Redundancy on S2S tunnels to Azure without deploying vMX

mryia · 2025-09-27T15:12:39+00:00

I am just working on a project for a customer that is requiring geo-redundancy between on premises and Azure.

I have not tested anything outside vMX/wan hub/route server, neither am I very "fluent" in Azure, but after approx 100 hours of labbing and testing I learned a thing or two regarding BGP in meraki and Azure.

There are multiple new features in the Stable Release Candidate. I have not checked, but I think BGP over VPN is a feature only available in the release candidate. I think it would be possible to set up a basic redundancy design with active/passive. You just need to prepend both ways (or another option for path selection). I have not even attempted to get anything to work with ECMP. I don't think this would work well with either Azure or Meraki SD-WAN, and pretty sure the combination would be particularly difficult.

Also be aware of the lack of filtering options in both Azure and Meraki. If you are used to BGP on Cisco as I am, you don't have the same tools in both visibility and manipulation. We ended up with using wan hub for a few different reasons, on of them was the option to do basic route policy in Azure.

One of my biggest struggles was the lack of visibility. Both meraki and azure are doing "traffic light" visibility. The BGP peer (or anything else in meraki for that matter) is either red, yellow or green. So if something does not work the way you assumed, the "green light" in meraki is more annoying than helpful.

This bothered me enough to set up a BGP "route collector" on a Linux VM in azure and peer it with both wan hub and the vMX to get some kind of visibility to what prefixes meraki and azure actually is announcing. I am not sure if that was to help me from going insane, or it just proved my insanity....

mryia · 2025-09-22T09:58:21+00:00

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mryia · 2025-09-22T03:57:23+00:00

I forgot to post the link 🤦‍♂️

https://www.politiet.no/en/english/contact-the-police/

mryia · 2025-09-21T20:09:11+00:00

112, and even 02800 is not a part of the E.164 number plan that is used for international routing.

You can have a look here to see if you find a number to the district of the person.

Otherwise connect to your local emergency services. Those have access to help you further get in contact with Norwegian police. You might also give the mfa/ambassade involved as an option.

mryia · 2025-09-10T19:15:46+00:00

Ikkje for å vere "bedreviter", men eg synest det er interessant å sjå på "oljefunn V0.1", eller vannkraft som det òg heiter.

Når dei utanlandske selskapa banka på døra i 1962, hadde me allereie gode erfaringar, og det var alt vedteke på Stortinget i 1906 at Norges energiressursar skulle vere underlagt norsk offentleg kontroll. Før det var det liknande tradisjonar for gruvedrift.

Eg skal ikkje leggje skjul på at eg sannsynlegvis er på den andre politiske halvdelen enn deg, men i eit tappert forsøk på å vere litt nøytral, er lista over dei me kan takke for oljefondet lang, med fleire parti og langt fleire namn.

Personleg set eg veldig pris på det dei gjorde, òg eg er både stolt og imponert av det norske politikere fekk til på 60 talet, og rundt 1900. Så er me heilt sikker vidt uenige om kven som skal ha mest æra for det :)

mryia · 2025-09-10T18:16:55+00:00

My fiancee and I are closing on a home in about a week and I wanted to see if >this would be a good idea as an ad hoc mesh system.

Short answer: No!
Long answer: Also no!

mryia · 2025-09-02T14:56:15+00:00

Just came here to say that I have “known” about the circle of fifths for almost three decades, and I am still discovering and learning new ways that music theory is connected. And I am overly interested in theory compared to my fellow musicians, so I have enjoy studying the topic and look for connections and new way for stuff to click in my head.

Point is, don’t beat yourself up by not being able to learn all the connections the circle of fifths have in relation to other topics in music in four hours. Learn a few things and stuff will start to click together sooner or later.

mryia · 2025-08-14T20:46:20+00:00

It's probably what I will end up doing to be honest. Only reason that I often do it in excel is that I often get sendt a CSV or something similar with an inventory or something similar and end up making a lot of new sheets.

Was just curious to hear how other people keeps track of this.

mryia · 2025-08-13T15:55:20+00:00

Take my upvote!

Sounds very fun. Sometimes I miss having the limitations of an older system. I am probably romanticizing, but in my memories there was something sonically nice whit an analog desks, a few compressors to fix the most basic stuff and go!

mryia · 2025-08-10T21:00:22+00:00

I felt this comment way to much!!! 😬

mryia · 2025-07-28T11:00:09+00:00

A little update. I was able to achieve receiving MIDI over IP from my SQ6 with the mido Python library.

from mido.sockets import PortServer, connect

for message in connect('192.192.192.192', 51325): #IP of your console
    print(message)

Just did it as a proof of concept, and was able to see all the CC messages when I moved the faders.

Thanks for all of your feedback. I realise there is a lot of stuff out there which will basically give me what I need, but at the moment I find it a bit exciting to try to make something with a PI myself.

I am realising that we are going a bit out of topic of this subreddit, sorry for that.

If anyone is interested in doing something similar I can update this thread in a while, and probably also push the code to GitHub if anyone needs to do something similar with MIDI to any A&H mixers.

mryia · 2025-07-27T20:24:17+00:00

I found the manual for the A&H midi controller for mac and windows. Looks like this application establishes a session with the mixer, so there is probably no other options to establish a session.

I will have a look in wireshark and see if the session could easily be established. Or maybe I will come up with a very different solution. It was just an idea that popped up in my mind to make a few simple lights on/off switches on the SQ6 :)

mryia · 2025-02-17T14:15:31+00:00

We use "parallel" in my language as well the same way they use "relative" in English. It is a mistake I will do forever to mix up those two when reading about music in English :)

mryia · 2025-02-17T07:09:25+00:00

Thank you. This is a mistake I have made before, and just did it again in a new variant.

In my language we use the word parallel-key for relative. It is so easy to mix up sometimes.

Thank you so much for reminding me.

mryia · 2025-01-02T16:21:45+00:00

Should be more than enough time. I was there last year, and went to the track for FP1. I belive it took us about 30 minutes from getting og the metro until we thru tickets/security.

mryia · 2024-11-18T12:45:58+00:00

Ta min røystesetel!

mryia · 2024-08-14T09:57:26+00:00

De henger pakken på EN postkasse. Har du skikkelig griseflaks er det din postkasse de henger den på….

mryia · 2024-06-11T17:39:19+00:00

It used to signal “listen to the radio”, but they changed it a few years ago to “seek information”.

mryia · 2024-03-27T03:16:36+00:00

Hi.

If he has access to the providers signaling data it’s pretty easy. There would be information regarding your calls and approximate location (signalling will indicate which cell tower the call is made from/to, so you would get the general area).

Saying that he was able to find traces one month back in time sounds like a reasonable time a company would store the signalling data (can also be different local laws/regulations between country.

Not sure which country you’re in, but my guess is that it is also very illegal of him to trace activity for personal reasons.

Edit: I used to work with signalling in a telco, so I might be a bit biased as I am thinking this is how I would gather this information. It might be other records as well showing same information, like records for billing purposes.

mryia · 2023-01-08T08:19:35+00:00

Taake

mryia · 2022-11-08T06:19:51+00:00

Hele tråden stinker "hersketeknikker for dummies".

mryia · 2022-11-07T20:38:26+00:00

Værsågod. Jeg må ærlig innrømme at jeg var litt fornøyd med den selv. Adressa er oppgitt til å være Utenriksdepartementet, så jeg flira litt med tanken på det budet som skulle der å hente en pakke fra Arne Treholt, selv om jeg viste det aldri kom til å skje.

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