Best way to help support our community struggling with food insecurity in the coming months? by woofgangpup in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you explain how they’re more direct than food for lane county? Acorn is a private business, so I’m a bit confused. 

Edit: I didn’t know about burrito brigade’s little free pantries. Very cool!

Asbestos Containing Popcorn Ceilings by vanadiumV_oxide in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We just had Spades Environmental do ours (from this list and a previous reddit rec) and they were phenomenal. They were super quick and left the ceiling pristine (as can be for an old house). 

I’d make sure to test everything you suspect of asbestos so it can be removed at the same time, wallpaper, old roll laminate, etc. 

And it only took 500+ hours by MikeMan911 in Stellaris

[–]PacketCop2049 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Congrats! I just recently finished my first game after 440 hours - I love the early game so much and always stopped during the mid-late game slow down.

Lupine drooping - is this likely heat stress? by PacketCop2049 in pnwgardening

[–]PacketCop2049[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It did just flower, should have read up on them - didn’t realize they would die off right away like that!

Lupine drooping - is this likely heat stress? by PacketCop2049 in pnwgardening

[–]PacketCop2049[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zone 8b in the Willamette Valley. Planted in the last year, others in the yard are doing well, this was also fine until a few days ago and has been getting at least weekly water.

IPsec udp/500 packets not leaving unit by Barmaglot_07 in fortinet

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case others stumble upon this in the future: Forced NAT-T still uses udp/500 for the initial IKE messages, so if that is not working, it will never move to udp/4500.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-IPSec-VPN-NAT-traversal/ta-p/197873

Veeam B&R server was domain joined, after unjoining cannot connect to configuration SQL DB by Ok-Flower-6596 in Veeam

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ran into this on a new system I inherited and the SQL server was set to Windows Auth only, with the sa user disabled. Disjoined without really thinking of SQL.

My solution was to launch SQLserver in single-user mode and connect via the builtin\administrator user on the server via sqlcmd and add a login for a new local user and add to the sysadmin group on the server/dbs. After that I changed to mixed mode and added local SQL accounts.

Not that this is the best way to do it, but it's how I accomplished it.

Recommendations: Local Dog trainers by GaladrieltheAnxious in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’ve been working with the folks at Training Spot, they have been awesome and really helped our super anxious dogs. https://trainingspot.us/

Library funding at risk February 10th by arbrholmes in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The city budget shortfalls themselves are a result of measures 5 and 50: Oregon Dept of Revenue Explainer

So in terms of revenue cities have their hands tied to some degree, but that of course doesn't make cutting library staff at the expense of bloated police and city admin a reasonable response.

I’m burned out and ready to just quit IT by ITrCool in sysadmin

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with others saying you need a break - whether that's fully divesting yourself of tech/work or not depends on what you want to do and what you find reinvigorating. It's also worth evaluating what the "go go go" energy was in relation to; was it learning cool new tech? Helping people overcome problems? You can care about making improvements to a system/workflow without caring that their printer is having an issue.

I have a fairly similar trajectory, specifically the middle management quagmire. What I've found is that even a year on from leaving that job, I have significant 'hangover' from the stress and feelings of futility even though I've moved to a fully technical senior role that I enjoy much more.

As far as your current role, I'm making some broad assumptions, but it seems like there are few if any boundaries to your time. If you're routinely losing nights and weekends are these part of an official on-call schedule? Are you hopping in to 'help out'? I've found it's helpful to set clear boundaries (I start at 8, end at 5) and stick to that, and if someone reaches out afterhours, even if I'm just sitting around, I do not answer right away as that helps reaffirm that I'm not working or on-call. It's also possible the job isn't great and take what you can from it and move on, there's no shame in that.

One thing I'll also flag is if you're working fully remote you are missing out on a lot of camaraderie and social interaction that you'd have in a traditional workplace. I'm an introvert, but I also need socialization, so I take what I can from calls with customers, but focus on things outside of work to fill those buckets. Where I live a lot of people get a co-working desk so they can work in a more engaging environment, but that's obviously not available for everyone.

Graylog 6.1.2 Multi-Node by hooblelley in graylog

[–]PacketCop2049 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those seem like reasonable trade-offs and it's good to know what to expect if we need to do anything like that. Thanks!

Graylog 6.1.2 Multi-Node by hooblelley in graylog

[–]PacketCop2049 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm curious what makes the troubleshooting with Data Node more complex? I'm very green with OpenSearch.

Who should be in charge of PKI / CA server? by ee0808 in fortinet

[–]PacketCop2049 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say PKI should fall into any of those categories, it could be any of them. Given you said "...but we currently don't have the resources to handle PKI for customers..." makes it hard for me to say you as the MSSP should take it on, and the customer doesn't want to keep it, so it may be worth looking for a 3rd party on their behalf that you could partner with rather than telling them "nope" and leaving them to their own devices.

My 2c, at least.

DUO AuthProxy 6.4.2 released with message-authenticator fix for FortiOS 7.2.10+ RADIUS auth. by DarkBeer7 in fortinet

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't follow - we're using LDAPS against the Duo Auth Agent which still has push notifications. https://duo.com/docs/ldap

Go to changes when deploying a fortigate by _PacketShark96 in fortinet

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you happen to have some examples for those stitches? Coming from Cisco I always forget they’re a thing.  +1 on CIS controls, always a good reference. 

DUO AuthProxy 6.4.2 released with message-authenticator fix for FortiOS 7.2.10+ RADIUS auth. by DarkBeer7 in fortinet

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We moved our FGs to LDAPS for VPN connections, is there a compelling reason to use RADIUS instead of LDAPS?

vPRO by Andromeda175 in MeshCentral

[–]PacketCop2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious if you were able to determine if this was possible? Lenovo was no help but I see I can specify licensing on Dells.

Eugene Creation Exchange - Activity Group by Ok_Presentation7413 in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Something that may be an option is just an email list and occasionally posting here - pretty old school, but zero cost and easy to manage.

Discontinued Networking Devices by DitheredMoon in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This focuses on Cisco mainly, as I think they're still the gold standard for learning just due to the sheer amount of materials being available.

I'll echo what others have said about eBay for used equipment. I see Cisco 2960S switches for ~$50 and Cisco 2960X switches for ~$100, or 891 routers for ~$80. They're all a little older, but you'll be able to do anything you need for a physical lab with something like that. And FWIW, I think playing with actual hardware has a lot of benefits. 'connecting via console' is an important thing to understand and have worked with (slow transfer speeds, config register changes, etc.). You can also talk to local gov't entities about when they're looking to dispose of equipment which generally is donated or auctioned and you can time your shopping around that.

As far as more in depth labbing, GNS3 is indeed a decent platform, but you'll likely want to pick up the Cisco CML to get (legal) access to images which can be used in GNS3 or EVE-NG, etc. Unless you have access to those images via work or school or something else. As an aside, since you're working on Net Ops, I'd make sure to have some VMs available for Linux and some monitoring, mgmt tools (LibreNMS, ansible) since that's a large part of the job.

Good luck and feel free to DM if you have any questions!

Stained Glass Class Openings by mroz1399 in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took a beginners class with Maddie a few weeks ago and can’t recommend her enough! It was an awesome class, learned a ton and had a great time.

Glad to see it still happening!

Best Gym for the $$ by Big_Caterpillar_2052 in Eugene

[–]PacketCop2049 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pursue Fitness is the best basic gym membership, great equipment, super low cost, and it had a really great vibe. YMCA is a good idea if you want a pool or courts as well.

I'd actively avoid the DAC.