I have been using netgear r7000p/r7000 as router and access points for years (netgear stuff for decades). Friday right around 5:00pm, I had an r7000 in bridge mode lose connectivity to the main router. I spend a stupid amount of time debugging (while noticing my neighbor has switched his router to DD-WRT and boosted his signal - I have considered retribution) but eventually the easy fix was rebooting the EX8000 range extender (hard wired backhaul) that is next to the neighbor. Along about 11:00, everything is hunky dory, sort of.
The R7000p as an internet facing device has bugged me for quite some time. The 0 day vuln reported Thursday made that it become an outright rash. So, I start reconfiguring my base servers - I have an SM X9DA7 as my main hyper-v host with an X9SRA as the failover back up. So today, I decided I wanted to put a pfsense vm on the X9SRA NOW (not wait for nic cards to arrive), so that meant dismantling my live migration network so I could use that onboard nic for the wan. I also took the opportunity to make sure all the OS's were patched to current. Last step is to reboot the x9da7 after patching...
Of course I fail order dependency 10. Live migration dismantled with both DCs on x9da7 after removing live migration, I reboot it. Of course, when I attempt to RDP back into the x9da7 after the reboot, I get the NLA error... I go down to the server room in the basement and try to switch the kvm from the x9sra to the x9da7, it goes beep (instead of beep beep) and its' lights go dark. Another hour getting the KVM out of the loop while switching in my old office monitors to the server room. Finally, I am where I should have been 6 hours earlier.
I come up out of the basement grumbling and my wife says: "mercury is in retrograde, you shouldn't be changing tech".
I am surprised my children still have a mother. I, somehow, have not gotten a Darwin award.