 I Hopefully that countdown worked. I think it's working right gives me a second to catch up. I was Yeah, just organized a bit now that's organized as I like to be but Nonetheless now live we are here vlog. There's a number 325 and okay the countdown did work awesome The first thing I'm gonna mention is Sharing my screen here present share screen chrome tab MSP geek on We're 44 days away. I've been doing this thing where I talk about where I'm going to be so I thought this is really relevant These are a bunch of good people. I know and this is a fun thing. They got their whole agenda posted and everything else This is going to be if you are able to make it to Florida on May 21st and Through the 23rd of 2023. There is a lot to do there. It's very tech focused. It's not vendor led I want to be very clear on that one of the reasons I think it's a good conference to go to because a lot of these conferences you may be Familiar with our very vendor centric and you get there to get sales pitched too much and this is not that because those are Definitely things. I don't like is too much sales pitching. So In there's at least a few people you might recognize one person in particular this guy here John Hammond and John Hammond is among the speakers there. So that's you know another reason to go if you're John Hammond fan I'm a John Hammond fan. He's just some great videos But then what's a lot of other good people there speaking a lot of information on their site for the full agenda I just want to give him a shout out and I'll probably continue doing this for a little while You know just because there might be a few of you that are interested in coming It's a you got 44 days to get that figured out and if you work for somewhere They your employer should be able to you know, this is a good reason for employers to do it as well So I thought I'd bring this up again alright Who's sunny afternoon and sort of it's a sunny afternoon here, but it's a cold one here It's a morning in New Zealand. Yep Hello from the Netherlands we'll go with that. All right So what about the oh AMD steam accelerator, I don't stream accelerator Yeah, I don't know. I haven't really looked at it. I see people posting about it. Yeah Not really sure any easy way to mount ntfs usb insurance Never tried So I don't know I Never tried doing that. I never plugged usb drives into my true NAS So it's not something I have an answer for So I don't know how easy or how difficult it is Hello from Miami How do you configure pfSense for Comcast business DCP? clean and clean and solve for WAN for five minutes. I Don't know what that question means Generally, it works. You can use Comcast business with DCP on pfSense. I don't know of anything special that you have to do so Yeah, I don't really have an answer for that Let's read those some of the people who have questions not just here. I at least have Well, one of the questions that came up and I need to do an updated video on this the someone emailed a question in About how you handle PfSense a matter of fact, let's pull up by pfSense I should probably pull that up for but it's pfSense and certificate management for less encrypt and I Really recommend using DNS more than anything else because That's the DNS or an API key either one of those are options to do it so you don't have Some of the silly problems. So share this tab instead and we'll Oh Crap do I got a current generate it? Can I Sure turn both add No, I think I got to create an account key in order for it to work. Oh, there's actually a few of them in here Oh neat. There's actually Google. I didn't realize Google had one in here But nonetheless, you can use let's encrypt very popular Google pretty cool. They have those in here, too But these are different ways you can Start the ACME process on that back end then you have the certificate in the general settings You know what? Let's call it the pfSense documentation But if you're gonna do this just don't try to do it with the The DNS verification also someone had asked if I knew how to do it with cloud player I've never tried mixing cloud player tunnels with let's encrypt I I'm not sure because someone's trying to get that to work with a to your proxy I got no guarantees that I can offer any help with that Let's encrypt They have a good documentation on how to do it in the package settings and what's supported They have a lot of good support in here, but you really have to Even right here their tips say DNS update mode method of best practice they do not require External inbound access. They can be used internal systems to allow Or cannot connect to the internet So this is one of the reasons I just say use this and you'll save you a lot of headaches. It just works better so that's a Definitely good advice for anyone trying to get this set up Just use the DNS when you set it up and I'll do some new videos on it I think there's probably some confusion on it And the other funny thing is people don't like how long some of the HA proxy videos They did are like there's a lot of details to setting up reverse proxies and certificates So what I'm gonna do though is break them out to a certificate video about certificates And then a video about HA proxy so that way you can just come in for the HA proxy But reference the certificate video because maybe you already have your certificates set up Another question that came in was recommendations on cable modems. I don't really have any Recommendation for them I usually just get them from the Cable provider Because it can be a headache dealing with the cable rider when you're using another third-party one, but but I will tell you which ones we've ordered We have in the past I think Ordered some which ones did we get? Oh, I didn't even know we ordered one of these So I think Steve Steve's um off, but he's used one of these heiress ones so people looking for cable moms This is the one that I think he's got right now Is this one I see we ordered it and I'm pretty sure we ordered he ordered it for him so Let's see Warm cloudy and Fiji click the like button. Yes, click the like button I'm starting an IT service company. Will there be any talks in about the business sessions about it? Well, let's look at it. I think there's probably at least a few Talks that are related to that. Let's go for the full agenda here. I Definitely know let's see. So day one. Here's your How killer service can beat killer sales so yes, there's definitely some business-related talks there Core lunch vendor haul track sessions. Let me go down here critical thinking by Kyle Hansel van Defensive security cognitive bias Kelvin is awesome. If you don't know him from Cybertrain all these are great speakers Roadmap to career growth people process automation so translating MSP business model to the technical mind This is probably a good business talk because this is something MSP people do not always do is understand how to put that together So there's by the way, you're gonna be surrounded by other MSP business owners So I would definitely say it's a good place to be if you're thinking about starting an MSP business The human side of technology people process automation automating operations human vulnerability management polling Considered harmful web. Ooh webhooks for PSA automation. So yeah There's there's enough in there that I think if you're in the business side of things, you'll still find a lot of good things Can you use it for Comcast business? Probably not Coming back to the cable modem question Comcast business in last I checked will not let you choose your own cable modem. So you're stuck with what Comcast offered you They just don't have another option I think you can use it in circumstances if you have single IP But I know we've had customers want to do it and they said you have multiple IPs You cannot do it with multiple IPs and Comcast. That's the last I heard Thank you for the separated let's encrypts. Yeah, we're just gonna do those as separate videos It's probably how I'll do that in the future. So that'll probably be the easiest way to handle it The other thing I'm working on What else I have in my list here? I mean look at the whole thing tech talk security and live Yeah, I left the generic because I figured I just babble on about everything today Single IP can confirm. All right. So now that's the important part Single IP give them login cred so you can make test rate changes. Oh interesting. I think of them a login cred Whatever ain't a big deal Not it's Comcast if they wanted to do something they could do something login creds won't change that But what I'm working on now Any tips on grounding and bonding Not really. I'm not I'm not an expert at that I have people that are experts, but I don't ground and bond things. It's not me. Oh Oh Huntress hands-on hacking training lab is sold out. Well, that isn't even surprising. So the uh, I The the hunter stuff is really good. They put on a great Thing by the way, they also have a game room. So There's a game room sponsor. So there's there's other You can still you can still learn a lot. You can still talk to some of the hunters people are gonna be there all the days so Not not to be I mean I Better if you could attend the conference all the counter stuff But I think hunters has a lot of stuff that you can watch as a webinar or two So there's other ways to engage with some of that content But back to what I'm working on if anyone cares Maybe I don't know. I'm doing a new video on how can I do a present on this? Will that work? Oh? You know what I think I can link it If I hit present Slides Google slide And Google slide allow hit the loudest each time I think Neat, I think this will work. It's processing magic Now what I was going to do and I'm not gonna do it right now But that little spot is where my head will be so that's why it looks like that But I'm gonna do some a new video to break down how Zen orchestra processes backups and some of the features. It's it's only I'm gonna have like six or seven slides Then I'm gonna go hands-on with it I Want to make sure there's a clarification on how a few things work with Zen orchestra and the way their backups work they've made a lot of changes since I did my video a while ago and they've made it pretty amazing and Because of that, I want to make sure I've got it well covered in terms of all the functionality that they offer currently So that's why I'm gonna be working on a new video specifically about that in our lab and showing all the Ways this system works. I have a whole backup testing demo That I'll be sharing walking through all the steps and everything else and you know how the backups work and including We'll go back up overview Oops This is one of the things that they added since I last to my video was the health check in there. So you can know that the VM has gone through a backup. It restores the VM. It performs a health check to make sure the VM boots once the VM boots up it destroys the VM and Shuts it all down. So it's like you can do the full Everything integrated right into the backups in here and it's just kind of cool to be able to do all that Am I running 7.2 beta on Synology? I am not the Synology betas I should but I usually just wait till they come out I Don't know. We do have one system in in the office. We could just convert over to it Not sure what is up even clean install drops in that in that time frame. I thought it was empty When gateway monitoring IPv6 DCP preq shorter Yeah, I don't know post in forums post in the pfSense forums. So Because maybe I don't know if you posted my forums the pfSense forums a better place to ask some of those questions a White label service like Dropbox. I don't know any white label ones Also, why are you looking for a white label one? I don't understand. I have a slash 29 ISP modem supported But did dare say not support IPv6 routing left all stuff to me All right If you have two internet connections with pfSense, can you have the fail over internet service between two providers? Reestablish s2s site-to-site VPN connections Yeah, if you configure properly it will So it can be done. I'll just I don't have time to explain it in a live show But yes, it can be done. Matter of fact, it works well with wire guard if I'm not mistaken Well, your guard has no problem doing it. You know what Travis go ahead and update that one to 7.2 Let's get it on the latest version. So we are ahead of the curve doing the testing Why not? Can you cover minimum disk space name for the host when backing up? I have issues where low disk space and the snapshots won't merge when backing up You if you have something thick provisioned you're gonna have a bad time You really should be using something thin provisioned or have a lot of space Those are your two options because if something's thick provisioned it starts You know each snapshots going to accumulate a lot of space on there So the answer is thin provisioning or have lots of space. So that's the That's kind of the answer for that. I don't I don't have an easier one I've seen a lot of people break things by doing that because they just they are limited on space They start taking lots of snapshots of VMs, or they keep too many snapshots And if it's not thin provisioned for example, I scuzzy you're gonna use a lot more space Matter of fact If we look at where's it like this isn't look how much bigger this is because it's not thin provision So I don't have snapshots if I start taking snapshots of these things Yeah, right here. Each one's gonna take up that full space on this Base copy Kelly Tom Kelly Tom. Yeah, they're I Just I have one ice cuz he's I like testing it But most all my stuff was on NFS because it's thin provisioned. So Planning upgrade PF sense see if he has sense plus with tech light When will that happen if the what will happen as subscription expires? You just roll it back You can convert. I well, I don't know if you can do in place conversion. I take that back I know the backup files are the same It doesn't shut off when the subscription expires matter of fact I did break it a subscription key playing with it and I learned that you can just resubscribe But if you break it it just doesn't get the package updates anymore. It stays working. It just doesn't get package updates So yeah, if you're wondering what happens, I accidentally broke mine goofing with it And I was I was doing something. I don't know exactly. I did to create that problem How many resources do you sign as an orchestra my backup seems slower than yours and I take a connection and true national storage What makes them slow is going to be the speed of the CPU. They're very CPU bound So that can definitely cause a problem with your backups not being fast also Well, if you look here at my Delta backups and you notice I'm using Transfer data with NBD. I have that turned on that's Something you can read about how to do NBD transfers. They started doing it last year or in January. It's a but it's much more supported now and It will increase your transfer speeds for backups But there are still limitations depending on the CPU you have because just by moving Zen Orchestra Over to our faster machines compared to the one it was on my backups got substantially faster. So I Don't You're you're not gonna get a night and day performance You're gonna get very small incremental performance And if you don't know what you're doing you're gonna corrupt a lot of things and cause more headache than it's worth to use jumbo frames jumbo frames can setting MTU 9000 can add some efficiencies, but Make sure everything supports it. We've had Consulting jobs that people have booked us for where they had corrupted things and goofed things up And we had to un-goof them because that's what they had done was set up a bunch of jumbo frames I'm trying to move around once I got my there we go. I have my foot stool that I lean back on I wanted to be So yeah jumbo frames are it's and maybe I'll do a video on it But I think the speed gain is like five percent or something like that The the headache game can be higher than that I would only recommend it probably for your storage network if you're trying to get peak performance out of it But usually performance on storage networks is different limitations such as drives Jeff from craft computing has been discussing this because he's moving things to the hundred gig you are Jumbo frames won't help. He kept running into drive problems. So he's been upgrading everything else. So Update on my wind dropping issue. Yes, it was a real tech. Yes, people don't you don't use real tech? Yes On Reddit last night Jim P from neck eight showed off a very brief demo The app they're using very cool that he put it on YouTube or where did he put it? I know he said I'm reddit, but like did he embedded in reddit under reddit RPF sense So I'd share that with a class see But they'll look for or the bigger question is did he delete it off of there? Anyways, if you can send a link or post it somewhere, that'd be nice See in here. I'll see if he's posted in a reddit. Let's see. I don't see anything I was looking at Jim P's reddit and see if I could see a post in there Is it possible to forward external static IPs address? Through UDM pro to local servers, you can do port forwarding. I don't know if you can do false one-to-one that Thanks for all the knowledge. You're sharing XC PNG next way where 80% migrated from Hyper-V and ESSI such a great product. Awesome Friends don't use friends. Don't let friends Real tech or Broadcom he linked it in Vimeo. All right. Let me see if there's a Vimeo link Just not seeing it Hmm. So all time past week Hmm. They must have taken it down. I just did a quick search and didn't find it so Have you got a video on storage networks if hearing true nas to use multiple IP addresses? It's not hard to configure true nas to use multi IP addresses, so I guess I'd need more context of your question because multiple IPs on true nas, I mean just go to network and Add your interfaces Mine has two different IP addresses You just add them so I don't honor. Okay. Gonzo Pacho the other one. All right. I know who that is So let's see did he Share this instead. Can we do this? Will it share? So they're working on it. Cool So they're here. They're working on the Feature there room management thread on our neck heats up. Yep. I'll throw a link in here We'll throw the link over here There people can go read it. It's on reddit. I'll see Cool, all right now I've shared all that information in there Sharing the knowledge sharing the knowledge here. Oh Question for all these people live stream. This is the question. I wanted to ask in the beginning Does anyone know and if not, I'm gonna have to do a little more googling. Is there any Projects that would allow you to take the ubiquity cameras and grab Frames out of them for a time-lapse compilation. You can DM me you can email vlog Thursday at Lawrence systems comm if you know of a project for that That would be great someone asked and it's a you know large organization. They're trying to Document that's going to be a multi-year project building out these buildings are doing they have internet access at the buildings They have internet they have ubiquity cameras already At the construction site, so they're looking for a Time-lapse that would extend over years the time-lapse on ubiquity as I see I figured Cody was here the time-lapse on ubiquity is Not something that's works the same way like it does and I'll pull up an example like in Synology You can be very very granular. You can take a single snapshot Where's it called smart laps? Like you can say and this is one of mine one minute per week a Video so you can set these up so you're Setting up a one minute of video every week of time that goes by and then stretch this out over months of time To be able to do it. I don't think I I've seen any way to do that inside the unify and that's the challenge Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's it's a cool feature and You know it's in Synology. It's pretty it's slick So if I filter by one minute per week and it gives me like we'll go back to when there was snow Probably here then you can watch like a whole week of video and It condenses it down Okay, it's what I should say this one's one minute per day So this is seven days condensed down to seven minutes Remember when it last snowed because the snow ones are always cooler to watch the snow come and go Maybe you have snow. No, there's snow in this one. There we go We got snow and then it still goes away, but nonetheless it'd be cool if If someone knows about that can message me that'd be great. If not, I'm gonna do some searching for them It's a little it's a large organization doing some they do a lot of charity work. So and does the snow go away? Yeah, there's a snow melting All right, enough of that never use real tech for routing true Can you briefly describe generally file structure choices at the time of creation for a VM on XC PNG versus TrueDance scale And what is thin versus thick? Thin provisioning means I can specify we'll go over here So right now Matter of fact, it's kind of easy to tell if we look at the backups. So we look at the backups For example backup testing demo and if I read it, it only is 15 gigs. So we have 15 gigs used the virtual machine here the we'll go over here to the Dis or a 60 gig This is thin provisioned. There's only 15 gigs in use the storage is thin provision So it doesn't take up because it's only got 34 gig used even though I've got a 60 gig drive in here. So here is my 60 gig drive Not well, that's actually Eric's where's the other one This one's got a couple snapshots, but What thin provision means only use the storage you're actually using don't provision all of it So that's thin provisioning and if you store it on NFS, it's still thin provision It's going to be the size of the file In use not the entire size of the potential of the drive. So thin provisioning is Generally speaking the way you want to go. I would set up a analogy to view our TSP streams of the unified camera That time lapse would be easy, but unified protect program was crap compared to unified. Yeah So that's probably Oh neat. So the LTS analogy is now upgraded. So from the beginning of this blog to the now times We'll go over here five We have now Travis has now initiated an upgrade. So let me log into it and we'll share it We can look at the new seven point two. I don't even know what the new features are for it. Good news is it's healthy. Oh It's got package updates. Oh This package is no longer supported. So let's see what we broke Everything says beta But it works. It's here. I'll look at it later To figure out what's actually new about it, but I know we're on the latest release. Let's look at a release notes That'll tell us why we should care or not all versions Where's the seven point? Oh, I Guess I'd have to find the seven point two release notes. Yeah, whatever. We'll figure that out That's a leader. That is a leader problem now Full volume encryption Container image package. Okay. I hate when you find predict you can't specify or have what choice specify your own SRT service if you want unless I'm missing something. I don't think you're missing anything I don't think that's a feature It's been a while since I looked at blue iris. I think it has a timeless function will read our at TPS RTSP Hmm. I guess that's an interesting way to look at it because if I were to go into our Synology with surveillance station And we wanted to add a camera And we added a camera manually I'm assuming I was double-checked. Are they ever it no, they didn't unify The user to find it and we just point it at a RTSP path. You're right. That might work That could be an interesting way to do it. I'll test that Because we have this analogy. I'll see if this can pull time lapses for our Synology. That would be a really clever use I don't know. I'll have to play around with that Anyone in my office is paying attention and wants to poke at this That's an interesting thing to poke at Okay, cool Travis has got a link for me here. Oh man wrong button Well, let me click it. Where did I gotta go somewhere else to click that? Yeah, someone wants to give that a try at the office I'm curious if you could pull the RTSP from our current Cameras into here and then turn on a time-lapse. This would be interesting because they have multiple construction sites and They could then pull from multiple construction sites into one Synology to do all of this that would be interesting. Oh What am I doing? I'll message you later, but basically the idea is pulling our TMSP streams from unified cameras into Synology as a time-lapse It's called smart laps inside of Synology So that's something to play with That would be interesting if it worked to be a solution for the client question Let's go ahead and click that link Travis sent me. I can't click things while I'm using StreamYard Doesn't let me click. All right. Here's the DSM 7.2. Oh Cool some tamper-proofness New immutable snapshots neat encrypt entire drives. So Block level full system backups, okay I'm all for this being faster adaptive login new defense transparent management neat improved user experience. Hmm. I Don't know why they renamed it, but whatever Is this out for release now or Okay, it still says it's still got the beta tag on it Be aware that you is messed up and you have to remove the S and then to make it work. Okay, so You're watching in real time An idea come together That might turn into something or not Guys, it's commercial What's commercial? Well, let's find out something else about unified cameras. I'm gonna message you separately. You may want to look into this later, huh? Yeah, it's it's a weird task at the person needs but Yeah, just throw it throw it in our our slack message and go from there Bum bum bum. All right back over to here. I am laughing at how many views The video about firewalls is getting so that that video turned out to be better than I expected comparing firewalls And it's made more and more people angry That the number of people that have lots of strong opinions on firewalls has been amusing to me I've also learned the part you can't really do well is in a video like that because you just sound like you're ranting But you are I realized that the documentation for and this is coming from 48 partners themselves people that reached out to me that are IT friends of mine that use 48 and they their love-hate relationship with it is how bad some things are Implemented and how bad the documentation is and it's that does affect your overall experience like their answer is it's not Documented, but it does this or it's not documented well, but if you if you call support They'll help you configure this thing that isn't documented very well in their feature and I'm just like, ah Yeah, it is It makes a lot of sense because I one thing a pf sense has going for it versus the other firewalls I had listed tons of not just documentation from neck gate But also write-ups all over the internet you can find not just my videos But people who take the time to really do a lot of write-ups and then not just me lots of people who did videos on Pfsense and all the fancy features it has That makes it easier to use, you know, whether or not you like the interface There's someone with a write-up that tells you how to get something done in there And one nice thing is the interface is look the same for years So a write-up from 2017 probably is easy to apply to a 2023 version of pfsense It just puts them in a big advantage It's yeah, it's kind of a challenge because everyone wants their firewall to be your favorite And as I said multiple times in that video, I'm not here to tell you what to use use what you want I'm just here to do my videos and talk about things I use so yeah nonetheless people were People were still salty about it for sure Lots of salty You know, I'm salty about The stupid search inside of google Sometimes it just does not want to pull things up. You're like you're searching for it and you're like, yeah I just can't share the thing I wanted to share But I changed a couple things in here, but they're kind of fuzzy um, so I'm always It's always one of those things and there the reason I say I'm fuzzy is because Saying that the um The what do you call it The 40 gate supports this I put an asterisk because it's not manageable It it's like if you want to put all the certificates in from the command line They don't have full UI management for it But someone didn't link me to the documentation and because they don't call it a reverse proxy I didn't find it searching but someone sent me a link to the documentation But then when I seen that they don't have good management for it. I'm like Is it a feature or is it something they crammed in there? I don't know And matter of fact this particular person says they are using reverse proxies But they they found them too hard to manage on their 40 gates So they use separate software for reverse proxies. They use engine x because 40 gate was too hard to manage and Yeah, that's the reason I knew about it If I understood if I understood the whole conversation The son of the back and forth and that was the reason and I just kind of laughed about it uh maker tick also suffers from bad documentation There's been a lot of debates people had and apparently like something that works on one model doesn't work on the Similar model because of different firmware revisions. There's a couple debates that people got in about this and I'm just like you know, I Don't know what to say like it's one of those things where If the documentation is not good and probably the biggest reason people want me to do videos like the biggest Ask tom. I can't find out how to make this thing work. Can you do videos on it to make it work? I'm like, well, I don't have the time to uh Poke at it until I figure it out because there's not a document I can read from to make it work So uh kind of comes be a headache Oh, yes 40 gate has had its share of vulnerabilities. That is for sure aloha Yeah, lots of vulnerabilities there is No doubt about that I've worked with a few firewalls, but I really struggle with maker tick. Yeah, the the maker ticks are just I mean, there's people who really like them. We know people in the wisp market They just sing their praises But they always have like a team of people or a couple of people that are absolutely been using them for years level expert Which is great But that those people aren't really documenting very well How will they use them in configuration recipes and things like that? So that seems to cause some of the problem of figuring them out So if you if you're someone who figured them out cool You can save some money and go maker tickers are definitely priced very well, but um, that comes at the sacrifice of documentation for them maker ticks, um They also seem a little weirdly buggy I remember when I was just looking through all the rat out updates They had weird problems that people would run into and it was in their firmware updates Like good, they're updating it, but that's a weird problem to have just I can't remember at all of them, but it was all these little things that I don't know I don't know if they're edge cases or not. I just don't use enough maker tick to really become an expert on it And I'm very open to admitting that like I'm people say well, you know, you're dissing on maker tick I'm like I didn't have my like my experience using them was not amazing And most people seem to share that the only people who seem to like them back to people who you know looking for that low budget device But hey, if you want to use them, I'm not telling you not to Um Unrelated to firewalls but curious what you think zfs compression. Are there any performance benefits not really The lz4 compression is really efficient really efficient. So you're not You're not seeing a performance benefit turning it off I mean if your processor is older than 10 years You may have some but most people are using processors that are less than 10 years old I've used one of their switches management interface seems to disappear. Well, that's fun Where does it go? What makes it come back? Where does it just vanish and never come back or do you have to reboot it? I just laugh. I there's a I was trying to find it. There's a a long debate where someone who is a really likes maker tick they long posted my forums To talk about all the firmware versions and the board revisions and some of the weird quirks You run into trying to set something up that won't work on one model But we'll work on another model, but the documentation doesn't clearly tell you which one's this Configuration will or won't work on um That's I don't know But those are some of the problems with these companies and they can have really brilliant engineers cranking out some great stuff But if you can't follow it up with good documentation, it's hard to Yeah, what's my opinion on D dupe? uh, deduplication works Fine like it if you need it. It's good. It requires uh It it can be computationally intensive because it works at the block level So it's comparing all the blocks and determining which blocks can be duplicated So it's it's definitely a space saver if you have data that can be deduplicated It's a waste of time if your data can't be deduplicated. So it depends on the data you're putting on there Takes a reboot even the console cable won't work weird Don't have an answer for that one But I don't work with many mekertik. So I'm also not someone seeing that problem very often either I actually don't mind the switch os um The switch os I found easy enough to use it's the router os that I didn't find easy to use Got a poe mekertik with switch os light the firmware it ships with was essentially broken Now it's running rc firmware from a random forum post and it's fine, but sheesh. Yeah That's Someone had commented in the thing that made me laugh the most was when someone said mekertik's that device had always requires some Secret incantation that you'll probably find in a forum post that no one will tell you why it works But you copy and paste it because it works And I just laughed. I think that's the stack exchange answer or something and it really cracked me up It's still function. So I leave it. Oh, yes, and those are the parts that scare me sometimes the whole It still works. So I Use it type of answers like that's yeah The maintainers of zfs strongly maintain advice. No, I've not seen them strongly advising it. They They want to they want people to go in with their eyes open to what it takes to run de duplication If you do not do that Um, then you are going to have problems and it's probably one of those support problems That people run into like They turn it on on a they're they're trying to be budget oriented. They have a budget oriented machine They turn it on and then they contact support. This don't work, right? Um, yeah that that old seller on you dragged out of the closet It's probably not a great idea to run de duplication on it So it's usually the complaints are more likely to be a support problem Than an actual functional problem with it. I haven't had any functional problems with it when I've tested it but It's you know, I know there's there's penalties of calculating the deduplication blocks. So Oh, let's see Cool people are applying to something else. I posted Ah, is there any more people emailing vlog thursday? Let's look Nope Does that last one was about k1 modems. Oh, I forgot to put that on there in a banner There we go Recently had to deal with the 48 f 100 a man with a terrible experience I'm used to the pf sense experience and the 40 is just like a wool ball and At the time to configure it, you know I was really aggravated with a 40 gate. We were doing a pf sense set up for a client They had 40 gates and we had to get ipsec working Everything in the error messages inside of pf sense was telling me it was the 40 gate 40 gate support denied And finally after doing some digging on the 40 gate, I found they were using an old version of ip swan Uh, I think yeah, something like that. Well, the the the ipsec version they were using had some bugs in it I pointed that out and then they had a they said, oh, you're out. You have to buy Um, I think they made them buy some updated license to get a new version of the firmware But the firmware fixed it Well almost first the firmware and then we learned there was another bug We could trigger where the 40 gate wouldn't accept ipsec connections anymore But if you rebooted it not restarted the service because according to 40 gate, you just have to restart the service Oh, no rebooting it. It would connect every time the pf sense. We never had to reboot It just connected. So we had some weird quirkiness with 40 gates. This is a while ago. That was like two years ago Um, maybe they fixed some of those bugs. I don't know interoperability between vendors should be smoother Not always smooth But most of the time the recent ones we've set up my staff has set them up. They've just worked. Um They worked fairly well. So Thank you, Andrew Is negi 4100 power enough to run n-top png sericata? Uh, sort it out for a client to introduce A complicated blocking. No, definitely jump up to the 6100 for that. 4100 is going to be on the edge of Of a bad experience doing that. So you're probably want to move over to a Uh, 6100 for that And uh, thank you again for the donation. It's greatly appreciated Do you have any idea how to get boot time council messages from zen kernel when your machine has no on-board ipmi or built in our support, um No, never tried Not something i've needed Can you do a video on how to set up multiple Uh, wan video and how to send a machine only through that static wan ip over the one Did I do anything wrong? Well, I have a video on policy routing and I think you mean policy routing So policy routing is the answer. I did a recent video on policy routing. So That video is the answer. I don't I don't if it's not working for you. I don't know what you did wrong But policy routing is the uh, what you're looking for there's documents and pfcents on it I did my video based on the documentation inside of pfcents I asked about multiple ip's and shernan's to the Do they not both register on dns and cause issues? Do you leave the gateway blank on the storage network? Yes, the gateway does not need to be let me pull this up um In our production storage network so You do not, um See storage is going to be this network here. Am I confused about something? Hold on But let me pull that up. I got to have another thought here. Why did I think I had it named as another vlan? so lts office Networks and maybe I'm just wrong about what I had the vlan name Okay, I got it right. I don't mind I'm just confused because I did rename it all anyways You may notice in here that the storage There's the ip address of it 20.225, but if we edit it It doesn't need a gateway That's not needed in here. My storage network doesn't need a gateway or dns or anything you don't need those in there to make that work So hopefully that clears that up As a matter of fact, um the storage network doesn't even exist in my pfcents because it doesn't need to There's no purpose for it. Everything on the storage network is a separate um separate from other things Largest one for a client. Um Let me think probably I know we have one client. They mostly set it up not me, but They had I think 300 virtual machines three or 400 um There's another one recently that is Not quite as high of a count. I mean, I think they probably have 200 virtual machines, but each machine they have has um I think 512 gigs of ram and it it's a beast. They built some beastly machines Uh across there. We have we have another one actually I take it one of the ones we have Has three del servers with 100 gig connections. So um, I mean they spent just in hardware. I think the del servers were the Like well over 100 something thousand dollars just for the servers before they started building out everything else I remember being a pretty big bill. So we've worked at a lot of pretty large installs Hey, thank you and you for the donation Brett the one in europe I think the one the one in europe's big but the other one in florida the one in florida and the other one I don't know where they're located. I know they're located in the u.s Um, but the florida one is the one that's got I think the 100 gig interconnects that one's that's a beast of one too But the ones in europe are pretty big too Thank you bruce. Do you have a video advice and setting up a number of ap's for home site survey of a 27 hours quick home Seven unified access point. It feels like overkill, but it works, but I could improve it. No, this is the problem. Um, it's Besides using the unified design center, which can help put you in the right direction uh When the rubber meets the road the best way to do it is going to be to place them where you think they'll be And then do a site survey with them on there The problem is the materials on the walls You can specify that in the unified design center to get you a pretty good idea But it's still not going to be the same as the reality. It'll get you close But if you want it even better, um, you're going to have to sometimes just place them and Overkill is not bad. This is one of the advantages Of having an expensive access points compared to some of the competitors. We can put more of them in Honestly, they that usually gets you a better experience to have sometimes one per room Uh, I only have two in my house and it covers my whole house. My house is about 2000 square feet Um, and I have a basement which is also 2000 square feet And I've got one that covers almost all of it and the way my wife's office is at the front and where the garage is I put in one, um What do you call it? Uh Why don't I just pull it up We'll pull up tom's house here because I forget the which ones I have Yeah, I've got an in wall hd the uap i w hd That one covers my garage and my wife's office and my wife's Works from home as well. So she's hard lined in And then the u6 l r covers the rest of my house u6 l r's are awesome. They just work Spectrum analyzer make sure you have no overlapping channels. That is important. Um, don't overlap the channels You can you know ubiquity If you're in a house and you don't have the neighbors Uh wi-fi bleeding into yours the auto will do that the auto can get Be problematic if it's fighting with neighbors who are also using automatic And you're playing whack-a-mole changing things around so but yeah testing Testing wi-fi is always fun. Whatever you can hard line things. That's always my answer Anything I care about gaming systems blah, blah, blah. That's all hard lined. That just makes it a lot easier Yeah And kody also did a read. I think kody has a recent video on using the wi-fi man app to map things I've been wanting to do a map because I was going to talk about how I have it set up on my house This is yeah, this is the worst one apartment and wi-fi are fun Especially because broadband vendors seems to have unusually high power. Even they don't want people complaining about low power. So they Have lots of power, which means everything's like you do a wi-fi scan an apartment. It's always it's a disaster It's a disaster of overlapping networks. Oh, let's see What else did I have here? My backup testing demo stuff. I should have this video done soon You know, I do a lot of the xcp and g videos It's interesting because they're they're not going to be my most viewed videos I know a lot of people know me for them and things like that. They're always my niche videos But boy they have us interacting with the biggest companies like some of the larger scale projects We've kind of come from xcp and g Um and consulting around that because they have us rebuilding quite a few things in a network So I definitely like doing it and uh It's it's just such a good project too. I'm always always so happy working with them They've cut the hard line. Ah, yes Ubiquity wall thing. That's a good way to put it. Uh Let's just pull that up because let's just call it what it is ubiquity wall thing like Why ubiquity what who thought this was a good idea It's I like it. We'll go to this tab here We see um the two people have done the videos Christian crosstalk and cody um Both did videos on it, but yeah I don't get it like I I don't know I wouldn't buy it If they sent me one maybe But this is a dumb form factor That's my opinion, I don't know I seen there's people who've made it look nice, but I think it's silly I don't I really got nothing else besides silly Someone will like it so positive is is it I didn't even look is it sold out? Nope in stock So it's it's in stock that tells me it's not the most popular thing Oh, I didn't get a review video out as they only have the ea version. Okay, it's dumb Yeah, I don't think it's priced very good either I don't know it doesn't have a for packing everything in one not to mention if something goes bad Now you've got a giant brick on your wall like I don't know Um, I started using tech supply direct instead of server monkey We have a relationship with tech supply direct. I have an offer code that gets you a discount We bought a lot of servers from tech supply direct. We think they're great people But I don't we just we didn't have any bad experiences with server monkey though either It does look like a tinkless hot water heater Yeah, it's in stock. So it's not popular I mean, how else can you describe it if you want to know if something's popular or ubiquity? They probably don't have it If we sorted their site by out of stock Like this here you you go. Oh, okay. Yeah All sold out, you know why they're sold out because these are the popular models if we go to their cameras I wonder what cameras are popular uh Protect Sold out sold out sold out sold out you can't get the doorbells the doorbells kind of cool I mean, it's a neat product can't find them though because they're always sold out $79 cameras great price can't have it you can you can brag about Selling offering I should say one you can't brag about selling them because they're not in stock At least the nvrs are in stock right now What are the requirements for 10 gig land? I have six home cut secure videos and 10 up cameras 3 apple tvs and much iphone Not that UDW unified disappointment wink Uh anyone want a 3100 the case is cracked You can have it just pay shipping How'd you crack the case on it? They're not supposed to be standing up to physical abuse I assisted on install advanced jam had over 200 Uh competing as society's initial scan Uh, yeah Does cast like the glasses? Yes, my wife likes my glasses Get rid of the uficams Yeah, ufi, man. I I am not surprised though They're just bad at things like security Uh, what are your thoughts on running a vm for all that for a decent sized home lab house? Am I dumb overkill for making it private life more work my work life? It's up to you. I don't do it but I don't have a reason to do it. I'm the only one authenticating. No one else uses my home lab stuff but me so um and at the office the We just don't have enough people at my office using our lab. So I don't really It's just not been a thing. I mean I could use oauth and single sign-on for like zen arkasha but It's just not a big enough deal to me for um I don't know for any of it really Oh, okay. Just the plastics cracked switch to chromo s. Uh, oh Oh Did I miss msp geek con talk? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, kyle Are you busy? Would you like to come on as a spokesperson for msp geek con? I talked about it in the beginning, but you know seen as you have something to do with it I can send you a link. You can join the stream You are more than welcome to What is an msp geek con? It's a place where i'm going to be so you should be there too. That's what an msp geek con is Okay, I can um Because i'm getting ready to wind down the stream, but before we do that, let me Send kyle A stream link. Let's see how this goes. We're gonna put kyle kyle doesn't do many live streams. So Let me um message him directly on msp geek Where do I usually message you kyle? I don't have you in my uh In the dms here There we go message to We'll see if kyle shows up will he click the link Uh, have I heard of 45 drives new ranch from protection solution? Yes, it's something very cool. They're working on very cool um Can't speak much to it right now, but in the future Expect tom to probably have some opinions on it, but I like where they're going with it It's definitely um, I like where 45 drives is thinking Uh, I am trying to figure out how to fish out your email from this google chat thing. Oh I get what you're doing now uh William daughtery. Thank you very much don't Daherty I am probably saying your name wrong If you want to if you want to put a phonetic way to say your name in there. I'm all for it All right, kyle has joined us Hey, i'm here There's only 125 people here, but um, if you want to tell people why they should be at msp geek I brought it up at the beginning. I think you probably by now seen the slack message I posted I didn't read that that that's just i'm going to do a separate video for that, but um Nonetheless, I was just telling people why they should go It's because it's not vendor driven and it's got really smart people speaking at it that you guys hand picked and It's a great place to hang out with all the msp geek people I'm gonna hold this time. So you already got the date and everything everyone knows that I dropped links at the very beginning of the video for all that. So Yeah, I mean honestly, uh It's everything you mentioned. I mean we spent a lot of time effort In a very short period to make this happen And we we specifically Didn't want to completely emulate All the other conferences that exist msp geeks whole mantra is or Uh rising tide raises all ships, right? So our goal is to teach technicians something that not any other conference does very well if at all um, and we're trying to focus specifically on that we Handcrafted the topics. So when we were discussing what this would look like we were like these are the topics We want to talk about and this is how they all take this is all they work together It's not just a simple like we're talking about this. We're talking they all connect We're calling it our infinite journey of learning Um, and it's just an infinite loop everything that that that you do as a technician and as a higher level individual at a company And these are the things you do. You may not realize it. Um, but this is what they do And then we took and matched up speakers who could speak about those and we made sure that they could eloquently deliver what we're hoping they can talk about and that they're experts and what they're what they're demonstrating on and uh, we have spent Weeks uh, I don't know already this is a great list of talks though. Um, and and the people giving them So not only the topics and you know one of the things I wanted to make sure my audience understood Was that this is not because any of us who work in this we've been to the events that are vendor driven sales pitches Is all they are Um, you know wine us and dine us. Uh, tell me what your product is the best thing and why I should be using it These are actually more, you know From technical people giving technical people how to level yourself up, you know automation mindset Uh hacked in 45 minutes with john strann. Oh, that's I uh, I am so nervous about that one But I am also so excited Because the the premise of that is he's going to set up an msp And then hack it all within 45 minutes like using uh, I don't know what what software like what software he's using to build the msp but he's building an msp and then Hacking into it within 45 minutes and I've been to one of his talks you can find john strann On uh, he's done some youtube videos. I think him and john hammond did a couple together as well Like he's a him and john hammond both are top notch presenters So is kyle hanselman and all the other people you pick But they're hacking stuff. It's just so much fun because it's always eye opening and you're like, ah I didn't think you could do that. So like I don't think I've ever like you don't say that once during the talk It's like this first 10 minutes in you start saying that Yeah, um, so anonymous asked a question. It's on site only We are going to do our best to record all of the sessions and put them up At some point that is our goal. Um, we did not nap like I don't think anyone like we started planning this in the middle of August that is that is from august until Today is like the timeline for this Thing when most people have a year or multiple years so The people involved have been super helpful the sponsors have been super helpful and uh, it is We even have things that are fun like because we're all techies nerdy geeky, right? We have Hunters has a special event that's happening sunday evening and the After the welcome reception We have a d&d game night On monday night. So if you want to play d&d, we have some DMs that are going to be running some games. So if you're interested or new you're welcome to come join We have the we have a game room that's open 24 7 almost And you can go and just grab a board game and go play and once we're done with the event. We're going to donate them to A boy's home And make it and I think this is cool because I feel like you've got this intersection that is between the Hacking world which are generally kind of fun conferences if you've been to some of the hacking style conferences gher con deaf con, etc And the business conferences you you've got this cool middle of the road one where I think that's really important because it's more It's representing the blue team Which is a lot of what we are because the hacking conferences are really focused on the red team And I know red team gets people excited. Let's go hack some stuff But the defense side is actually what you end up and there's more jobs for what you're likely to do in the industry Is be assisted men whose task is keeping firewalls and windows servers patched And then dealing with the fallout because they don't patch Or that one user just still clicked on that link even though it said don't click the link eight times in eight different spots Yep, and then we have to go clean it all up. Yep So Yeah, this is the first year they're doing it. So we're going to see how it goes Um, maybe next year it'll be there'll be some virtual option But that that would add so much more to the planning that it's not Like the fact that you guys are going to be able to try to record this is I already know how hard of a task that is I've been at conferences that Have really attempted to record all those shows and it's not easy. So yeah We've spent a lot of work and a lot of hours. Uh, the team has not just me I'm not that there's 20 to 23 people involved in helping get this set up. Um, we have, uh People I don't know if you're familiar with we have jason slagle who's helping us multiple times Ray Orsini Is helping us Becky from huntresses who has experience in conferences has given us a lot of help Kelvin. Yeah, Kelvin. It's huge. Uh, there's bindi green, obviously in the admin team Mindy's actually in charge of our education him and I have worked closely to make sure that What he feels we need to have is delivered effectively And that's been fun and torturous trying to Align the vision of what we're trying to do with who can speak and how we can speak You know, it's it's it's been fun. I'm not letting my sales guy go Brett. He can't come I told him no already I'm gonna bring I gotta bring technical people. I'm leaving the sales guys at home smart. I mean I mean, I'm sure Brett could learn something. Uh, you know, I'm not the way we're we're teaching Core skills, which is uh, yeah, I think the the important part. We're not teaching. I guess you could level up a sales guy We could but we're teaching core skills. We're not teaching. Um, like we're not telling you how to go into red Reg edit and alter a path to a file, right? We're teaching you how to think how to you know, how to operate in in the msp and Texas had been World on a day-to-day basis how to how to defend what you're what you're about to do and how to when you solve problems um, so it's it's uh It's yeah, it's a lot And and by the way for those, you know msp geek con msc geek is Is its own thing if you're interested in joining if you work in the it msp space. That's something Um, you could just go to I should pop the website, right? I mean you could uh, we're a free community of managed service providers and vendors Um, we're over 10 000 members between discord and slack. So Yeah, only there's only 10 000 people. So you feel free to join. It's just a couple people We were actually reviewing our uh, so we're We're having things done at the conference that allows us to that we wanted to put our history on, right? So we were going through our history Uh, which has been very fun uh, yeah, yeah, they're putting more stuff on the site. They got swag, but I Yeah, 18 000 plus members There's some numbers on there So if you can't make it to the conference you can join and I'll just throw uh this down there for those you You know want to want to be involved in the community of other geeks. That's definitely um Something you can do there's no cost. I I am in there randomly people I usually I I have trouble real time chat. I'm a forums guy So I'm I'm on the other side of it, but I if you tag me I do reply because I do talk to a lot of people in there I'm always the person that gets tagged in pf sensing unify questions. So Yeah, that's fair. Um I have a forum too. It's not as popular probably as yours, but uh We focused on the real-time chat aspect. Yeah Hey, it it's value. I certainly I I'm a lurker more than anything else. I actually read a lot more in there I know it's going on because I spend time reading in there And sometimes I read in the vendor ones because I just want to see what's going out with that vendor So it's not a video hands down the best place if there's drama going out with the vendor You'll see it Popcorn watch the channel Yeah, start selling pitchforks. Um That too. Yeah, we have the honestly, there's some vendors who take that very well and some vendors who don't Uh, and we have like as website said like over 50 vendors present in the community. It's cool It's honestly, it's cool for them to just come and interact with people on a day-to-day basis. It's awesome Yeah, it's kind of a nice way It's um, it's sometimes a good support method for some of the vendors because you just go in there Because you have a question. It's not exactly to take it. You're like, man, I just want to know if this parameter will work I have this idea and sometimes you end up with one of the engineers replying and going Yeah, you can do that. Just uh do this or add this parameter and you can deploy it this way. You're like, oh cool. So Actually runs their support out of our community. It is the weirdest thing to see Who does that? Amy bot. Oh, yeah He's in a I I like him. He is You know reminds me is that is he talks so fast Lightning it is great. Um, because I signed we signed up for my msp signed up for Amy bot and I got The welcome email and it said if you'd like to support go to msp geek calm and or org and join the channel Amy bot and I was just like Completely caught me by surprise And if you haven't heard of Amy bot, I'm just gonna say check it out. Uh, it's actually really slick. It is so Yeah, it's definitely um, I'll throw a link in chat for people who my website's changed It's been it looks way better than it did Yeah, so props on whoever did that. Um, I yeah, I had some conversation. They build, um, automation installers for everything Like it's crazy how how good uh for 900 applications and He flat out calls himself out. Amy bot versus in tune. He's doing better than microsoft There's the reason you didn't say oh, we just use in tune for everything because anybody can do things in tune can't Yeah, um Honestly, the stuff he's done with power shell is uh, scary Yeah, um, I'm just happy he's playing for the good side because those techniques and the skill sets they've got over there Uh, because they have got they've got to be able to deploy software. They get a bit of do it efficiently. Uh, and Keep track of versioning and whatnot and then just oh, it's great Yeah, how Amy removes setups in like that. Like I said, it's really, um Darren's outstanding at uh, the integrations you've done But if you work doing any type of automation on the windows side of the house, you know I'll talk on my channel a lot about ansible and things on the linux side But this just doesn't exist very well on the windows side before any bot it was uh, any bot's probably one of the best things I've seen out there. No microsoft's got their own installers are working on but back to uh, like there's a reason He's comparing himself to in tune and things like that Microsoft's not been great about it But this is where I wanted to wind it down So thank you for taking the time to join in when I click end stream Go ahead and stay for a couple minutes because we can chat still. Um But uh, nonetheless, thank you everyone who joined click the like button and all that fun stuff and uh, check out msp geek Do you can join that or hopefully you're gonna come to msp geek on it as I I'm looking forward to hanging out with a lot of people I've had people mess me say they're going awesome I like seeing a lot of you there get to meet people in person and uh, I'll see you guys Me if I do a live stream over the weekend. If not next Thursday is my next one later