ML
    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Recent
    • Categories
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    1. Home
    2. dafyre
    • Profile
    • Following 1
    • Followers 13
    • Topics 51
    • Posts 12643
    • Best 4570
    • Controversial 10
    • Groups 0

    Brant Wells

    @dafyre

    I'm an IT jack of all trades...
    I have a bit of experience in Software Development (PHP / HTML / CSS / jQuery / mySQL), Windows Server 2003+, Various Linux and Virtualization Flavors, and non-IPOD SAN setups.

    6635
    Reputation
    8184
    Profile views
    12643
    Posts
    13
    Followers
    1
    Following
    Joined Last Online
    Website www.wellstonpublishing.com

    dafyre Unfollow Follow

    Best posts made by dafyre

    • Twas the night before Christmas...

      As promised... I still think it's corny, but oh well, I had fun, ha ha!

      'twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
      the AC was running 'cause we live in the South.

      The stockings were hung by the windows with care.
      Hope Santa don't find them, they need some fresh air.

      The children were plastered with sweat to their beds
      While visions of cold lakes danced in their heads.

      And Mama in her bikini and I in my speedo
      We settled out brains while watching Jay Leno.

      When out in the kitchen there arose such a clatter.
      I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

      Away to the fridge I flew like a flash.
      Tore open the freezer and saw more ice crash.

      The moon on the deck all covered with straw.
      I saw three deer and heard a crow's caw.

      When what to my wondering eyes should appear
      A gigantic sleigh pulled by 4 John Deere.

      With a heavy old driver a thunder and crack.
      I smacked my forehead, I knew it was Jack.

      Louder and Louder his tractors they came
      He cursed and he shouted and hollered the same.

      "Aww come on you pieces of trash. Go! I'm fixen
      to tear you a new one and take you to Dixon!"

      To the top of the dell to the top of the hill!
      Roll away, roll away, watch out for Jill!"

      As dry clay before the wind blows,
      I saw them take flight, to where God only knows.

      So past the tree tops and hillside they flew,
      There went the sleigh and even Jack too.

      And then in a moment I heard a loud jingle.
      On top of my house stood old Kris Kringle.

      Down the chimney he flew with a crash,
      He covered the room and kitchen with ash.

      A bundle of what-nots and things on his back.
      He opened his sack, even that was black.

      His bald head did shine and sparkle by light.
      His face was all red from the suntan he had.
      He laughed and laughed, I thought he was mad.

      His mouth drew up to curl with a smile.
      I wondered if he might stop and stay for a while

      I offered him a smoke from grampa's old pipe.
      The tobacco, it burned, but boy was it ripe.

      He had a broad face and a fat big ol' belly.
      It jiggled and wiggled like marmalade jelly.

      I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.

      A shake of his nose and a jerk of his thumb
      Told me I could go back to bed and play dumb.

      He went straight to work with a clothes pin attached.
      He filled the old stockings with all kinds of snacks.

      He bowed ever so slightly and gave up a nod.
      In a poof he vanished leaving only fresh sod.

      I heard him shout out, "My God it is hot!"
      Then he bellowed and cried:
      "Merry Christmas All Y'all and to all a Good night!"

      posted in Self Promotion
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • ZeroTier Site-To-Site

      ZeroTier Site-To-Site Setup

      ASSUMPTIONS:

      • Site A is on 192.168.10.0/24
      • Site B is on 192.168.122.0/24
      • Site A's VM is 192.168.10.2 for the Local Network
      • Site A's VM is 10.0.0.107 on the ZT Network
      • Site B is 192.168.122.1 on the Local Network
      • Site B is 10.0.0.129 on the ZT Network.

      Step 1: Build a Private Network on https://my.zerotier.com

      992b3cf8-f3e5-4de9-8d4a-60b52db30adb-image.png

      Step 2: Spin up a Linux VM at each site. Connect and authorize them to the ZT Network and note their IP address. For instance:

      Some folks have reported SIGNIFICANT performance improvement when using 2 cores / 2 vcpus for the Linux VMs.
      2975d5f6-c92e-497d-a610-eeee655b39f0-image.png

      Step 2B. Enable IP_Forward:

      Follow your distribution's instructions to enable ip_forward and make it a permanent change... On most distros, this should work:

      sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

      You can then sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf to reload the configuration or reboot.

      sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward should return

      net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
      

      if everything is going to work correctly.

      Step 3: From either of the Linux VMs, ensure that they can ping one another on the ZT Subnet.

      Step 4: Set up the Routes inside on https://my.zerotier.com

      0d591b3c-e97d-42c9-84a7-2f3b9b39b467-image.png

      *Once you set up the routes in ZeroTier Central, you do not have to manually add them to your Linux VMs.

      Step 5: Set up the Site Routes at the Routers for Site A and Site B

      SITE A Main Router:
      ae0eaa8c-6b56-4edb-95a3-76a625e8faaa-image.png

      You'll notice for the router at Site A that I am using the INTERNAL network address of my Linux VM.

      SITE A Linux Router VM:

      [email protected] /root # ip route
      default via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 onlink
      10.0.0.0/24 dev zt1  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.0.107
      192.168.10.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.10.2
      192.168.20.0/24 via 10.0.0.116 dev zt1
      192.168.122.0/24 via 10.0.0.129 dev zt1
      

      SITE B, KVM Server, no need for separate VM:

      [email protected]:/root# ip route
      default via <my public ip> dev eth0 onlink
      10.0.0.0/24 dev zt1 scope link  #ZT Subnet
      192.168.10.0/24 via 10.0.0.107 dev zt1 #SiteA, 10.0.0.107 is the ZT IP for the Linux VM at Site A
      192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1  #This server is Site B
      

      **This was done on systems that do not have UFW or firewall-cmd enabled. You may have to set them up to allow traffic between your sites.

      Okay... I think that's it. Mine is working. 🙂

      If you have any questions or comments, ask away!

      posted in IT Discussion
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes

      giphy.gif

      Samsung phones on their way back to the factory.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: Checking Out CloudatCost

      I was actually paying a little attention. I got the Dev 3 plan that's listed as $140 on the Web Site. I paid through Paypal and was only charged $70.

      So it's all good. 8-)

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      Somewhere in another thread, somebody asked for a song about Mangolassi... So here it is. To the Tune of Beverly Hillbillies...

      Now this is the story about N-T-G.
      They made a forum; called it Mangolassi.
      Then one day @scottalanmiller was looking for some food
      @Minion-Queen showed up with a bubbling crude.
      Mangos, that is.  Fruit drink, with alcohol.
      
      Then @art_of_shred took a drink and said "Wheeeeeeee"
      then they found him in the neighbor's tree.
      Pecans or cherry?  I really can't see.
      Then @scottalanmiller  said save some for me.
      
      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      The VP of our company had his email hacked over the weekend. 4000+ spam emails sent from his account and a return email for each one stating that Microsoft couldn't deliver because it was flagged as spam.

      I don't even know where to start with this because I know he kept plain text passwords in emails to himself. It's looking like they just hacked it to spam people, but who really knows? It appears that they had access for about a week and launched the spamming Saturday morning.

      He had over 13,000 things in his deleted folder, too... I'm thinking he was using that as an archive.

      He needs to wear this shirt for two weeks:
      1a2c8206-f602-4c8e-9299-e19082354375-image.png

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: MangoCon 2017

      @Minion-Queen said in MangoCon 2017:

      @Tracy_Burton said in MangoCon 2017:

      @Minion-Queen
      Sorry...When I see something posted, I assume its not still in progress.

      As you should @scottalanmiller is the issue here 😞

      Pro Tip: If you want to keep a secret, don't tell @scottalanmiller .

      posted in MangoCon
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: Handling Downvotes

      @wirestyle22 said in Handling Downvotes:

      @scottalanmiller said in Handling Downvotes:

      @dbeato said in Handling Downvotes:

      Imaging this on SW lol 😛

      I'm imagining a big ball of flames crashing from the sky in NJ.

      Take the wheel jesus

      71bf0136-6af8-49be-aaa0-9bbb5e5559fc-image.png

      posted in Platform and Category Issues
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • ZeroTier Review

      I recently discovered a VPN-like service called ZeroTier (http://www.zerotier.com) that works similar to Hamachi or maybe Pertino (never used Pertino though!). Basically, it builds out a network within the internet... Each client would get an IP address in the IP space you specify (Private IPs, a la 192.168 or 172.16, et al). And each device in that network will be able to communicate with other devices that are connected and authorized.

      The Technical FAQ on their site (https://www.zerotier.com/tech_faq.shtml) does a better job of explaining the way the nodes communicate than I can off the top of my head. The way the connection setups and everything works kinda reminds me of a P2P type application.

      If you create an account on their web site and use their Controllers, the setup is quick and easy; their system provides networks that are free for up to 10 devices. You can also pay them a monthly fee of $4 per month per Network of more than 10 devices. There are currently clients for Windows (7 and up, including Server Editions), Mac, and Linux. It should also work on BSD based OSes as well, but you will have to compile it yourself. An Android version is in the works, but I am not sure about iDevices.

      The software itself is open source, and you can build your own controller and create networks as large or small as you want. However, they do not offer a GUI by which to do this yet for self-hosted controllers, so you are left using the REST API for configuring the networks.

      As an example, my current network runs on a hosted Linux VM as the controller, and it has my laptop, my office machine, and two other VMs connected to it. Each machine has an IP address of 192.168.y.z/24 The underlying OS sees those as actual network interfaces... IE: on my linux controller, it is listed as ztX, and in Windows, it shows up as another ethernet devie in Network & Sharing Center; I don't have a Mac to test on at the moment. You can also specify which subnet you want to use for your ZT Network, as long as it is not a publicly routable network, you should be fine.

      They do have a gateway capability built in, but I have not tested it yet. It appears that you can have one of your client VMs provide access to the subnet behind it (equivalent of site to site VPN).

      You can configure a network to be public or private. With the public, as the name suggests, no authorization is required and anybody that joins up will be granted an IP address. In a private network, each device that joins has to be manually authorized before it is issued an IP address on the network.

      Using my own controller at the moment, things seem rather snappy. I get an average 45 - 50 ms ping time between one node and another. (I get a similar ping time using the public IP addresses between the two networks). I Copied a 2 megabyte file from SystemA to SystemB in ~3 seconds (would have been faster...but Windows...).

      I did have to write my own PHP scripts for creating networks, deleting neteworks and authorizing devices (Not sure how to handle JSON in BASH / Shell scripting).

      So far, it looks to be a secure VPN package with some nice level of controls. They are laying the groundwork for allowing rules (ACLs, if you will) so you can specify which devices can communicate to where, and in a true security first setup, unless you have a specific accept (allow) rule, the traffic is dropped.

      The following screenshot is the admin dashboard on their site. Everything should be self explantory, but if you don't know what a setting is for ,the help menu along the right hand side provides a good enough bit of information to help.

      upload-274ea3eb-e13c-4ec9-a9c6-d289785b600d

      Edit: Posted the dashboard screenshot, and fixed a few typos.

      Update 8/31/2015 I got the Bridging feature that will let a ZeroTier Client become a bridge for the network that it sits in front of working. This effectively provides site-to-site or client-to-site VPN funcitonality. This feature has to be enabled for the devices using the server-side CLI if you are using your own controller.

      IE: My home Network has a ZeroTier IP of 192.168.251.250, and my internal IP addresses are 192.168.10.1-254... So on my client, I add a route to 192.168.10.0/24 via my client's ZeroTier IP address... On my Linksys at home, I add a route for 192.168.251.0 via 192.168.10.10 (the LAN IP address of the ZeroTier client inside of my home network).

      posted in IT Discussion
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      Hi all! I'm Brant Wells from Georgia way down south. I am currently working as an IT Minion for a college.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre

    Latest posts made by dafyre

    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Just making sure you understand that knowing every software firewall on the market inside and out won't give you any soft of advantage of someone that just took a nap instead.

      He does have a great point here. Knowing concepts is better than being tied to a particular vendor. That being said, I just woke up from my nap and now want more coffee.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

      Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

      It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

      I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

      Don't let Scott scare you off of using something like pfSense or OPNsense. Either would be fine in production use -- on decent hardware.

      I've used pfSense for a while at my last job. I've used both as routers for Lab environments as well.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

      After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

      Same kind of thing? software router?
      opensource?
      I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

      Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

      I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

      pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

      Thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since I dug into pfSense.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

      After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

      Same kind of thing? software router?
      opensource?
      I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

      Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

      I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      DId they actually expected Martians to exist, find it, and plug in a monitor?

      They need to be able to use IGRDP -- Intragalactic Remote Desktop Protocol. It's all the rage these days, right?

      Hey, I wonder if that new fandangled Webb Telescope will have Windows XP on it? lol.

      posted in News
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

      After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      We closed on a home improvement loan this morning - time to plan the dream kitchen!!!

      Awesome!

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes

      @Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

      @nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

      7c3569f6-0c4d-4b0f-aa0e-0aaa8e55be80-image.png

      The morning after? that's to much credit!

      More like 5 minutes later....

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      I've decided to start using this phrase...

      "Do what you want to do, I do not give the fuzzy backside of a large sewer rodent."

      I agree. There's a story here somewhere... and it smells like it crawled up a rat's ass.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre
    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Back in the office today after a very emotionally taxing day yesterday. Hoping the clock runs a little faster today.

      I hope that all is well. Pretty exhausting day here yesterday, too.

      Bad things come in three's right? was at a funeral service for an uncle on my dads side, when we got the call that my aunt died (same side) just waiting for the 3rd bad thing to happen (or find out about it)

      But Happy Friday !

      I feel bad saying Happy Friday after all that... But Happy Friday! -- but just in case, take this hard hat, and flak jacket.

      posted in Water Closet
      dafyre
      dafyre