Maybe it is because I did not get a long deep sleep, or I been working out too hard, but I been kind of exhausted today.
I took a badly needed nap and feel better. I am going to see if I can get a long night’s sleep to see if I am charged for work tomorrow.
Weight: 346.6
That was quick, I feel like my schedule is moving back to normal.
Tonight I think I will still sleep early. But happy to know my sleep is normal again.
Not going to touch the network tonight, going to document tomorrow.
Got steps in early too, so not up late trying to finish.
Weight: 344.8
I have no idea why Mikrotik does not have an easy way to flash back to factory. Just warning that when in Switch OS, mind your VLANs, leave the management port as is.
So they will all be reserved with dumb settings so we can connect a laptop to them.
Went to bed really late, trying to make up some time now. I got my steps done late but will be going to bed early.
Leaving not much time left. If I get a good sleep, things should be back to normal tomorrow.
Weight: 342.2
Not sure what happened, but I can’t even boot to recovery mode.
I am watching wireshark and it keeps booting but not getting. So desperate I resorted to reddit.
Day started off good, got my CRV serviced, full tank of gas, and a haircut.
A tantrum by my son and this mikrotik pain ruined my day.
I am still 5000 steps and 6 floors short. Will post if it does not work.
Weight: 348.4
Walked around the area my son was have League Swim meet.
It was nice
Picture doesn’t look great, but it is nice walk, I think if it was dark you would feel safe there.
Pretty amazing they have toys lying around like this. If was Renton I think they would be gone.
Weight: 347.4
There was some confusion this morning regarding my son’s swim meet.
I thought it was going to be his last, but looks like he will go tomorrow.
He made it to finals.
Anyway, had to work late to make up some hours.
Weight: 347.8
It was really wild yesterday, things happened so late I did not get to put out a good post. So will recap here.
In the morning I read a reddit post about misconfigured routers which is why my DNS queries were not going to my DNS servers on the internet.
So I tried something on my Comcast modem and it broke my Internet connection.
I tried to configure my firewall to match but it was to no avail.
So I tried to revert back. In the process I learned a bit about the pfSense. There are two places to change the default gateway, and the command line to check routing is netstat -rn
So right off the back two network items go bad.
Later that evening, before my walk, I try to put in monitoring using the omada controller software. Something happened and it did not like it. My switch went bonkers. I suspect a too long password.
This is where the real fun started. I could not use my work laptop to restore my settings because it blue screened.
So there was a comedy of things where I asked him to pull the plug while I RDP to a headless PC connected and had him reboot the switch. I was able to reset to factory while watching the serial console via RDP.
But that in itself was a challenge, because there were no free ethernet ports on any of the working switches. Save the management ethernet on the 10G switch.
I asked my son to use his laptop, but he had no ethernet, my USB ethernet didn’t work on his laptop either. So we had to fish out mine which I was using in the server room.
Once I got the laptop on, IP’d to 192.168.0.99 I was able to web into 192.168.0.1 with the default username/password of admin/admin
With a browser connection I was able to upload backup config to the switch.
Anyway that was the recap.
Today was more uneventful, had a final long lunch with my boss Joe, got him a Red Hat and Red Tape as a gag gift, but the real gift was an apple watch.
Tomorrow is his last official day.
Will be a sad one.
It is 8:45 as I post, it took me 2 hours yesterday to get to 10k steps, today I am going to go a little slower. Today is more of a relax walk.
If I don’t make 10k I will return and edit this post. Otherwise I did it.
Weight: 348.2
Posting late, but one of my switches went crazy.
Not sure if it is crappy software or something I did, but the omada controller did something to my switch.
Been working on it for an hour now. Haven’t gotten near my needed steps.
Got to stop for a while give me time to get my steps.
If I don’t finish I will edit this post.
Weight: 346.8
My boss for the last 15 years, is retiring, that is a huge chunk of my life that he has been my boss.
Life was great when he was my boss, but over the past few weeks he I felt the transition happening, we will see in the next few weeks how that goes.
It was cool to have the entire team, and his boss, and his bosses boss, attend.
Weight: 344.0
Finally, the weather is turning warm again. I was a bit late, but I did get out there and walk this evening.
Been worried though, I been having stomach problems and been going to the bathroom a lot, maybe got a stomach bug.
Another struggle was work, got deadlines. Won’t go in to too much detail, but heat is on.
The joy of 10GB network was short lived, not sure what the heck is going on, but got the 10GB link is causing some problems.
More to troubleshoot. In the meantime I got it at 2.5G
Bet most of my weight loss is due to dehydration.
Weight: 342.2
