careful of UK providers.. lots of them are crap most run off heartinternet (or resellers of) - using a shakey ass rig of hardware and networks http://www.amazon.com/Brocade-Communications-XFP-10GBase-LR-10G-SFPP-LR-8/dp/B009HS1Z82 Amazon: "Brocade Communications XFP - 1 x 10GBase-LR 10G-SFPP-LR-8" whats up with that image? doesnt look like networking gear to me that's why i linked it because funny brocade blows old foundry stuff was good enough, new brocade stuff is yucky grody: Why would UK lack quality providers? UK has plenty of good providers and stuff in London is usually well connected to both mainland Europe and USA goscomb and bytemark have been good to me heart internet is like, mm the UK equivalent of EIG i guess EIG? this tame systemcall thing on openbsd suonds interesting kellytk, oh they don't lack them.. but most of the ones you find by google are by far from the best a lot are just resellers of platforms already in place well vultr's issue in uk seems to be that they're single homed with level3 i dunno why level3 would have a big issue though? quite a large provider vultr has quite a few random outages actually ovh are quite nice for VPS well i'm not doing anything that important with it just smokeping and as an external host to check connectivy/speed/blah but the loss levels were insane oddly, even though ARP is quite a distance, i use it for a lot of personal stuff simply because it's reliable even now ircing from it, the latency of the echo over ssh is more than acceptable but A&A > ARP has a nice fast route AA > NTT > ARP same on 4 & 6 I'm 60% of the way through reading the tame(2) diff, and I like what I see. Rather excited about the changes to ps(1), silly as that sounds. i get pretty consistent latency to arp too. but for irc i ssh to somewhere 5 msec away :) mike-burns: What kind of changes to ps are you seeing? It prints whether the process has been tamed. I'm not finding a man page on tame. Do you have a link handy? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2 openbsd-tech: "tame(2) WIP" from Theo de Raadt @ 2015-07-18 22:50:27 there was an e-mail today about it so "bleeding edge" Definitely WIP. It even includes commented-out code using // comments. a nice concept though mike-burns: That's a nice read, thank you apparently "doas" hit the tree recently too I suspect that I won't be able to use tame(2) in my GTK+ apps. I'm going to use sudo(1) until 5.9 or 6.0, methinks. the next openbsd is in november right? I support both capabilities as well as relinquishing them i used to use a program called tame with dos November seems right. it would help give up time slices to "hogging" applications I used to tame in UO, although that's a different context entirely lots of dos software used to poll for key presses. it was kind of ick some even did things like write character, check keyboard, write character, check keyboard so if you tamed them and it saw there were a lot of keystrokes and gave up time slice, it'd slow the character writing down :( Shameful It was a limited OS. true, but writing characters to the screen one character at a time seems like a bad idea in any context. actually that's probably a lot less inefficient these days.. This is nearly as exciting as sed(1) taking a -i option. curl does a whole lot of that for ui stuff and you don't reall ynotice how long has sed had -i? Two days? sed -i is basically like the replace program? Yeah. sweet well linux already has it :) Not even two days: 27 hours, according to CVS. i wonder if freebsd does it may be possible to start using it regularly :) I think it does. IIRC, OBSD was inspired by FBSD. freebsd 9 does too woot http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143714951126397&w=2 - the thread. openbsd-tech: "sed -i" from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse @ 2015-07-17 16:10:46 hmm openbsd doesn't have the replace command I've no idea what the replace command is. I just said "yeah" when you mentioned it because hey why not. hmm it comes from mysql-server maybe this is a different one than i remember https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace-utility.html - ? it's basically like sed -i but this mysql one seems different i usually just use two files myself We'll have to continue that for a long while, I fear. i hardly ever use egrep even sometimes it's easier to just keep things simple, even if it's more drawn out.. userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes hmm openbsd stopped allowing dss keys so dss isn't supported by default, but ecdsa works these days i wonder if they decided dsa was insecure interesting.. just cottoned on the intel dual port nic in my pfsense supports some microcode loading and it appears to dramatically reduce interupt requests yeh there are firmware blobs for broadcom/intel ethernet cards that handle coalescing etc. you can adjust coalescing levels too generally speaking it helps a lot less at 100 megabit than gigabit if you want to have "reasonable" latency err for bulk throughput - it can still help ddos type things i suppose but with adsl/vdsl loads you kind of want to interrupt for every packet well every packet received, not transmitted packets.. it's one of the instances, where higher speed links can use less cpu - as coalescing can work better well one is for the WAN port, the other has a few VLAN networks routed via it and does hit high duplex loads intel is wan, non-intel lan? wan < 100 megabit, lan gigabit? i'd swap the cards around dual port intel, one port for WAN the other port for LAN (and a couple of VLANs) ahh i see 1000pt? LAN or VLAN to VLAN can get quite high in load sometimes (i do have a second router for when i want faster) not yet err card type i meant card is 100 oh? upto 400mbps havent got the new rig in yet http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-products/gigabit-server-adapters/pro-1000-pt-dp.html those cards are ultra cheap on ebay ahh the new rig has an e1000 1gbit dual port and a single port intel gigabit getting a bit old now, a bit higher power uage. lots of the older dual intel cards are the pt ones just having some teething issues with it chip number is like 82571 or something yea, this thing is quite old probably intel pt, they're pretty stable when i say higher power usage, it's TDP is only 3.43watts :) so it's not high high 18.80% [intr{irq10: fxp0 vr0+}] | 11.18% [intr{irq11: fxp1 uhci}] - fxp0 is LAN facer and fxp1 WAN facer, thats with a combined 74mbps passing via the thing in whole err, 54mbps* but you're upgrading to your newer box? soon, got to fix a few "issues" the fxp cards are pretty good for half duplex performance fwiw they're more aggressive than other cards running a complete overhaul (may as well) and have a few cable shortage issues and it's not really econmical to run more need a gigabit smart switch in each room with my new plans - and they're not exactly cheap you can get soem semi smart tp-links really cheap like $25 US they do vlans, bonding etc. http://goo.gl/h4GA6r http://goo.gl/h4GA6r -> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/D-Link-DGS-1100-08-8-Port-Gigabit-Smart-Switch-/381254509365?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item58c48a2335 but you have to use a special windows program to configure them. no web ui or serial or ssh or anything something like that fanless too. small, desktop like but smart i've been tempted to try one. i wish didn't have to use windows to configure though yea sod that :) these were like $25 US new one cable in.. multiple networks available biggest flaw in my network was the access to my main network just by plugging in a cable into almost any port on any switch (in rooms) can you configure these with webui? yea serial? ssh? i have zyxel version of these, but only 100 erm.. no idea GS105Ev2 hmm iwonder what that's like hmm apparently recent firmware added webui but it's way more expensive than tp-link i wonder if tp-link have added webui. their high end switches do http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KT30D0A/ref=psdc_281414_t2_B00K4DS5KU Amazon: "TP-LINK TL-SG2008 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch, 802.1Q VLAN, L2/L3/L4 QoS, IGMP Snooping, Port Security, Storm Control, Web-based Management, Up to 65% Energy Saving" i had the odd pleasure of seeing an almost pure TP-Link home rig the other week he says it's rock solid i don't /like/ tp-link but i find their stuff seems to be better than d-link and netgear and the like and yet it's cheaper hmm also they seem to be pretty quick to do things like reduce power consumption for wifi equipment definately they use qcom/ath for switches too yea i'm using tp-link access router a lot of my stuff here is tp-link this 8 port switch says 6.4 watts i was using tp-link adsl modem my old main router and wifi AP were tp-link, both replaced with this single tp-link i'm using an "edgecore" switch tp-link for my shared wifi hotspot which is also fanless. 24+2 i compared fibre latency to copper seems much the same i actually have no managed switch per-se atm using port management off a couple of tp-link routers as smart switches dropping into uplinks this switch is ok, but you need to enable pause frames for it to deal with multiple ports going to one port err flow control i kind of wish i could find a cheap switch that does sfp+ it kind of seems silly to run 10 gigabit cards at gigabit i doubt i ever have that need i barely flatten 100mbps even put off upgrading to gbit until recently (slowly) - but thats only because i intend on getting a second vDSL well it's useful if you use hard-disk over network and even more useful when you use ssd over network but yeah gigabit would be fine :) it is bizarre.. used to remember running a NAT router on dialup to share the internet with a couple of hosts and alwats quizzed almost every packet coming in and out (on the modem light) and now, just running tcpdump on the router there is this bombardment of various traffic haha i have so many pings bloody smokeping hmm 47 pps ok it seemed like a lot :) 279/30 oh wait.. thats my ARP 193444/30 will probably delegate this thing to my OpenVPN router when i rebuild it can cope with quite a bit of traffic from it in this scenario.. if it was /just/ for openvpn.. 193444 packets received by filter 191240 packets dropped by kernel hah poor thing whats the page with top tech news? news.arpnetworks.com? if not that i have no idea what you mean :) that was one of them brycec mentioned another I think it was when linode was switching to kvm or something hah sweet, i have a wifi network now using my ARP VPS as it's DHCP server and router grody: that's just weird :/ i got bored after i added 3G failover what happens if your net goes down? :) well, that wifi network wont work the others will though well at least you have 3g oh hmm i hate it how my cellphone won't go to 3g from wifi if there's no internet thats the one > https://lobste.rs/ that would solve that issue :) just thought "whats the easiest way to appear from the US.." so i simply bridged a gif into pfsense LAN and a VAP into the gif linking with ARP my phone has "avoid poor connections" - which drops a wifi poorly performing on android? yea mine doesn't that i've seen seems to work for the most part.. if i kill the gateway, it notices after about a minute i wish you could do both at once disconnects and disables using it for a while with seemless fallover like be on a wifi call and shift to 3g i have aggressive wifi to 3g handover too ah yea that would be nice i can't check my mail if i make a call on wifi that just drops weaker wifi sooner but i can go about a metre from the letterbox maybe it's better now i don't want to put my phone down to check mail i have an AP with an external antenna on my satelite dish but sometimes i want to check the mail while i'm on the phone, ... as i tend to like walking while i talk it just reaches the pub on the corner garden US homes tends to be larger, harder to cover with standard indoor kit (or are you NZ) flip.. need to drop the PPPoE to (shift routing) test this and i really cba.. will wait til it breaks policy routing works over it (fun watching a packet going out 3G and return in FTTC) heh i drop heaps of signal going one room over i reckon it's my house i'm in nz i hear that some kind of metal mesh stuff is common in the US that screws with wifi too mercutio: Is your home stone or stick-built? stick? :) when i peeled the wallpaper to paint the walls, the paper had aluminium foil inside it (some insulation thing, but also caused moulding) which deflected radio waves of all kinds it's wooden but i think there's metal supporting beams. Wood 3G peformance was poor in here befoe that yeh 3g is bad here too but it's not great outside either i think tower must be a way away weird it's better than normal -7dbm -75dbm it's usualy more like -90 to -100dbm i thought -85 dbm now, that's a huge jump my ping times to ARP are twice as good as my ping times over 3G your nexthop ping times on 3g, or 3g ping times to arp? 323.4ms on 3G 170.2ms to ARP ahh i'm ~140ms to arp admitedly, the modem idles on UTMS until a certain data rate flows through it, then it goes HSPA and pings drop to about 50ms ahh that sounds annoying it is mine stays on H although it can do E occasaionally and it can do lte when i'm not at home i wont even tell you pings on G/E here average is over 1s shwing.. i now have it so i can just alter routes (or dedicate US only IP ranges) to default route over the GIF to ARP, regardless of my IP and it be NAT on the ARP :D on which note, i can go to bed (and wake up to it all broken) Suggestions for the name of a web host which is generic, does not exist, and would be clearly representative of a host? "Acme Hosting" is, unfortunately, an actual host "Example" is a little dry