#PDX nerds: I'm embarking on a home #networking project and need about 250 ft of quality solid copper #Cat6 (or better) cable. Before I buy new, is anyone holding? Anyone with a half-used spool gathering dust in the garage? I'd much rather buy someone's leftovers. Thanks!
Are there any #networking types out there that can offer me an answer to an issue I'm having?
My Mac wouldn't upload to websites using either Safari or Firefox. Tried searching for an answer, but nothing came up, so I posted on /r/macOS.
A reply I got there suggested manually changing the MTU rate in network settings to 1280, and that if that worked then something is up with our network.
"Reverse networking" -- the process of getting to know a lot of people in a lot of other companies, because they have all left the company you knew them at. #career#networking
I just published 0.9.0 version of logmerger, compatible with Python 3.13. Here is an example merge of a client and server log, plus PCAP packet capture file showing TCP send/receive traffic. Uses textual TUI framework for cursor and mouse interaction in a terminal session. https://pypi.org/project/logmerger#python#tcp#networking#textual
Is there any text-based, ideally distributed monitoring software out there? I want a TUI that shows me (e.g. with green/red highlights) the reachability of hosts (simple ping checks) while I'm doing network maintenance. Like a really simple, curses based nagios? It would probably look like a bloomberg terminal.. (I know this wouldn't be too hard to implement.. but I can't really believe it's not already out there...) #linux#TUI#monitoring#network#networking#sysadmin#software#curses
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Wednesday 5th June, 9 am CEST, is the new deadline to apply for the role of GÉANT Chief Executive Officer (#CEO).
The CEO will be based in Amsterdam and will be entrusted with the dual responsibilities of overseeing GÉANT’s day-to-day operations and guiding the long-term strategic direction of the organisation.
I just wasted about 2 hours of my time trying to figure out why a server would only connect at 100Mbit instead of the expected 1Gbit.
I had all sorts of ideas, NIC, driver, driver settings, switch related ... and in the end, I almost don't dare to say it, it turned out to be a cabling problem ... you know, there's a tiny little difference between a Cat5 and a Cat5e cable ...
Who the heck still has Cat5 patch cables lying around?!! ... me, for example 😱 but one less now!!
Whenever I have an internet problem I always dread contracting my ISP because I have to explain what I’ve done to the repair tech and I can tell I’m annoying them.
Like my fiber box is getting no signal, so I reach out and they’re like “we’re going to reset your router”. Except they can’t, because I don’t use their router I use my own router and trick their system into accepting it because I’ve tagged the port with the cable from the fiber box with the right VLAN. So then after I explain that part they’re like “ok well can you hook up our router for testing?”
I can but I also have an old fluke fiber tester that I’ve already tested the line with so like…..I know it’s not that. But then I have to explain “well I actually already tested the actual fiber and there is no signal so the problem isn’t with the router. Here’s the output of the test.”
I feel like it must be like an ISP techs worst nightmare to get a fluke test output in a service ticket.
"In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network.
[...]
It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor."
Okay, I didn’t expect #5G to actually make a difference sub-6GHz. But here we are, with the fastest Speedtest I ever had on a cellphone.
Btw, this was inside a mall and I don’t even know where the tower is. #networking#internet
The #CEO will be based in #Amsterdam and will be entrusted with the dual responsibilities of overseeing GÉANT’s day-to-day operations and guiding the long-term strategic direction of the organisation.