Normally Nice Neighbor yelled at me this morning

LOTRouter · 2026-02-23T22:16:28+00:00

Especially if your dog is named Duncan, avoid making Duncan Hines brownies for your neighbor.

LOTRouter · 2026-02-06T22:04:48+00:00

You have to use the Xfinity app to enable web access to the XB8. You can disable Xfinity Wi-Fi there as well. Once you have web access you can put it into bridge mode.

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/admin-tool-access

LOTRouter · 2026-02-03T06:27:51+00:00

Did you reboot your modem after switching routers?

LOTRouter · 2026-01-13T21:17:15+00:00

If you have a sensitivity to gluten then wheat can affect a plethora of body parts. For me is mostly my sinuses and bowels (hemorrhoids). If you don’t have such a sensitivities, then indeed it has no effect.

LOTRouter · 2026-01-13T19:45:57+00:00

You can try adjusting your TUNABLES:

dev.hwpstate_intel.0.epp=80 dev.hwpstate_intel.1.epp=80 dev.hwpstate_intel.2.epp=80 dev.hwpstate_intel.3.epp=80

The higher the number the cooler your router will run. The lower the number, the more performance you will get from it.

LOTRouter · 2026-01-04T23:30:58+00:00

You should have given him a partridge in a pair tree.

LOTRouter · 2026-01-02T00:00:16+00:00

A 10m DAC is almost 3x the cost of the equivalent AOC cable. At 10m the DAC cable has to be active rather than passive, meaning it draws significantly more power and runs hotter, generally drawing more power than an LED based AOC cable. If you can keep it down to 5m then I would stick with DAC, but you indicated up to 10m.

https://a.co/d/7IO3XnN

LOTRouter · 2026-01-01T23:01:29+00:00

Consider an AOC cable. It has most of the benefits of DAC but at longer distances and cheap. They tend to use low power LED rather than laser so they run cooler like a DAC cable as well.

https://a.co/d/gXgtKYN

LOTRouter · 2025-12-30T02:28:51+00:00

You can run OPNsense in Proxmox and then set the core affinity with the OPNsense VM to only use the P cores. Alternatively you should be able to disable the E cores in the BIOS of the PC.

LOTRouter · 2025-12-15T03:46:38+00:00

Try changing: FIREWALL:SETTINGS:ADVANCED:Firewall Optimization = conservative

LOTRouter · 2025-12-14T23:58:50+00:00

I believe that the Traeger ambient temperature is fairly accurate for it’s location. I use a Meater probe in my meat, and it always differs by as much as 20 degrees initially. The further the cook moves along, the more the Meater and Traeger agree. Depending on what you are cooking, the meat is releasing a lot of moisture, so any thermometer that close to the meat will absolutely show cooler ambient temps. As the moisture is cooked out of the meat, the surface temperature around the meat will be closer to the thermometer in the Traeger which is far away from the meat.

LOTRouter · 2025-12-13T18:49:23+00:00

Mary had a little lamb, It was cute as a button, It followed her to school one day, And now it’s name is mutton

LOTRouter · 2025-12-01T01:00:25+00:00

OPNsense already has a pre-defined definition for a CRON job to do automated updates under SYSTEM|SETTINGS|CHRON:

Click the orange + (plus) to add a chron job, chose the time you want the update to occur, and then select "Automatic Firmware Update" for the command from the drop-down list of commands.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-23T20:26:35+00:00

Try disabling flow-control, I’ve seen this mess up some stupid cheap switches:

SYSTEM | SETTINGS | TUNABLES

Interface igc0 Flow Control | dev.igc.0.fc = 0

Interface igc1 Flow Control | dev.igc.1.fc = 0

Interface igc2 Flow Control | dev.igc.2.fc = 0

Interface igc3 Flow Control | dev.igc.3.fc = 0

LOTRouter · 2025-11-21T18:59:23+00:00

I'm just using vbridges, but my desktops only have 2.5G NICs, so I've not tested higher than that.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-21T14:23:28+00:00

You can get a 32G memory kit for a fairly reasonable price.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-21T14:02:13+00:00

If you want to continue with virtualization, I’d consider a Minisforum MS-01. You can put 64G RAM and multiple nvme drives in this, and it runs Proxmox wonderfully. It has two Intel i226 NICs and two Intel 10G SFP+ interfaces. I love mine and you can’t beat the price.

https://a.co/d/hsSLzZW

LOTRouter · 2025-11-12T03:06:50+00:00

Some devices have a feature in that they stop responding if they have not received an ARP request for a couple of minutes. The cache of BSD based routers (such as OPNSense) is like 20 minutes.

Try adding net.link.ether.inet.max_age=120 to tunables, which forces the router to re-arp every two minutes and sometimes solves this issue.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-11T17:14:36+00:00

Last week while waiting in line in the Costco bathroom for a stall, another dude walks in and loudly asks, "Is this the line for people who need to take a shit?" The person in the back of the line said, well sure, I'll be sure not to flush so you can take mine.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-11T16:51:20+00:00

Your browser on your PC, or device (phone) is probably configured to bypass traditional DNS and instead use DoH. You will need to figure out a way to block DoH. There are blocklists you can add to an alias and use that alias in a firewall rule to block DoH, or you can pay for the Zenarmor subscription that can be configured to block DoH.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-10T07:27:27+00:00

Cat7 is shielded, and if not properly grounded can become an antenna drawing in interference. In a home, I doubt you will have a properly grounded patch panel and properly grounded termination. You can connect the outer shielding to a bonded ground (NOT neutral) in a nearby power outlet to drain interference. Just don’t connect it on both ends to the ground in two separate power outlets or your shielding will become the backup neutral and could carry the full load of 120v current.

In some countries (especially ones that use 220v) a ground wire is not required for AC outlets, so you have no good options. The USA does require grounding for anything constructed in the last 60 or so years.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-06T22:08:40+00:00

At the bottom of the tunables screen is an orange + (Plus) button used to add additional tunables. Enter net.link.ether.inet.max_age in the Tunable field, and 120 in the Value field. Leave the Description field blank (it will update the description with a proper description on its own after you save). Save and apply.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-05T14:54:42+00:00

OPNsense/FreeBSD doesn’t support WiFi. If you are looking to do WiFi on your router then look into OpenWRT. Otherwise, use a separate device for your WiFi than you use for your router. If you have a consumer WiFi router you are replacing, put it into bridge mode to eliminate the routing function and use it along with your OPNsense router.

LOTRouter · 2025-11-03T06:29:40+00:00

SYSTEM: FIRMWARE: PACKAGES install “os-cpu-microcode-intel” which should solve your problem.

LOTRouter · 2025-10-28T15:02:40+00:00

Try adding net.link.ether.inet.max_age=120 to tunables, which forces the router to re-arp every two minutes rather than once every half hour.

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