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