networking

[broken shore]

If you don't mind sfp+, there is a mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN. Idk why that image got sent again

[subtle fossil]

Anyone know of software/hardware that can be used to map cellular signal strength?

[strange cloak]

Finally applied for something I'm interested in

[meager ginkgo]

You can get an Android cell phone and install network signal guru on it. Just make sure it has all the modern bands

Cellmapper works as well

[waxen scroll]

A-apprentice?!

here in the USA we do a senior only approach

not senior? no network job

[tidal spindle]

Getting 100-400Mbps in the dog park area. What's the most optimal way to strengthen the signal? It's a public area, so no wireless bridge. Patch antenna?

[waxen scroll]

100-400Mbps is pretty good

your're probably limited by your devices weak Tx than anything

even if you put a long range in there it would suck, most likely

I use a long range and have the issue with my phone

[true nova]

just say you're senior and then hope ur the only networking guy, nobody ever complains about bad networking in other companies, so why would they complain here 🙃

[waxen scroll]

Well I am senior

starting this career was a pain though

its even worse now

[blissful hearth]

fake it till you make it

[true nova]

and if someone does think you're doing a poor job, that's free brownie points cuz u can be like, "oh, bro, what can I improve on" and then thats like 🤯 that'll make you good to work with

[tidal spindle]

Really?

because of tx?

[waxen scroll]

Yep. The more packet loss the less speed

[fervent brook]

is TP Link a very bad brand?

[peak cloak]

depends on the line

the consumer stuff is meh

[fervent brook]

im comparing a Linksys EA7500 to a TP-Link Archer C4000

[peak cloak]

omada is pretty nice

[fervent brook]

seems they are pretty similar except the TP-Link has two whole 5GHz Radios

7500 has one 1300 5GHz and 4000 has 2 16xx 5GHz...and 1024QAM, whatever that means

[peak cloak]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

idk anything about that stuff

[fervent brook]

yeah...im by myself in an apartment...so i dint really need that stuff

[fervent brook]

anyway. it was 24 dollars at goodwill. i'll find out in a week if i have the willpower to return it

[pliant oxide]

Hey so my friend is having trouble where he upgraded his motherboard that had an intel ethernet port to one that has a realtek ethernet port and has decreased speeds from 1gbps to 400mbps

anyone have any suggestions to why

[fervent brook]

cable quality?

connection quality?

[pliant oxide]

couldn't get right now

[frigid sphinx]

chipset quality.... we have a winner...

if you think all network cards are created equal.. go have a look at the linux kernel source in the network drivers and the "fixes" config options for rtl silicon

[rustic sleet]

So thinking about throwing in a 10gbe nic in my vm server, I've found a couple oem ones from hp/dell on ebay and wondering if these are plug and play with a normal system or have some oem nonsense

[mortal stratus]

hehe like a lot of people in Tech, I tend to have a bit of imposter syndrome. I can't even fake it after I've made it ...lol

[unborn sluice]

fake the faking, soon enough your faking would be real

[gray knoll]

WTF is happening in my Network? 50% of DNS requests return NXDOMAIN?

[peak cloak]

well it's a sample size of 4

look at the actual lookups

[gray knoll]

Its definitely more than four, not sure where the "value" comes from...
I just downloaded the Dashboard.

[peak cloak]

dashboard for what?

[gray knoll]

Grafana Dashboard getting its data from CoreDNS via Prometheus.

Huh looks like someone just requested a Bunch of Random Domains... Whatever...

[fervent brook]

There was a Gb Intel NIC card at a local shop for about 30 dollars. I was thinking about getting it, then i remembered I already had an ethernet port built into my m/b

So, I put my new router into AP mode and it defaulted to 192.168.0.x. So, it's directly connected to an unconnected laptop...maybe it is just confused. So I change it to 192.168.1.3 manually and attach it to my router, which is 192

.168.1.1, and switch it back over to automatic

and it goes back to 192.168.0.254

wtf?

[peak cloak]

when it's .1.1 it prob thinks its the router

.0.254 is prob default IP when it doesn't get anything from DHCP in AP mode

[fervent brook]

I am not aware of the prictice of adding and AP to a switch or router and the prefered setup is making the AP not on the same network as the network it's attached to

[peak cloak]

is it connected to a router?

[fervent brook]

currently?

[peak cloak]

you just said it's just to your laptop

[fervent brook]

i just typed all that out, hold on, i'll copy paste it

[peak cloak]

so how would it know your local network

[fervent brook]

hold on

"So, I put my new router into AP mode and it defaulted to 192.168.0.x. So, it's directly connected to an unconnected laptop...maybe it is just confused."

"So I change it to 192.168.1.3 manually and attach it to my router, which is 192.168.1.1"

"and switch it back over to automatic
and it goes back to 192.168.0.254"

so, while attached to the 192.168.1.x router, it's "automatic" setting decides to give itself the address of 192.168.0.254

im gonna double check with port im supposed to use

[peak cloak]

prob some dhcp issue

I never had a good experience with consumer routers

[fervent brook]

i wonder if any dyslexic people ever confuse hdcp and dhcp

yes, i know thats not exactly what dyselxia is

"After rebooting, connect the router to your existing wired router via an Ethernet cable"

doesn't specifiy which port to use

[thick minnow]

Finally some livable speeds

Its alot faster on ethernet

[meager ginkgo]

Did Spectrum bump your speed up

[sand loom]

Hi im currently using starlink for my internet the ethernet adapter is coming tomorrow i will need to setup multiple access point in my home for my family if I just get a switch and run 2 ethernet cable to two other routers will that work? not to sure on network setups

[peak cloak]

To the other access points yes

You only want one router

[sand loom]

isn't a router just another access point?

[peak cloak]

No

Router does routing, an access point is wifi. Consumer wifi routers are router + switch + AP

[frigid sphinx]

@sand loom if your home is large enough you need multiple ap's then it may be worth thinking about multi ap solutions,

(google nest, tp-link deco etc) or if you have wired backhaul from where you plan to put ap's unifi or tplink omada

[frigid sphinx]

is there a techquickie on these options I know there's riley's one on upgrade your router and pfsense.. but something showing the market wifi options?

so ap based mesh's (like asus and tplink's onemesh), wifi backhaul mesh's (like google nest, deco etc) and sdn wired backhaul (unifi/tplink omada/aruba?/merikai)

[waxen scroll]

Is that a thing? I think packet tracer is too basic

Either that or they upgraded the hell out of it

[unborn sluice]

Packet Tracer Pro

[fervent brook]

Do your own homework

[thick minnow]

I do it all the time and I’m not even dyslexic

[fervent brook]

if the rule says "don't mention rule 14"...

I often confuse some numbers. that may or may not be years. I won't say which years

I also confuse a certain book with a certain movie

dhcp is a network protocol

[gray knoll]

HDCP was High bandwidth Digital Content Protection, right?

[unborn sluice]

it still is

[rough geyser]

hey guys. is anyone very experienced with TrueNAS scale virtulization capabilitys?

[sly glacier]

Not very but what is your question

[thick minnow]

hello guys, on my company when Im connect via Wifi everything is ok, but via cable i get NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID, using the same Vlan, any idea what could be causing it?

[rough geyser]

i know it is possible to pass through GPUs. So i guess its probably possible to pass through other PCIe Devices. But is is possible to pass through specific (but not all) USB devices connected to the motherboard? Or would i need to get a PCIe expansion card with its own USB controller and can only pass this one thorugh as a whole

[fervent brook]

maybe, when coming in on the port the port the AP isn't coming in on, you're not authorised?

or, the port you're trying to use isn't supposed to be used(at least by you)

[rough geyser]

cable connection are often protected since everyone with pyhsical access can just plug sth into the port. but not everyone in the building can automatically use the WIFI since its password protected

[sly glacier]

older machines dont like new certs try and update it

[sly glacier]

Passing through GPUs is a nightmare of power loss but yes you should be abble to pass some of the MB's USB root to the specific VMs as most motherboards do have more than one root usb hub

[rough geyser]

Thats good to know! Is this comfortable possible with truenas specifically?
What do you mean by power loss? Linus made a video comparing VM with passthrough to bare metal and performance was pretty much identical.

[thick minnow]

No I got a ubiquity pair of dishes and I hooked everything up to my sisters house

[sly glacier]

Yeah it should, I meant there is latency and the amount of data that the GPU will be able to managa can fluctuate at times
Its pretty much magic it either works perfectly or it devolves into a nightmare of configs

[rough geyser]

Okay sounds okay to me. Its just for playing around anyway to maybe use it for sth useful once i figured it out and feel comfortable with it

[sly glacier]

Aye

I am trying to find a use for 5 computers atm

[sour rampart]

Hi, i wanted to adopt the newest features for my .dev Domain server. I found the new standard HTTP/3-QUIC and want now to setup my nginx to use this standard. But even with version 1.20.2-1 i cannot use the listen http3 argument. Does anybody know when will this feature arrive or if it is already in nginx mainline (version 1.21 or sth like that)?

[thick minnow]

My ISP (spectrum) states that my modem is outdated and needs to be replaced but my account is not flagged for replacements available. They gave me a list of modems I can purchase myself can I post a picture of that list to see if you guys have any good recommendations on them

[hollow marlin]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll Mikrotik had their new CRS504-4XQ-IN leak (not an April fools from what I can tell)
Crap CPU so primarily L2 only but - 4 x 100G, dual swap PSU, 25w for $799

[clear igloo]

Unifi has the same, no PSUs, $2500 😄
(kidding) but the Mikrotik is awesome

[hollow marlin]

I love Mikrotik, but forum post made me believe its not stable enough for production.
But if true, $799, 4x100G@ 25w is insane actually

[clear igloo]

Yah, not prod ready but still that's awesome price and very low power draw

[waxen scroll]

that feel when you're going on vacation and you wake up to a partially crashed home assistant

[hollow marlin]

In the video, basically it comes off as a NIC slapped in a box with PSUs lol

[clear igloo]

lol, oh, I was thinking 4x100g + some more ports, lol

[sly glacier]

you what

I need that XD

[thick minnow]

The thing is it is blocked on any cable.
User a uses cable on port 1 works user b does not work with same cable
Both users can connect via wifi

[peak cloak]

what is the cert in question

[thick minnow]

How can I see that?

I think chrome doest specify it

[fervent brook]

by "user", you mean "device"? mac address filtering per port is a thing

[rugged quiver]

Talk to your IT or network department.

[thick minnow]

yes I mean device.

[thick minnow]

I am our IT department, basically the IT manager left and Im the only tech savvy guy trying to keep this working

[fervent brook]

read the ACLs

[rugged quiver]

That sucks. Any idea how your network infrastructure is laid out?

[thick minnow]

Kinda, I don't even have server/unifi /sophos access credentials

still working on it

[rugged quiver]

Well... Until then this is all guess work.

[thick minnow]

I might be rolling on this channel alot, the part I lack the most in IT is networking

[rugged quiver]

Are these all windows devices?

[peak cloak]

click the lock icon

connection is secure (or not)

[thick minnow]

Yes, from W7 to W11 but yeah all windows devices.

[peak cloak]

view certificate

[thick minnow]

We also have 3 VM's on premisses not sure on which machine is running (in terms of software)

[thick minnow]

not secured (accessing google.com)

or anywebsite for that matter

[peak cloak]

well obv, but you need to see the certicate

idk the exact way when it's an invalid cert

@thick minnow click "not secure"

certificate is not valid

opens up the certificate

check the certifcate path

[thick minnow]

Iberoperfil it's the company

So our certifate experied?

Translation our certification can't be verified by a trusty source

[peak cloak]

whats the certifcation path

tab on the right

oh, I think I know the issue

basically I think they implemented a HTTP(S) proxy which requires devices to have a certificate installed on all devices

but why it would have a difference on the same vlan?

are you sure it's the same network?

[thick minnow]

Same ip range I think 192.168.1.* on both

But now I can only do it on monday

But I will. Keep in touch thx

[cedar igloo]

Anyone know if Alpine/APK is the same as Ubuntu/APT where the package versions no longer exist after updates? We have many Dockerfiles with pinned apt versions. Every few days, the versions are removed and we must manually update

[cinder canopy]

Theoretically, what would happen if someone connected two HFC DOCSIS networks(I.e. two separate ISP’s with different lines) together with a coupler

[little schooner]

well, from the picture, it starts to be valid when its 08/03/2022, which hasn't happened yet

oh wait

nvm different date format

[little schooner]

hate when it gets to this point

[dense fulcrum]

Unifi has threat management built in to their stuff, is there something comparable for Pfsense or would something like that even be needed for Pfsense?

[sudden kayak]

carnage lol

(please do not)

[wanton cypress]

anybody know of any good server software that is a hypervisor and can do a lot with storage pools and arrays

[peak cloak]

usually it's good to seperate storage and compute

there's proxmox for hypervisor

[tired tide]

OPNsense does have an IPS (https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/ips.html) - not sure about pfsense

[peak cloak]

it has ZFS support

[dense fulcrum]

I am going to give Suricata a try and see how that goes. They have that and Snort as options.

[wanton cypress]

@peak cloak I have proxmox and it is not really good at storage things i am thinking about unraid

[peak cloak]

ehh

unraid isn't that great, the actual storage system kinda sucks

[wanton cypress]

really

is the hypervisor good

[peak cloak]

not really

[wanton cypress]

is like truenas better

[peak cloak]

it uses ZFS so yes

but also, the virtualization isn't

[wanton cypress]

ok

the problem with proxmox is that the virturilization is good but I hate the way proxmox uses drives . Proxmox is better as a hypervisor then a storage server

I like the way unraid deals with drives and i like the hypervisor

[peak cloak]

unraid's storage system is pretty terrible

[wanton cypress]

like what operating system would be good for a hypervisor and storage

[peak cloak]

that's the thing, I can't really think of anything great for both

that's why I am building a seperate machine for storage

[unborn sluice]

proxmox then use a vm as the storage

[wanton cypress]

the reviews I read for unraid were pretty good

i also like it because it runs off of a usb drive

[peak cloak]

problem with unraid is it's architecture

it uses pysical drives for parity

instead of striping

so you are limited by that one set of parity drive(s)

[wanton cypress]

i would want to use them for parity

but all i w2ould be storing is 6 drives

[peak cloak]

instead of ZFS which strips it among all the drives

problem with that is that you can't easily add drives, but that's coming soon to ZFS

[wanton cypress]

is zfs coming to unraid

[peak cloak]

pretty sure no

it uses it's own special thing

[wanton cypress]

what I could try to do is try unraid for 30 days and if I like it then I can try truenas

the reason why i like unraid is because it does everything

[peak cloak]

apparently unraid does parity on a cron job too...

[wanton cypress]

zfs is great but i have to figure out my use case

really

the only thing is truenas good for vm's

[dry bronze]

In 6.10 I think it is

[wanton cypress]

ok

[dry bronze]

That might be the parity check, pretty sure it writes parity as it writes to disk. But you're correct about basically slowed down by one disk

[jovial knot]

Anyone know what could be the problem? This is happening with my new pc which i got like week or 2 ago, didn't have problems like this on the last one

[jovial knot]

From what i've seen internet problems start the minute i start a game, and goes on after I turn it off

[ebon prawn]

soooo.. are you telling that you have fast internet but become slow when gaming?

[jovial knot]

Basicly yea

I get 80-100Mbps before gaming

[buoyant shell]

Quick question so my parents have a internet connection from Company A but there is now a new company B that advertises speeds of 450mbps down and 30mbps up, but my parents aren’t ready to let go of Company A yet that has a speed of 50mbps down and 10mbps up. Both of the company’s have private lines sent to your house and not shared with the neighborhood. Would it be possible to run 2 internet lines in our house? My parents said that they have a contract with company A ending in December so they might get 2 connections but only use the new Company B connection for a month or two by changing our wireless network and wired network to this and if it’s good they will cut the Company A line. Is that possible to have 2 lines?

[wanton cypress]

@peak cloak do you know how to export a proxmox vm at all

to use like in virturalbox

[peak cloak]

Yes it's possible

I've done dual wan for a bit

Idk if it's possible on your router however, mine's not the average home router

[peak cloak]

https://i12bretro.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/export-proxmox-ve-vm-for-use-with-virtualbox/

[wanton cypress]

ok

I don't have this directory cd /mnt/pve

like I can get into mnt but not pve

[buoyant shell]

Alright thanks

[tidal flower]

Maybe a congestion control issue?

[plain siren]

Truth.

[unborn sluice]

Facts

[thick minnow]

My 10Gb cards just came in today. I'm so excited

[thick minnow]

Will a normal m.2 pci e card work with a wifi/Bluetooth m.2 card or is there a specific one I should grab?

[plain siren]

The wifi cards are just m.2 cards attached to a m.2 to pcie adapter

[pseudo blade]

M.2 slots come in different types that accept certain "keys", which denote the number of PCIe lanes and other features like SATA and physically prevents insertion of incompatible m.2 devices.

This might be of interest and explains it in more detail https://www.atpinc.com/blog/what-is-m.2-M-B-BM-key-socket-3

[thick minnow]

Ok thank you. My old motherboard had a m.2 wifi/card. Was just looking to reuse it and not add it to my pile of stuff to take to the waste place.

Any recommendations for a pcie wifi/Bluetooth card

[magic seal]

Is a network switch needed if I only have 2 computers and live alone or can I just use my router as a switch?

[meager ginkgo]

Are you wanting to connect the two computers via ethernet cables to your internet?

If your router has enough ethernet ports on it just use that. Otherwise you will need a switch.

[peak cloak]

your generic home wifi router already has a switch

[magic seal]

okay thats really good to know!

[plain siren]

Those cards are CNVi

Which dont support normal PCIe

[cedar spire]

i have a quaestion

[wanton cypress]

Does anybody know can you run truenas on a usb drive

[peak cloak]

yes

[wanton cypress]

ok

is it worth doing

[plain siren]

I mean, you can boot TrueNas off a USB but

Would you run everything off it.... I wouldnt

[wanton cypress]

just the os

I would want to have nothing on my drives

other then files

and vm's

[plain siren]

This is a common setup then

Booting your OS off flash drive

[wanton cypress]

ok is it good to do

@plain siren

[plain siren]

sure

[wanton cypress]

how do i do that with truenas or is there another good hypervisor/storage component

@plain siren

[thick minnow]

It's an Intel card. I did find some pcie card on Amazon that say they are made for m.2 wifi cards

[plain siren]

The non cnvi verisons

Which all those normal pcie <> WIFi Cards are exactly what you posted too

But not the CNVi Verison of the cards

CNVi routes the Bluetooth through the m.2

the port has to support it

[lucid orbit]

Just privacy. Usual sports anime movie streams from xyz sites. And also use my indian netflix hotstar disney amazon prime subscription accounts here in Deutschland

Sry it's urgent

[plain siren]

you can see here that it uses USB

[thick minnow]

That one says it's for Bluetooth which is mainly what I want the card for

[plain siren]

Bluetooth is routed over the USB, Wifi over the pcie

https://www.amazon.com/AX210-Expands-Bluetooth-Tri-Band-Windows10/dp/B08MJLPZPL

This would work in it

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X462KRK/ref=emc_b_5_mob_t or just get it together

[thick minnow]

Hey I have a m.2 Wi-Fi Bluetooth card already. I'm just on the fence about cuddling it together with a card like that or just buying a proper card for it

[lyric sandal]

Is a pcie ethernet port better than a motherboard ethernet port?

[plain siren]

You got it out a laptop right?

Or off a motherboard

If so it's CNVIO and not compatible with that card.

And designed for CNVIO m.2 ports

[thick minnow]

Lovono motherboard

[plain siren]

Yeah it's gonna be CNVIO

Which is not what you want

[thick minnow]

I was told it was a standard MDOT to should work with any port but if that's not the case any recommendations for a dedicated Wi-Fi Bluetooth card

[plain siren]

NGW
yup CNVIO

[plain siren]

This is a good option.

AX210

[thick minnow]

Otherwise anything ax-210? This was one of my oversights when I bought the new motherboard kind of forgot that I need Bluetooth for some of my devices

[peak cloak]

no difference really

it depends

if it's a normal gigabit one, and you need nothing special it's whatever

[wanton cypress]

does anybody know how to run trunas off of a usb

[peak cloak]

you install onto the usb

[peak cloak]

no features like sr-iov, on chip tcp offload, etc.

[wanton cypress]

ok

sense I want the actual os on the usb

[stiff hemlock]

Heya!

I'm not sure if this question should be asked in here or #tech-chat-1 . However, I know that some hostings have VNC access to their VPS (that they sell). Is there a way to disable that, so the owners of that company can't VNC into my servers? Also, is there a way to prevent Username/Password login with VNC? The OS is Ubuntu by the way

[solar kestrel]

Any users of the Unifi UXG-Pro?

[thick minnow]

I use to have one

I had to put it in my parents house

[solar kestrel]

Did you have any issues with it minus maybe an adoption problem?

[thick minnow]

I had to factory reset it a few times out of the box, but after that no issues

[peak cloak]

I just use ssh key login

That way there isn't a way to login without private key

[stiff hemlock]

They have a second server serving the screen from my VPS where they can bypass public and private keys somehow

[slow pivot]

You mean the VPS console?

[unborn sluice]

If it's a screen might be a VNC

[slow pivot]

A lot of vps instances have their console made available via VNC or something similar

[unborn sluice]

Agreed

[slow pivot]

Realistically, if you have someone else host your server, they have access to that server.

[sudden kayak]

turning off the VNC server in your VPS itself is trivial, but you can't disable it from the hypervisor side. and even if you could, there are a hundred other ways for them to access your VM because they control the hypervisor and the physical machine it's running on

if your threat model gives you a reason to genuinely distrust your server provider, then it's already game over

[fading gale]

Anyone good with Ubiquiti UniFi stuff? Running into some issues setting up my 1st AP.

[gray knoll]

Is it normal for your DNS-Cache to only hit 1/4 times, and iss 3/4? I am basically only using 3 websites (youtube, discord, university) and have configured my DNS (coredns btw) to basically cache EVERYTHING and even proactively refresh cahce entries, that are about to reach the end of their TTL.
I do that because for some reason all Upstream DNS Resolvers are increadibly slow. Like ~500ms on every DNS-Server I tried (Includnig 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8)

[waxen saddle]

To all the network/pen-testing/firewall wizards: I’m trying to figure out why ports are being blocked internally. Everything I can get my hands on says the ports are open and nothing should be blocked. I have an analyst checking multiple firewalls… but is there a way to maybe see WHAT device has blocked the port? For example: me > firewall 1 > vpn > endpoint. Is there a way to see if firewall 1 is the one blocking the port?

[peak cloak]

what I would do is test connectivity one by one

if you have access

so run tcpdump, wireshark, etc. on firewall and see if receives said traffic

then see if it sends said traffic

[waxen saddle]

I don’t have access. 😦

[latent sonnet]

My fiber network card finally arrived

[clear igloo]

40g or 100g?

[latent sonnet]

40g this time

[clear igloo]

nice

[latent sonnet]

Just need a few more and a switch

[clear igloo]

make local transfers go brrrr 😄

[latent sonnet]

Exactly

[wanton cypress]

anybody know how to install truenas onto a usb drive

[unborn sluice]

Somebody does

[wanton cypress]

ok

[peak cloak]

You install to it like normal

Instead of to hard drive, to usb drive

[wanton cypress]

ok

[copper rover]

@wanton cypress <googlefu magic>

https://www.truenas.com/blog/how-to-install-truenas-core/

"Boot device (SSD or HDD): Also known as the boot drive. At least 8 GB of storage capacity is required to serve as the boot device for TrueNAS. An SSD is an ideal choice for longevity; keep in mind that the entire disk will be used for the TrueNAS operating system. USB sticks are no longer recommended, due to the high amount of write tasks on TrueNAS."

[peak cloak]

recommended, no

possible, yes

[copper rover]

VMWare just dropped support for SD Cards as ESXi boot media. Because of the lack of wear leveling, they eventually go corrupt. In fact, we had many Dell PowerEdge servers with dual SD cards (RAID1) with one dying on occasion (logging already redirected to a VMFS vol). So to upgrade to the latest version of 7 those servers got upgraded with BOSS cards.

Anyways, USB/SD OS installation is now deemed a deprecated option.

At some point the Raspberry Pi will probably move away from SD cards as well on the next HW refresh cycle or two

[peak cloak]

I broke 2 sd cards from stupid pis

They are so small and delicate. I was putting them in and the case snapped them in half

[copper rover]

It's not the Pi's fault. It's the OS that treats SD like SSD/HDD media, because it's not.

Wait...what? Physically broke them?

[peak cloak]

Yes..

They stick out

Like why couldn't they make it flush

[copper rover]

Broke them like a cheap press on nail 🤣

[shut vapor]

why must i suffer, i renember that i used to have better

[charred sundial]

idk why but i'm only getting around 80mbps through wifi when i should be getting 1gbps. on ethernet i get around 250mbps when usually i get around 1gbps on ethernet and around 400mbps on wifi

is there any chance i can fix this rather than getting my isp's 'engineer' coming down?

[peak cloak]

you can't get gigabit over wifi easily

[charred sundial]

ik, i used to get around 400mbps over wifi easy but now i'm stuck around 50mbps - 100mbps

[peak cloak]

what did you change

[charred sundial]

literally nothing

[waxen saddle]

Reboot all equipment.

[charred sundial]

i have already done that

[peak cloak]

run a spectrum analysis

[charred sundial]

awhat

[peak cloak]

see what other wifi channels are using

and switch wifi channels

[peak cloak]

you have a android or iphone?

[charred sundial]

android

[peak cloak]

try to get this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubnt.usurvey&hl=en_US&gl=US

[pale sail]

Can I get some help on portforwarding?

[charred sundial]

yes i am the only one on channel 106

and i'm still getting around 50mbps down

[peak cloak]

whats the issue

[charred sundial]

yes that is what i am using

[peak cloak]

hmm idk

wifi is annoying

[charred sundial]

very

and i'm only getting 250mbps even through ethernet

when i normally get around 1gbps

[pale sail]

So this is the layout of my routers and pictures of the config. I could not get my portforwarding to work.

[peak cloak]

what are the first 2 octets of wan IP

as seen on the asus router

[pale sail]

this? 192.168.1.2

[peak cloak]

well there you go

you have a modem in front I assume

and I think that's a modem/router

so it's NATing

no wonder it doesn't work

[pale sail]

yes it is a router

https://www.asus.com/Networking-IoT-Servers/WiFi-Routers/ASUS-WiFi-Routers/RT-AC1200G-plus/

[peak cloak]

that isn't the issue

the modem/router unit is

are you on verizon fios by any chance or nah?

if not, see if you can get the modem into bridge mode

[pale sail]

oh yes i have a modem infront of my asus router. just a modem with no wifi capabilities

[peak cloak]

well it's nating

[pale sail]

that modem takes in fibre

[peak cloak]

tell me the model

[pale sail]

I am not in the states

[pale sail]

let me check on that, 1 minute

[peak cloak]

that looks like a modem/ONT AND router

[peak cloak]

yes under LAN status though

[peak cloak]

it's nating, which is why your port forward doessn't work

since you have double nat

[pale sail]

ah

[peak cloak]

yep

[pale sail]

so i have to change my asus router to bridge mode?

[peak cloak]

you can do that, so it's just an access point

but then all your router settings will be on this thing

[pale sail]

ah

but this thing dont have portforwarding settings

[peak cloak]

hmm

yeah that's an issue

[pale sail]

damn ISP

[peak cloak]

and that's not even a public IP

it's link local

tf is this setup

[pale sail]

really hating this ISP rn lol

[peak cloak]

what you can do is use a tunneling service for your public endpoint

what are you trying to port forward?

[pale sail]

just trying to play some games with friends

[peak cloak]

minecraft?

[pale sail]

rimworld

[peak cloak]

if just for games, you can use zerotier

you make a virtual LAN basically

[pale sail]

yea like hamachi in the old days?

[peak cloak]

and each player would connect to that virtual LAN

[peak cloak]

yeah, but much better

[pale sail]

i liked evolv / tunggle

it got shut down 😦

[peak cloak]

never heard of those

zerotier is actually used a lot in IT

[pale sail]

ok

i will give it a shot

[peak cloak]

if you want to actually expose it, you can look into something like ngrok

[errant gyro]

Imagine you are living in middle of the forest and you need internet there.... So the best option is propably use air.... but you can't use the direct point like Linus used in some videos...
So what to do?

[peak cloak]

sat internet?

[errant gyro]

Speed and cost?

[peak cloak]

starlink is really the only good sat internet and I belive it's like 100 bucks a month

[errant gyro]

Bruh thats kinda big price

[peak cloak]

it's belive it's like 300mbps

you can look at reviews online

but if it's the only option

there are other sat internet providers but those are really bad

[errant gyro]

Well so the options are no food but internet..
or food, but no internet 😄

[peak cloak]

there's oneweb for high speed sat internet as well, but it's not in service yet

[pale sail]

ok i did some google and this ISP is actually CGNAT don't know what it is

[peak cloak]

CGNAT

yes

still super weird setup

using link local

[pale sail]

maybe i will pay my ISP for a static ip

[peak cloak]

there's also LTE internet

depends on location tho

do you have phone data?

[errant gyro]

Theres also pretty very low signal

[pale sail]

zerotier is using port 9993 do i have to port forward as well 😞

[tidal flower]

ZeroTier should connect through a tunnel, so no.

[pale sail]

hmm still can't find the game. but i can ping tho

[peak cloak]

No

It uses traversal methods

[peak cloak]

What ips are those

[pale sail]

the lan ip assigned to clients

[peak cloak]

You specified the subnet when making the network?

Wait nevermind

Stupid phone

That's a 10

[pale sail]

uhm what?

[peak cloak]

Disregard

[pale sail]

i followed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxpVHf4ic8

[peak cloak]

So you can ping the other device with it's zerotier IP right?

[pale sail]

yes

[peak cloak]

It's a windows PC right?

[pale sail]

yes

[peak cloak]

So its firewall that's the issue

Need to open up the port

[pale sail]

in the youtube vid the guy says to set interface metric to 10

[peak cloak]

Makes sense

But that's not firewall

[pale sail]

so i should follow

[pale sail]

i will try to disable windows firewall as well

[peak cloak]

The whole metric thing is so it can reach those ips. If you can already ping, no need

You either need to disable firewall or add a firewall rule to allow the server

On the server that is

Add the rule

[peak cloak]

Not for zerotier

For the server

Think of zerotier as a virtual switch

[pale sail]

i am not using self hosted

[peak cloak]

So now you can directly communicate between devices connected to the switch

[peak cloak]

Yeah, no need for firewall rules for zerotier itself

All the cloud controller does is discovery. The actual connections are p2p

[pale sail]

i am using the basic

[peak cloak]

Ok?

It's not really relavent

[pale sail]

by server which server do you mean

[peak cloak]

Thing hosting the game server

[pale sail]

ah game is allowed in firewall as well

i even tried sharing network drive on windows and my friend can't find it

[sudden kayak]

wait how would an "open source" self hosted version be restricted to non commercial use

ahhh it's not actually open source

it's "source available" which means nothing

I'm surprised nobody's getting on their ass for using the term open source when it's not

[peak cloak]

it is open source

not all licenses are MIT

it seems to use https://mariadb.com/bsl11/

[latent pilot]

So I can't get an Ethernet cable to my room but my connection is not good i currently use an old wifi router with ddwrt using at like a wifi dongle but the performance is really inconsistent so would power line be a good alternative or are there other options?

[peak cloak]

moca

if you have coax wiring

[latent pilot]

i dont

[sudden kayak]

right but BSL is not open source in the legal sense

it's source-available, which is a completely different thing

[peak cloak]

true true

[latent pilot]

i just have power and wall here are solid so i cant do it trough walls and my parents aren't going allow me to run a cable on the walls etc

[sudden kayak]

same thing as SSPL and elastic's license

not a good look especially when there are actual open source licenses like AGPL that accomplish the same thing

[verbal ridge]

BTW a few weeks ago I mentioned on the Floatplane chat pre-wan show that I had a lot of fiber. I forgot to send pics.

I have several more spools. Total of 5KM I believe.

Seeing the IBM video reminded me to take a picture.

[frigid sphinx]

that looks like stuff from that crazy exchange that used physical fibre delay loops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4

[verbal ridge]

It was from a professional networking lab for level 1 and 2 equipment.

Used for testing telecommunication and ISP equipment.

[ebon sierra]

So I have ubuntu running a game server and I have it running. I set the IP to the same IP as the servers website (which is accessible), which is what I am supposed to do per a tutorial, and changed the AUTHSERVERIP to be the same IP, but I am unable to connect. I am going to go out on a limb and guess this is because i am on university dorm wifi or it is an issue with firewall

[frigid sphinx]

Has anyone seen a l3 switch routing setup for ipv6 that has the services (RA/SLAAC) on an external system (working like a dumb l2 segment with a dhcp helper but ipv6 native stuff)

[frigid sphinx]

so gateway on switch with a transit network to the internet gateway/router

[thick minnow]

I use powerline to send a connection to my router

Its ok if you get gigabit powerline

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M13B8B6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9WWMRW8Q3701JSQQX6F7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I use this one

It seems ok

[charred sundial]

turned out the cable mounting thingy was broken

[small glade]

Fucking hell I was just in a server room of the biggest isp in Latvia

Couldnt take any pictures but there was fiber optic backbone exit nodes there and also dsl and phone line equipment for all remaining pots subscribers in Riga

Also iptv equipment

The wire management was pretty good

[thick minnow]

Can I get this to work? all on same vlan. I have this working with another switch a D-link (but the ip is 192.168.0.0/24)
Can I have it all on the same VLAN using a unifi switch? and can I have 2 wireless 1 from ISP router to 1st floor and unifi AP to the bottom floor?

[peak cloak]

yes

you won't have wireless handover though

so it will be up to the client to change APs

[thick minnow]

i cannot use mesh I know but will it all be in same vlan?

[peak cloak]

I mean, I don't see why not

[thick minnow]

cause atm on my desktop I cant reach 192.168.1.254 to talk to the isp router

since the D-link is on 0.xxx

and since im building a full unifi home setup

[peak cloak]

switches don't have ips

just the managment console does

so even if the managment is on a different subnet, it should switch just fine

[frigid sphinx]

@thick minnow you can but I wouldn't.

[thick minnow]

why

[thick minnow]

https://store.ui.com/products/unifi-switch-16-150w will this work? or its just a POE ?

if thats a thing

[peak cloak]

I don't see why not

it's a switch

[frigid sphinx]

it's a switch

I'd turn off the isp router and deploy a second unifi AP

[thick minnow]

with this I dont need the POE adapter on the AP right?

[peak cloak]

yes

[frigid sphinx]

yep.

[thick minnow]

the thing is i kinda need the ports over on the living room to connect TV/console

and running a cable all the way is a no go on this rented house soon™ i will ask for big help on full house networking advice 😄

[peak cloak]

I would replace the router

get just a router, no wifi

[frigid sphinx]

so I'd do that too 😉

[peak cloak]

and get a AP

[frigid sphinx]

not the USG tho.

[peak cloak]

not a fan of unifi

[thick minnow]

so ISP - switch 1 and 2 - then APS

[thick minnow]

why not? any other brands? tbh never had an issue with them

and the console is running on my pi 4

[frigid sphinx]

isp -> router -> switch -> AP and switch2 -> AP2

[peak cloak]

for me, too basic

it locks you in from doing anything really advanced

[frigid sphinx]

pfsense is kinda nuts tho.

[peak cloak]

ehh

[little schooner]

I want the control that their edgerouter line offers to be on the unifi gear

[peak cloak]

and unifi managment and everything, also meh

[peak cloak]

please

[frigid sphinx]

don't get me wrong I'm using it 😉 but it requires you actually know networking 😉

[thick minnow]

I mean basic for me is a bless tbh 😄

[peak cloak]

I want an updated edgerouter line

[little schooner]

mt

[thick minnow]

does it makes sense on a new house to do Fiber? or just cat 6 it ?

[frigid sphinx]

6a is more than enough

[peak cloak]

fiber, I mean it's not really practical for end devices

I'd go with copper

[little schooner]

like if they can make a 10g 3 port model at the minimum, I'd appreciate it so much

cli is amazing

[thick minnow]

well yeah id need converters true

[frigid sphinx]

with most domestic runs being <100M you're in the land of 10Gbit

[peak cloak]

above 10 gig though, fiber

[frigid sphinx]

yep

[thick minnow]

yeah i want to build a full network around my new house with homeassisntace and domotic and all that

id need 1Gbps, 10 would be overkill atm IMO

[frigid sphinx]

so wire it with 6a and you're good up to 10Gbe

1 will run over cat5e

[thick minnow]

btw any way to have a home VPN? free?

like to remotely connect home

[frigid sphinx]

how do you mean a home vpn?

like from your phone to your house when out and about?

[thick minnow]

i have a NAS, I want to remotely access it without going to tnas.online/abomynas

yeah

using terramaster webui is killing my nerves 😄

[peak cloak]

Yes

Pivpn, easy management

[thick minnow]

can I dont it with unifi/my nas or do I need something else?

[frigid sphinx]

ipsec, openvpn, wireguard

[thick minnow]

or a pi 😄 yeah

[peak cloak]

I mean maybe the Nas supports a wireguard vpn

Pivpn is just a software that makes it super easy

Doesn't need to be on a pi

I run it on a VM

Could look at zerotier as well

Doesn't need opening firewall

If you use their controller

[thick minnow]

they have this https://www.terra-master.com/us/press/index/view/id/384

seems rudimentar tho

[peak cloak]

Never heard of that

[frigid sphinx]

ck the PPTP, OpenVPN and L2TP / IPSec seems to cover most of the bases

I would put more seperation in the network tho.

[strange cloak]

Is there anything similar to iLO for standard pcs

[low pond]

Not really directly, some "professional consumer" motherboards have IPMI

[gray knoll]

Out of Interest: How can Cloudflare has its 1.1.1.1 DNS-Resolvers so fast? I thought IP-Addresses were bound to one location...
How can they server a Request in less time, than it takes light from Europe to the US?

[low pond]

BGP anycast

Not one server, multiple servers, and as it's DNS it can support that

[gray knoll]

So nothing you can do without being ISP xD... Interesting... I thought they might be offering a perfect route to 1.1.1.1 in all their pairings... But if it's part of the spec, it's better than IP sinkholing (I think that's what it's called)

peering? Idk...

[ocean pivot]

I'll take it 😄

[peak cloak]

anycast

it doesn't need to be per location

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing#Delivery_schemes

there are multiple routes traffic can take to an IP, and bgp chooses the fastest one

[proper adder]

I have 2 routers.

• Router A is a Centurylink modem/router which connects to DSL service.
• Router B is my Archer C7 AC 1750 running DD-WRT connected to Router A as a client on 2.4 GHz, and is acting as an wireless access point on 5GHz.
• Router B is also setup to connect to my PiHole Wireguard VPN on Oracle Cloud.

What I would like to know is what MTU should I be using on Router B, and my VPN. Does all routers need to be using the same MTU?

Centurylink is PPPoE, and is using IPv4.

[wanton cypress]

Does anybody know how to create a pool in truenas with just 2 drives

I got a boot drive and another drive in there

[ebon prawn]

2.5gbit works on cat5e too

[ebon prawn]

that upload speed is like more than double mine, outstanding

[rich oracle]

do powerline adapters require both ends to be on the same electrical phase (not sure how it works outside EU but here we have 3 phases where each sin is 120 deg out of eachother)

oh so you have it too

[frigid sphinx]

So most circuits are not three phase

[rich oracle]

Well i mean depends in what part of the country you live in and how much you payed to get the connection, but if you have a properly wired up house there is a good chance your plugs wont be on the same phase

[frigid sphinx]

and powerline adapters work best on the same circuit

[rich oracle]

so does that mean they should be on the same phase

[frigid sphinx]

it relies on being connected to the same circuit. (fused wiring run in your house.)

[rich oracle]

yes but tehnicaly phases are not the same circuit

they dont connect to each other in any way, unless it uses the return (aka null)

to transmit the data

[frigid sphinx]

so if you had a three phase feed into your house (uncommon for domestic supply in most of the world)

and it then split into 6 fused circuits in your house a-b on phase 1 c-d on phase 2 e-f on phase 3 then yes they need to be on the same phase to work I would imagine. but the important thing is that the wiring is common somewhere.

[rich oracle]

phases dont interconnect but the only thing that is common is the transformer return or in some parts called null

or zero

[frigid sphinx]

that's not sufficient to run a circuit 😉

[proper adder]

Does all routers need to use the same MTU setting?

[frigid sphinx]

@proper adder no in theory yes in practice 😉

[rich oracle]

thanks for making me understand more about how poerline adapters work

[proper adder]

I have 2 routers.

• Router A is a Centurylink modem/router which connects to DSL service.
• Router B is my Archer C7 AC 1750 running DD-WRT connected to Router A as a client on 2.4 GHz, and is acting as an wireless access point on 5GHz.
• Router B is also setup to connect to my PiHole Wireguard VPN on Oracle Cloud.

What I would like to know is what MTU should I be using on Router B, and my VPN.

Centurylink is PPPoE, and is using IPv4.

So what about my Wireguard VPN? Does it need to use the same setting as the routers?

[peak cloak]

just use 1500 MTU

[rich oracle]

also wow not everyone has 3 phase, dang me in a 2nd world country having it made me thing like everyone has it

[frigid sphinx]

actually less..

[proper adder]

no. I'm on PPPoE with DSL, which uses 1492.

[wanton cypress]

Does anybody know why it only show 1 drive in the raid config

[frigid sphinx]

we have 3 phase.. but not for domestic supply (we have 240v 50Hz 30-60A for domestic)

[wanton cypress]

i have 2 in there which it did show before and I configured it to raid 1 but in truenas it does not come up with any drives when I try and create a storage pool when I got 2 in the system already

[frigid sphinx]

unconfigure the raid and do it in truenas

[wanton cypress]

ok it did not let me install truenas without the raid configured

[frigid sphinx]

you've configured a hardware raid.. (generally a bad idea these days 😉

[wanton cypress]

iwill try that

[frigid sphinx]

the hp smart array controller isn't terrible

but for a truenas system I'd use it as a jbod controller

[proper adder]

What about for Wireguard? Should I use the same MTU on it?

[frigid sphinx]

if your encapsulating... then I'd suggest a smaller mtu

you generally want to avoid going much over 1500 bytes on the internet

[wanton cypress]

this is what I have now

I want the drives on raid 1

but i can try and install truenas and see if it will let me

[peak cloak]

we have split phase here

not real dual phase

[proper adder]

I'm doing a full tunnel VPN.

[frigid sphinx]

I have a friend who does have real three phase to his house.. but he has a bridgeport in his garage. 😉

it's not common

[proper adder]

According to this page https://keremerkan.net/posts/wireguard-mtu-fixes/ they recommend 1280 MTU. I don't have a IPv6 connection, so would it matter?

[frigid sphinx]

so 1280 would be safe.

[proper adder]

Would it be better to use 1412?

[frigid sphinx]

the problem is that you can't rely on router fragmentation so it's safest to ensure that including your wireguard and pppoe overhead it's still under 1500bytes

[wanton cypress]

Would this mean both drives are set to raid 0?

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

@wanton cypress if you're using truenas.. you want the raw disks to be availible to truenas.

[wanton cypress]

ok

[peak cloak]

unless that's for just the OS

[frigid sphinx]

this is easiest for reporting, monitoring and truenas to do it's thing.

[wanton cypress]

how do i make these disks raw

[peak cloak]

don't use raid

[frigid sphinx]

you need to reconfigure the p420i into jbod mode

[wanton cypress]

how do i do that

[proper adder]

Since my connection is not IPv6 (IPv4 only), would it be better if I used 1412 MTU on my VPN?

[frigid sphinx]

if you're only encapsulating ipv4 then yes 1412 is fine.

@wanton cypress https://forums.unraid.net/topic/91922-convert-hp-smart-array-controller-to-hba-mode/

[proper adder]

i'm just wondering what's better for my connection. 1412 or 1280.

[peak cloak]

@frigid sphinx @wanton cypress apparently there is no raw mode on that controller

[frigid sphinx]

@peak cloak there is. you've got to use the hp utility to reconfigure it 😉 see link 😉

[peak cloak]

https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/Hp-p420-raid-controller-in-hba-mode/td-p/7137870

that's what I found

[frigid sphinx]

yeah the correct information is in the post linking to the config guide.

[wanton cypress]

is that the first link you sent

[proper adder]

Would adding these lines to my Wireguard config break anything? My VPN is not on my local network, but on Oracle Cloud Platform.

Interface on VPN server

PostDown = ip route del SERVER_PUBLIC_IP/32 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0; iptables -D FORWARD -i wg0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu```

Client on home gateway
```PostUp = ip route add SERVER_PUBLIC_IP/32 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0; iptables -A FORWARD -i wg0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT; iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu
PostDown = ip route del SERVER_PUBLIC_IP/32 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0; iptables -D FORWARD -i wg0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu```

My Current Client Config is like this
```[Interface]
PrivateKey = redacted
Address = 10.66.66.2/24, fd42:42:42::2/64
DNS = 10.66.66.1, fd42:42:42::1
MTU = 1412

[Peer]
PublicKey = redacted
PresharedKey = redacted
Endpoint = redacted
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0```

[frigid sphinx]

@wanton cypress configuring that particular controller in hba mode is possible but not trivial running through the unraid post

[wanton cypress]

ok

i can't get the iso file form that link you sent me

[frigid sphinx]

I prefer not to use hardware raid these days because I think that managing hardware raid is more of a pain in the ass than managing software raid and modern storage layers... (zfs/btrfs) put the filesystem and raid functions together in ways that make raid controllers a generally bad idea.

[wanton cypress]

it only allows me to install truenas threw a raid

like the drive has to be in a raid

[peak cloak]

you want to install truenas not on your storage

on a seperate SSD or something

[frigid sphinx]

usb key 😉

[peak cloak]

yesn't

they don't reccomend it anymore

[wanton cypress]

I have 2 ssd's I have 1 for a boot drive and another for vm's

[peak cloak]

but yeah you can

ideally it would be like 2 ssds in raid 1

for the OS

in like a enterprise enviroment

[wanton cypress]

so when i installed truenas and put both of the drives in raid 1 it just combined them

@frigid sphinx because all that shows up in truenas when I installed it is 1 drive the other idk where that one is

in truenas

[proper adder]

would these changes break my VPN?

[peak cloak]

because you have hardware raid

[wanton cypress]

ok

how do i change that

[peak cloak]

read up

[wanton cypress]

like should I follow the guid

[peak cloak]

you need it in HBA mode

[wanton cypress]

ok

is there i guid within that form

[frigid sphinx]

so your one drive in truenas... is raided.

but it's below the visibility of truenas.

when you make that logical drive in the controller firmware you're making a raid drive. but truenas doesn't know anything about it.

[wanton cypress]

ok

how do i fix that make them HBA

[frigid sphinx]

follow the directions in the unraid forum post but there's some detail that's kinda hairy (like getting the utilities from hp )

@wanton cypress Do not use one drive for boot and the other for data

that's a really bad idea.

[wanton cypress]

ok

should i put truenas on a usb drive

[frigid sphinx]

simplest option use the hardware raid.. install truenas on a 40Gb?* volume (*I don't know what truenas needs)

then use the rest for data/vm's

[wanton cypress]

what 40gb volume do you recommend

For truenas to be installed on

[frigid sphinx]

a partition of the 300Gb raid.

[wanton cypress]

ok

I will be adding more drives to the server later

[frigid sphinx]

if you add them at least 2 at a time. no problem

if you want to use zfs and do tricksy things... then you need the controller in hba mode

[wanton cypress]

like those 2 drive I added today

The problem with the controller software is that you have to buy it I think

@frigid sphinx It wants you to have a contract with Hp

like the service pack

[frigid sphinx]

see pre-step 1 😉

[wanton cypress]

is that in the unraid thing

because i was able to get the usb drive key thing but that did not work

[frigid sphinx]

so apparently it's not that complex

boot the server hit f10 clear the config and there's a way to use it in hba mode

[wanton cypress]

ok

I am hitting f10 what should i do after that

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

so you should be in the smartarray config.. wipe the config

[wanton cypress]

ok

and then do i have to set it so that i am in HBA for raid

should I click preform maintenance

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

configure I think

but if it's not there try perform maintainance

you need raid. (single disk availiblity is 0 availibility)

[wanton cypress]

This is what I get

@frigid sphinx Shoudl i back up 1 screen

[frigid sphinx]

what's in the array configuration dropdown?

[wanton cypress]

@frigid sphinx Should I try customize

[frigid sphinx]

yes

[wanton cypress]

Anything I should do in this menu

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

select the smart array

[wanton cypress]

configure

@frigid sphinx What should i select here

[frigid sphinx]

clear config

then modify settings

[wanton cypress]

I am back tat this screen

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

try view more details

[wanton cypress]

thing there

it just says more information about the array

@frigid sphinx

[rocky badge]

I find it funny that smart storage administrator is basically a web browser.

[wanton cypress]

Do you know where I should go next from this menu I just cleared the config

[frigid sphinx]

back out

@rocky badge you're not the only one... back in my day we had to hunt around for a 2 pin jumper and that's how we configured our array controllers and we liked it 😉

[rocky badge]

lol

iLO is so fast compared to iDRAC

but SSA is so slow compared to PERC

[frigid sphinx]

I'd rather have fast disks and a slow managment interface than the other way around 😉

[rocky badge]

lol

[frigid sphinx]

@wanton cypress you're going to have to hunt around a bit...

[wanton cypress]

ok

[frigid sphinx]

ok reboot and hit F8

[wanton cypress]

ok \

[frigid sphinx]

hp's proliant support pack needs an account but not a support contract

[wanton cypress]

I have made the account should I boot the iso off of usb

like if i download the service pack

[frigid sphinx]

so download the service pack iso then boot off it from ilo (that's how I'd do it 🙂 )

what gen is the server?

[wanton cypress]

gen 8

i am currently trying to figure out how to get the gen 8 service pack

I can't seem to get the gen 8 software

[frigid sphinx]

hpe have apparently become money grubbing on this 😦

[wanton cypress]

should i try the gen 9

[frigid sphinx]

won't work for your hardware.

google 😉

[wanton cypress]

i tried I got nothing

it seems like hp does not have it any more

@frigid sphinx

[frigid sphinx]

you can't get it from hp without a contract 😦

[wanton cypress]

ok

that is crazy so what should I do you think

[twilit urchin]

Hey everyone, my family would like a security camera (and maybe networking in future) system for around £400 starting that could be added to in future. To start off with, probably go with one camera, a G4 doorbell as it has the actual doorbell functionality too. I would like to go with Ubiquiti, what would be a decent setup?? They may be open to going with the udm-pro or something a little bit more than a cloud key gen 2 plus if it would really be worth it to for example upgrade our networking a bit more etc in future. I know a decent amount about Ubiquiti but wanted some answers from people who know more lol

[meager ginkgo]

You might want to wait for the G4 Doorbell Pro to come out, it has a secondary package cam, fingerprint sensor and some other nifty things. As for other cameras, I'd recommend G4 bullets for most places, maybe a G4 Pro sprinkled in there somewhere. UDM-Pro is a great router if you need a new router as well, otherwise like you said cloudkey gen2 plus should work.

[twilit urchin]

👍🏼👍🏼 thanks

[queen salmon]

what are those things called when i can take 1 ethernet cable and get multipul ethernets out

[shell saffron]

A switch?

[queen salmon]

i need one of those to take my 1 ethernet cable and split it into 5 or more

[shell saffron]

Yep. A switch

[queen salmon]

because i can not get more than 1 ethernet cable in my room

do you know which one i can get

i have a lot of ethernet devices in my room i need one that can take normal ethernet at 1gbps and split it into 5+ connections

[shell saffron]

TP-Link and Netgear both have decent cheap switches

[queen salmon]

can i get one off amazon

if i get one like this where do i actually input the ethernet from

[shell saffron]

Yep that is fine. And it usually doesn’t matter but best practice is the one on the end, 5 in that case

[queen salmon]

so its just as simple as plugging the ethernet in and then plugging it into my devices and im done

[shell saffron]

Yup

Dumb switches like that don’t have anything to configure

[queen salmon]

is that a bad thing

[shell saffron]

No, you only need switches that you configure in things like a business setting

Home users rarely need one

Plug and play like that is all you need

[queen salmon]

sounds good

[queen salmon]

will this one work

[meager ginkgo]

that will work.

You put an Ethernet cable into one of the ports and you can get 7 more out of them

[queen salmon]

will that make me able to actually transfer my files from my network drive at 1000megabit now

to anything thats also plugged into it

[meager ginkgo]

if both things have gigabit Ethernet adapters and are hardwired yes

[queen salmon]

ok good

[shell saffron]

As long as it can read/write at gigabit speeds

[sudden kayak]

but remember you're still limited to 1Gbit total

[clear igloo]

up to/down from the router in each direction at gigabit but not between clients on the switch which can do gigabit each direction depending on how they're communicating (IE: 2 clients to 1 will be split roughly even)

[sudden kayak]

yeah that's what i meant

assuming the network drive is upstream not on the switch

[prisma perch]

Can I make a network engineer joke or is this not the right channel?

[meager ginkgo]

Does anyone know approximately how many CAT6a cables 2 (1-inch conduits) can hold? The diameter for the cables are 7.3mm each.

[wanton cypress]

Does anybody know if i should raid drives before installing truenas or raid them when i have truenas installed

[peak cloak]

You need the drives to be visible to truenas

You install the os itself on a seperate storage than the actual storage

[wanton cypress]

ok

what storage should I install truenas on

if i am not going to install it on my ssd

@peak cloak Should I install it on a usb you think

[peak cloak]

would work

[wanton cypress]

what other storage device do you recomend i got 2 drives in my server

@peak cloak

[peak cloak]

ssd

[polar trellis]

Really struggling with a TrueNAS issue that I cannot seem to find support for. Just trying to install Transmission, but the Community option in the Plugins "Browse a Collection" is just blank. I can ping google.com and such just fine from shell, so I don't think it's a network config issue. Pls help ;-;

Figured this channel would know if anyone would

[wanton cypress]

@peak cloak Do you think it is good to install it on 1 ssd for boot and the other ssd for storage

[peak cloak]

Just use hdds for storage

Understand zfs first

[wanton cypress]

I got 2 ssds in the system currently

[trail light]

Fellow Canadians, I have a question. Does Home Depot sell ethernet cable custom cut?

[wanton cypress]

@peak cloak Do you think have 2 ssds in my server is good and is is good if i use 1 ssd as a boot drive and another as storage

[tiny scroll]

I mean when i usually go there i dont rlly see it

[wanton cypress]

Does anybody know how to make it so that truenas recognizes all of your drives

[worthy whale]

how many servers did u spam lol

[wanton cypress]

2

[peak cloak]

it's in hardware raid

how many times do we need to tell you this

[wanton cypress]

idk how to get it in hardware raid

should I raid the drives before I go into truenas? I got 1 boot drive that shows up in truenas but the other drive does not

[peak cloak]

it's raided already with hardware (aka hardware raid)

that defeates the whole purpose of zfs

which is software raid

it needs raw access to all disks

[wanton cypress]

ok

[peak cloak]

with hardware raid, it shows as one device

[wanton cypress]

So how would I raid it with zfs

[peak cloak]

either you don't

if figure out a way to get raw access with your card

it may require new hardware

[wanton cypress]

ok

But if I raid the other drive then it does not show up in truenas

[peak cloak]

well obv

cuz it's in hardware raid

[wanton cypress]

ok

[frigid sphinx]

@wanton cypress is this the first time dealing with server class hardware?

[unborn sluice]

Oof

[gray knoll]

So yk, we have multiple DNS Servers for a reason... Why do some Programs just... Fail if the primary DNS is down? Thats why one should have a secodary one...

[low pond]

Which in question? AFAIK anyways DNS is handled by the OS level, not really the program level unless it's something specific

[snow atlas]

Secondary DNS servers don't work the way you think they do. They aren't a 'fallback', and in fact operate quite differently. And as @low pond said, DNS is handled by the OS, not the application. Sounds like you have a funky primary DNS server assigned in your OS.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/glossary/primary-secondary-dns/

[gray knoll]

Redundancy IS a major thing of a second dns according to your source...
And the OS shuld propably handle it, but almost everything worked, except a few apps on my phone (Amazon music to be specific)

[peak cloak]

What I do is let my DNS server deal with it

Not clients

[snow atlas]

I think you missed a key point in that source I send you. Secondary DNS servers rely on the primary server for their information. They don't have the authority to update zones they resolve.
Or did I misread your comment and you meant you have a DNS client not working correctly?

Or am I just up too late? heh

[gray knoll]

Welll, I tried 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (Cloudflares primary / Secondary DNS Server) and neither worked... If redudancy was part of it, Clouflare should have figured it out... And other stuff did work, only that one app didn't. So I assumed the other apps fell back to the secondary dns I set and that one app didn't.

[peak cloak]

I think this is in the context of actual DNS servers, not the 2 servers you can enter on client

[peak cloak]

Huh

I have 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1, 8.8.8.8 set up as upstream on my server

And it caches them

So if one is down, I'll be fine

[snow atlas]

I forward everything to 1.0.0.2 and 1.1.1.2 from my local resolver for my home network for everything. DoT - yea, works fine for me. Maybe @gray knoll try using those two instead...? /shrug

[peak cloak]

1.1.1.2 is 1.1.1.1 with filtering

Not a fan of DNS filtering

[snow atlas]

Oh thanks for that. Yea, I'll be fixing that.

[peak cloak]

Since it resolve to 0.0.0.0 and client tries again

And tries again

And again

[gray knoll]

Well, I do have my own DNS Server, and that was the one that went down. I just set the Client Primary DNS to that Server (which was restarting to install a Kernel Update) and thats when I initially noticed it... Upstream is 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 as well as my routers DNS (which is crap, but handles hostname DNS resolution in a way that is unusual, and a bunch if stuff depends on that)

[peak cloak]

It should round robin the 2 servers

But again, depends on implementation

[snow atlas]

I guess both of mine are filtering. Sigh. I should have caught that. But in my defense, I was in a rush setting this up and didn't think it through...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1.1.1

[gray knoll]

Wait... Cloudflare has dns resolution as a hidden service? Wut?

[peak cloak]

Wdym

[gray knoll]

https://dns4torpnlfs2ifuz2s2yf3fc7rdmsbhm6rw75euj35pac6ap25zgqad.onion/
That Domain actualy resolves DNS-Queries over TOR.

[peak cloak]

Oh

DNS over tor

Yeah, they do

There's also DNS over discord

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/other-ways-to-use-1.1.1.1/

[gray knoll]

As if... I need this now xD

DNS lookup via Google Sheets? Why do I get the feeling they needed a job for an intern...

[sudden kayak]

i think the confusion here is the difference between a dns resolver vs a dns server

cloudflare 1.1.1.1 or Google 8.8.8.8 are public recursive resolvers

you can (and should) run your own local recursive resolver for maximum security privacy

(it arguably helps a little with security but i misspoke, that's not the main reason)

[peak cloak]

Both are servers technically

[sudden kayak]

both are servers in the general sense but "dns server" means something specific in this context

if you're talking about "a server that receives queries from a stub resolver and does the actual recursive name resolution," calling that a dns server without any further clarification is only going to lead to confusion

[gritty garden]

Has anyone else here had any issues before with a PC on ethernet connecting to WiFi devices on the same network?

I have my gaming pc wired ethernet to my modem, and I have a little server pc in the same room that is on WiFi connected to my router, which is plugged into the same modem. When I try to use Remote Desktop on my gaming pc with WiFi disabled it doesn't work, but when I turn it on it does.

Is it possible to get Windows to connect to WiFi devices over ethernet instead of just ignoring it?

[unborn sluice]

I assume your modem is the ISP provided router?

and the router below doesn't have its own network

[gritty garden]

yes this is true

[gritty garden]

wdym?

[peak cloak]

Is the router nating

[gritty garden]

idk i don't know what that means lol, all I can add is that it's a mesh wifi network

[peak cloak]

You either

Put modem/router combo in bridge mode and connect everything to router

Or

Put your router in AP mode so it doesn't act like a router anymore

Since I am positive the issue is that they are on seperate networks

[gritty garden]

would putting the modem in bridge mode change how the wifi devices function? or would it just allow the ethernet to go into the modem.. then back out another port to the router?

[peak cloak]

Putting in in bridge mode no longer allows you to connect PC to it

Only one device can be connected, your router. Unless ISP config sucks and they let you have multiple which wouldn't work anyway with what you are trying to do

[gritty garden]

oh

hold on also, my router has an extra ethernet port i used to plug into. I'm pretty sure that when i used to plug into that it would let me connect to wifi devices, but then latency is a tiny bit higher

[peak cloak]

When you connect to router you should be able to connect to everything on that network

[gritty garden]

i'll try it

dangit

my ethernet cable isn't long enough

is there any way to just make the windows wifi connection automatically connect alongside ethernet? when I restart my pc it turns off because ethernet is there

[gritty garden]

nvm i got it to work in the registry editor, thanks for the help 😁

[glacial kelp]

Question: what cellphone carrier do you use?

[thick minnow]

I need help figuring out what dvr goes with this camera

[tiny scroll]

bruh this year im taking the cisco certification test at school

everyone says its rlly hard and barley anyone psses

[peak cloak]

CCNA?

[tiny scroll]

kinda

its like a certification added to ur high school diploma

[wanton cypress]

@peak cloak Do you know how to get the hp service pack to be able to get into hba mode instead of raid

[peak cloak]

No clue

[wanton cypress]

ok

[peak cloak]

I'm clueless with hardware

[peak cloak]

Ask in homelab discord

[tiny scroll]

im good at hardware but only ok at networking

[wanton cypress]

where is homelab discord

[peak cloak]

Networking just clicked for me when you think of everything at a packet level