@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

Might as well have built the server using a pizza box...

I've seen that before...

@Dashrender said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@scottalanmiller said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

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@Dashrender said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@NetworkNerd said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

It all depends on the RTO you need to hit. But to the points being made here, the RTO may be different depending on the applications in your environment. Maybe the ERP system and its SQL database are all that need to come back within 1 hour of going down but the file server's RTO could be closer to 2 or 3 hours.

We talk about RTO and RPO, but I bet you in most places those are not clearly defined down to the VM / application level. If they are and you've planned accordingly, bravo.

I had an RTO of 4 days approved by the board for our EHR 10 years ago - I couldn't believe it when they said that was fine.

Other than a board inappropriately getting involved with details they should know nothing about, the final decision is very sensible. What SMB needs all systems restored in less than four days? Almost none. SOme, certainly, but not the average.

We have these numbers of what it costs us to do something - though those numbers mostly don't exist for things like internal paperwork. i.e. EHR is down, fall back to paper - now imput that paper into the EHR (and not just scans of the paper - actual data entry). That data entry is the actual cost to us of downtime for the most part. We can still see patients in most cases in the clinic - surgeries of course stop.

So yeah, having this system down for four days would have been bad.

But, if the math is sound that arrived at the 4 day limit, it may not be as critical as it seems connotatively.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New distortion pedal, hand made in Brazil:

Those are some mean chicken-heads!

And the brand name doesn't exactly ward off the notion that it was made by some former Nazi officer living in South America either... But maybe "Fuhrmann" is a Brazilian name, eh?

Yeah, I saw X-Men First Class...

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New distortion pedal, hand made in Brazil:

Those are some mean chicken-heads!

This is just a project. What's the line? "Not my circus, not my monkeys"?

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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Anyone have a good soldering iron + stand recommendation? I try to stick with 50w+

If you haven't already found one, I picked my last one up via Adafruit... Whiiiich has been discontinued

Aye, get one with some balls, no 15w waiting forever garbage.

I have 2: a 30W that is too weak for just about everything (waiting game) and a 60W which is just about perfect. I usually use it on smaller wires (18-22 AWG) and I haven't had things melting on me, nor have I had to wait long to solder.

50-60w is usually the sweet spot for sure. Any recommendations?

Mine's just some Chinese thing from Amazon. Does the job.

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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone have a good soldering iron + stand recommendation? I try to stick with 50w+

If you haven't already found one, I picked my last one up via Adafruit... Whiiiich has been discontinued

Aye, get one with some balls, no 15w waiting forever garbage.

I have 2: a 30W that is too weak for just about everything (waiting game) and a 60W which is just about perfect. I usually use it on smaller wires (18-22 AWG) and I haven't had things melting on me, nor have I had to wait long to solder.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ended up buying a used peavey vtm120 (all tube 6L6s) and a Brazilian made botique distortion pedal that sounds like they put God in a box. So much freaking gain...

Those aren't bad at all (VTM). Obviously, I have no idea what pedal you got, but that sounds pretty cool... though that coming from a guy who used Metal Zone pedals.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Stepping out to look for supplies.

At 10 PM?

He didn't say he was going to stores.

Out hunting for toilet paper and soap, actually.

I know people who have had to steal that from places.

Survival of the fittest less smelly...

If you're out looking for toilet paper at 10pm, I think I know what the soap's for. Sounds desperate.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

But also found pizza rosso that the kids have been asking for and authentic, back street cannoli for the wife.

Toilet paper, soap, "backstreet" cannoli. Hmm, I think I'll just leave that alone.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going shopping for a guitar amp! Woot!

Whatcha getting?

Not sure, something with tubes, just trying some stuff out. I really liked the 5150, but it had a weird buzz. So onward we go to the next store.

The 5150 is great, if you like what it does. It pretty much only does 1 thing, but if that's your sound it does it well.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going shopping for a guitar amp! Woot!

Pick me up something while you're there...

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Just for @scottalanmiller

In a nutshell, yup.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had plenty of excitement on my lunch break... Free adventure with every meal. I got home and my wife had just about finished making lunch. She was warming mine up in the oven, and set it aside. She wanted to warm hers a little more, so she decided to cook it a bit longer.

Well, lo, and behold her mexican pizza, for lack of a better word, began to swell, and it made contact with the top flames (gas oven) and caught fire, lol. She opened the oven and I was like: Is that a fire?"

It was just too funny.

Funny but assuming everybody is okay as well.

He found it funny, so I think you're safe.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Taunting the Americans. Look how fast and cheap internet is in Europes slowest country.

What does that say at the bottom? For the best time anywhere around here, consult Sara?

I see your Tesla and raise you a Rimac...
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qodSfhk360)

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/

I'm pretty sure these are the ones that will run on standard POE voltage and don't require the proprietary POE switch (or injectors).

This is the basic VPN config, if that makes a difference:

ADDR
Call server 192.168.*****
VPN
General
VPN Enabled
VPN Vendor Other
Gateway Address… *****
Encapsulation 4500 – 4500
Copy TOS No
Auth. Type
Auth. Type PSK
IKE PSK
IKE ID (Group Name)… *****
Pre Shared Key (PSK) *****
IKE Phase 1
IKE ID Type FQDN
IKE Xchg Mode Aggressive
IKE DH Group 2
IKE Encryption Alg 3DES
IKE Auth. Alg. SHA-1
IKE Config. Mode Disabled
IKE Phase 2
IPsec PFS DH Group 2
IPsec Encryption Alg 3DES
IPsec Auth. Alg. SHA-1
Protected Network… 192.168.*****
IKE Over TCP
IKE Over TCP Never

We have a client who has multiple locations, all of whom employ Cisco routers currently. It's time for a new router at 1-3 locations, but the bulk of the overall network will remain Cisco with what's in place (let's say they are all 1812 routers, for simplicity). They have Dynamic Multipoint VPN running, and there is currently a Sonicwall router in place that explicity handles the VPN for data to/from an Avaya phone system. The questions are these:

1. Can a Ubiquiti ERPro-8 router take the place of the Cisco currently in production? Is the Cisco using a proprietary VPN that will not play with non-Cisco equipment, etc.?

2. If the answer to the above permits using Ubiquiti, can the ERPro-8 also handle the VPN traffic for the Avaya phones? Can you create more than one VPN tunnel from a single router?

3. How does the ERPro-8 compare to a Cisco 1900 series router in power, performance, and features?

Being entirely unfamiliar with most things Cisco, I'm hoping to get some traction with your collective experience...
Thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:

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@dafyre said

I have never had any issues not putting them in... But make sure you understand what they are at a bare minimum... Bonus points if you know how to calculate them.

Bah, that's why we have the interwebs

That's also why it's bonus points if you know how to calculate it.

I recall when I learned how to calculate it - for a while I just assumed anyone higher than me on the IT food chain must know this stuff - boy was I wrong.

I know, right? The only reason I remember is because my CCNA prof made sure we knew how to do subnet calculations on paper from day one.

I learned it when I was self learning Windows NT stuff. My company at the time was all Windows 3.1 and a bit Windows 95 with Netware on the servers. For some reason I really like NT 4.0 and bought some books and started learning.

Out of all the Microsoft Server versions I've used over the years, 2000 was my favorite with NT4.0 only falling out of the favorite slot because of the tiny boot partition, even at that time 2GB was kinda small.

I still prefer NT4 by far. 2000 was actually my least favourite.

Well, I used Server 2000 for a desktop back in the pre XP days, just to have a stable platform to game on Linux/UNIX world was always so much more stable.

Yes, I did the same thing. I moved to Windows 2000 as fast as possible. Win9x was so unstable...

That wasn't the transition, though. The Windows 9x world was consumer, Windows NT was business. Windows 2000 was the continuation of the already most of a decade old NT family. So had you moved to the NT world "as soon as you could" you would have done so before Windows 95 even released. Windows ME was the continuation of the 9x family, Windows 2000 was NT 5. So you jumped mid-stream.

Yes I know all that - I don't know why my office never really used NT3.51... we went from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 2000 at that office.

I personally tossed NT 4.0 in there.

I have always had the sense that most businesses did just that. 3.11 > 95 > 2000.

agreed - at least on the desktop side.

Every business I dealt with back then went that route.

I saw a lot of 95, but a lot of good businesses on NT 4 workstation, too. Definitely saw some leap from the DOS family to 2000 directly but saw NT 4 on the desktop more than anything else in the late 1990s.

I think I've seen 1 or 2 NT4 workstations... ever.

I think you've seen more than that just visiting my apartment in the 1990s. We easily had half a dozen there alone.

NTG was 100% NT4 from 1999 - 2003 except for a small number of 2000 machines that were put on client sites after 2000.

Yeah, I never visited your apartment.