Tonight I asked a question in the OpenVPN IRC channel on FreeNode. me: I’m getting ready to set up a new server, running an OpenVPN client. It will be running several virtual machines (FreeBSD Jails). Each VM will have both a public IP address and a non-routable IP address. I’m hoping to access all those VMs from within the VPN. Am I making sense with my objective here? reply: “clientlan” is (#1) for […]
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I had a Bacula job fail today: Is bacula-sd running on crey? Yes it is. Can I telnet to port 9103 on crey? Yes, I can: $ telnet 10.5.0.20 9103 Trying 10.5.0.20… Connected to crey.example.org. Escape character is ‘^]’. What about from the nyi-fd server? Can I telnet from there? $ telnet 10.5.0.20 9103 Trying 10.5.0.20… telnet: connect to address 10.5.0.20: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host I started
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The other day, I disconnected the ethernet cable from my gateway to reroute the cable. Then, perhaps coincidentally, I started seeing these entries: Jul 2 15:19:57 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 2 15:28:01 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 2 15:28:02 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len
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I have a Planex MZK-RP150N. Sometimes (always), I forget how to change the SSID it connects to. This documents it so I can do this faster next time. Wireless LAN Basic Settings Site Survey select the SSID click on Connect Enter the password OK Apply (saves settings) Apply (again; this time it restarts the unit) Done.
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It seems there is a problem between my home and my server in Austin: $ traceroute supernews.unixathome.org traceroute to supernews.unixathome.org (206.127.23.226), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net (98.114.194.1) 6.680 ms 3.669 ms 4.230 ms 2 G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.109.140) 3.756 ms 4.053 ms 4.384 ms 3 ae0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.178) 3.718 ms 3.787 ms 4.293 ms 4 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.85) 11.601 ms 11.975 ms 11.818 ms 5 xe-2-1-0.er2.iad10.us.above.net (64.125.13.173) 11.294 ms 11.610 ms 11.789 ms 6
Things are looking better now: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 19:43:16 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 253 5.6 7.3 3.2 143.0 15.6 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 4.9 5.1 3.0 36.2 4.1 3. so-3-1-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 5.4 11.8 3.0 136.5 23.2 4. so-0-2-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 62.9 21.4 5.5 130.4 24.8 xe-0-1-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-1-8-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-0-4-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 5. so-7-2-0-0.NWRK-CORE-RTR2.verizon-gni.net
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Here’s packet loss to one of the Verizon DNS servers: My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:58:53 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 10.7% 140 4.3 5.2 3.2 42.2 3.8 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net 8.6% 140 3.2 5.4 3.1 30.5 3.7 3. so-9-0-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 4.3% 140 5.9 11.3 3.2 89.0 14.6 4. so-7-1-0-0.PHIL-CORE-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 7.9% 140 3.7 5.8
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This is interesting. From my gateway to one of my servers, the packet loss is pretty big: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:15:36 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni 3.4% 119 4.8 6.1 3.2 60.1 7.4 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-g 8.4% 119 5.5 5.6 3.1 33.0 4.4 3. 130.81.199.18 4.2% 119 5.6 16.6 3.0 228.0 33.6 4. 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET
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After recent efforts to get old jails running on a new server, I tried to upgrade some ports today. I failed. portupgrade was erroring out and reporting: protocol not supported A simple fetch http://www.google.com/ was giving me fetch: transfer timed out I tried portaudit -Fa. Nothing. fetch: transfer timed out I checked ifconfig on the jail host. There is was. I’ll show only a small part of the ifconfig output: $ ifconfig inet
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I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can. Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates: Setting up a $ ifconfig em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:51:ab:2d inet 10.55.0.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.55.0.255 inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 2001:470:1f07:b80:21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d prefixlen 64 autoconf nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV> media: Ethernet autoselect