You may have noticed that HC was unreachable for a few hours. This was likely caused by planned maintenance by the ISP, but my existing router doesn’t recover very well from these events and this happened while I was sleeping.

The good news is this router is being replaced later today anyway, ironically enough, with a 16 core monster. This also means there will have to be another outage at some point, but I will announce this one and things will settle down after that.

Anyway this happens very rarely (I hope I don’t jinx it lol), but don’t panic when it does, it’s only temporary and HC is coming back.

  • splinterOPMAEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    🤣 This is an actual router router, so being a router is the only thing it knows how to do lol

    I have been using pfSense until now, it works well but it has some really annoying quirks (can become unstable sometimes when you change config and requires a reboot). I’ve been meaning to move away from it ever since the pfSense+ licensing drama, even though I really like its GUI and features.

    I was also running HAProxy on it because it was so convenient, but I have meanwhile migrated it to a server VM in preparation for this move.

    I’d rather not say on the Internet what the new router make/model is, but it’s complete overkill. I will be using the manufacturer OS.

    • grayEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Sometimes it’s just fine to use a stock is for devices. Especially when you don’t want to constantly screw around.

      • splinterOPMAEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I agree, I only really need it to act as a router and firewall, other services are nice but I’ve got those set up separately anyway.

        It’s a rack mounted enterprise grade machine, so its OS is pretty powerful. The downside is I’m not familiar with it so I’m bumbling around a bit now trying to set it up lol. Ideally I want to get it to where I just need to transplant the main switch over and everything will keep on working, that’s my plan anyway. I’m making progress, I still hope to do it later today.

        • grayEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          There’s probably a bunch of videos on YouTube about setting it up that might be worth following. Some of those Router OSs aren’t super user friendly. Mikrotik for instance can be a pain in the ass but it is super powerful.

          • splinterOPMAEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Yeah for sure, I’ve been buried in videos, wikis and forums.

            Yes it’s not user friendly but pretty powerful as you say, I think I’ve gotten the hang of it now though, at least everything seems to be working as intended.

            I was relaxing at the end of the day when I set this up, when I suddenly realized that HC wasn’t able to reach my mail server (hence my test replies below while I was troubleshooting). It’s like every router/firewall handles accessing a local server through the domain/public IP slightly differently, it’s weird.