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