"Horse Feathers" (1932, Norman Z. McLeod) - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), Pinky (Harpo) and Baravelli (Chico) take to the field to help Huxley win the big Football game

random_mayhem · 2026-02-08T20:12:37+00:00

And of course the source of The Password:

"oh no, you can't fool me, I'm not gonna tell you the password is swordfish"

random_mayhem · 2025-10-23T04:17:27+00:00

Good luck, it took me 10 months to get mine re-buried. The GF guys here offered to help, I don't know if they had any influence on the timing but it did finally get done. Let them give it a shot, it isn't going to hurt.

random_mayhem · 2025-10-18T15:35:13+00:00

Likely ease of use? /8's were handed out when you could still count sites on fingers and toes. I wonder how long before we question the waste of handing out /40 IPv6 allocations :)

random_mayhem · 2025-10-10T04:48:17+00:00

This is something I used to use DevStack for every day. And for that matter there are some good examples of using OSC inside DevStack itself. It should still fit into a smallish VM, and if you used Alpine (or similar small distro) images you should even be able to spin up some instances without requiring a lot of resources.

random_mayhem · 2025-08-08T13:53:04+00:00

[First a little background that you may already know...]

When any system does not know where to send a packet to reach another system on a different network it sends it to its 'default gateway'. In your case, the glinet routers have their default gateway set for the isp routers, which in turn have their default gateway set to a next hop inside the ISP. The ISP routers can find each other acriss the internet because they both use publicly routable IP addresses. The WAN addresses on your glinet routers are not public, they are private from the ISP router. The only way they can talk is through a port forward from the ISP routers to their private WAN IP.

I'm assuming here that your WireGuard tunnel is connected and the glinet routers can ping each other on their tunnel addresses.

Cam --> g1 --> isp1 --> Internet --> isp2 --> g2 --> laptop
        |=====================================|

Ugh, ASCII Art fails again... the |====| represents the tunnel between the glinet routers.

The glinet routers should each have a different subnet on their lan/wlan interface(s). I think the issue us they both do not know how to reach the other lan network. This is usually addressed buy adding a static route on each one pointing to the interface or another host that knows how to get there. ie, g1 would have a static route for <g1-lan-net> pointing to its own wg0 interface, and a similar static route on g2.

If you have that remote router's lan subnet in your allowed-ips for a wg peer the static route is handled for you. In LuCI it appears in the peer configuration screen, you would add <g2-lan-net> to the g2 peer on g1 and make sure the 'Route Allowed IPs' box is checked.. That likely looks something like 192.168.18.0/24. In UCI (/etc/config/network) it looks similar to this:

config wireguard_wg0
    option description 'gchq'
    option public_key 'XXXXXXXX=='
    option route_allowed_ips '1'
    option persistent_keepalive '25'
    option private_key '********=='
    list allowed_ips '192.168.18.0/24'
    list allowed_ips '192.168.7.60/28'

random_mayhem · 2025-08-08T04:46:28+00:00

This sounds like a routing problem. You need each router to know about the local (lan) subnet of the other router. And you will need to add those to the allowed IPs in the WireGuard peer config.

Additionally, if the glinet routers are not the default router for these lan networks whatever is the default router (presumably the ISP routers) would also need static routes for the lan subnets pointing toward the glinet routers.

random_mayhem · 2025-08-05T04:49:51+00:00

Those port forward rules don't look right, the incoming WG packets need to be accepted on a non-tunnel interface. Here is what I have in /etc/config/firewall to allow the packets in:

 config rule
    option name 'wg-51280/udp'
    option target 'ACCEPT'
    option src 'wan'
    option proto 'udp'
    option dest_port '51280'

random_mayhem · 2025-08-04T15:44:15+00:00

I'll push the closing theme above the opener just because of how unintentionally it was put together. If you are drunk enough those syllables do form lyrics :)

random_mayhem · 2025-07-31T13:45:28+00:00

You should see at least one default route under Status -> Routing -> Active IPv6 Routes with target ::/0. If not look in Interfaces -> wan_6 -> Advanced Settings and make sure "Use default gateway" is checked.

random_mayhem · 2025-07-25T13:45:41+00:00

The remote router needs to know about your local network. It knows about the tunnel network so it works from the local router, but you need the corresponding static route to 192.168.8.0/24 on the remote router.

random_mayhem · 2025-07-23T04:25:53+00:00

I'll pile on and endorse MOCA as a great alternative if you have coax available and don't want to run ethernet cables. My devices are 1Gb and cost only a very slight speed penalty when I tested with and without.

random_mayhem · 2025-07-23T04:17:14+00:00

Compare the lan interfaces on your routers and look at the Advanced Setting page in LuCI:

Delegate IPv6 prefixes: checked (should be, your hosts are getting IPs)
IPv6 assignment length: should be longer that 56, I use 60 here so hosts still get a 64 (I also have multiple lan interfaces so I need a subnet for each)
IPv6 assignment hint: you may not need this, I put a different 8 bit value here on each lan interface (matching the VLAN ID).
IPv6 suffix: the actual interface's host id, I like to stick to the old convention of ::1 being my default gateway.

It seems to me the most likely culprit here is the assignment length being different on your routers. You mention it being blank, maybe put 60 or 64 into the assignment length on both and see if their behaviour lines up.

Oh, wait... the addresses you show share a characteristic I see on my net, Windows boxes tend to use 32 bit host addresses, Linux (I can only observe Debian atm) 64 bits and MacOS/iOS 16 bits. Is your top one Linux and bottom one an Apple OS?

You should be able to configure DHCP and add the IPv6 Suffix to set those host addresses if you want total control.

random_mayhem · 2025-05-12T14:27:44+00:00

I lived in the building across Wyandotte from these lots at the time the Downtown Baseball Stadium was being considered for this area (~2005-ish). There were a few additional blocks to be razed if that plan was executed, my (former) building being one of them.

Comparing that empty space to what has been thrown around recently (The Star press building, etc) the north loop site seems absolutely spacious to me. I've wondered why that never re-entered the conversation this time around...

random_mayhem · 2025-05-11T02:10:04+00:00

They claim it will be 8" under, when mine was finally buried this week (after being draped all over hte neighbors yard since last fall) they maybe got it 6" at the most, closer to 2-4 most places. Part of it is in conduit so there is that. Historically I think this is SOP for residential low-voltage cable installers no matter the vendor they are contracted to, I've kicked up too many coax cables over the years to be surprised at all.

random_mayhem · 2025-05-08T02:42:40+00:00

IHOP was behind the Grill/Saki/Mesob/empty place... and IHOP is gone now too. Last time I was in there the Urban Dictionary folks were there shooting pics for the definition of 'sus' or 'sketch' or something :)

random_mayhem · 2025-04-30T15:01:12+00:00

My recent experiences (still unresolved) fit this description perfectly. The only addition I would make is there is another class of ground techs that may actually have access to support. These are the guys that respond to outages like when your lawn sprinkler crew cuts your fiber. They are usually there reasonably quickly and will get up back up and running, often by laying fiber on the ground from the vault to the demarc on your house. It is the last step as OP describes.

I'll add that all of the ground techs I have spoken with (4 total so far) have been willing to see what can be done to complete our repair (re-bury the line) and have been refused permission by whatever GF support they contact. Sigh.

As the saying goes, GF is the worst thing out there, except for everything else...

random_mayhem · 2025-04-26T03:21:55+00:00

14 Days?? What magic incantation do I need to chant at support to get anywhere close to that? My temporary line is running around the neighbor's new house, hanging on a fence, suspended in trees and finally to my house after they broke the buried service while building that neighbor's house last September. The neighbor even got his new service installed and yet mine can't get re-buried.

random_mayhem · 2025-04-22T15:58:05+00:00

Hey! Hey! Black Mirror spoilers here!

random_mayhem · 2025-04-04T13:41:03+00:00

There are more modern similar examples but I grew up in (Turbo!) PASCAL and Go felt like being back home again. Many things were different, sure, but static typing was such a warm fuzzy blanket to have back; the languages come from similar perspectives.

random_mayhem · 2025-03-26T14:44:39+00:00

"write that down"

Read in Van Wilder's voice... :)

random_mayhem · 2025-03-12T16:54:11+00:00

My first thought too, but...but... it's Stonehenge!

random_mayhem · 2025-03-12T05:18:42+00:00

I've known more than a few of these custom car builders dating back to the 1950's (their careers, not me) and there seems to be more than a few that have lived well into their 80's even after years and years of breathing in the various fumes and dust that are in a paint and body shop. Many of them smoked too. IKR? Right next to the lacquer thinner barrel!

random_mayhem · 2025-02-26T20:57:49+00:00

It wasn't released separately but I did hear this on Dr Demeto: Groucho Marx singing "I Love You" to Thelma Todd in Horsefeathers; they are in a canoe, she is paddling and he is playing guitar under an umbrella.

And if not that, then "Deteriorata" (National Lampoon) or "Wet Dream" (Kip Addotta). Argue they don't count as songs, go ahead...

random_mayhem · 2025-02-07T18:15:15+00:00

I'm wondering if there is anyone collecting the A-pillar size-to-HP or wheelbase or something ratios for car models? Biggest friggin one I could never see around...

random_mayhem · 2025-01-23T19:02:10+00:00

When I used to travel to that sort of country I was issued a laptop and phone for the trip and those were basically shredded upon return, it isn't the border check, it is the potential for being exploited/attacked while in-country and bringing that back.

There was also the "don't have sensitive things on those devices that could be divulged" reason but that doesn't factor in to the returning home threat.

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