Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
Have you encountered an issue with your VyOS instance where after upgrading the system, the interfaces either missing or got mixed around? I have been dealing with this issue with my Supermicro MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O board with Intel x520-DA2. It is a hit and miss issue. The symptoms are the hardware MAC address of each interface got […]
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From the previous post, we chatted about upgrading the VyOS system using different methods. However, what if something went sideways and did not go according to the system upgrade plan then what now? This is going to be a short post and we are going to explore the options based on two different scenarios: After
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I just want to say this and this is also has mentioned in the VyOS wiki that despite VyOS is based off Debian Linux, do not use apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade; otherwise, you will break your VyOS instance. There are several ways of upgrading the system. The first one is to use the direct
I was upgrading the Cisco SD-WAN routers recently. According the Cisco, to manually up upgrade the ASR1002-HX via USB stick. The USB must not bigger than 32GB and must be formatted in FAT32 format. Anyways I have I spare USB 32GB laying around and planning to upgrade my VyOS router/firewall via USB stick. I thought
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I have been using the OnlyOffice with the Nextcloud UI, but recently, I decided to install the desktop client. I can’t really say for sure if the Windows and macOS version has the same issue; but in Linux, I get this problem. After installing the package, the default scaling seems to be set to 2.
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Starting version 6.1, this method does not apply anymore. This has been annoyed me for a while, whenever I add a new VLAN to my Proxmox server, I would have reboot the server for this new VLAN to become active. So when adding or making any network changes on the PVE node, these new changes
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There are several ways to create sub-directories, but each method has its ups and downs, I believe or at least what I’ve noticed. The first one is through SSH. This is very simple. You basically login via SSH and create a directory using mkdir command. However, if you created a directory and the parent directory
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I am running SnapRAID and MergerFS. I want my data to be protected by SnapRAID and simplify the storage management across the SnapRAID disks array via MergeFS. OpenMediaVault (OMV) made this easier by having these two available as plugins. These can be installed via OMVExtras Plugins. After installing the OMVExtras, search for these two plugins
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For this post, I will be using the SnapRAID, as an example, to automate its sync and scrub commands to show some use cases. Scheduled jobs can be used to do other cron jobs as well such as your own scripts. We will get to this script later on. What is the Scheduled Jobs tab
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This post is going to be short. It is very helpful to get notified when the jobs have been completed or you would like to receive the output of the jobs. Notification can be done by enabling the email notification feature that comes with OpenMediaVault. I am going to be using the Google mail service
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