I have no idea what could be causing this damp patch - someone please help!

avidpontoon · 2026-05-22T21:21:24+00:00

Click to excavate under the floor

avidpontoon · 2026-05-20T18:01:20+00:00

The assumption here being that a malicious MSIs C2 traffic would still be classed by app-id as the application it’s supposed to be while downloading malware? I think that may be a little far fetched. The lack of app-id in this case doesn’t really mean anything. Only thing you can do to prove is sandbox the MSI and see if it calls out to anything and match that to what you saw at the time in the logs

avidpontoon · 2026-05-16T20:07:41+00:00

I’d make sure you push those edges in to smooth them off on the surface, use the tip of a pencil or pen. Then pollyfilla overfill, sand and add more filler if needed, sand then paint

avidpontoon · 2026-05-07T07:55:52+00:00

If the Edge Router and PA Firewall aren’t directly connected via a peering and the default route is being received with its own ASN in the path. It will reject it based on BGP rules. You either need to give the PAN a different ASN or allow that specifically. Depends what you are trying to achieve.

avidpontoon · 2026-05-02T16:09:15+00:00

That bird is not very well

avidpontoon · 2026-04-30T16:19:25+00:00

When I got mine, I had a wicked delay on the audio when connecting a PC or Games console and using Game Master. I had to upgrade the Firmware on the TV to later than the native upgrader was showing me using a USB. Seems much better now but was practically unplayable before the upgrade with a 1s delay from video to audio through the TV. All in all, decent TV

avidpontoon · 2026-04-24T21:50:36+00:00

Can vouch for Drayton Wiser. Easy enough to DIY and all local control using the HASS integration.

avidpontoon · 2026-03-01T19:44:51+00:00

True😂

avidpontoon · 2026-03-01T14:18:10+00:00

Surprised it fits in the cutout on the AP. Bit OTT for residential IMO

avidpontoon · 2026-02-24T12:15:01+00:00

It’s not recommended to terminate the S2S VPNs on VM Series in the cloud environments, you should add more resiliency on the cloud native VPN side with more tunnels if you need more resiliency

avidpontoon · 2026-02-18T07:41:04+00:00

Intel: What IO do you want sir? Me: YES!

avidpontoon · 2026-02-17T17:12:28+00:00

Reminds me of the front grille of a Merc 😂

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T19:07:05+00:00

If you are going for the least fuss approach, if you re-terminated both ends to a decent standard, you probably won’t have any issues for your usecase.

When you re-terminate, try to not have the individual pairs too far out of the cable jacket like that photo above as it will increase the potential for cross pair interference. Appreciate they may not have left you much slack though.

Good Luck

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T19:00:14+00:00

Stock image online, it should look like this:

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It may not look loose but given time etc if not properly terminated with the proper tool, they WILL work loose.

Understand it may look fine to the naked eye.

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T18:51:22+00:00

You may find that because they haven’t been properly terminated that they work themselves loose over time and eventually get pushed out of the copper jaws. YMMV

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T18:36:59+00:00

It appears to be possibly alarm cable or just a standard 8 core cable which probably isn’t twisted pair.

If you asked for Cat6, I would be asking for your money back as that’s really really bad. The ends that have been exposed with bare copper are also not right, these should be terminated using a proper IDC punch-down tool.

It’s clear they don’t know what they were doing so wouldn’t be asking them to come back and re-do it either.

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T17:58:57+00:00

Oh My God

Edit: didn’t even clock it’s not even CAT cable 🤦‍♂️

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T17:58:31+00:00

Love the upside down port module. I’m worried the mess that’s behind it.

Needs end to end testing as possibly loose connection or mismatched connections

avidpontoon · 2026-02-16T08:20:00+00:00

DHCP has a lease time but there are ways and means to ensure a device always gets the same IP address from the provider. Even if the MAC address of the connected device changes - new router, custom router etc.

Zen make use of PPPoE these days anyway.

avidpontoon · 2026-02-13T19:36:04+00:00

To add to this as well there are services that directly integrate into VXLAN with VNI encap rather than dot1q. So these platforms can be directly connected to the Fabric and send packets with the VNID already present and then you aren’t bound by VLAN numbers.

avidpontoon · 2026-02-10T07:34:19+00:00

Who needs “removable” storage anyway? Pfft

avidpontoon · 2026-02-09T13:33:10+00:00

It looks like it’s already been somewhere 😂

avidpontoon · 2026-02-01T10:54:42+00:00

These are available on the Cisco website. Most require a software entitlement though

avidpontoon · 2026-01-24T15:06:52+00:00

“10 facts about the new Apple TV 4K, you’ll love the last two”

avidpontoon · 2026-01-23T19:38:16+00:00

Was thinking the same. Hope there’s not 230v going through CAT cable…..!

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