

checking

there's no traffic control

these are all the options

[livid aspen]

under qos

[lost cedar]

ohh yes

nothing here

[livid aspen]

whats under management?

[thick minnow]

Could someone help understand that please?

[lost cedar]

its mostly router management like network config page password or update router image stuff

[livid aspen]

any device lists some where?

[lost cedar]

like connected clients?

[livid aspen]

yah

[lost cedar]

yes

there is in status

wait sending ss

[livid aspen]

like things you could try, see if a data transfer between one of them to another local machine is slow.

[pulsar thorn]

good idea

even librespeedtest on github if that's not too difficult

[livid aspen]

7k dropped packets is a lot of dropped packets.

[lost cedar]

hmmmm

what exactly do i have to do

also please note that this speed issue is only in windows

in linux i get full speeds
and in all other devices android, ios , smart tv i get full speeds

that doesn't mean that my laptop's wifi card is slow

i have tested it at my friend's place a few days ago
i got 200 mbps , his exact plan

on windows
so i simply am not able to narrow down where the issue is

[livid aspen]

are the other devices using the 5g network?

[bitter shell]

Hey i recently changed my ISP and now i am getting bad pings and joining servers which a far from usual server. What should i tell the isp to fix the issue

and my isp doesnt even know what is gaming (old ppl so kinda old brain )

[low pond]

seems like a small ISP, probably in a given city or place etc

So judging from your name if your from India, it isn't airtel vfibre, jio, or ACT, none of these right?

[sly wadi]

Does anyone know how to make a wireguard connection controlled by networkmanager reconnect after waking up from sleep?

[bitter shell]

yep its none of those all my friends have those which is ultrafast and i unfortunately end up living in a Rural area so those arent available so If i could pin point my issue i could tell them to try changing stuff like my routing, dns.... idk

[low pond]

I see, hm

[bitter shell]

and some times it works fine though

How do i check my routing ?

[livid aspen]

Yah not all isp are created equal. And they don’t usually have the ability to effect change beyond your modem.

[nimble sable]

idk that there is a good way to check/problem solve from the customer end, unless someone knows more about how ISP and BGP stuff at theeir level works

[nimble sable]

for starters try traceroute it will give you SOME kind of an idea what hops your route is taking to it's destination

and try stuff like whatismyip when you're having issues see where it thinks you are

sometimes when i have weird issues somehow whereismyip thinks i'm miles away which woujld explain things

[peak cloak]

Traceroute tbh is one of the best tools

Can't do anything bgp on customer end, that's all on isp routers

[dusk juniper]

I have a Linksys velop system looking to upgrade routers can I plug in new router directly into the velop node?

[nimble sable]

yea hopefully traceroute+geolocate shd tell you smthg

Anyone use ZFS+SMB? Trying to use zfs snapshots with Samba "Shadow copy", I got it all working (config relevant parts below). Now, it shows up in "previous versions" . the problem is, it only shows changes that happened. there are no other files/directories populated in the previous version if there are no changes

[global]
vfs objects = shadow_copy2, zfsacl, streams_xattr
# Configure shares for snapshot support
shadow: snapdir         = .zfs/snapshot
shadow: sort            = desc
shadow: localtime       = yes
shadow: format          = %Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S--7d
allow insecure wide links = yes
wide links              = yes
follow symlinks         = yes
#ntfs file permissions
# Allow samba to properly store NTFS-style ACLs
map archive             = no
map readonly            = no
map hidden              = no
map system              = no
nfs4:mode               = special
nfs4:acedup             = merge
nfs4:chown              = yes
zfsacl:acesort          = dontcare
nt acl support          = yes
map acl inherit         = yes
inherit permissions     = yes

[homes]
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
browseable=no
writable=yes
directory mask=0700
create mask=0700

...is this supposed to be how it works? By default browsing snapshots would browse the entire file system as it was at the time, no?
for reference:

here is an example of a snapshot, so the format seems to be correct.
it only seems to show directories that have changes (if the change was an addition the directory will be empty, if the change was deleting a file the file that was deleted will be there, as expected).

tharihar@djhwty:~ % zfs list -t snapshot
zroot/share/tharihar@2021-09-24_06.50.00--7d            0B      -     1.04G  -

[lime aspen]

Well can someone help me. Plex mediasever / TrueNAS is running but other devices will not connect to it.

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo remember I complained nobody uses port security

found the one person who does: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/pz471t/when_byod_is_no_longer_allowed_l/

[clear igloo]

lol

[plain siren]

I like to use MACSEC where possible

[waxen scroll]

you mean 802.1x ?

this is access port

[plain siren]

MACSEC encrypts data over the physical medium between Device and Switch

[plain siren]

So 802.1AE

[waxen scroll]

ive not seen macsec used other than network device to network device. first i've heard of PC endpoints doing it

[plain siren]

Ive not done it with PCs but I do it with Servers

[plain siren]

Ive also done it with RasPis, the Khadas Amlogic and Rockchip SBC, an ESP32 with an Ethernet Port, reTerminal, and a "Smart Display" SBC

[waxen scroll]

hmm

yeah, the places I work cant do it in the datacenter

they'd shoot themselves in the foot

they run big tap networks

they need to tell "its a network issue" server people off some how

[nimble sable]

what is port security do?

[plain siren]

Well, with Wi-Fi you have some form of authentication

With 802.1X you can require User/Pass login through a Radius server... like LDAP/AD Domain Accounts

However, quite useless if you just need to plug into wall and get direct access to the network

[nimble sable]

ooh ok so that with ethernet? wow didn't realize that was a thing

[plain siren]

You can use 802.1X Authentication over the wire, yes

[nimble sable]

thats kinda cool. So in that story on the reddit the guy presumably connected a laptop that wasn't authenticated and that shut the dock's access?

[waxen scroll]

no, port security is a basic piece of crap where you tell it the mac addresses allowed to use the port