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I really like the Grandstream access points. However, their documentation is not very informative. I tried to upgrade my GWN7660 AP and it kept failing. If you have your Manager/Controller on a different network, it is not as easy as the vendor shows it in their demo. I am using OPNsense as my firewall and …
I have an old server that I was using for my Proxmox VE. I was planning to reuse the Supermicro motherboard X9SRL-F and the Intel Xeon E5-2658 CPU for my Debian NAS build. I don’t remember if I upgraded the IPMI firmware of this board. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest IPMI firmware …
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 …
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 …
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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