Cat6 don’t bother with sfp+ just do cat6 wires and jacks. You can do affordable 2/5gb switches for now then switch to 10gb later. The 12-24 port 10gb switches are under 1k now though which I think is reasonable
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Full disclosure… an adobe datacenter closed near me and I got ridiculously high quality cables used for short runs between SANs… they can do about 20 gbps … so I think im pretty covered here
sweet. I guess in time it will all come down. I generally wait until OpenWRT is available for a router. While its not really scientific. Ive found its a good measure of development of the wireless generational chipsets. Right now for me AC is king and despite actually understanding the physical engineer layer improvements of AX … it wasnt worth my investment yet. Too much development. I mean wifi 6E (aka 802.11 ax wave 2)… is right here… and tbch theres going to be a lot of development as us military folk move off of the sub I nato bands 
… and it opens spectrum to commercial…
So yeah Im starting to think about the upgrade down the road. This one you see took about a year or so of planning and its still a mess lol. I have yet to plop my 24 1GBE switch in that I got from sarge. Ive got this giant amount of packaging and parts I gotta sort because of a joint project (between sarge and I) coming to the forum soon.
I was aware of 2.5 GBE but not 5GBE… thats a thing? My main motivation is when I move to AX the wires will become a limitation and nobody likes that. Especially as 10 gigabit fiber in my area is coming for a price thats ridiculously low… (state has some open infrastructure project going)
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Pretty later
Function now
Max lazy mode chuck switch under router mode engaged
Thanks @SgtAwesomesauce switch worked flawlessly
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@Buffy @SgtAwesomesauce I attempted to ddos my pi. Lol
It was unsuccessful. The pi4 OCd with my yuge heatsink running pihole with as many servers as I have in the resolver and as big of cache as I have was too robust
Results across multiple clients all doing this at once (10,000 queries a second each)
Statistics:
Queries sent: 180957451
Queries completed: 177977352 (98.35%)
Queries lost: 2880123 (1.59%)
Queries interrupted: 10034 (0.06%)
Response codes: NOERROR 13724982 (77.12%), SERVFAIL 188871 (1.06%), NXDOMAIN 3883865 (21.82%), REFUSED 2 (0.00%)
Average packet size: request 38, response 77
Run time (s): 1492.196066
Queries per second: 121285.154825
Average Latency (s): 0.194975 (min 0.000163, max 4.966739)
Latency StdDev (s): 0.348371
Like maybe I could spinup my own DoH server for when im out and about… No ads everywhere.
DoT as well for android private DNS?
Like as long as I don’t get cache evictions the server is performing correctly
Anyone know the dangers in doing what I’m saying above?
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odin:~ # zpool status
pool: OnePoint21GigaWatts
state: ONLINE
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
OnePoint21GigaWatts ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
sdd ONLINE 0 0 0
sde ONLINE 0 0 0
sdf ONLINE 0 0 0
sdg ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
odin:~ # zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
OnePoint21GigaWatts 464K 14.1T 44.0K /mnt/OnePoint21GigaWatts
OnePoint21GigaWatts/encrypted 42.0K 2.00T 42.0K /mnt/OnePoint21GigaWatts/encrypted
OnePoint21GigaWatts/media 42.0K 4.00T 42.0K /mnt/OnePoint21GigaWatts/media
OnePoint21GigaWatts/nextcloud 42.0K 8.00T 42.0K /mnt/OnePoint21GigaWatts/nextcloud
odin:~ # zfs get all OnePoint21GigaWatts | grep compress
OnePoint21GigaWatts compressratio 1.00x -
OnePoint21GigaWatts compression zstd local
OnePoint21GigaWatts refcompressratio 1.00x -
odin:~ #
I fuckin love ZFS… heck yeah on the fly ztsd any day
odin:~ # zfs get all OnePoint21GigaWatts | grep checksum
OnePoint21GigaWatts checksum sha512 local
odin:~ #
@SgtAwesomesauce this filesystem is awesome
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What do you use to tell drives apart? Do you have them in drive trays with LED indicators, or label the SATA cables, or … ? So like if your ZFS finds errors on one you know which one to replace?
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Lol the sata port tag. Drive 1 is at the bottom. Drive 6 is at the top
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Slowly I will have all my information coming out as small wiki posts. LOL
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BLOCK YOUTUBE ADS
So blocking ads via the manifests alternative lookups is not too bad, Can confirm it works though
#➤ [documents] nslookup manifest.googlevideo.com
Server: 10.31.82.3
Address: 10.31.82.3#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: manifest.googlevideo.com
Address: 172.217.12.14
Name: manifest.googlevideo.com
Address: 2607:f8b0:400f:801::200e
#➤ [documents]
pi-hole hosts
[eric@baldr ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts
[sudo] password for eric:
# Static table lookup for hostnames.
# See hosts(5) for details.
172.217.1.14 manifest.googlevideo.com
2607:f8b0:400f:801::200e manifest.googlevideo.com
[eric@baldr ~]$
No more ads
According to reddit this is your process. It definitely works
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Extend it further. Create your own list
echo "" > youtube-domains.txt
echo "" > youtube-filtered.txt
echo "" > youtube-ads.txt
curl "https://api.hackertarget.com/hostsearch/?q=googlevideo.com" > youtube-domains.txt
cat youtube-domains.txt | cut -d, -f1 > youtube-filtered.txt
sed '1d' youtube-filtered.txt > youtube-ads.txt
Just place that in the /srv/pihole folder
Map to localhost/nameofpiholeadstext.txt
Voila. Update gravity can pull it from itself
Cron tasked it to do this every night
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I just want to preface to everyone that without the extensive help from @Novasty and @SgtAwesomesauce some of the more technical aspects of some of this would have taken me greatly longer
Credit is due where Credit is due
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Engaging translation matrix…
Translation: harass them if things go wrong.
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I think something was lost in the translation /S 
honestly some of those issues are dumb. I hate how things break in stupid ways.
I also hate semicolons
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You got a lotta hate buddy
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Hey what can I say… I got alotta hate so im dishing it out, gotta give back some how /s
I filled the gaps in my journal I wont need much to keep it going and adapt from here but jesus christ does webshit break a lot. We are just desensitized to it
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