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  • Re: 3.19b not compatible with Windows XP?

    From cadeon@VERT to Tracker1 on Fri Jul 22 20:09:24 2022
    Yep these are the things I'm thinking about.

    I'll likely end up running it in a docker container anyhow... but old stuff
    is fun, so if I can work out how to do XP reasonably sanely I may.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Tracker1 on Fri Jul 22 07:20:00 2022
    Tracker1 wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    That's cool... I've got a 4-port intel mini box that has 4x 2.5Gb ports I'll be playing with next weekend.

    I keep seeing people running high-powered boxes as routers and running
    pfSense as a VM, for the time being I'm sticking with my appliance router. Running OpenWRT it seems to do OK for my needs; a 64 bit ARM processor and
    512 GB of RAM should suffice.

    I did see an interesting youtube video about a thin client with a PCI-e
    slot, for around $100 the tuber got the client, some cabling needed, and a 4-port gig ethernet card. 2.5ge a possibility, too. Tempting.


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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to MRO on Sun Jul 24 16:00:34 2022
    On 7/21/22 20:38, MRO wrote:
    Router:
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256803804266682.html

    LTE Modem:
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832653372597.html

    don't burn your house down with those things.

    LOL... I know of a few people using the router at least, which has been decent... haven't played with the LTE modem yet. AliExpress is really
    the only way to get a current LTE modem. As to the router, was less
    expensive and higher model than the ones in stock and available on Amazon.
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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jul 24 16:14:10 2022
    On 7/22/22 07:20, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
    That's cool... I've got a 4-port intel mini box that has 4x 2.5Gb
    ports I'll be playing with next weekend.

    I keep seeing people running high-powered boxes as routers and running pfSense as a VM, for the time being I'm sticking with my appliance
    router. Running OpenWRT it seems to do OK for my needs; a 64 bit ARM processor and 512 GB of RAM should suffice.

    Yeah, when my home security system and cameras were added my router just doesn't seem to quite keep up, which is what brought the shift. May be
    using ProxMox on the device, and just map the other 3 ethernet ports
    into a VM for the router/firewall software. That way I can more easily
    run the couple other things I also want on there (pihole, wireguard, reverse-web proxy with https).

    I did see an interesting youtube video about a thin client with a
    PCI-e slot, for around $100 the tuber got the client, some cabling
    needed, and a 4-port gig ethernet card. 2.5ge a possibility, too.
    Tempting.

    Yeah, those are pretty cool... One thing to watch out for, is some
    devices that support 10g ports will only do 10g or 1g, not 2.5g, which
    is kind of wild. Just bringing it up, depending on any switches/hubs
    you plan to use.
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Tracker1 on Tue Jul 26 00:16:00 2022
    Re: Re: 3.19b not compatible
    By: Tracker1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jul 24 2022 04:14 pm

    On 7/22/22 07:20, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
    That's cool... I've got a 4-port intel mini box that has 4x 2.5Gb
    ports I'll be playing with next weekend.

    I keep seeing people running high-powered boxes as routers and running pfSense as a VM, for the time being I'm sticking with my appliance router. Running OpenWRT it seems to do OK for my needs; a 64 bit ARM processor and 512 GB of RAM should suffice.

    Yeah, when my home security system and cameras were added my router just doesn't seem to quite keep up, which is what brought the shift. May be using ProxMox on the device, and just map the other 3 ethernet ports
    into a VM for the router/firewall software. That way I can more easily
    run the couple other things I also want on there (pihole, wireguard, reverse-web proxy with https).

    I did see an interesting youtube video about a thin client with a
    PCI-e slot, for around $100 the tuber got the client, some cabling needed, and a 4-port gig ethernet card. 2.5ge a possibility, too. Tempting.

    Yeah, those are pretty cool... One thing to watch out for, is some
    devices that support 10g ports will only do 10g or 1g, not 2.5g, which
    is kind of wild. Just bringing it up, depending on any switches/hubs
    you plan to use.
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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com


    I was wondering if it would be better to put all the cameras on their own managed switch and vlan to take the load off the core switch?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Tracker1 on Mon Jul 25 07:28:00 2022
    Tracker1 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Yeah, those are pretty cool... One thing to watch out for, is some
    devices that support 10g ports will only do 10g or 1g, not 2.5g, which
    is kind of wild. Just bringing it up, depending on any switches/hubs
    you plan to use.

    I'm not there yet. :)

    Running a gig ethernet port on my Proxmox server, 2 gig ethernets bonded on
    my Synology. For my needs, that seems to be sufficient - I don't have any outward facing services except the BBS.


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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Moondog on Tue Jul 26 08:28:26 2022
    On 7/25/22 21:16, Moondog wrote:

    I was wondering if it would be better to put all the cameras on
    their own managed switch and vlan to take the load off the core
    switch?

    Am considering the same thing... I really wish they were all configured
    as wired devices instead of wireless too. I get why it's better for the companies/installers this way, just not a fan at all.
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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 27 14:37:02 2022
    On 7/25/22 07:28, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:

    Running a gig ethernet port on my Proxmox server, 2 gig ethernets
    bonded on my Synology. For my needs, that seems to be sufficient -
    I don't have any outward facing services except the BBS.

    Yeah... I have two of the four on my Synology bonded as well... but it's to/from my personal desktop and the synology I want to speed up a bit.
    That and be able to handle more devices effectively.
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