Recent content by ttabbal

Haven't been on, real life. :) The googleadservices link is frequently blocked by DNS adblock setups. I suspect Proton is trying to help you avoid tracking, which is why they block it. You can set up your own DNS if you prefer, or perhaps they have an option to not use their DNS when you...

Signal strength? I mean... maybe for a wifi client, but it connects to the FIOS box with ethernet, doesn't it? Or do you mean a 5ghz wifi signal? It's possible that a wifi WAN link does indeed drop packets/signal. That could be caused by all sorts of things. radio links are a pain. If your setup...

I find it difficult to believe they would block VPNs and it would work on your desktop fine. They don't really know which machine on your network is the source, though with v6 they might see it's on your subnet. They could mess with things based on the destination, but that would affect every...

I can't say for the switch specifically, but my Aruba has options to disable POE on a port. You might well have already verified something else works on that port, but it might be worth checking as well. It might also be worth checking what POE standards both ends support. When I first started...

That they are saying mirror, and only 2 disks, it can't be raidz. Has to be mirror. So it sounds like they are removing a drive using the ZFS CLI. Something like "zpool offline" perhaps? Then physically removed the other drive. I'm surprised it didn't throw an error and take the pool offline...

If your application can run in a container, I found I got much better performance that way. I just figured that the VM overhead was causing issues. Proxmox can auto-mount a host path on the container and it appears to perform near native. As for performance on Z1... I don't know about that...

If you can, I would run conduit first. That way, you can use it later when you want to add more drops, and trust me, you always do. :) You aren't going that far, so you don't need anything too special. How fast do you want to go? The fiber you need differs depending on speed. 10G is pretty...

Cool idea. I've read that this trick isn't a great idea though. I never could figure out why. The implication was that performance was crap. I would like to set up something like this eventually, the router/AP boxes are overpriced at an insane level for the newer wifi standards. Even 6E would be...

I like containers for efficiency. However, I am not a huge fan of some of the things Docker does with networking and such. It's fine, and some things are much nicer than other platforms. I just wish people would include at least one distro package though, or even just instructions to set up an...

I love Brother printers. They have a good selection with network support, decent quality, and no crazy requirements for drivers etc.. They "just work" with everything. Windows, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, whatever. No screwy DRM and usually very good aftermarket toner support. I use a mono MFC and...

raidz only, and unless you are using a newer version. They added the ability to grow raidz a while back. It's not perfect, but it's not horrible. For a number of years, I've been running striped mirrors. I can expand or add anytime. Either add a pair to the stripe, or just replace individual...

ZFS: I really like the reliability. There are even some options to expand raidz volumes now on Linux. For Linux based, proxmox is nice. Solaris based setups work great, but Oracle bugs some people. There's also BSD based options. They all have pros and cons. It depends a lot on what features and...

This is how I do it, which might help. The inter-VLAN routing is on an OpnSense box. The main switch handles the VLAN isolation. Managed switches usually have 2 modes for the VLAN side. One, everything on a port is on whatever VLAN you tell it. Other VLAN traffic is blocked. The second is a...

If you want Linux, don't let it stop you. For a file server, Proxmox works great out of the box with ZFS. It also supports Containers (like BSD jails) and KVM virtual machines. I wouldn't want a distro that doesn't natively ship ZFS for a storage box. Dealing with the kernel patching, even the...

Thought it might be fun to check. Now I'm thinking I should get a backup drive ordered. 2TB spinner. :)