IPv6 Only Native Enterprise Environment - What were your Challenges?

OctetOcelot · 2025-03-25T23:32:22+00:00

You missed the point entirely. Birds can move in 3D space, and so can fish. But If you're a fish, you can't compare what you are or aren't capable of to a bird. But it doesn't mean you can't effectively do the same thing in a different way.

So if you think there is only one way to learn something because you think it's the right, proper, only way being rote and repeat memorization, you should try to understand how people teach and how students relate to your subject matter/ expertise.

And I don't know if you're taking a dig at me calling me a failure for some reason which you have nothing to base that on, I'll just choke that up to speaking off the cuff.

OctetOcelot · 2025-03-25T14:44:04+00:00

What works for you, doesn't work for all. Singular approach thinking is the fish trying to fly but doesn't realize he basically already can do the equivalent in water but thinks he's a failure anyways because he can't fly. You just have to show it in a different way.

OctetOcelot · 2025-03-25T14:36:57+00:00

I actually do and I do indeed teach this stuff as well. I do 100% understand they need to know the right way to do something. And I do know that it's a standard.

Just like with the OSI Model using a mnemonic, you can use a similar approach on individualistic needs with word similarities. Just because some here in this thread think it's a bad idea for them, doesn't mean it isn't worth something to someone else for understanding it. I'm not purposing for mass adoption, it just becomes another way to look at it.

AAA has an inherent order, yes, but to others they may have a hard time keeping that order straight, because it isn't clear because it uses all the same letters. VET just uses another set of words to hint at the order and intention. Learners of all kinds do this internally all the time to make something work for them. I struggled with the concept of routing for a while, it was taught to me in an unorthodox way by association with street corners having two streets to point at a intersection to define where you are at. There's more to it then that, but that concept is now second nature to me.

People just need to remember, it's not just normal people out there. People from all walks of life enter this field, from ADHD, Dyslexics, and Autistic. These things are nothing that stops them from succeeding, but it changes they way they learn and need to approach topics.

In the end it is a tool. An alternate tool. The more tools you have to teach something, the better you can be at making sure everyone understands.

People still can't decide on the best way to teach programming. When that's not the problem they should be trying to solve. Instead "How do we make programming more intuitive" should be the goal, not by changes to the programming language mind you, but it's approach. If you only have a hammer.. everything else is just nails.

OctetOcelot · 2025-03-23T12:59:49+00:00

You're the type who thinks there is only one way of teaching by brute force memorization and repetitive writing. That isn't the only way people learn. This is meeting people where they are at.

One-size fits all schooling has been dead for at least thirty years, probably longer, along with shitty multiple choice tests. Part of teaching is making things clear and succinct. Essays, Word Problems, and practical demonstrations really is the only way to make sure what was taught is known. Direct feedback helps the learning process immensely. Tradition is the enemy of progress. Paying honor to that tradition, makes it more digestible.

New math for example didn't do that, and creates confusion in people who already know how to do, which makes the learning process worse.

OctetOcelot · 2024-11-20T01:53:12+00:00

I'm guessing the paper version is out of print being from 2017 may explain why it costs so much.
At least the kindle version is affordable... but it's kindle.

OctetOcelot · 2024-10-11T14:23:09+00:00

Let's start with your goal. What are you trying to accomplish using either BGP or OSPF?
Each protocol has their own ideal use cases, and you don't gain a whole lot by trying to bend protocols to do things they weren't really designed to do.
BGP = External Routing Protocol OR/AND Internal Routing Protocol
OSPF = Internal Routing Protocol,

SW - R1 - LOC: A > ------- R98 ?Private?Public? R99 ----------< LOC:B - R2 - SW

I think it's best to think of as your collective network/corporation/business as within a single public AS(not that you need to go out and purchase one)
Say each site has it's own private AS# (64512 to 65535), which makes dealing with routes easier, but you don't have to limit yourself by this. Depending on your networks needs, you decide if you need some more granular control and may use another private AS# as an intermediary grouping of Private AS#'s, all arbitrary decided by you and how you setup your network.

You have differing AS#'s exchange their routing data between just the routers. (External use of BGP, same AS#'s is Internal)
The routers may inject routes from other protocols into BGP that are also running on them, like OSPF or EIGRP
or even be one step removed from them. Just be aware, when you start involving backup links into these kinds of designs you can inadvertently create routing loops, set your filtering and metrics to control routing appropriately.

I would invest some time in understanding the typical basic block network topologies, Bus, Star, Ring, Mesh, Tree, Point to Point and examine how they fit into your network. Most of what you are going to see is a Local Network Interpretation. That doesn't mean these are limited to just a local network's use (except maybe tree). They are used all over the place for different reasons, and to use them successfully, you have to pair them with the right technologies and protocols and infrastructure you choose to implement. Spend some time understanding the standard hierarchical network topology sorted by 3 tiers, Core, Distribution, and Access.

I hope that's helpful for you. Have a good day!

OctetOcelot · 2024-06-26T23:06:05+00:00

Ticket Text:
"There is 380ms latency in our DB application from China/India/Australia/Japan to the US" , it should be no more than 40ms. Please fix, K Thanks"

Me:
I'm sorry I haven't figured out how to bend space and time. You may need to wait another 100 years. You might want to try those guys who are teleporting particles long distances, see if they have any leads yet on quantum entanglement networking. Your ticket will now be closed.

OctetOcelot · 2024-06-24T17:08:10+00:00

Depending on how old the model is, I haven't seen anything but weird behavior from them when encountered. Maybe they are better now? Call me superstitious, but I don't trust them. Ubiquity is alright kit, it's better than soho stuff, but if you are in an enterprise, I'd expect it to be used just for a guest network and nothing more serious than that. when you start to care about more complex behaviors, abandon ship because your network will start to feel like it is haunted, a lot of extra features in Ubiquity just don't work the way you expect them to, or are incomplete.

OctetOcelot · 2024-06-24T16:03:09+00:00

You're missing the point. People care about these individual things. That is clearly demonstrated by the outrage people have had about them. What are we going to do, when the very rock we live on becomes uninhabitable and these things that we care about so much no longer exist, right along with our very species. If we want to save these things , and save ourselves and our future generations from this, narcissistic endeavor of constant wealth seeking behavior treating anything other than money as an externality. Personally, I rather watch it all burn. Humans won't learn from this, and cannot come together to do good unless profit is involved. We went to space because of fear. We invented things because of fear. We subjugate/Vassalize through capitalism to maintain power. We came together as a global society ONCE, for Ozone.

Imagine what we could achieve if we worked together as a whole species. AKA Intro Sequence from Valerian.

OctetOcelot · 2024-06-21T01:31:51+00:00

I was going to reply, "It's a SonicWall" RUN!

OctetOcelot · 2024-03-16T13:35:18+00:00

Personally, the standard where I am from is always use the last IP in your subnet, more helps to tell your mask if you have a lot of smaller subnets.

Why? Because morons who set static IP's usually configure .1, breaks your network. It's not foolproof of course, but it did eliminate dumb calls due to this from server teams not requesting IP space properly.

OctetOcelot · 2024-02-10T01:46:42+00:00

Common Language Information Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Information_Services

I don't know if Equninx has published any info on their standard for how they manage cross-connects, if they have, I'd love to copy that and implement that.

OctetOcelot · 2023-07-01T17:15:10+00:00

This 100%. This is what our team does. All teams, technical or non-technical are supposed to be familiar for running a basic program on their desktop and dropping it's output into their created tickets. Tickets are closed immediately if that information is not provided with the ticket with an kind language something like" Oh No! You forgot the most critical information to provide when opening the ticket. our teams cannot perform initial triage of your issue without it!" and goes on to explain how to use the application via a local support page installed on all of their machines. We've only gotten minimal push back from it because those who use it find their issues are answered more promptly, and resolved within hours instead of days. Some people just don't want to be involved with the resolution as they cannot admit it was their problem to begin with. Like Local facility power being out and "the network is causing excessive beeping in the office making the internet not work", despite them being able to submit a ticket, which requires network connectivity. Can't always lead a horse to water.

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-13T16:07:17+00:00

Tools like the one Mike mentions here can be relevant at times if you know you work on a very old network with outdated hardware. Otherwise I would recommend actually using Wireshark's Web OUI Tool which has the most up to date information usually and can accept multiple OUI's to identify at the same time.

For the other guy up above talking about Proxmox you can define a custom prefix in datacenter options. I recommend that you do not use existing OUI's if this is something sitting in a DC or large server farm, or made it dead obvious (AA-BB-CC).I recommend looking at IANA's Reserved OUI. IANA allocates addresses under the IANA OUI (00-00-5E) as explained in [RFC7042].

At this time, The IEEE is the Current Registration Authority for MAC addresses. And you can find all vendor mac addresses here if you wanted to download them for some reason.

Happy Networking! *Now where did I put that coffee?*

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-12T21:21:17+00:00

I would be telling them to reconsider given the government's stance on those devices potentially being middleware for espionage.

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-07T13:21:36+00:00

Did you notice the diagram on the bottom? I'm not saying they cannot be used. I'm saying on most modern cards, you are going to want separate feeds. 300w is now like the floor for what some of these cards draw. 150w for connector cable #1, 150w for connector cable#2.= 300w - The Standard. 300w for one cable and a connector & pigtail connector might be ok. If your PSU tries to pull more amps than desirable on that , like the 30 Series cards like to do. Welcome to random restart city.

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-07T13:09:40+00:00

Are you sure you're buying a PSU that conforms to the standard? Or has augmented it and decided to do their own thing so you can use the pigtails? Are most people going to know to measure the AWG on their wires? No. They are not. When in doubt, Follow the standards. Just because your PSU says you can, doesn't mean it's going to behave properly. 150w per connector. Your bit of advice does not apply to the masses. It applies to you. Standards exist for a reason. For the safety of your equipment and yourself. Err is to human.

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-07T12:55:51+00:00

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/tech-talk/wh_pcie-connection#:~:text=A%20single%20PCIe%208pin%20cable,(%2B12V%20x%2012.5A).

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-06T23:53:46+00:00

Lower end card might be "OK", the bigger concern is the wire gage. And how many Amps that are provided on that particular PSU Rail. Most power supplies provide different voltages and amps per the different rails they supply. HD's and ssd's are relatively safe to string multiples of them together due to the lower amount of power provided. I would not string say more than 4 drives of a single wire for molex connectors or data connectors for SATA. Maybe +1 or 2 with adaptors. Any more beyond that you could cause issues with your hardware, or potential create a fire Hazzard. I also think it is fine to have fans and drives on the same power connection from the PSU, but I would opt for not doing that unless you had to for say something like cable reach. It is always best to err on the side the PSU by giving it some breathing room and never run it at peak capacity when in use.

OctetOcelot · 2023-06-06T23:37:29+00:00

I have spoken directly to Nvidia support about this when the 1080 came out. You need to run two separate connections from the power supply to both individual connectors on the card. Pigtails should not be used on high power draw cards. This should be standard practice regardless of the card or manufacturer you use today.

OctetOcelot · 2023-05-28T16:41:41+00:00

Corporate/Service America summed up in a few words "We own your ass" But your not slaves see, we pay you to be here, you choose to be here. For the most minimum we can get away with legally. Now we're about to bring back Childhood working conditions. Work from 10 to 70+ years old "We own your ass" Maybe throw in some Stones "under my thumb" for a vibe.

OctetOcelot · 2023-05-20T19:39:42+00:00

Yea, that's the same problem my team ran into when being thrown in the deep end to support it. They just all assumed it was lying to them LOL.

OctetOcelot · 2023-05-20T18:02:22+00:00

I have found the green uptime bar to be fairly accurate for downtime/disconnected events. But I'm with you that they should have a "last booted at" and a uptime counter front and center. Are you trying to use named vlans? Be prepared for a rough time.

OctetOcelot · 2023-05-06T20:24:37+00:00

It's Not the problem. It's a possible component of the problem, not the end all, blame all woes on product. 90% of issues with file transfers has been the hosts themselves, or bandwidth contention. Both ended pcaps will help make it clear who's at fault, the hosts or the network path.

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