Apolonio Blog

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

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

Finally I get a link on both ends for the second link on my network.

Its already fast, but need make sure there are no loops.

I think there is some loop detection on some switches but non on the other.

Getting late and need to get me steps in, so headed out.

Weight: 346.2

Been on 10GB network for a while now, but between subnets I had a VM acting as a router.

Today I got a physical firewall/router like I mentioned. But I also have stretched the Network to the garage. Currently it is 2.5GB but hoping a repaired 10GB fiber connection will go in soon.

I tried so many combinations, but what worked was a copper 10GB to 2.5GB ethernet connection.

Need to document backup connections.

Recall yesterday I was 1 step short, today 1 am 1 floor short. Hitting it now. Should have 1 more floor before 11PM

Weight: 346.6