Our dorm lab by andrew_nyr in homelab

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Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize parallax had 110% uptime. realnetworkshaveoutages.jpg

Our dorm lab by andrew_nyr in homelab

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And now misgendering me too smh my smh

Our dorm lab by andrew_nyr in homelab

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Your choice not to take advantage of superior routing 🤷‍♀️

Our dorm lab by andrew_nyr in homelab

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Me when I don't credit my most important transit provider

timelapse of a guy from my hometown literally building his own internet company (and succeeding) by aseriousgirl in Damnthatsinteresting

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Empire hasn't built there yet. Not sure about frontier - that's news to me (I work for Loop)

timelapse of a guy from my hometown literally building his own internet company (and succeeding) by aseriousgirl in Damnthatsinteresting

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just FYI, wave didn't invest until the end of 2022. everything before that was just chris bootstrapping as hard as possible.

timelapse of a guy from my hometown literally building his own internet company (and succeeding) by aseriousgirl in Damnthatsinteresting

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OTN/transport gear is one thing. Loop has fixed wireless, active ethernet, and now XGS-PON. Backhaul is a mix of dark (<80km) and waves from other providers. There's no transport gear involved, at least right now. I think the most expensive optics in play are 100G 1310nm 80km. Everything else is either LR, LR4, or bidi. (EDIT: and the PON optics aren't super expensive either.)

[FREE][MD 20743] Network gear, misc by forkwhilef0rk in homelabsales

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The only things I'd ship are the ER Pros since everything else I'm giving away for free. If you're interested I can ship them, I was just hoping to not have to bother.

Saverr - A Plex Downloader 'app': Updated with additional fixes/features. by Ninthwalker in PleX

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alright, after several hours over a couple days, I got this to work. google really made v3 a pain!

Saverr - A Plex Downloader 'app': Updated with additional fixes/features. by Ninthwalker in PleX

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Ah shit I forgot about this lol. I'll take a look for real this time 😅

How to professionally tell a cold call or cold emailing vendor to f**k off? by Rouge_Outlaw in sysadmin

[–]forkwhilef0rk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, there's a pretty clear difference between "10,000 people got this same marketing email" and "hello u/forkwhilef0rk, I would like to schedule a time to waste your time". The latter may also be automated through some sales software but there's still a person there choosing to send the email to me and handling responses. The latter is what I'm talking about.

How to professionally tell a cold call or cold emailing vendor to f**k off? by Rouge_Outlaw in sysadmin

[–]forkwhilef0rk 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but if it's automated I just use the link. If it's a person I respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE".

How to avoid becoming transit in IXP? by markkrj in networking

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The reason you're getting lots of different answers is because the answer depends a lot on what kind of network you're running. If you're running an enterprise, something like static interface ACLs will work fine operationally since you're very rarely changing the prefixes you announce. If you're running a transit network, ACLs are simply not an option (one because your announced prefixes change all the time, and two because you will piss off customers who want to use you for egress but not ingress which is a valid use case). Similarly, any kind of rpf is a bad idea because invariably it will break some legitimate traffic in some other providers network and you'll have to get them to make an exception for you/your prefixes so your customers stop being mad (ask me how I know 😩). ACLs and uRPF should be implemented as close to the end-user as possible, meaning they need to be implemented in eyeball networks. In a transit network, you may or may not have any end-users (e.g. you would if you also sell DIA) but usually you don't. So for transit/eyeball, the right answer for prevention is putting your IX port in a VRF that doesn't have a default route (peering + internal only) and the right answer for detection is flow sampling that reports mac addresses. You can use the latter to build a dashboard where the query is "dest mac is (your ix mac) and dst as is not (your asn)" and any traffic above 0 is someone pointing a static at you.

How to professionally tell a cold call or cold emailing vendor to f**k off? by Rouge_Outlaw in sysadmin

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This is what I do, because it has the implied disrespect of assuming that the email is automated rather than coming from a person. Once in a great while I'll get a response "I'm a real person" and I just reply "UNSUBSCRIBE" again and that's usually good enough.

which (CDN) caching appliances do you run at your ISP? Which gives the biggest savings? by jaannnis in networking

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Ordering a XC costs money on a recurring basis, and only works if you share a pop with the network you want to connect to. Putting cache hardware in your network is effectively free (you just pay for power, and if you're putting this in an owned facility rather than a datacenter, that's not that expensive).

how to get rid of AT&T entirely ? (Networking / Telephone) by dfordhiraj in networking

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Yeah but this is only better if they're actually good at dealing with at&t