[GLLUG] Update was Re: Information please about FTTH/FTTP
Just an update here: I contracted the Community Fibre FTTP service after finding I could use their phone app to make local UK calls while I work in Spain, which is useful (if so far untested). The installers duly arrived and had it all up and running in less than two hours. They were not too untidy. I contracted the 150Mbps service plus phone (deal not on their website - see e.g. https://www.moneysupermarket.com/broadband/providers/community-fibre/ ) Disclaimer: I have no commercial connection whatsoever with any of these. Pros and cons so far: Technical: - the router supplied is a Linksys Velop together with an FTTP modem. I was going to dump the Velop but had issues getting my OPNSense router to talk to the modem with DHCP and eventually gave in and removed quite a lot of frankly redundant infrastructure (for home use) and connected the second Ethernet port on the Velop straight to my switch. All works fine. - they supply a Grandstream VoIp to POTS box which is plugged into the switch and worked without issues. - The Velop router is giving me full 150 Mbps over wifi at 4m through a brick double wall - so not too bad. - The Velop router allows very little configuration, I can't even change the LAN network from 192.168.1.n but really this is not important as its double-nat'd CGN anyway. There's IPSec etc pass-through and DMZ, but I was advised port pass-through would not work with the CGN. I don't need it as I now use Chrome remote desktop. - on giving up my technical pretensions everything works rather well compared with my 8 year old previous installation which was much slower. Contractual: - don't do what I did. I saw the offers as laid out above and instead of contracting FTTP online and then adding the phone service, I called sales and they did it for me. This meant it fell out of the loop and I had various rather heated emails to support before the correct discount contract price got sorted. It did get sorted though. I hope! Just FYI in case you are considering it: Latency 1 ms and 150 Mbps symmetrical makes it very responsive :) I had Entanet/City Fibre FTTC 80/20 before and was not expecting such a big difference. I decided I did not care about the local-only telephone service as I changed both our mobile contracts at the same time away from Vodafone to other suppliers offering limited free on contract overseas mobile calls, at least to Europe which is what I needed. I am now not really managing my network (much), and really that is an advantage if something goes wrong while I am away and my very non-technical wife has to deal with it as it is all supported by Community Fibre which OPNSense would not be ;) Oh and there's a remote-access-from-mobile for the Linksys Velop which allows what limited management exists to be done from anywhere - untested so far. Finally the whole 150Mbp+phone+unlimited UK calls costs less per month than BT were charging me just for the phone line. Which is nice. So far, so good. MeJ On 25/02/2022 16:28, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: On 25/02/2022 16:02, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: PS They have a chat facility on the website. I got most of that info form their tech guy who seemed very competent. If you ask tech questions sales will pass you to tech. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Information please about FTTH/FTTP
On 25/02/2022 16:02, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: PS They have a chat facility on the website. I got most of that info form their tech guy who seemed very competent. If you ask tech questions sales will pass you to tech. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Information please about FTTH/FTTP
Chris, they have just done my street. I am interested. I don't have full info, but: - they do dual fibre to the premises with (according to a fibre optic guy on a forum) decent termination into the media box - they supply a modem with RJ45 - they supply a Linksys mesh wifi thingy to plug in to that, something else on the fastest speeds as it can't do 3Gbps - there's no problem plugging the modem into a firewall instead but they don't tech support that - they use CGNAT on services below 300Mbps so no port forwarding or services going out - it's fully symmetrical That's all I know so far. Applies to my area (NW10 xxx), I suppose it might vary in different areas MeJ On 25/02/2022 16:02, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: Hello CommunityFibre.co.uk are using BT ducts to feed multicore distribution fibres near both my house and my sister's house, and I understand that they will eventually offer FTTH/FTTP, but they have not replied to my requests for connection information, while they provide little information on their website. I understand (from seeing what an elderly friend has been given) that they will probably supply a small wall mounted box which converts from fibre to ethernet cable and must be powered, plus a small Linksys WiFi unit which must also be powered. There will be a dynamic 192.168.x.x IPv4 address and a static /48 IPv6 prefix. The Linksys WiFi will have a single ethernet input and a single ethernet output. If a SIP telephone adapter is also supplied it is expected to be connected to the Linksys output. Where are the IPv4 dynamic and IPv6 /48 addresses extracted, and where can I insert a local firewall-router or unmanaged switch? Must it be after the Linksys, or can I insert my own firewall-router or a local (unmanaged) switch immediately after the fibre termination to allow cables to be routed separate from the Linksys, or not even connect the Linksys? I do not use WiFi at home, although WiFi is currently in use at my sister's house, where the best WiFi location is not the best distribution point for wired access. Thanks for any information. -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Best NIX-based router/software for a small business network
OPNSense. We used to be a pfsense reseller but they IMHO went psychotic a few years ago. Product OK though... except for the Wireguard nonsense. OPNSense is good. On 14/06/2021 16:42, gvim via GLLUG wrote: With ransomeware becoming a threat to both small and large businesses I'm inclined to advise small businesses to change their router as a first line of defence. What is currently the best NIX-based router/software? pfSense? gvim -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Power control over IP
On 01/06/2021 15:53, stuart taylor via GLLUG wrote: hi all, We will have food for thouht at our admins meeting later this week. We have 4 servers in our cabinet all quite old and all donated second hand: two IBM X3250s (I think) and two SUN ultras. The solutions suggested are all very good but probably beyond what I would be allowed to spend. Have you considered virtualising the lot onto one KVM host? Proxmox has a free version and works exceedingly well. A single 4-6 core 3 year old second-hand host would handle the lot I would think and deal with most of your remote management issues. MeJ -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Power control over IP
On 29/05/2021 16:19, stuart taylor via GLLUG wrote: Hi all, During the past 15 months I have managed to change various things involving our systems, for the better I think. We have also gained various part time volunteer admins, who are very good, mostly better than I am. One of them showed me how he could power down his servers remotely over IP, and restart them again. This looks very useful as we are spending less time at the building and mostly working from home. I have previously managed to obtain a cabinet, for our servers, change the lock for a padlock based system and restrict the key holders to a few people. This means switching servers on, or off, is better controlled, but also makes it more difficult for the admins to reboot when they are at home. Can anyone point me towards a suitable 'power supply over IP' solution? Are there any drawbacks to using these? I'm not quite clear whether you are looking for an IP controlled PDU or per server remote KVM. There's various PDUs available, as in other replies, with per socket control. Per rack most UPS with IP can do this. Per server if no built in iLO then Lantronic Spider is traditional, new offerings coming along Raspberry Pi based but I'd only use those on my home gear. I'm not fond of APC for UPS as their income stream IMO depends on short battery life, but their PDUs seem fine. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] SMS text scam warning
My wife had five of these yesterday, out of the blue... MeJ On 24/04/2021 10:10, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: Hello, bbc.co.uk/news/technology have relayed a warning from GCHQ about huge numbers of messages sent to UK mobile phones claiming that there is a parcel on its way, please download the "app" to get tracking details. It is nothing to do with a parcel, the "app" is spyware aimed mainly at Android phones. -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?
On 21/04/2021 13:06, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: Hi MeJ, I apologise for replying to the wrong message. Poor Chris Bell tries to help me and in return I moan at him. Life is not fair, John Hah is np, we all need an occasional shot in the ARM. Or M1 perhaps? Or a http://www.thesympatheticear.co.uk/? LABATYD TANSTAAFL etc. :) Sorry; sincerely off topic! Will stop it ;) -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?
In my wife's experience, "you are now 23rd in the queue" - so perhaps, yes! Slower than a check on a 8TiB drive, which does at least, eventually, complete or fail. It's all going to pot (holes, hereabouts) MeJ On 21/04/2021 11:40, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: I was ill yesterday and so I am trying to book a GP appointment. I waited for 23 minutes as first in the telephone queue before giving up. Does it really take receptionist that long to issue an appointment? Thanks, John -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0208 960 0365 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Teddy bear principle
In my long but limited experience (all experience is limited!) usually the problem isn't in explaining the problem, or in even solving the problem, it's in grasping what it *really* is in the first place. Especially so when it is explained to you by someone who doesn't understand the problem -- or solution -- domain... see most Gov. projects worldwide. However explaining things to teddy bears, cats, and hat stands is an essential part of problem stress relief :) It does not work so well with dogs, they wag their tails whether it's explained well or badly :P Merry Christmas/post-solstice [place festival here] & Feliz Fiestas/boas festas MeJ On 23/12/2020 11:24, Carles Pina i Estany via GLLUG wrote: Hi, On Dec/23/2020, Andrew Black via GLLUG wrote: Some time ago someone suggested the idea of solving a tech problem by explaining something to you teddy. He is very stupid so it makes sure you [...] explain it well. Sometimes the process of explaining makes you find the thing the clue you have missed. I cant put my finger on where it came from (does it matter). Google is taking me to all sorts of sites like "how to make teddies" and "why teddies are called ted". Other people have already sent good links or comments. Just one more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Cheers, -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These arrangements will continue in accordance with UK Government advice. Please do not send any correspondence or cheques to our office as these cannot currently be dealt with, seen, or paid in. All communication will be via phone or email. It is important, both for most rapid response and in order that all staff can respond, that you raise all issues via our Support Desk at: supp...@stabilys.com If you need help with working from home please contact us using the above methods. Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Multi-Boot Puzzle - a bit OT
Ah the joys of multi-booting different versions of Windows! A lot of wild guesses below: On 03/10/2020 23:37, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Win 7 has put its boot files on the partition for Server 2003 as there is a /boot in there. I suspect this partition being NTFS is a factor in this problem. But the original 1.5TB disk is the same and it works. AFAIK it's all down to install order. From technet: (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/0684114d-6cb4-4bce-a837-14090245c9fc/dual-boot-windows-7-with-windows-2003-server?forum=w7itproinstall) "Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 use different startup methods. Windows Server 2003 startup method is not compatible with Windows 7. Generally, after installing Windows 7 on a Windows Server 2003 based computer, the Windows Server 2003 will be recognized as a “Earlier Version of Windows” and the Windows Boot Manger will automatic make dual boot of Windows server 2003 OS and Windows 7 OS properly. But if you install Windows Server 2003 on a Windows 7 based computer, it will cause problems." I suspect the same is true of Win 10/Server 2003 aka WinXP server. I'm assuming all of this is 32 bit? Nor that that should matter. I know you are not installing but moving, but Windows pre v10 is notoriously dim (10 *is* much better). I've reinstated the FC13 systems Grub boot loader. I guess I could put Fedora 32 and Win 10 on another disk and use Grub2 from FC32 to also boot the systems on the original 1.5TB disk. I've done this a lot in the past and now I just don't. Disks are cheaper than my time, so I am prepared to multi-boot, but not from one disk. My current music machine has separate disks for Windows, most music software (big sample libraries) and Linux. And I'm not trying to run archaic versions of Windows XP server as well ;) IIWM I'd acquire another disk or two and put everything on its own disk. I'd take a safe image/copy of that 1.5 tib disk as my first action and then start again and disentangle everything to different disks. Once everything is booting on its own disk I'd set up the boot arrangements. I realise that's not really what you asked, but it is my answer! I know partitions should be sufficient, and with Linux/*BSD it usually is, but with different and incompatible epochs of Windows I have had endless headaches until I bought more drives. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] why is adduser unknown command in Debian 10.4?
"Use su - instead" - we always were supposed to do that and I tried to remember to do so, but bad habits learned early on persist and I often slipped. Now I'll be forced into canonicity :) MeJ On 01/09/2020 18:24, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:01:04PM +, MJ via GLLUG wrote: desktop@desktop:~$ su Password: root@desktop:/home/desktop# adduser desktop dialout bash: adduser: command not found root@desktop:/home/desktop# Most likely /usr/sbin isn't in your path as "su" doesn't do that any more. https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster == Changes * The su command in buster is provided by the util-linux source package, instead of the shadow source package, and no longer alters the PATH variable by default. This means that after doing su, your PATH may not contain directories like /sbin, and many system administration commands will fail. This is LPC 101 standard stuff?! Rote learning goes out of date. Working out how to diagnose a "command not found" error is more valuable. $ command -v adduser /sbin/adduser # Oh, /usr/sbin is in my user's path then. Because I set that on purpose $ PATH= command -v adduser $ apt-file search bin/adduser adduser: /usr/sbin/adduser $ dpkg -L adduser | grep bin /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/deluser /usr/sbin/addgroup /usr/sbin/delgroup $ ls -lah /usr/sbin/adduser -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34K Sep 15 2018 /usr/sbin/adduser So, PATH issue. Cheers, Andy -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] [OT] How to look stupid on the international stage.
On 13/05/2020 18:20, Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote: I think the whole thing sums up Huawei 's attitude towards security, if one of their "top security engineers" thinks that the code was of an acceptable quality for production. Regardless of whether you subscribe to the whole China / backdoor stories, they have an appalling attitude to security. As compared with, say, Cisco...? MeJ -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These arrangements will continue in accordance with UK Government advice. Please do not send any correspondence or cheques to our office as these cannot currently be dealt with, seen, or paid in. All communication will be via phone or email. It is important, both for most rapid response and in order that all staff can respond, that you raise all issues via our Support Desk at: supp...@stabilys.com If you need help with working from home please contact us using the above methods. Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Internet Data Rate
On 14/05/2020 04:40, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG wrote: That's Virgin "engineers"! That's virgin' on the ridiculous... MeJ -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These arrangements will continue in accordance with UK Government advice. Please do not send any correspondence or cheques to our office as these cannot currently be dealt with, seen, or paid in. All communication will be via phone or email. It is important, both for most rapid response and in order that all staff can respond, that you raise all issues via our Support Desk at: supp...@stabilys.com If you need help with working from home please contact us using the above methods. Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?
On 11/05/2020 11:58, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: ... Yes I actually think it is possible and is a reasonable plan, though backups will still be advised. I didn't suggest this at first because initially we thought there were unequal-sized devices (4T and 8T). Same here. I believe modern mdadm can reshape a RAID-1 into a RAID-0 then a RAID-0 into a RAID-10 and then add extra devices. https://www.berthon.eu/2017/converting-raid1-to-raid10-online/ I have done it myself long ago... see below There will be a scary time when it is RAID-0 and therefore no redundancy. Yes depending on how it's done. My main uncertainty about this is that I'm fairly sure converting from RAID-1 to RAID-0 leaves you with a RAID-0 of one device and one marked as spare, then I'm not sure if it does support going to RAID-10 from that. Should be easy to prove with a test on small loopback files as block devices though. Another way it can be done now that we know all the devices are the same size is to: 1. create a new RAID-10 array that is missing two members. 2. Bring it online, put a filesystem (or LVM) on it, 3. copy data over to it, 4. boot from it making sure that everything works, 5. nuke the old array, add its members to the new RAID-10 thus making it fully redundant again. And I seem to recall that's how I did it. again, for the time period where the second RAID-10 has two members missing it has no redundancy at all. Indeed. But the new disks are then the non-redundant RAID-10 which may be safer. ... I think it can be done only with mdadm though. I believe so. On further consideration if it was my machine I'd either follow Andy's plan or do this: 1. Buy a Seagate 8/10TB USB backup device. They are generally cheaper than a raw disk (or were, pre covid-19, I am certain of this as I just then bought two to backup client data. 2. Replicate the data to the backup disk 3. Verify backup 4. Destroy existing raid and wipe disks (if paranoid, keep just one until later) 5. Test existing disks (and if cautious, the new ones) 6. Build new 4-unit RAID10 (if paranoid, with one existing disk missing as per above) 7. Copy data back 8. If paranoid once happy wipe test add the other old disk. Really I would not be happy having half my data array on 5 year old disks even in RAID 10 - it can stand 2 disk loss but you need to feel lucky. Disks DO fail together. I do have systems (well one backup server) with older (2TB 7+ year old!) disks (but only as a small minority in RAID 6 or 60 arrays). But each to their own... and I did lose two at once in that system. I'm very fond of LVM and have used it on large filesystems without an underlying partition in the days when Red Hat did not support >2TB, as a workaround, now not needed. It was 100% solid over the 5 year life of the system. This approach risked confusing people though. But the only times I have lost data (twice) on mdadm-backed RAID is with LVM over large RAID5 and multiple disk failures, making recovery impossible, so I tend to avoid LVM on RAID (data restored from backup). But then I don't use RAID 5 any more on >2TB disks. Or RAID6, indeed. It's all RAID 10 now for me, and maybe ZFS in the future if it ever gets more performant on Linux... MeJ -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These arrangements will continue in accordance with UK Government advice. Please do not send any correspondence or cheques to our office as these cannot currently be dealt with, seen, or paid in. All communication will be via phone or email. It is important, both for most rapid response and in order that all staff can respond, that you raise all issues via our Support Desk at: supp...@stabilys.com If you need help with working from home please contact us using the above methods. Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?
On 10/05/2020 21:35, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hello, On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:03:32PM +0200, Dr. Axel Stammler via GLLUG wrote: On Sun 2020-05-10 08.53.16, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: So, I think moving to an "LVM mirror" solution is your best bet for future extensibility. I haven't reviewed all the recent replies, but is there any reason why you can't add the the two new disks of the same size and migrate from RAID 1 to RAID 10, e.g: https://blog.voina.org/convert-an-existing-2-disk-raid-1-to-a-4-disk-raid-10/ (though that has LVM on top, shouldn't make a difference in these circumstances, just a quick search, there's many other references, YMMV) RAID 10 slightly enhances failure resistance, increases read speeds and keeps it simple. Although with two old disks, whatever you do, they will likely fail first. The only thing I'd emphasise is whatever you do, if you care about the data you MUST have a backup first! (though in crisis hero mode I have been known to ignore my own advice, that's only on my OWN data...) MeJ -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These arrangements will continue in accordance with UK Government advice. Please do not send any correspondence or cheques to our office as these cannot currently be dealt with, seen, or paid in. All communication will be via phone or email. It is important, both for most rapid response and in order that all staff can respond, that you raise all issues via our Support Desk at: supp...@stabilys.com If you need help with working from home please contact us using the above methods. Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Hosting recommendations
My answer again, I've used Dreamhost for a Long Time. - Free Wordpress (I know - but it's good for non-tech contributors) - Free let's Encrypt - shell - much more MeJ On 24/03/2020 11:54, Adrian McMenamin via GLLUG wrote: To combat boredom in the household I have promised other family members I'll set up a website for them where they can review and recommend the books they read. So what would people recommend for this: * Low cost * Linux based (ideally xterm level access) with LAMP stack so I can set up wordpress - or failing that wordpress up and running. I have self-hosted before but it requires a level of attention to keep things running that I don't want, so please don't suggest that! All recommendations gratefully received. Adrian -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue
On 02/03/2020 19:18, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: On 02/03/2020 07:54, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: ... Faced with these sorts of issues on anything digital I always first suspect the PSU Indeed - and my tweaks involve ensuring that it's getting exactly 5v0. I think it was getting slightly more - and so why I suspect overheating under load. I wouldn't be worried about the voltage, more dropouts and spikes. But I have been wrong (frequently!) But I still can't find anything about what I need. I have this (default from package install) # ls -l /etc/rc.d/S50radvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 2 08:09 /etc/rc.d/S50radvd -> ../init.d/radvd and radvd starts as expected when I run /etc/init.d/radvd start But radvd does not start on boot but I can find no clue as to where the problem might be. It's not a major issue but it's annoying. I can't even find documentation to tell me if these init scripts ought to work. There's nothing in the log. Hmm, irritating. But again for myself, I wouldn't be using this little box for anything core - just for glue. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue
On 02/03/2020 07:54, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: 1. One of them periodically locks up in a most peculiar way : I can ssh in via ethernet, Devices can associate (it's running as an AP,) but it appears that no (useful) traffic makes it across the bridge from ethernet to wifi. Even a reboot doesn't fix, it has to be powercycled. Faced with these sorts of issues on anything digital I always first suspect the PSU ... 3. Related to 2 but there's poor documentation on anything other than the web-gui. Go even slightly 'off-piste' and you are on your own. I've debated switching to rasbian for this reason alone (on a RPi) https://openwrt.org/docs/start ain't so bad... though Debian has better doc. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
[GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue
I don't normally recommend anything, but I have just run into a neat little device that has solved a problem for me, so I thought I'd mention it on-list in case it can help someone else. I'm just a happy user: no connection with the product otherwise. I am using it to solve a VoIP problem I have had running an extension to our new hosted VoIP from a residential 4G connection in very rural Spain (we used to have WiMAX with a fixed IP - but no more, just 4G but quite fast). It's tunnelling my phone using a commercial VPN provider and bypassing inward VoIP blocking. Not against their T or anything, I suspect it's just blocked because it's 4G to protect their network, outgoing ports work but I receive no voice :) This solution has stopped me banging my head against the wall trying to run various simultaneous different and colliding VPNs from my otherwise very good firewall. It just works. Anyway the device is this: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/ Available from e.g. Amazon worldwide. It's got WiFi and two NICs and USB and micro-USB power, and runs OpenWRT which is accessible at the second menu level and so it's highly tweakable: not that I have had to tweak it... it has many VPN providers pre-set and supports OpenVPN and Wireguard. I paid €24 for one, at that price it can glue lots of stuff together. Just thought I'd mention it. It's not a recommendation as such - it might break in a week - but I doubt it. There's various other models. And it's cute :) MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] moving a fixed ip number
I do believe that DNS was invented to solve this problem, inter alia :) MeJ On 04/02/2020 12:54, John Winters via GLLUG wrote: On 04/02/2020 11:09, Oliver Howe wrote: It is a leased line into my office. I want to move to a new provider (the current one is more of a reseller) and keep the same IP address as a lot of my clients allow me access to their systems based on my IP address. If you move to a new provider, then almost certainly not - unless you move to the provider for whom your current one is a reseller. Your IP address will be one of a range belonging to and routed to your underlying supplier. You can't port them like mobile phone numbers. Cheers, John -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Web hosting
On 16/01/2020 13:32, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: On 16/01/2020 00:30, John Levin via GLLUG wrote: ...but I'm slightly wary of hosting in the USA. I'm wary of recommending anything, but I have used Dreamhost in the States for at least 20 years with many sites and no major issues for general web hosting. They run Ubuntu now, was Debian which I preferred, and you get console access and ssh. This is for shared hosting. Oh PS Dreamhost founders are behind Ceph, just for interest's sake... MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Web hosting
On 16/01/2020 00:30, John Levin via GLLUG wrote: ...but I'm slightly wary of hosting in the USA. I'm wary of recommending anything, but I have used Dreamhost in the States for at least 20 years with many sites and no major issues for general web hosting. They run Ubuntu now, was Debian which I preferred, and you get console access and ssh. This is for shared hosting. Or Bytemark were good. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane LONDON W10 4BA 0845 838 5370 -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
