Hyacin (He/Him)

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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • Does this diagram make sense?

    Not so much, no. At least, I’m having issues with it … and I’ve been a networking professional for more than 25 years.

    Diagrams are best scoped to the OSI layer you’re talking about, in my experience. For my home lab I have a huge layer 2 diagram, and a totally different one for layer 3.

    If you’re asking about ‘LAN protected by Netgate’, then we’re concerned with layer 3 - so I’d omit the patch panel and illustrate things from a layer 3 point of view.

    That aside, it looks like yes, your whole LAN will be ‘behind’ your Netgate. I can’t speak to the specifics of the C1300 you mention though as I’ve never used a Netgate product.








  • Woa, hit the breaks on the rebuild.

    I’m old and my memory is going, but I know I’ve had this before …

    I think I had to figure out how to -

    • shutdown the host
    • mount the virtual disk as a ‘loopback’ device
    • fsck the disk

    I know this seems like it should be block level and that shouldn’t matter, and I could be remembering wrong - but I really think I went down that path and it ended up being the solution.








  • I’ve been very happy with my Monoprice “Blackbird 4K DisplayPort 1.4 USB 3.0 4x1 KVM Switch, 4K@60Hz, HDR, YCbCr 4:4:4, HDCP 2.2”. I run an ultrawide at 3840x1600 @ 144 Hz, or HDR at 120 Hz, G-Sync both, and it works wonderfully. It took some effort to get all the required devices using the same connections - went through quite a few “USB-C to DP” cables from Amazon that had to be returned because they couldn’t do the high refresh like they claimed … but once I got everything set up, it’s worked like a dream, 3+ years and counting now I think.