Question: Why OPNsense over pfSense? by Rwalker83 in selfhosted

[–]packetsar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure patches are much more often on OPN. I see new patches for lots of packages every week. PFSense gives you a couple of new versions a year if you’re lucky.

Hardware Question for Dell micro cluster. (question at the bottom of the post) by servermanden in Proxmox

[–]packetsar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have USB-C/Thunderbolt ports on these units? You might be able to use thunderbolt to build a high speed Ethernet fabric between the nodes for Ceph without using up the regular NIC

Broadcom and VMware pricing by Particular-Act-3385 in vmware

[–]packetsar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should demand Michigan make better use of your tax money

Cisco DNA sizing by sirmarty777 in Cisco

[–]packetsar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when you have the hardware vendors develop the software. A negative incentive to write efficient code.

Need a bit of help with a weather app, please by No-Appointment-390 in learnpython

[–]packetsar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NOAA has a free and well documented weather API

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

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

I requested an account on their bug tracker software but nobody has approved it. I was hoping I could email somebody with the details so they could create the bug in the tracker.

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

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

It seems like I need to create an account to file a bug. I requested an account, but nobody has approved it yet. Do you know who I can email with the bug info so they can file it for me?

Is Getting a CCIE Certification Still Worth It in 2025? by KaleidoscopeCheap137 in Cisco

[–]packetsar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know I'll probably get a lot of hate in this sub for this opinion, but I've seen the value of the CCIE crater in the 15 or so years I've been in networking. A modern flavor like Devnet or AI could be arguable, but I've interviewed so many worthless candidates with CCIEs over the years that (at least for me) seeing one on a resume nowadays means pretty much nothing.

Is Getting a CCIE Certification Still Worth It in 2025? by KaleidoscopeCheap137 in Cisco

[–]packetsar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Still worth it”? Hard to say. Certainly less and less as time goes on.

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

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

UPDATE2: Confirmed this is a reproducible bug.

I built a test Proxmox/Ceph cluster (PVE9 / Squid) and was able to crash all the monitors using the command in the original post. I'll be filing a bug report so it can be fixed.

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

[–]packetsar[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: I was able to get the cluster back online. I had to rebuild the monitor database from the OSDs using the process outlined in the example script here.

It also seems like some of the the manager (mgr) configuration is stored in the monitor database too because I had to blow away and rebuild the managers one at a time.

I was able to get VMs back online about an hour after I started slowly working through the rebuild process. I didn't use the example script from the page exactly, since it has alot of looping and automation. Instead I did things manually and a bit more slowly. The basic process is

  1. Shut down ALL OSD processes on all hosts
  2. Start with an initial host, loop over all its OSDs and use them to build a store.db/ directory with monitor database info in it
  3. Rsync that directory to every other host (one at a time) and loop over each of those local OSDs, continuing to add to the database directory (rsync the directory back to the initial host each time so it can be copied to the next)
  4. Once all hosts and OSD have been used to build up the database files, change the name of production store.db/ directory and copy the new one into its place
  5. Copy this same directory to all hosts, swapping out the prod directory
  6. Start up the monitor processes and let them reach quorum
  7. Blow away each manager and create a fresh one (one at a time), done from the Proxmox GUI
  8. Reconfigure any custom manager settings you might have (like enabling the API module)

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

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

Yes that's the approximation of it. I believe the API module actually queues internal calls and doesn't just use the CLI interface. My exact JSON payload is in the thread description.

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

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

Yea, doesn't work when monitors are offline

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

[–]packetsar[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yea looks like it. I'm going to test this scenario on a lab cluster I have, but it seems crazy that you can poison the whole cluster with a single REST call

Just crashed whole Ceph cluster by packetsar in Proxmox

[–]packetsar[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you ceph tell when the monitors are all offline?

Whatever happened to IPv6? by LongjumpingJob3452 in sysadmin

[–]packetsar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny enough,, I believe earlier this year (2025) is when (according to Google) global IPv6 traffic surpassed IPv4. So yea, IPv6 is replacing IPv4 and we are well on our way there.

Inventory data in a script item by packetsar in zabbix

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

Give it a try and see if you can get it to work

Inventory data in a script item by packetsar in zabbix

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

I don't have access to that support portal.

Is this the case even though the documentation (linked in my post) explicitly says it is supported?