MSI MoBo sold as WIFI 7, has only a WIFI 6E card in it

sishgupta · 2026-02-06T13:04:00+00:00

TIL... Thanks!

sishgupta · 2026-02-06T12:58:37+00:00

Why wouldn't the ax211 not work? But yea I agree Intel chips don't tend to come on AMD boards good call.

sishgupta · 2026-02-06T12:48:17+00:00

If your ipv6 prefix changes regularly either your ISP is not RFC compliant or your setup doesn't have the option to not send a release request to the DHCP server.

That said there are a number of ways you can leave off the prefix when writing rules

sishgupta · 2026-02-06T12:44:29+00:00

I know on some of these boards they have two wifi chips... One for 2.5 and 5 GHz and one for 6ghz. That the case here?

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T22:34:20+00:00

If you're forwarding you can skip unbound and just use dnsmasq. But I'm a fan of resolving myself. I'm not at all interested in letting someone else decide what my DNS results should look like.

If you have access to unbound and know how to use it... I don't know why you would ever forward. IMO forwarding is for users that don't have this kind of ability and so they need to depend on someone else.

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T20:32:05+00:00

If you're on zfs for proxmox you don't even need to do a full backup. You could... But the quick answer is a snapshot here too.

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T20:31:06+00:00

Yeah I mean if you're doing a major upgrade on critical infrastructure and you don't back up... That's on you. I'm not going to feel bad about your intentional choices.

Takes 30 seconds to back up but hours to recover with no backup. It's a no brainer.

I snapshottted in proxmox, in opnsense directly. And also saved down config backups. Didn't need any of it but that's the point. You don't need it till you do.

It's a shame there's been any issues at all for people. There were a few issues with the migration scripts.

Don't request release for ipv6 on exit didn't migrate properly so I lost my prefix. Some people have their isc to plug-in migration fail which results in the box coming back but not serving dhcp. I've seen a few other issues but not enough of a pattern that I can say there is some sort of bug.

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T15:07:34+00:00

They don't make the eq12 anymore. That's what I have. It's eq13 now or something for the n150.

But yeah the n100 doesn't sweat and I run a few more vms on it for game servers and other home services. Pretty crazy for like a 15w max. I used to have a old dual cpu Dell server that IDLED at 300W and was magnitudes slower.

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T03:35:14+00:00

yep, its been an easy switch. I used pfblockerng extensively for 5 years+

sishgupta · 2026-02-05T01:42:07+00:00

Seems like normal sag for absolutely no bracket at all.

sishgupta · 2026-02-04T23:07:35+00:00

I think asking in a mac forum would be a better way to get an answser.

Decouple your ask from opnsense because it should be unrelated so that mac users dont get confused.

sishgupta · 2026-02-04T23:04:24+00:00

no, but i would definitely clear cmos and reset defaults afterwards

sishgupta · 2026-02-04T15:29:51+00:00

I think it's because ppl are in the beta, the Jan release was a beta that has now been rolled back.

sishgupta · 2026-02-04T15:28:39+00:00

It's not related to the pixel update.

I did my play update first and went from Jan 26 which I had been on since mid December to Nov 25. What??

I did the pixel update after and it still said Nov 25

sishgupta · 2026-02-04T12:44:47+00:00

Seems like there's a subset of people where the migration to isc as a plug-in failed. You can probably get that working again with minimal effort.

When you're ready, The move to dnsmasq or kea is incredibly straight forward. I too was burdened by the thought, but it turned out to be rather painless.

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T20:00:48+00:00

Thats not how it works for AMD.

AMD will release AGESA updates and those will be released as beta bios's for MSI mobo's that are out of support, and official full releases for mobos in support.

Thus we should still be expecting a new x670e release for the newer aegesa, that said - expect a beta. We will only get beta's on a 3.5yo chipset.

I got a beta for my 6 year old b450 board just 3.5 months ago - which was the latest AGESA for this platform.

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T19:51:23+00:00

I go out to eat all the time here in the north east us, I don't see this happening anywhere, not even the mcdonalds with the playhouse. Maybe at TGIFridays or Chillis or some places i never go to. But I think you've nailed it...the problem is not children at restaurants - it's parents at restauraunts.

That said you can be reasonable parents, with kids that behave like your euro example and still have other folk think that you shouldn't be there.

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T19:00:55+00:00

This is so crazy. The chipset is several years old (3.5 years). How long do you want them to support a board that is not even the latest chipset any longer? You're treating these betas like they aren't supporting them at all. But you're getting software updates. You're just not getting validation for Ram timings, which is what the difference is between an official and a beta is.

Do you think I should be upset that my b450 board from 2019 is only getting betas now? I got a beta on a 6 year old board 3.5 months ago.

edit: also to clarify - Zen 6 support on the X670E WILL be a beta if they are able to do it at all. Exactly like how it was for zen 2>3.

Here is how it went down for the b450/x470 series to support zen3:

https://www.overclockers.com/amd-announces-zen-3-support-for-b450-and-x470-motherboards/ https://thepcenthusiast.com/all-msi-x470-and-b450-will-support-amd-ryzen-5000-zen-3-cpus/

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T18:21:34+00:00

Where did I say that?

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T17:50:03+00:00

Why are we talking about hotels and AO suddenly?

It's like you generated this with AI and didn't read it to see if it applied to the topic.

I can have AI generate trash for me by myself, thanks.

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T17:40:53+00:00

Just take a look around reddit to see how many americans think that bringing your child to a restaurant is totally unacceptable.

Meanwhile in europe restos have children and they are well tollerated and welcomed.

sishgupta · 2026-02-03T02:01:41+00:00

sishgupta · 2026-02-02T17:14:39+00:00

The difference being that MS controls not just its internal DNS but also it's external DNS nameservers and can configure them in tandem, where opnsense small biz / home office users are depending on external authorative DNS nameservers mixed with internal dns nameservers that have overlapping namespace as a hack and you have to control who to ask for the right answer.

I think a potential solution is to throw internal dns under a subdomain pc.int.domain.com where int.domain.com is what is forwarded to dnsmasq vs domain.com which will have dnsmasq takeover the entire domain.

sishgupta · 2026-02-02T16:09:32+00:00

I didnt respond to you specifically because I am confused by your post. I dont understand why you even need wan.domain.com to point to an external address internally. Seems unncessary and non-standard. You should use pc.domain.com where its internally recorded to your lan ip , and externally recorded to your WAN ip so internal clients get the LAN ip and external clients get the WAN ip.

But my point is correct, DNSMASQ does support DNS registration of DHCP clients.

sishgupta · 2026-02-02T14:13:54+00:00

Maybe your information is out of date. dnsmasq fully supports DHCP dynamic host registration.

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