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| daftykins | happy Tuesday btw campers | 12:19 |
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| daftykins | brb big changes afoot | 12:19 |
| zxm-pi | updating to freedos!! \o/ | 12:22 |
| m0nkey_ | not happy tuesday, been up most of the night. had to take the cat to the vet. he got a UTI so now needs meds and has to wear the 'cone of shame' | 12:31 |
| zxm-pi | so now his meows are amplified at 3am :-P | 12:34 |
| zxm-pi | hope the poor kitty makes a quick recovery | 12:34 |
| m0nkey_ | thankfully caught the infection early, so there was no blockage or crystals | 12:36 |
| m0nkey_ | he should recover okay.. gotta watch his litter box to make sure he's urinating | 12:36 |
| m0nkey_ | he actually already seems better this morning | 12:38 |
| daftykins | d'aww | 13:01 |
| bigcalm | 'sup kids? | 13:43 |
| daftykins | oy failure booting pfSense on a serial console AMD APU4 unit today | 13:44 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: I've often had trouble getting pfsense booting on a APU2, but opnsense works out of the box. | 13:59 |
| daftykins | seems to be a flash drive brand bug | 14:00 |
| m0nkey_ | mine only boots half the time from usb, regardless of usb drive | 14:01 |
| daftykins | now trying a third drive xD | 14:01 |
| m0nkey_ | i think it's a freebsd thing | 14:01 |
| m0nkey_ | because debian on the same stick boots no problem | 14:01 |
| daftykins | was kinda funny because i took my own router out, popped this one in place and discovered it wouldn't boot - so a lazy power off must have corrupted it last night | 14:02 |
| m0nkey_ | i got one of them mikrotik's now.. i often forget that it's there | 14:02 |
| daftykins | i really regret touching theirs after some major trouble at a friend's wife's art gallery | 14:03 |
| daftykins | way too hobbyist for my liking | 14:04 |
| m0nkey_ | mikrotik? | 14:04 |
| daftykins | yep | 14:04 |
| m0nkey_ | it's more aimed at WISPs | 14:04 |
| m0nkey_ | but they're branching out into the home and business | 14:04 |
| daftykins | they seem to have a lot of large scale switching kit so i'm not 100% on that one | 14:05 |
| m0nkey_ | i got the hAP^3 and it's been no trouble | 14:05 |
| daftykins | it might be an isolated incident, i have so much going on these days so when that one started playing up i didn't want to start digging into rebuilding it from scratch, but it was my only choice at one point :( | 14:06 |
| m0nkey_ | mikrotik have hell of a learning curve | 14:07 |
| daftykins | it was great for the handful of months it lasted for, but weirdly it was causing their basic ADSL2 to work at under half its' speed for no apparent reason | 14:07 |
| m0nkey_ | hmm, i have no experience with dsl and mikrotik. | 14:07 |
| daftykins | yeah, don't have time to pick into something new now | 14:07 |
| daftykins | it was an attempt at saving people money xD failed miserably | 14:07 |
| m0nkey_ | i picked one up out of curiosity, one of them $60 hEX routers, to play with and keep it as a backup | 14:08 |
| m0nkey_ | but then i liked it and got the more powerful hAP^3 | 14:09 |
| m0nkey_ | but i'm in a home environment so can afford downtime | 14:09 |
| m0nkey_ | i'll probably go back to pf or opnsense again at some point. i'm always changing my shit around :) | 14:10 |
| daftykins | the only issue i've encountered with the APUs with pfSense is that BSD's PPPoE implementation can only operate single-threaded and single-queue, which means that on my pal in Exeter's 500Mb down FTTP, the little guy doesn't have enough beans to reach that throughput | 14:12 |
| daftykins | seems they don't give a hoot about resolving that, so it essentially makes them useless for people that have fast connections using PPPoE | 14:12 |
| m0nkey_ | What about openwrt on the apu? | 14:15 |
| m0nkey_ | also, somebody found a workaround in opnsense.. https://www.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/nh0a02/performancespeed_issues/gz16xjb/ | 14:16 |
| daftykins | supposed to be fine, but it's a fully working setup over in England so it's a bit late to change just to get a few megabits | 14:16 |
| m0nkey_ | in theory, the tuneables for opnsense should be the same on pfsense.. they're both freebsd | 14:16 |
| daftykins | yeah i'm already using those to get a slight boost | 14:17 |
| m0nkey_ | cool | 14:17 |
| daftykins | ok let's see if an old Corsair flash drive will play ball | 14:18 |
| daftykins | hrmm, even worse | 14:22 |
| bigcalm | Since listening to 2.5 Admins, I've realised that ZFS is the way to go for server sanity. That said, I have no experience of it. Wondering how to migrate my existing server set-up over to it. Any sensible recommendations for learning how to use ZFS? | 14:27 |
| daftykins | muck about with a VM with a few virtual disks as member drives | 14:29 |
| daftykins | wow booted at last | 14:33 |
| daftykins | install went well, but that won't boot either | 14:41 |
| bigcalm | What's a good VNC client that works on KDE? KRDC is going weird on my 150% scale displays | 15:40 |
| daftykins | maybe digging into the solution for that would be a better approach, as i find it very workable myself | 15:41 |
| daftykins | i don't do any display scaling though | 15:41 |
| bigcalm | VirtualBox has similar issues on my scaled display as well | 15:42 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: error 19 when booting? | 15:42 |
| daftykins | things have advanced a bit now, suggesting the mSATA SSD is wobbly | 15:43 |
| daftykins | mSATA SSDs seem to be increasingly rare, so i wonder if they've begun having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get them | 15:46 |
| bigcalm | I've resorted to using my laptop which doesn't do fractional scaling | 15:51 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: the mSATA SSDs that PCEngines supply are super slow. A class 10 SD card would probably be faster | 15:52 |
| daftykins | i didn't buy from them, also SD card was taken off the pfSense options a few releases ago | 15:54 |
| bigcalm | Is it possible to pass ones' SSH agent through VNC? My expectations are low | 15:58 |
| bigcalm | I give up trying to run docker on MacOS | 16:21 |
| * bigcalm sticks to lovely Linux | 16:21 | |
| daftykins | m0nkey_: wasn't BSD kinda your thing? :D | 16:53 |
| daftykins | this thing seems to fail spectacularly, attempt to partition the drive and console messages spam "cylinder checksum failed" | 16:59 |
| zxm-pi | a rabbit of negative euphoria: not a happy bunny | 17:00 |
| daftykins | indeedy! | 17:02 |
| daftykins | i think i'm at my limit on that one, linitx said to drop them an email showing the errors, so i can just see what their opinion is on that one and possibly just get an SSD swap if need be | 17:13 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: yes, BSD is my thing | 17:13 |
| daftykins | m0nkey_: check this one out - https://i.imgur.com/CC40rPS.png | 17:14 |
| m0nkey_ | hmm, thats a corrupt UFS volume | 17:14 |
| daftykins | what i don't get is that that occurs even if i dd zero the start of the drive prior to install | 17:15 |
| daftykins | strangely, installing with ZFS gives no such error but then stalls at the spinner on boot | 17:16 |
| m0nkey_ | using GPT or MBR? | 17:16 |
| daftykins | GPT | 17:16 |
| m0nkey_ | and what image did you use for the installer? | 17:17 |
| daftykins | amd64 serial console | 17:17 |
| daftykins | 'USB memstick' | 17:17 |
| daftykins | hrmm i found the older release on a dodgy mirror, might give it a go | 17:19 |
| daftykins | doubt it's that to blame, just want to sanity check things | 17:19 |
| m0nkey_ | this was a bug in 2018, but was fixed by Kirk. | 17:21 |
| m0nkey_ | https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225110 | 17:22 |
| lubotu | bugs.freebsd.org bug 225110 in Base System "UFS 'cylinder checksum failed' messages after crash, with SU+J enabled" [Affects Only Me, Closed: Fixed] | 17:22 |
| daftykins | saw reference to that but these releases are more recent, so very odd | 17:23 |
| daftykins | this seems promising so far | 17:27 |
| daftykins | https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2005/may/01/hamburg-toads-are-exploding/ | 21:18 |
| daftykins | it ain't easy being green | 21:18 |
| zxm-pi | is that the one were it turned out crows were eating their livers while they were still alive? | 21:25 |
| zxm-pi | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7654561 | 21:25 |
| daftykins | man, you know i have a terrible habit of not even reading the date on things | 21:28 |
| zxm-pi | well... it is a blursday :-P | 21:33 |
| daftykins | ooh yes | 21:36 |
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