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Sunset is starting to get later and I like it

Had an enjoyable walk.

On a techie note, I tested out my firewall and Gig connections all around. The only thing positive was that it is faster than 1G

Weight: 346.8

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

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