is this just a DHCP scope thing?

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9scu8v/putting_the_bitcoin_price_chart_over_the_last/

can I upvote that more than once?

@WLS-ITGuy said in Are VLANs Appropriate Here:

@Donahue said in Are VLANs Appropriate Here:

then why do VLAN 1 and 2 need to be on different VLANs?

Technically they don't but I kept all LAN traffic outside of the WIFI scope

I am setting mine up so that all my stuff on the corp network can be switched, not routed. I am coming from a setup where everything was separated, and its was all inefficient. When my router blew up, it took most of my network with it because it all had to be routed.

@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:

@PhlipElder said in HA With switches:

@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:

@JaredBusch said in HA With switches:

@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:

The maker of Linksys (traditionally?) Cisco

Dude, Cisco sold off Linksys in 2013. Pay attention.
Cisco bought them in 2003.

As a brand, but they kept a lot of the products in their routing, switching, and VoIP lines. They sold the name, but they kept the products. So old Linksys is now Cisco proper.

The Cisco Small Business Pro series edge (NSA 510/520 series with and without WiFi) and their SG300/SG500 series switches were the result of the Linksys purchase engineering combination.

We've deployed a lot of the SG500x series stackable switches with a few weird behaviours depending on how they are set up. Many of them fronted the disaggregate clusters mentioned above.

Yeah, we see those "Cisco rebranded Linksys" units all over the place. They are awful.

I've got a few

then why do VLAN 1 and 2 need to be on different VLANs?

If this is just a DNS thing, what prevents someone from just changing the DNS settings on their device to bypass it? I am asking because I am actually curious.

@scottalanmiller
If only I had found ML before I bought my Fortigates. I may have made a difference decision.

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

$411

Good for what it is. Still a bit of money.

I was under the impression that OBR was the way this should be done.

OBR probably makes sense at $411 to get around it

I can’t tell if you are for it or against it, and what ‘it’ is

$411 to get around putting everything in an OBR. If non-OBR was "free" we'd prefer it. Extra capacity, extra channels, that sort of thing. But it isn't free, it costs money. If it was $1 or $5, we'd basically always do it. But at $411, that's pretty steep. That is more than buying two SSDs on your own and doing it. So really doesn't make sense when just doing two small SSDs in RAID 1 isn't normally a good idea.

ok, I see what you mean.

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

$411

Good for what it is. Still a bit of money.

I was under the impression that OBR was the way this should be done.

OBR probably makes sense at $411 to get around it

I can’t tell if you are for it or against it, and what ‘it’ is

@scottalanmiller said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

$411

Good for what it is. Still a bit of money.

I was under the impression that OBR was the way this should be done.

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

David Weber

I've got Weber in my queue, might get there in a few months

He’s also in my top 3. I’ve read most of his stuff.

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.

Sanderson is generally good exactly at that - inventing brand new and original systems of magic or superpowers, and really building a world around those. We are all tired of the usual spaceships and elven archers, Sanderson is unlike anyone else because he doesn't dabble in those tiresome stereotypes.

BTW, if you want another amazing and very original author - try Adrian Tchaikovsky (Empire in Black and Gold etc).

I haven't heard of that one, I will definitely check in out. I will recommend the safehold series by David Weber if you like historical/sci-fi

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

yuck

It was quick to prepare.

so? were you out of time?

Just needed some coffee.

And I hate to waste it.

that is just sunk cost mentality.

I am in the process of redoing my network. My plan is to just have a single VLAN, just for guest stuff that will not talk to anything else. If you have all those devices on separate VLANs, and they do need to talk to each other, then you may be introducing a unnecessary point of failure, specifically the L3 switch. If they can all be on the same VLAN, or untagged, then you should be able to drop in just about any switch in a pinch and keep the network up when there is an outage. Ask me how I know.

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue exactly how I got into Sanderson myself. Read pretty much all of his stuff already

I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.

$411

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue That's what I did the first time. Will, the binge didn't happen then because the last 4 books weren't written yet, but still. This time I decided to actually read, it's a very different experience

I've read the series before, it was right as the last book was coming out. Because of it, I really got into Brandon Sanderson, he's probably in my top 3. Try the mistborn series if you're not familiar.

I love the wheel of time series. I've just about collected all the audio books again to binge listen to the series in one go.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

yuck

It was quick to prepare.

that's your excuse?

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

When I recently traveled to Portland, Oregon, we were talking about weather on the flight and the local Portlander woman on the plane by me told me that the weather of Oregon was like Scotland because they shared a lattitude. I was thinking... what, how can my geography by that far off.

So I just looked it up. If you look at Scotland, it is on the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska, nowhere near Portland let alone the rest of Oregon (Portland is on the norther border.)

If you check Portland, you'll find that it shares a latitude with Milan, Italy. The south side of Europe, not the northern extents like she imagined.

I would say the weather, especially in the valley is more like france. There is a reason there are sooo many vineyards here.