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@ITivan80 said in Broadcom to acquire VMWare:

Does this mean that VMware is only going to accept broadcom network cards to operate the hyper-V OS.?

Jaja.

@WrCombs Thanks!

@jt1001001 said in Reboot on ping loss:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0831T2DYV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AVB60TSEZJDG854NV2HD

I use a product from Wattbox for this exact purpose on some comcast modems I use for POTs lines. https://www.snapav.com/shop/en/snapav/search/ip-power?krypto=5%2FcdcXS%2FV0TFwTz8d8FgC3vtSPg%2BpODS

@adamf said in Zerotier issues:

Weird

Not particularly weird at all. All services have outages, partial or full.

Could be anything. Redundancy doesn't prevent outages when the redundant nodes have a common failure mode - such as running the same software or being centrally automated by the same thing.

@adamf said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

@adamf said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

Makes no sense. I have a feeling that something is buggy in the firmware.

What makes no sense is that you think it is firmware.

Just throwing out ideas because it doesn't make logical sense to me. Any thoughts as to what else it could be? Why would the device reply to pings for an hour after reboot, then suddenly stop?

Any chance your ISP is what is blocking you?

@pete-s said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

My guess is that Zimbra is getting by on mostly legacy installations though. Self-hosted email is hard to justify nowadays.

I think moreso they are killed off by their crap licensing, BS installation practices, lack of updates, and MailCow coming along and taking their candy away.

IF you feel the crazy need to host your own email, MailCow does it better than Zimbra, and is truly OS (and deploys natively to Docker.)

@voip_n00b very good point, thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

@adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

I have a user who just needs to RDP

This conflicts with....

@adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

I didn't provide all of the details, because it didn't matter for a recommendation. However, the user does in fact need Windows on both the laptop

...this.

The recommendations are based on the original bit. RDP alone has essentially no requirements at all. But if they need to do other things, then that would be the driver of requirements, RDP is a red herring.

That's fair, it does conflict because I said "just needs RDP".

I pulled the trigger on a cheapo Dell Refurb. Will do great for this specific scenario. Thanks gentlemen!

@scottalanmiller said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@dbeato said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@scottalanmiller Yeah, Our team, when working from home, likes to RDP into their PCs at the office. They use either traditional VPN, or Zerotier. Some of them claim to have issues with Zerotier, claiming it is "slow" for them. I never use traditional VPN anymore and I only use Zerotier if I have to RDP to anything at the office. I never experience slowness of any kind with Zerotier.

Yeah, change is "hard" 🙂

🙂 Zerotier is was such a game changer for us. Remember the old MPLS / pay a fortune days? DO NOT miss those.

I've never had to deal with that. We had better options than MPLS before MPLS hit the market. Even by 2000 we had ways to handle that stuff well without MPLS.

Yeah I only dealt with MPLS in a larger global company I worked for previously. They spend SOOO much money on AT&T managed WAN connections. Like insane amounts of money.

I use a laptop for work, and connect via usb-c dock to dual screens at the office. I have a similar setup at the house. So, I just plug in my work machine and off I go.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft store missing:

@AdamF said in Microsoft store missing:

My solution was to format and re-install. Lesson learned!

The first rule of Microsoft Store:

Don't remove Microsoft Store.

Yep!

@pmoncho said in Drive wiping tools:

The first few were about 10 years ago, but that fun is done. Now its just a PITA, but with HIPAA and all, I figured better safe than sorry...

Check with your shredding company. Many of them will accept drives in the shred truck the comes by.

One of my clients does this. The shredding company jsut wants to know when drives are involved prior to arrival so they can make it first stop or last stop, i forget which. Because hot metal and paper = potential fire.

I think it is last stop. so they can easily extinguish if needed.

@hobbit666 said in Port scanning tools:

@travisdh1 said in Port scanning tools:

That's really just nmap. Nothing wrong with using it, it is the official GUI frontend for nmap.

Yeah but saves me learning nmap commands 😆

That too. I use nmap a lot from the command line, but I'm normally running a standard scan (no options, just nmap xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) or looking for a specific port nmap -p 443 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx covers 90% of what I use it for.

So Free/Busy would work on a federated level and you can actually use the schedule assistant from another Office 365 account to see that however that is all you will get. That said the user will need to send an invite regardless. There is a Uservoice on this
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/36486493-allow-calendar-updates-for-external-users

There are other options like setting up a calendar in Sharepoint and external users can do that.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-site-in-sharepoint-ef10c1e7-15f3-42a3-98aa-b5972711777d?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

You can also use this enterprise app in Office 365 as well
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-bookings-blog/you-can-now-do-more-with-microsoft-bookings/ba-p/298461

Phew! Busy couple of days for me. Sorry for the late reply.

OK, so the setup is as @JaredBusch assumed. VPN on the Laptop only. Split tunneling was not enabled and now it is. Problem solved for now! DuckDNS is reporting the correct home IP. No need for VPN on the phone or PBX.

Good call @Dashrender

@scottalanmiller I'm still going to checkout the possibilities of OpenVPN though. Just in case I need it in the future.

Thanks guys. Have a great weekend.

@fuznutz04 said in Site to Site VPN - not passing audio traffic properly:

This one was interesting to get to the bottom of. @JaredBusch With the VPN tunnel enabled, the phone system was trying to send RTP to the phone on the internal IP. There is a setting in FreePBX on the extension level called "RTP Symmetric". Normally, this is set to yes. I changed it to no and the audio started flowing normally. However, I didn't like this solution. So, as a test, (and what I should have done from the beginning) I blocked all outbound traffic FROM my phone system, to any local network. (10.x, 172.16, 192.168, etc) This immediately solved the issue. I did not yet do a packet capture AFTER the fact to confirm, but I am assuming that blocking the PBX's ability to get to an internal private IP, forces the system to renegotiate and send the RTP to the correct public IP.

Definitely an odd issue.

nice you found a solution - I'm curious why it happens in the first place? Are some of the original phone's packet data still containing the original IP? And if so, why?
Are you using encrypted RTP?

@dbeato said in Web filtering for SMB:

I have continued to use Untangle, Pi-Hole and Yes NGFW as well. So it depends what you want to use, if DNS you know people can circumvent them outright but it is all up to you.

He said his goal was accidents. DNS filtering is perfect for accidents.

@Dashrender said in Remote Access for home user:

@manxam said in Remote Access for home user:

@fuznutz04 : Keep an eye out for the "hidden" hibernate that doesn't show up under "Plan settings" (only sleep and display). I've seen multiple systems that have "Hibernate after" configured under "Sleep" in the advanced settings as default.

There's also the problem where some systems become broken and once a system goes to sleep, it will continue going to sleep no matter what after something like 2 mins of non use. Rebooting fixes it, until it goes to sleep again... there is a fix somewhere in these threads too, reg fix.

Hahah, yeah. I was part of that thread too having been bit by it myself. Thankfully I haven't seen that behaviour in over a year.
Your thread : https://mangolassi.it/topic/18166/windows-10-goes-to-sleep-outside-listed-sleep-times
My thread : https://mangolassi.it/topic/17731/windows-10-ignoring-display-sleep-inactivity-settings

OK, we have success!

Steps to resolve:

On the DC I was having issues with at the main site, I stopped the KDC Service (Kerberos Key Distribution Center Service)

Then I ran this:

NETDOM RESETPWD /Server: <Domain Controller Name> /UserD:<Domain Admin Username> /PasswordD:<Domain Admin Password> Rebooted the server.

After this, all of the strange event viewer errors in the DNS log, AD log, etc were gone. I can now successfully replicate across sites as well as join PCs to the domain. I'm not sure why this happened in the first place, but this fixed it.

Thanks for all the help!