networking

[peak cloak]

Look it up

It's public on discord

[tiny scroll]

yeah, at school we did basics of networking like routers, isps, switches, etc

[peak cloak]

Any actual routing

[wanton cypress]

I just joined the discord

is there like a networking section in that discord

[peak cloak]

No

Just ask in general

[wanton cypress]

ok

[cursive valve]

Ip tables

[peak cloak]

It's just homelab. Truenas and hba stuff really isn't networking

[cursive valve]

I thought we were just throwing out buzzwords

[gritty garden]

tmobile

why?

[glacial kelp]

Idk

[thick minnow]

I got this certification from the state

Its mostly printer and ip questions

LTS Platinum Professional Level 4 Channel NVR (Compact Case) - LTN8704-P4No Hard Drive https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TDL3O7I/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_E4QWWR6TA4C612GKV395

Im trying to see if this is poe compatible

[tiny scroll]

ah

[tiny scroll]

i dont have a carrier 😦

[thick minnow]

Nvm found it

If im recording at 4k how many terabytes will it take to be able to have a week of recording

(For a security camera system)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072L175ZW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_JS4F16Y73E39E73P8YNX?psc=1

[hard cedar]

How many cams?

[wispy spindle]

if this is for your home id recommend just doing 1080p instead

1/4 the size

[gray knoll]

Napkin math suggests ~2TB per 4k camera/week

[wispy spindle]

4 1080p cams > 1 4k cam

[gray knoll]

4 1080p cams = 1 4k cam storage wise... Or did you mean more useful?

[wispy spindle]

yes i meant theyre more useful

[plain siren]

This also assumes that you are recording all the time and not for just motion

If you record things like just motion and stuff then you can have 4K cameras without eating up all your space

[plain siren]

Having 4K resolution on your camera is actually quite nice because it lets you read things like license plates and stuff and actually see faces

[wispy spindle]

yeah if i did it for myself id do motion triggered 4k cameras but they posted a link for a 1tb hdd so i assumed they had a very tight budget

[hollow marlin]

My Reolink setup with 4 - 4K camera with 24/7 recording gives me 1.5 weeks of recordings with 2TB. However during non-motion events its steps down the quality. I would never do motion only as there has been many times I needed that 5-10s prior that I otherwise wouldn't have

[wispy spindle]

quality drop in non-motion is a nice feature

[peak cloak]

TIL my ISP doesn't block snmp outbound

[plain siren]

I made it where if it starts recording due to motion it'll actually save 30 seconds before the motion just for stuff like that

[tender hazel]

@plain siren what were you using again for software deployment in windows again?

we just upgraded everything to 2019 and so we can probably do new things now

and we have to deploy some software, so now I am suddenly interested

it was some free thing, I'm trying to remember

[waxen scroll]

sccm

[tender hazel]

SCCM isn't free

[thick minnow]

Store

Its to catch shoplifting

[little schooner]

but it works great

[plain siren]

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

https://fogproject.org/

[little schooner]

oo i remember this one

[thick minnow]

Im guessing I can just use a regular hard drive

For surveillance

[little schooner]

for motion events, it wont be as hard on it, yes

for 24/7 recording, i dont recommend it

[plain siren]

Yee it awesome

https://www.opennms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OpenNMS-Meridian-Home-scaled.jpeg opennms got a nice update I didn't realize

[hollow marlin]

@plain siren We use OpenNMS and I absolutely hate it

[plain siren]

Thank you for the heads up

[lyric sinew]

My family changed internet from 100mbit/s to 1000mbit/s.
Before on speedtest i got max like and now only 330. Not even close to 1000 ?

[clear igloo]

What would you prefer ManageEngine or OpenNMS? 😄

LibreNMS is pretty good though

[plain siren]

Tbh I hate everything with PHP

[plain siren]

WiFi or Ethernet?

[clear igloo]

Yah PHP isn't great but it's bearable compared to some other options imo

I'd rather code in PHP than work with ZoHo/MangeEngine again though

[plain siren]

RUUUUBY

[plain siren]

Want to know how long a projects been running?
Check to see if it uses: Node.js, PHP, Recommends NGINx or Apache, and check to see if its php 5 or 7.

Starting from oldest to newest: Apache [PHP 5], Nginx [PHP 5, PHP 7], Node.js, GoLang/Rust

ez way to tell age

[lyric sinew]

Wifi, and with ethernet it sometimes got to 800+ and sometimes 200

[plain siren]

That would be expected

[plain siren]

If you are using the ISP Provided Router, then everything seems to be in order

[cerulean barn]

My network switch kills 90% of my internet speed even though there's no other devices connected, and it didn't do this before? Any insights?

[low pond]

Switch is 100Mbit

Or something is running in 100Mbit mode for whatever reason if this didn't occur before

[cerulean barn]

can confirm that the switch is 1000mbit

how does one change the mode a switch is in?

[peak cloak]

Check the cables

Is the cable to PC cat5e or higher

Check your link speed in windows

[cerulean barn]

cat5e

[cerulean barn]

link speed?

internet speedtest you mean?

[peak cloak]

No

[cerulean barn]

and it's now configured as situation 2, with just the switch in between and no other devices connected

[peak cloak]

https://m.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_see_your_network_adapter_speed_in_windows_10.html

[cerulean barn]

sec

[peak cloak]

Hmm

What about the cable to router

Use the same cable that is switch - router

And connect it PC - router

[cerulean barn]

I tried that

[cerulean barn]

that gave me 1gbit, as seen here, situation 3

[peak cloak]

Then switch is issue

[cerulean barn]

for sure

[peak cloak]

What's the model

[cerulean barn]

netgear gs605

[peak cloak]

Idk then, it claims it's gigabit

And it's unmananaged, not like it could be a setting

[cerulean barn]

and it used to run gigabit with a extra wifi repeater connected

but some time ago it started to cap at 100mbit

it's odd

[peak cloak]

Maybe it broke?

Some electronic, idk

[cerulean barn]

I guess I can try connecting to my laptop instead, to verify it will again send the 100mbit signal. Then take my laptop and switch to the router, setup there with another cable, and check if the speed is the same

but it can't be the cable though, since when plugged directly into my computer it does run at gbit

[mild turtle]

I've given an old router I had to a sibling but I can't figure out why it won't work. I've not used it for about eight years. It's a Nighthawk X6 R8000. It says there's no internet connection. I have a router that has a broadband cable that goes into a switch, that switch has a cable that goes into the nighthawk. There is reason for this but it is long and complicated and the reason why doesn't matter. When I set it up I had a few issues but got it working after trying to figure out old passwords and settings. I got the internet working and walked back indoors but when I went back out it's stopped. The ethernet is connected into the yellow socket and is titled Ethernet/Internet.

[peak cloak]

Just to make sure it's not modem - switch - router?

[mild turtle]

What do you mean?

[peak cloak]

Nevermind

You are connecting it's WAN to your router LAN?

[mild turtle]

The first router is connected to the switch via the LAN port. Then the switch goes into the yellow port on the back of the hawk.

I'm using a wired device from the switch right now, it's working as I'm talking to you, so I know from those two devices the internet works.

Any ideas?

[plain siren]

Well Id be curious to know why you have a switch between Modem/Gateway (Router 1) and the Second Router

Usually you would have like.. IP Passthrough or Bridge mode enabled on the first router/modem

which it would pass the public IP to the second router

and let the second router do the actual router functionality

[waxen scroll]

switch is being used as a repeater

[mild turtle]

Yeah, I have more than four devices connected.

[plain siren]

Well thats the thing, you have them connected to that switch?

Because if so, thats fine but I hope the second router is being used in AP Mode

Otherwise, you have a second router making a whole second LAN behind it

[mild turtle]

TBH I'm very far from being an expert. All I know is I got it working, walked away, came back and it says "No Internet". I believe it's the Hawk but I can't figure out how to solve it.

[plain siren]

R1 (Port 1) > R2 (WAN Port)
R2 (Port 1) > Switch (Port 1)
R2 (Port 2) > Device #2

Switch (Port 2) > Device #2-1
Switch (Port 3) > Device #2-2
Switch (Port 4) > Device #2-3

R1 > IP Passthrough/Bridge to R2
(This disables things like DHCP, DNS, NAT and Firewall on R1 and lets R2 handle that)

Everything behind R2

Otherwise you got R1 > ( YOUR HOME LAN ) > R2 > (ANOTHER HOME LAN?) with R2 thinking R1 is an ISP

Ofc you can setup the nighthawk in AP Mode which makes it WiFi Acess point only and disables the whole Router shit on it

And then it can be used as a "Wireless Ethernet" Switch in a way

[mild turtle]

You'll have to talk to me like a child. I understand some of the words and what some of them are but other than that you might as well be typing anything other than English to me.

[mild turtle]

If you've got time you can discord call me if you want and explain it to me that way and I can tell you what I have.

[plain siren]

Basically, Double nat is like having a house in a house

ISP ( Home ( Home (PC) ) )

ISP ( Home (PC) ) is what you want

Only one router should be doing the router/firewall functionality

[mild turtle]

So basically just go and open the settings and see if I can find AP mode?

[plain siren]

Yes.

[mild turtle]

I'll give it a try but as I said I'm far from an expert.

[plain siren]

let it sit for a bit

[mild turtle]

@plain siren How long?

[plain siren]

like 5-10 mins just to let it settle

[mild turtle]

Got it, do I need to keep my phone in the same room?

[plain siren]

naw

just keep retrying to hit the wifi

[queen salmon]

is there anywhere that sells 7 ethernet cables about 5m long that are gigabit speeds

for a good price

[clear igloo]

amazon? Cable Matters or Monoprice are my go to

[queen salmon]

amazon is exensive

[clear igloo]

Well it's a good price for me? I mean with no definition of what a good/reasonable price is for you it's just people throwing out random recommendations

[queen salmon]

£35 for 7

cant find any that are not a rip off

[clear igloo]

Yah, everything is out of stock or a rip off from what I can find =/

[queen salmon]

nothing is out of stock over here for me

[clear igloo]

cables2go is another good brand but not sure of good stores

[queen salmon]

is that us only

[clear igloo]

It shouldn't be, no

[queen salmon]

also im not paying for delivery

[clear igloo]

sometimes called c2g

Basically anything Cat5e, Cat6, or Cat6a that's not CCA (copper clad/coated aluminum) will do fine for gigabit

[mild turtle]

Been over 10 minutes, saying the same.

[plain siren]

hmm. on your first router, does it show up in client list if you connect to that one and show the status page?

[mild turtle]

I'm indoors connected to the first, working.

[plain siren]

login to it and check the status page where it lists connected clients

[mild turtle]

Where do I look?

[mild turtle]

Think I found it.

[mild turtle]

Yeah, what is it you need?

[plain siren]

Well, thats odd.

not even a hostname

[mild turtle]

That's the switch I think. The other two devices are two PCs

[plain siren]

And then... no WiFi Router?

[mild turtle]

No.

[plain siren]

Restart the Second Router Hard restart it (unplug and replug)

Make sure the link lights are also on on the port on both the switch and router

[mild turtle]

It brings this up.
Wireless 2.4
Wireless 5GHz
BT WiFi Discs
Ethernet Port 1
Ethernet Port 2
Ethernet Port 3
Ethernet Port 4
USB.

Other than the Wireless devices port one has a DESKTOP 1 and a DESKTOP 2

Then the unknown

[plain siren]

actually, your switch is unmanaged i think

So its prob not the switch but the router showing up with that iP

[mild turtle]

This is the switch I have. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N2JPKEC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

[plain siren]

Managed
Oof

Ok can you login to the switch

[mild turtle]

I checked it and it doesn't show any login details on ths sticker

I'll check again.

[autumn bay]

BT routers are garbage

[plain siren]

default pass is "password"

[autumn bay]

What ?

[plain siren]

Yup

[autumn bay]

My one had random numbers

[autumn bay]

Also you should probably call up BT and tell them you are having problems with it.

[hard cedar]

all routers ive had have just been username admin password password

by default*

[autumn bay]

I had my BT hub replaced 3 times because it set it self on fire

Yeah apparently quite common

but no recall

[mild turtle]

I found it but it won't load the page

[plain siren]

the device you are using to access the page, is it connected to the switch?

[mild turtle]

Dw

I'm getting tired and stupid.

I'll do it from the PC.

[autumn bay]

Also BT admin page if you get logged off it wont let you login to admin if you dont restart

Because it says another user session in progress or sm like that

[plain siren]

LOL

[mild turtle]

I've tried accessing the page 192.168.0.239 but it says Problem loading. On Google I've accessed this page.

[plain siren]

192.168.1.107

[mild turtle]

That worked

[plain siren]

Excuse me what... you are on a 192.168.1.1/24 subnet

What is that fucking page

[mild turtle]

Don't know, that page worked.

[autumn bay]

192.168.0.1 is default for BT routers

[mild turtle]

The one you typed

[autumn bay]

Or you trying to access some switch or sm ?

[plain siren]

Ok so, show me DHCP Mode

[mild turtle]

It says engable

[plain siren]

Name the Switch SWITCH1 if you havent

[mild turtle]

enable*

Named it

[plain siren]

Under QoS

Disable 802.1p/DSCP Based QoS

[plain siren]

Groan ok then

Goto System > Maintenance

[mild turtle]

Yeahy

[plain siren]

There is a bin file in here.

Upgrade the firmware to fix the port 5 issue

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS108EV3/GS108Ev3_V2.06.17EN.zip (Direct DL for Safety/Trust Concerns)

Wow they keep these up to date thats nice

[mild turtle]

What does it do?

[plain siren]

Its basically like... your PC BIOS

Actually, not basically like. It really damn near is

This file in the .zip is used to upgrade

[mild turtle]

Upgrading

Finished but did this

[plain siren]

but
oh no

[mild turtle]

Internet went for a second but came back

I can load Google on PC

[plain siren]

Yeah expected

[plain siren]

ok, so... back to this page

[mild turtle]

Wants me to change the password

[plain siren]

Uh... do we even know which router this is?

Because its on an entirely diff subnet which means there is NAT > NAT somewhere

and thats our problem

[mild turtle]

What router?

[plain siren]

whatever the hell this was

[mild turtle]

Don't know. I typed the address on the side of the thing but it loaded to Google, that was the top one. The one you typed in I copied and pasted and loaded the pages I was just on. I never logged into that one above.

[plain siren]

OH

it was a google page

HAHAH talk about sketch

[mild turtle]

Yeah, the netgear one from the hawk came up on Google, so I just assumed it did the same thing.

[plain siren]

ok ignoring

Yeah no....

[mild turtle]

I'm back on the netgear page

[plain siren]

this is called "Phishing"

[plain siren]

Yeah change it

[mild turtle]

Can I change it again if I forget it?

[plain siren]

sharpie it to the switch if you want but there is a factory reset button on the front

[mild turtle]

Done it

[plain siren]

Ok so the Nighthawk router, its plugged into this switch right

[mild turtle]

Yes.

[plain siren]

System > Management > Port Status

does it show "Port Status" as "up" for the port that the nighthawk is plugged into

[plain siren]

Which one is the nighthawk

[mild turtle]

Five I believe

[plain siren]

Well we got a problem then

[mild turtle]

Why?

[mild turtle]

I know that I mean't what's the problem

Other than it's down.

[plain siren]

Either the Cable has a problem

Its not plugged in well
the port has a problem

or the nighthawk is currently going full aneurysm

[mild turtle]

OK, so I had to remove the RJ45 so I could get it through loads of holes. I then used my tools to head another RJ45. I plugged it into a laptop and it said that it had a connection. I loaded up several websites on it fine.

Used B

[plain siren]

TIA 568B

ye ok

[mild turtle]

Was working golden.

I managed to get internet the first time as said right when I asked the question but when I returned it had disappeared.

[plain siren]

if you used a cheap crimp tool, go back and put it back in the tool and then push Really fucking hard down on the handle

[mild turtle]

Then said it could connect to the router but that it had no internet.

[plain siren]

Im talking

break a sweat
hard

[mild turtle]

I'll give it a try. I also heard it click several times in the hawk port

[plain siren]

Also, verify TIA-568B is used on the other side too

Because if not, then you got a crossover cable

and while we dont need those today, they only technically work with Switch <> Client Device

Switch <> Switch and Switch <> Router uses passthrough/straight cables (In old networking world)

So it would explain why it isnt working with the router but is working with a laptop

because those rules are still "Valid" today

[mild turtle]

Back. I just squeezed as hard as I could and then clicked it back in the hawk

My phone was almost dead so charging it.

[plain siren]

now go squint hard as you can and see if you can verify that B was used on the other side of the cable

[mild turtle]

The problem is that it has a read fucking casing so I can't really see the colours. I'll take a picture.

It's Cat6 cable BTW

[plain siren]

Show me a pic of the other side (with pins facing camera like you just did)

[mild turtle]

It looks like orange white, orange, white something, blue, white blue, white brown, brown.

[plain siren]

OW, O, GW, B, BW, G, BrW, Br

[mild turtle]

Yeah, looks like that.

After orange that is the only one I can't tell what it is, then I can see blue and after.

[plain siren]

show the other side now, just for my sanity

[plain siren]

Heheheheheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

A Laptop may be forgiving about this, but a router wont be

you gonna have to learn this no matter what now

Bonus points if you know what I am about to say next

[mild turtle]

Wrong way round?

[plain siren]

No. Its just the... obvious first attempt at crimping a RJ45

Id put money on a failed contact in the secondary pairs or some other wiring failure being the issue here. You need to recrimp it

[mild turtle]

I pushed on it hard like you asked

[plain siren]

I know but

The jacket needs to be here at the minimum.

[mild turtle]

Do you want me to do it again?

[plain siren]

And I can tell some of the copper conductors didnt make it to the end of the rj45 channels

A picky device may see interference or sub-par frequency

and refuse to init

[autumn bay]

get a pass through rj45 connector makes life 100000X easier

[plain siren]

You need to do it again. Practice if you have to

[plain siren]

And yes, fucking this

[autumn bay]

Learnt it the hard way

[plain siren]

I even have the crimp tool that shaves the cables poking out at the end

[mild turtle]

All the small cables reach the end

[autumn bay]

Yeah I cheeped out got some cheap kit thinking what could go wrong welp everything

[mild turtle]

Can I use pass through with this?

[autumn bay]

this isnt that good I have the same one

[plain siren]

Yeah those... typically dont come down evenly on the pins

And bend after a few crimps

[plain siren]

You can, but do yourself a favor

https://www.amazon.com/VCE-Ethernet-Pass-Through-Connectors-Multi-Tool/dp/B07TT5J2WJ Buy it once and never buy it again

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087Q7QVKV/ref=emc_b_5_t

Pass through rj45's

Makes life so easy

[autumn bay]

I agree

Also do I need to use metalic tape for cat6 with metal shielding ?

[plain siren]

these are nice too

[plain siren]

no

[autumn bay]

ok well I did it right I guess

[autumn bay]

Do you punch these ?

[plain siren]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JLSVNFG Nope. Well yes but I just use a screwdriver

They are COSTLY however

[autumn bay]

Might buy these to replace them in my house

Ok nvm

4 for $22

They look stronk ngl

[plain siren]

https://www.amazon.com/LINKUP-Ethernet-Connector-Termination-22AWG-24AWG/dp/B07KTGYZ4S/ Want costly?

[peak cloak]

Why I avoid making cables

Just punchdown for Jacks

[plain siren]

I use these fuckers.

[peak cloak]

And buy patch

[autumn bay]

they better assemble themselves

[plain siren]

They get close to it

[autumn bay]

You use these are your house ?

[peak cloak]

I have like no need for such high end

[plain siren]

Yeah

[autumn bay]

Dam

I was thinking workplace

[peak cloak]

I have like cat5e, cheap jacks

[autumn bay]

12 for $130

[plain siren]

The keystone jacks are insane too

[autumn bay]

I mean when I start working in IT I hope it pays that well

[plain siren]

https://www.amazon.com/LINKUP-Ethernet-Connector-Termination-22AWG-24AWG/dp/B07GNWRBJW/

[peak cloak]

Entry level doesn't pay too well

[plain siren]

Honestly easy to work with tho

[autumn bay]

Yeah after years probably

Maybe

Hopefully

[peak cloak]

I still idk what I want, going to school for engineering

[autumn bay]

I did engineering

now im doing CS

[peak cloak]

Hopefully I can get a it job at the college

Doing helpdesk, idk

Basics

[autumn bay]

I mean as long as it pays

[peak cloak]

I do more advanced stuff at my internship rn

[autumn bay]

Yeah College (UnI) really doesnt teach you much apart from basics

[mild turtle]

Sorry, was ripping my hair out. How's this?

[autumn bay]

see the green one on the right all of them have to be like that

pushed all the way up against the plastic

[mild turtle]

YES?

[flat wagon]

do you normally just lay your switch ontop of all your cables like that

[mild turtle]

No. I put it on the floor so I could access it easier and take the picture.

[naive escarp]

is twitch network hungy? i'm watching stream 480p, and i get 2000error.
Checked twitches suggestion, and disabled all adblocks. Logged out.
I am on wifi but its only twitch that's acting up

[hard cedar]

Kinda but not terible

What speeds do you have

[naive escarp]

wifi + furthest point away from the router

so not really sure why cant even watch it at 480p

[hard cedar]

hm

That should easily be fast enough

have you tried a different browser

[naive escarp]

that i have not ...

[naive escarp]

firefox runs okay 30mins at 720p, safe to say chrome to blame?

[hard cedar]

probably

Could be anything from cookies to extensions to just chrome being chrome

[thick minnow]

can you ddos my website
(for testing)

[peak cloak]

no

[thick minnow]

why

[hard cedar]

Bcz u came into this server and spammed every chatroom with a weird question with a sketchy ass profile

with no previous posst history

[wispy spindle]

if youre not sure your website will survive a casual dos attack from someone here then it definitely wont survive someone who actually wants to ddos you

why are you so concerned with this though

[hard cedar]

Also if u want a quick ez ddos thenwhy not do it urself

[waxen saddle]

Stop asking or I’m calling in a mod. And I really don’t want to do that.

[nova abyss]

Hey I have a question so I want to start a small datacenter or business selling servers I have everything down just one thing is the router... I'm not sure what to get. I want to get a router that can support upto 13 public IPs and can rack mounted? does someone know something like this because if so would you pls show me or tell me the name of the product.

[plain siren]

You would prob start renting colocation space

in which case, you pay for the network uplink drops from your colo provider usually

and let them handle the networking

Most will announce your IPs too

[nova abyss]

Yeah I forgot that was even a thing tbh thanks. I will still look around tho but I will def look into that.

[pseudo blade]

You'll probably want at least two routers if you want to do things right. As far as what to get... What budget do you have, what uplink speeds can you get, and what performance and reliability are you planning to promise your clients?

Get your requirements fully nailed down and picking a router gets a lot easier.

Also consider if you want to offer private subnets to clients with more than 1 server if that's something applicable to you

[nova abyss]

@pseudo blade I agree I actually found a modem that supports the network I need and I can get a switch. The uplink is 600mps, I need 13 IPs for 13 servers for the start.

[pseudo blade]

600mbps is pretty easy. Are you going for low budget clients or do they care about network resiliency?

[nova abyss]

Oh def Low budget clients, once I grow a bigger business then I'll go for higher uplink like 1Gbps

or Higher

[pseudo blade]

I just had to sit for a bit and think about the consequences of doing that, clearly I've gotten rusty - So you want the router to have external IPs? So you'll need to NAT for each server?

If you want a public IP directly to each server, you'll need an IP for your router and for your ISP to have a route, else you'll switch

[nova abyss]

Yes and yes unless I can do without nat I can do that too. I'm not really going to get a router. I'm going to get a modem instead then get a switch. plug the switch -> into the modem

[frigid sphinx]

I'm so confused right now 😉

[merry tiger]

Hi guys

I'm currently transferring a lot of files (≈80gb) via my LAN
And sometimes speed just drops to 0

Transfering from: very old laptop, win7 32bit, ssd
To external hdd in my pc (USB 3.0)
What can I do to fix it?
Cable to router, from router to pc
Router: Keenetic extra
8p internet cables

I Transferred around 20gb with average speed ≈6mb/s with drops to 0

[autumn bay]

When it drops to 0 its processing information not that its not doing anything

[snow sable]

yep, drive cant keep up on one end or the other

[merry tiger]

How can I find my bottleneck?

[autumn bay]

See what is being maxed out

[snow sable]

Why even bother doing it via the network, even usb 2.0 should be faster than the speed you're getting

[merry tiger]

Yeah

I don't know why I'm getting this speed

[autumn bay]

Maybe your router cant keep up

or what you are transferring to or from has slow speeds

[merry tiger]

I have a pretty good router i think

Probably the laptop is shit

Fun part is
When I plug in hdd directly to the laptop, speed is even lower, around 2mb/s

[autumn bay]

hmm weird

[merry tiger]

But laptop has ssd

Old ssd(≈2010), but still

[snow sable]

is the laptop a netbook or something? lol

[merry tiger]

Some weird ultrabook from Sony (2010)

2gb ram, 1 core Intel atom cpu with integrated graphics

[autumn bay]

well thats your problem

issss slow

[merry tiger]

My other laptop is still slow, but it's OK

Like 4c cpu, 8gb ddr3 ram

[autumn bay]

Yeah thats a lot better

[merry tiger]

Is there any router settings that can help me?

[autumn bay]

I mean 1 core 2 gb ram pretty sure thats the bottleneck

[snow sable]

yea it's the craptastic atom CPU

if you can yank the ssd and hook it up to something else. If not, you pretty much have to suffer the slow speeds.

[merry tiger]

I tried to disassemble it

But laptop won, it's very slim
and i don't want to snap plastic and it was feeling like it's screwed in

All screws removed *

When I'm transferring from this laptop to internal hdd on pc, around 6-7mb/s

[merry tiger]

From my normal laptop "

[snow lance]

port forwarding no work while i have vpn on even tho i have split tunneling enabled

[peak cloak]

Uhh that's not how it works

You need an actual enterprise router, look at vyos

That's a budget thing

The big players are Cisco, juniper

[pseudo blade]

I use Mikrotik gear because it's cheap and I'm used to the idiosyncrasies.

[peak cloak]

mtik too is good

[pseudo blade]

Also Cisco routers are expensive enough that unless something is so important I can't tolerate failure they aren't worth it to me

...And even then I'd rather use the budget on another vendor and design in fault tolerance...

[peak cloak]

yeah

[timber valley]

what are other options than cisco?

[peak cloak]

mikrotik, juniper

[pseudo blade]

Well a few were mentioned here

Aruba

[timber valley]

which one is the best? your opinion

[pseudo blade]

Depends on what you want to do

[timber valley]

Ah. so its a tradeoff. ty

[peak cloak]

it's just different

[pseudo blade]

Everything's a tradeoff :P

[peak cloak]

it's kinda like mac vs windows in some sense

[timber valley]

interesting. so what is the "linux" version?

[pseudo blade]

Linux.

[peak cloak]

I was just using that as an example

[pseudo blade]

If this is the "extra" I'd hate to see what they take away

I'd also be fascinated to see how they got AC wifi out of an 802.11n WiSoC with no PCIe

Reckon they used USB2?

How do you know it's a bot?

[unborn sluice]

that's not how it works but okay

[peak cloak]

so discord phish..

that won't slow your network down

unless there is more to the story

how

it's just discord account

[unborn sluice]

how

[peak cloak]

unless you run a bot

[unborn sluice]

you're just throwing away buzzwords

[pseudo blade]

Unless you ran software they provided you, that isn't happening

[unborn sluice]

hence it's not the discord

[peak cloak]

some games are p2p so yes

[pseudo blade]

I don't think that term means what you think it means botted

[peak cloak]

discord is not peer to peer

[unborn sluice]

how much buzzwords you want in a convo:
yes

[pseudo blade]

If your token was stolen it wouldn't make your internet slower

[peak cloak]

I mean kinda

[unborn sluice]

if it has the form
"Please input your ip here"

[peak cloak]

well no

if you open a random website that was posted

that is not discord.com or discordapp.com then yes

or discord.gg

[pseudo blade]

I mean if they run a webserver and you follow a link to it, they can get your IP when you make a connection but... really that doesn't mean as much as many people think it does.

[peak cloak]

and having an IP isn't that big of a deal

[pseudo blade]

Ok then. Do make sure you update your firewalls and get the IP of the hacker by creating a UI in Visual Basic.

I'm sorry, that's partly an CSI reference. That was rude of me.

Just relax.

Your computer is fine.

[gray knoll]

Do you have ANY IDEA, how much money hackers would waste targeting you? You are most likely not nearly interesting enough, to waste a 0-click 0day on... Do you have ANY IDEA how much those are worth? 1 MILLION USD! And thats windows only, you would most likely need more than 1 exploit, since you need to bypass the NATs and Firewalls first...
And the 1.000.000$ is buying price from a company that actually buys and sells those exploits... They prolly retail for WAY more...

[pseudo blade]

Nobody's patching the human brain any time soon

Unfortunately it's usually the most vulnerable part of the environment...

[gray knoll]

"We were hacked by an advanced threat!!!" yeah right... You clicked the free Movies link again...

[waxen saddle]

@thick minnow Assuming someone is trying to mess with your connection, if you use a cable modem, sometimes you can change IP’s by physically powering off the modem for 30 minutes. Then turn it back on. If you still have the same external ip, ask your ISP to change it for you.

Did your IP change?

[peak cloak]

release and renew the lease

there's an option in the router to release and renew dhcp lease most of the time

aka change ip

[thick minnow]

https://www.nl.fnac.be/mp21650796/Eaton-9PX11KIPM-UPS-10000-Watt-11000-VA?oref=5be04451-98d4-73bc-ba41-78dade04d82a&origin=PA_TWEAKERS-MP

yo is this worth yoloing 500 bucks on to resell or?

heres a pic for if the site is region locked

its 5k on any other site

pretty sure they typod the price

[waxen scroll]

it says power module

I dont think thats a whole UPS

[stuck rock]

that looks sketch

[eager plank]

After listening to the latest WAN Show and to whole thing about Ubiquiti.
Did LTT ever did something about AVM? A german Network/Telecommunications company. Could be interesting to look into them....

[peak cloak]

looking at it, it's very consumer focused

not much advanced features

[eager plank]

Well yeah they are no competitor to any of the bigger brands but still number 1 for consumers in Germany.

[peak cloak]

I mean there kinda is, just unifi found the market for everything intergrated in one

there's tp-link omada kinda for networking

reolink for cameras

[frigid sphinx]

tplink have cameras too but eh...

[peak cloak]

nothing up to par to stuff like reolink

[meager ginkgo]

I really want to try running UniFi Protect in docker and bridging my cams into it with unifi-cam-proxy

[peak cloak]

why not something like shinobi

[meager ginkgo]

The interface of Protect looks nice

it has scrubbing on the timeline like nest

[frigid sphinx]

so wireless vs wired domains and vlans should the wireless network for workstations and the wired network be seperate with l3 intervlan on switches? or should I just givup and put wireless workstations on the same l2 segment?

because I like the former but don't think I can make it work without dual stack support on my switch. 😭

[peak cloak]

I keep wireless and wired on the same network

[frigid sphinx]

I have enough hardware to do this correctly for ipv4. but pfsense doesn't 'support' disconnected vlans 😦

[peak cloak]

wdym

[frigid sphinx]

pfsense can't dhcp with a dhcp helper

[peak cloak]

?

[frigid sphinx]

I'd need to run another dhcp server

[peak cloak]

pfsense can't run multiple dhcp servers?

[frigid sphinx]

no it can't run a dhcp zone that doesn't have an interface connected to the segement

[peak cloak]

then connect the vlan interface

I don't understand

[frigid sphinx]

this topology has 2 routers. a l3 switch which routes between vlans on the switch. and a transit network to the internet router which does everything else.

[peak cloak]

yeah

pfsense should still have an interface for the vlan

[frigid sphinx]

no.

pvsens would be the wan and nat router

[peak cloak]

yeah so this should be a trunk

[frigid sphinx]

no

it's a transit network

[peak cloak]

then how do you expect DHCP to work

[frigid sphinx]

there are two ways to make dhcp work here. one is dhcp on the switch itself.

the other is dhcp helper forwarding the Discover to a dhcp server.

[peak cloak]

yeah dhcp relay

[frigid sphinx]

yep

pfsense cannot operate in this dhcp mode. (which is just annoying)

the software is capable of it (isc dhcp server)

but the ui will splat any config that refers to a zone that isn't attached to an interface.

[thick minnow]

@peak cloak Its me again sorry to bother 😄 By any chance have you worked with Sophos UTM 9?

[peak cloak]

No I have not

[meager ginkgo]

finally

[peak cloak]

Ubiquiti keystones when?

[waxen scroll]

Why do that when you can have Panduit quick ones

[dark prairie]

Hey team, was wondering if any networking gurus could provide some assistance with a new router I am attempting to setup. I've set up a rediculous amount of routers in the past, but this one takes the DNS cake, from what I can tell.

[peak cloak]

wdym

[dark prairie]

Hey brother, thanks for the reply

I swapped out my old router for a newer Asus one (RT-AC67P), which has the same WAN and LAN settings as my old router. Nothing has changed. Unfortunately when I attempt to browse, I can only reach Youtube, FB and Google

[peak cloak]

whats the error to other sites

[dark prairie]

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Happens on all of my PC's

[peak cloak]

ok, check the certificate

[dark prairie]

Can you elaborate on the certificate? Where should I go to reference @peak cloak

[peak cloak]

can you take a picture / screenshot

[dark prairie]

1 sec

lol

again, google sites and fb work, but nothing else

[unborn sluice]

@dark prairie works for me

[dark prairie]

No no, I know it probably works for you, but for some reason it's not opening for me. If I switch to the old router, I can reach bell.mail as well, but not through this new router

Only google, youtube and fb work. Zero other sites; leading me to believe DNS is botched somewhere

[unborn sluice]

@dark prairie can you check parental controls

[dark prairie]

Ya the router has them disabled by default

No URL filter enabled either

[peak cloak]

doubt it's dns

if you really want to check, use nslookup to check what IP the domain is resolving too on one router, and check with other

if it's the same, it's not dns

[dark prairie]

kk, standby

Yeah they both show the same nslookup values. No idea what is going on

[waxen saddle]

Flush your dns cache, then search on Google for anything.

[dark prairie]

I've done that, but issue still persists. Happening on all devices

[waxen saddle]

What is your dns server on 1 of the computers? (Ipconfig /all)

[peak cloak]

what I think may be happening is router interecepting SSL and messing stuff up

@dark prairie make sure to turn off all parental controls

[dark prairie]

dns is 12.1 (the router) , which should be correct, but have tried to explicitly tell the router to use Googles DNS, and when that didn't work, i tried to modify the ipv4 windows settings to use googles DNS, but no dice

[peak cloak]

yeah no, I am 99.9% sure it's not DNS

[dark prairie]

Parental controls and filters are all disabled on the router.

Okay this is weird

You know how when your having internet connection issues, and a random browser window appears with your ISP's splashscreen? Like a landing page

Well this ISP that is appearing is not my ISP lol

[unborn sluice]

can you show us

[dark prairie]

Ya man

[unborn sluice]

your router switch also causes an isp switch

[dark prairie]

I don't use cik telecom, unless they have a hand in the actual infrastructure.. or an umbrella company

[unborn sluice]

[waxen saddle]

https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1034294/ Your router is listed on this tutorial. Might get you close to the setting to disable ssl or create a cert.

[dark prairie]

I bought the router new at Canada Computers. This is bizarre

[peak cloak]

thats for the web panel

[peak cloak]

no

[waxen saddle]

Gah. Sometimes I hate mobile

[peak cloak]

factory reset router

@dark prairie

[dark prairie]

I did a factory reset earlier to no success, and then updated the firmware to the latest from the Asus site

[unborn sluice]

what if you turn on the parental control but leave it as it is

[dark prairie]

I'll give it a go

[waxen saddle]

Or try turning off malicious sites blocking if you have that option.

[dark prairie]

Nah no luck with the parental controls.

I don't have any site settings enabled. If I plug in the old router, every site loads find

fine*

the router is also not set up to block sites atm. I'll double check though

Looks clean. Most settings are disabled by default by the looks of things

[waxen saddle]

Are you getting the error on Chrome/Edge/Firefox?

[waxen saddle]

And your router is forwarding dns requests to… ISP?

[peak cloak]

doesn't seem like it @waxen saddle

[peak cloak]

well that's a different error

and thats dns

[dark prairie]

I've tried setting the router to "automatically detect DNS" on router, and I have tried to explicitely tell the router to use a various number of DNS addresses, such as 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 1.1.1.1, etc

[dark prairie]

Sorry man, had only tried Chrome up until he asked

[peak cloak]

ahh, this seems all sorts of cursed

I feel it's interecepting stuff? idk

[dark prairie]

Ya man, im ready to give up on asus netowrking

[waxen saddle]

It absolutely feels like it is intercepting something.

[dark prairie]

Yeah man, somethings not right with this router, im certain. I've tried every combination to mind. Never had an issue with routers like this before; I'm sure I've set up no less than 70 in my life so far

[peak cloak]

I feel like it's some custom thing not asus

[dark prairie]

Ciscos, Ubiquitis, and even a lot of Asus ones. My fav was the RT-N66U dark knight router lol

[waxen saddle]

No other routers plugged in?

[peak cloak]

mine's vyos lol, if you consider that a router in your sense

[dark prairie]

Nope, everything disconnected entirely

Honestly, I may just return it. Does anyone have a recommendation in mind for a 100$ cdn budget? Thinking I'm ready for another flavor

[peak cloak]

cdn?

[dark prairie]

Canadian

[peak cloak]

oh lol

[dark prairie]

Hoping for at least AC1900

[peak cloak]

I was thinking content delivery network

yeah no idk consumer routers

[dark prairie]

lmao!

You still in work mode 😉

[peak cloak]

nah, never was in the market for one so idk

I just have a ER-X

[dark prairie]

EdgeROuter?

[peak cloak]

yeah

wouldn't really reccomend it now

it's older and doesn't get feature updates

if it did, it would be great

[dark prairie]

They are super customizable. I remember my buddy getting a ubiquiti edge router. He didn't know where to start with how advaced it was

[peak cloak]

like everything ipv6 is cli only

[peak cloak]

wait until you try mikrotiks

[dark prairie]

mikwhatowhats lol

[peak cloak]

they are kinda a pita I find for home networking

since basic stuff like dhcp hostname to DNS requires scripts

[peak cloak]

https://mikrotik.com/products

never heard of them? they are like the budget networking

[dark prairie]

Woah, never seen this line ever

[peak cloak]

the HEX is similar to the ER-X

@dark prairie now the web config.. http://demo.mt.lv/webfig/

it's something...

[dark prairie]

omg why is this taking so long to load lol

im plugging in the old router now lol

[peak cloak]

try http://demo2.mt.lv/webfig/#Interfaces

[peak cloak]

it's not just you

demo2 seems faster

[dark prairie]

Ah there it is

damn I was so ready to move past this dark knight router tn lol. Been really milking it with Merlin rom

[marble bane]

How long have you been milking it

[frigid sphinx]

the only problem with microtik is that they play a touch fast and loose with the GPL imo and modifications to the linux kernel

[lapis ermine]

My motherboard has a 10Gbe and a 2.5Gbe port. If I get a 10Gbe pcie card for another pc, can I just run a cable between them and use one PC for hot-backups/NAS?

Do I need any thing between them or is a direct connection okay?

[gray knoll]

You can either connect them to each other in an unrouted Connection (I think one of the Jellyfish videos from LTT explains this, or you put a Switch inbetween that you connect to your router as well.

[low pond]

Gotta do some configuration but then sure it's possible

[humble cipher]

would any usb 3 ethernet dongle work on linux or are there specific ones that work (or work better)?

[long python]

I don't know if this fits in networking, but I bought a Three 5g home broadband hub, and it works perfectly on all my PCs laptops, Ipads and IOS devices, gets 600 down and 150 up (as expected) and on PCS with ethernet it does 900-1000 down and 200up. But there is a problem with some other devices, for example my Samsung devices work perfectly for download but get 0 upload speed, so do my smart tvs (Samsung) and also a play station 4. All of which get 0 upload speed making it unusable. Anyone got a solution to this?

Like 0.1 mbps upload speeds or just straight up 0

And only on the android side and a PlayStation

[gray knoll]

Maybe ask the Linux channel...

[humble cipher]

that would be a better idea lol, thanks!

[long python]

This happens on the affected devices (android / PlayStation)

Normal download but upload is non existent

this is the pc (upload works here)

thats the ipad

[tiny scroll]

bruh isp routers are hot trash

we have the stock bell router and its so bad

[frigid sphinx]

they vary wildly.

[low pond]

Same with even other speedtest servers? 0 upload makes no sense

[crystal badger]

Hmmmm

What hub do you have

[long python]

All of it

[crystal badger]

The Huawei one was known to have issues

[long python]

I have the new one

[crystal badger]

How odd

[long python]

I really need to fix it

[crystal badger]

Hmmmm alright

Obvs have you tried rebooting and that?

[long python]

Yep

[crystal badger]

Alright

Do you know how to get on the web panel?

For the hubs configuration

[long python]

Yep

[long python]

Been in it for a bit and looked around

[crystal badger]

Are you able to separate out the 2.4 and 5ghz WiFi?

[long python]

I have already

[crystal badger]

Still no dice

[long python]

Both are faulty in that

[crystal badger]

What are your APN settings?

[long python]

Hold on

Where do I find those

[crystal badger]

Give us a sec I'll have a look

You have to turn this switch off which will turn off data so your internet will go off while you change it

Then click settings and there should be an APN setting

Try and change that from manual and copy those settings

Try both '3internet' and 'three.co.uk' in the APN field

[long python]

Wait where exactly should I click for the APN settings again

Turned the 5G off

[crystal badger]

Under the 5G toggle switch that settings

[long python]

Ohhh

I'm in

[crystal badger]

Hackerman

[long python]

Haha, well my APN is 3internet

[crystal badger]

You preferably want 3internet as it allows for port forwarding but having more than 0 up is quite a nice feature so three.co.uk might be an alright compromise, at least for now

It seems you're not the only one with this issue on forums

[long python]

Oh really? Also I won't set port forwarding I don't have servers on stuff running

What one should I use though

[crystal badger]

Try three.co.uk and see if that makes the upload better on devices with issues

[long python]

Do I use PAP authentication too?

[crystal badger]

Make sure to toggle the 5G switch once you've applied the APN

[crystal badger]

You can set that to none

It doesn't make a difference I don't think three don't use it

[long python]

What about the user name and pass

[crystal badger]

Just leave blank

[long python]

Should I set it as default

It says it there

Alright I'll test it on my phone

I'll be right back

[crystal badger]

Alrighty

[long python]

Small problem

[crystal badger]

Did you toggle 5G back on in the main screen

[long python]

Yeah

[crystal badger]

That's

[long python]

Should I turn it on and off

[crystal badger]

Yeah give that a go

[long python]

Also network is lit up on my router light

So that's strange, should work

[crystal badger]

Yeah that's the normal APN that phones use that really should work

[long python]

Negative, doesn't work

[crystal badger]

Send us a screenshot of your APN screen

[long python]

Couldn't send the screenshot (no connection)

But it's exactly the same as the one you showed

[crystal badger]

Hmmm

Maybe do try PAP with no user or pass

[long python]

Let's see

Okay well it works

Let me check upload

Mate .... thank you very much

Finally works.

Same speed also

But the upload is better even on my pc

[crystal badger]

Oaaay

Yeah you just won't be able to port forward, might cause issue with some online multiplayer but most nowadays can handle it?

If you ever need that in the future try 3internet instead of three.co.uk because they might fix it in the firmware

I really don't know why that happens though but hey ho

[long python]

Yeah no problem

[long python]

I think it's something to do with the IP adresses

[crystal badger]

Yeah that APN gives you a shared IP whereas 3internet gives you a dedicated one

I don't really know why that'd cause issue

[hardy kestrel]

So... I got three routers (Bought another one because it's a really good deal for $10)

these three

And should I set the channels to 1, 6, and 11 on 2.4GHz

[glad tusk]

Anyone here certified for pen testing?

im not sure if mine are working properly... 😉

[autumn bay]

Testing pens ?

sure what pen you need working ?

[glad tusk]

working?.. i need one broken

[autumn bay]

no one buys a broken pen

[glad tusk]

lmao

[hardy kestrel]

...

[autumn bay]

....

[glad tusk]

Long story short, Shared internet, wierd owner..

[autumn bay]

yes

[glad tusk]

I'm very familiar with Kali Linux and its Suite of tools, but I'm willing to pay.

[autumn bay]

What do you want to do ?

[glad tusk]

a few things really. I need access to the router admin/password again. I obtained them once, noticed some weird stuff and have since been locked out lol. The weird stuff being a second similar router w dedicated ip and ftp port 21 being the only one open. Most of the important security settings disabled. and the Wi-Fi password is literally christmastree, according to the landlord there were female students who used to live here and left on a bad note.. I'm starting to wonder why. Not to mention the landlord claimed to be a nurse/rn...just another one of many lies. Like being the only one with a cable....there are 3 wired devices on the network.....
If I destroy the modem(s) then I'm out of internet until I move. The second router is impossible to crack even with a 17m line list. So I need as much info about this setup as possible before I report anything I find to their ISP.

DM??

[autumn bay]

Hacking someone or looking into a Router that you dont own is illegal

[glad tusk]

So is stealing my accounts

[autumn bay]

Yeah but you arent a registered owner

[glad tusk]

It's shared... Subscriber laws should protect the majority

[autumn bay]

Do you not have access to the router ?

you can restore defaults on many by holding a button

[glad tusk]

yeah its in the laundry room.. I suppose it could fall off the shelf sometime haha

onto my roofing hatchet

[pseudo blade]

...No.

If you need access, ask for it

But let's be honest - you don't need access

[autumn bay]

nope

[glad tusk]

me too

[autumn bay]

Forgot to mention 1 device is sometimes always there depending on ISP

[glad tusk]

I know what I've mapped.

[autumn bay]

oh well best of luck

[glad tusk]

Ty. I've let their ISP know about my social media and my roommates... with anyluck ill find a hidden bathroom cam and get some gold stars on my brownie points.

[hollow marlin]

He's not wrong and this is a public forum

[proper adder]

I flashed OpenWrt on my Archer C7 v5 and I'm now trying to figure out how to get my PiHole/Wireguard VPN working properly.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/wireguard-pihole-dns-not-working-on-openwrt/125147

Anyone have some suggestions for fixes?

[lavish kayak]

how would one say "EHWIC" cards? Would you spell it out or go ehwic?

[left marsh]

I have atwo PCs, one my desktop pc and one a truenas scale server, and they are connected together via a cable, subnet 192.168.2.x. the desktop pc is connected to the home network with internet access subnet 192.168.1.x. Can I pass internet access to the truenas pc?

[clear igloo]

E H WIC is how I say it

[peak cloak]

Technically yes

On windows, no. At least not on home or pro edition

[left marsh]

Okay, so it depends on the OS on host PC

I am Windows 10 Pro 😦

[bright merlin]

really?

[warm horizon]

My net not working

Pls help

:)

[left marsh]

Perhaps you can provide some context @warm horizon

[peak cloak]

@left marsh @bright merlin actually I am wrong, it's not a enterprise feature

https://serverfault.com/questions/929081/how-can-i-enable-packet-forwarding-on-windows

[cobalt obsidian]

i have a ubiquiti network switch which is poe. but can i just use it as a switch for my pc

[peak cloak]

yes, just make sure passive poe is off

active poe checks if the device supports poe

passive just blasts voltage

[cobalt obsidian]

how would i do that

[peak cloak]

if you know if you haven't turned on passive poe on a port, you most likely havn't turned it on

[cobalt obsidian]

im 99% sure it is turned on

[peak cloak]

then turn it off

through the controller

you can check in the controller

[cobalt obsidian]

ah ok

thanks

[pseudo blade]

You can do quite a lot with a regular install of Windows 10/11. It feels wrong to use it as a router though.

IDK about others here, but I prefer when my routers do what I tell them to and nothing else.

[pseudo blade]

Guess it works in a pinch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[peak cloak]

yeah

@left marsh also keep in mind on main router you need to add a static route so rest of devices know where to get to 192.168.2.0/24

[snow lance]

how do i benchmark a pool in truenas?

[gray knoll]

Prolly like every other Storage?

[left marsh]

@peak cloak Can you put me in the right direction with static routes? never heard of this before

[peak cloak]

so lets say you have this setup

windows PC is now technically acting as a router

So from the NASes perspective it needs to get to the internet and rest of LAN right? It needs to know where to

so you need to add a static route on the NAS known as a default gateway. So this would be 192.168.2.1 which is the PC, which is a router. This will then forward it based on it's routing table, which it has 192.168.1.1 as the default gateway. Basically default gateway is the IP to send traffic to which is not on the same subnet

a default gateway static route would look like this in vyos syntax somewhat

  0.0.0.0/0{
    next-hop 192.168.2.1
   }
}```

it's basically saying for all traffic, to forward to 192.168.2.1

0.0.0.0/0 represents the internet kinda

but now your router doesn't know where to find 192.168.2.2 aka the NAS

so you need to add a static route like this

  192.168.2.0/24{
    next-hop 192.168.1.5
   }
}```

so for all traffic to the 192.168.2.0/24 subnet, to forward to 192.168.1.5

welcome to routing

the internet uses the eBGP protocol to exchange routing information, and for internal use OSPF is often used

so lets say a LAN client wants to get NAS, it would send the packet to 192.168.1.1 since that it's default gateway and it doesn't know where 192.168.2.2 is. Router checks it's routing table and because of the static route, it knows where to forward it, 192.168.1.5 which forwards it to 192.168.2.2

[obtuse cypress]

Anyone know if a USB-C 10 Gbps NIC with SFP+ exists

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Thunderbolt-Gigabit-Ethernet-Included/dp/B07N327RJ2/

[obtuse cypress]

@meager ginkgo any experience?\

[meager ginkgo]

Thunderbolt though

[meager ginkgo]

personally no

[obtuse cypress]

damnit i guess my x570 dark hero doesn't have thunderbolt

My 3090 Ti blocks my PCIe slot below the GPU

but my office is wired with 2 x OM4

to an Arista 7050s

[left marsh]

I can just set the gateway using the Truenas ui?

[peak cloak]

Yes

That text was just example

Os specifics are up to you

[left marsh]

it was as good example

so boiling down, i set the nas gateway to the pc and i port forward on the router to the pc

and internet trafic will be coming to 192.168.2.2?

so i port forward 192.168.2.2 -> the pc

[peak cloak]

Not to PC

To NAS IP

If you want to port forward

And add static route in router

[left marsh]

not sure my router does static routes

[peak cloak]

Needs to, or else this won't work

Since router won't know how to get to the NAS

Or you can just buy a switch and have everything on same network

[left marsh]

i have a switch, the issue is getting ethernet access to the wan router

[peak cloak]

Oh PC is wifi?

[left marsh]

yeah

I'm in shared accommodation atm

[peak cloak]

Yeah, you could try somehow bridging but that's a mess on windows

[left marsh]

I was thinking of doing some kind of wifi bridge with a rpi 3

[peak cloak]

Or get a wifi bridge

Yeah, I would get something like a mtik tho

Hapac2 or similar

[left marsh]

that supports wifi bridging out of the box?

[peak cloak]

It requires some setup

[left marsh]

Maybe I just run a 20m ethernet cable and deal with the agro

[errant zealot]

heyo, anybody know a good wifi card/adapters that supports up to 1gbps/940mbps? we are upgrading our internet soon and we arent sure if i'm able to have ethernet. just to eb safe, I would like recommendations on good wifi cards/adapters

[meager ginkgo]

You would need a router to accomodate that speed

[errant zealot]

we do

[meager ginkgo]

what kind?

I don't even get gig over my ubiquiti wifi 6 aps

[errant zealot]

nighthawk

[meager ginkgo]

Wifi 6?

[errant zealot]

yep

[meager ginkgo]

An AX210 card is what you'd want ideally

PCIe WiFi 6E Card AX210 Bluetooth 5.2 AX5400M 802.11ax Tri-Band 6G/5.8G/2.4GHz Heat Sink 6dBi Antenna PCI-E Wireless Network Cards for Desktop PC Support Windows 11 /10 64-bit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08519ST43/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XYM4TYA3PD98Q821510Z

[arctic zephyr]

hi. I have a problem in my home network but I can't understand what could be the reasons. I have 200/100mbit internet from my provider and I have ethernet wall sockets everywhere. In my living room I have my router that has an ethernet cable that goes to one of the wall sockets and in a backoffice the end of that socket connects to a switch. On that switch I have all the connections from all other wall sockets. So basically, all the wall sockets in my house come from that switch. The problem I have is in my office, I have a computer connected in one socket and I get only 100mbit 99% of the times I connect the computer. If I restart it, one to three times, sometimes I get the full 200mbit. In the switch, the led color is yellow those 99% of the times. The question is: is a cable problem? Or maybe the head in the office was not properly binded? Or can it be something else?

[peak cloak]

I bet it's the cable

But then you say you sometimes get 200??

[arctic zephyr]

yes

sometimes I get the 200

[frigid sphinx]

gigabit switch? and cat5e cabling?

@arctic zephyr if it sometimes negotiates a link at 100Mbit that'd do it

[clear igloo]

Cat5e is capable of gigabit just like 6 and 6a for 100m

[frigid sphinx]

yes... but cat5 is ... marginal

depending on when the runs were done

[clear igloo]

Cat5 and Cat5e are two different standards, one (e) is for Gigabit

Well technically Cat5e can do 2.5Gbit but meh, that's not the issue here

Sounds more like poor termination of the cable in the wall socket

@frigid sphinx or did I misread your post and you were asking if they had a gigabit switch and cat5e cabling or better at a minimum?

[frigid sphinx]

given the symptoms the desktop negotiating a link speed of 100mbit is likely. the cabling being residential building installation from 10+ years ago was the thought process

[clear igloo]

Yah, if they ran Cat5 or cheaped out and got CCA cable I wouldn't be surprised with the issues

[frigid sphinx]

a builder.. cut costs on materials without explaining it to the buyer.. unpossible!

</sarcasm>

[clear igloo]

Super nintendo Chalmers, that's unpossible!

[arctic zephyr]

the switch is gigabit, unmanaged (Linksys LGS116). the cables are all cat6

[arctic zephyr]

what do you mean? I didn't understand

[frigid sphinx]

What's the in wall cabling specification?

[arctic zephyr]

cat6

forgot to mention that the motherboard is also gigabit, of course

i suspect it has something to do with the way the cable was binded in the socket, maybe it was a bad work

[frigid sphinx]

yep that's the next thing to check

was it part of the build or a specialist data cabler

[arctic zephyr]

I made a remodelation. that part was made by the electrician but... here I don't have many good experiences so... maybe it was made in a hurry

[frigid sphinx]

electricians and builders take insufficient care with data cabling in my experience... both in terms of complying with code and protecting data integrity

[arctic zephyr]

yes! I know

the problem at this moment is that this socket in particular doesn't have many room to cut the cables and bind again so I'm afraid that I get this worst than it is

the main question was to know if there was some evident cause for this

[frigid sphinx]

use the old cable to repull it. and if it's your office pull two

[arctic zephyr]

that will not be possible. in this particular wall, it's not inside any tube (long story...)

the fact that sometimes I get the 200 it's the thing that intrigues me

and makes me think that it's not cable related because I never touch the cables, I never unplug the ethernet cable and even so, I can get 100 or 200

btw, I can get sometimes the 200 after some restarts

is there any other way? I mean, renew the ip address or something that will trigger a new negotiation?

[frigid sphinx]

so confirm first.

when you only get 100Mbit check the speed that the nic negotiated

[arctic zephyr]

how do I do that?

[frigid sphinx]

ummm.. I'm a bad person to ask because my answer is ethtool enp0s1 but that will not help you

[arctic zephyr]

in the network adapter? i'm in windows

I think it's this

[frigid sphinx]

yep

so your nic has decided the cable is only good enough that it can provide 100Mbps

[arctic zephyr]

it seems yes. A good test was to force the renegotiation

[frigid sphinx]

yep

@arctic zephyr there are two items of note from the previous conversation one is to ensure that the cat 6 was not CCA