Kenneth @[email protected]

Between the main mirror and the #MicroMirror project, I figure I've spent about $16,000 on hardware, so if you ever wonder how free software is all available to download and is still fast, it's because of jokers like me and the rest of the MicroMirror team.

The RAID under mirror.fcix.net is out of space, so I just dropped $1300 on another six 16TB disks to fill out the chassis. Same deal as on the first batch; the first 6 to send us $320 and their names get their name on one of the drives. liberapay.com/phirephly/

@riaandewit @CyberQueenMara Clearly.

@CyberQueenMara Clearly they’re used to trade for drugs…

Founbd these in my washing machine. Does anyone recognize them?

@thekurtwk Our smallest appliance is a HP T620 with a 1GbaseT port on it. We only seen a single unicast IP address and transit (i.e. /31 or shared subnet) and the boxes typically do 1-3TB/day egress. We do ask that you have "real" transit, so no home ISP. Start a thread with mirror@fcix.net

@KWF Noncommitally voicing my interest in hosting one from the middle of Illinois!

Calling ISP/DC operators who want to support #Linux / #foss ! The @AlmaLinux project has done a mirror coverage analysis and have identified south Texas as a weak spot in their download mirror coverage in North America.

Of course, we're interested in #MicroMirror hosts anywhere else in the US or internationally as well. Things have been going well for MicroMirror, I'm just only posting about it over on Mastodon. social.afront.org/tags/MicroMirr…

If anyone in the San Antonio/Austin/Houston area have spare bandwidth, please consider standing up a mirror, or if you don't have the ability, consider contacting me to send you a managed #MicroMirror appliance; we ship you a small server to plug in, and we fully manage it.

@prinsesmaximac I'm just handing out money I guess.

Dr. Lideke van der Steeg at the Princess Máxima Center gets €600K from @KWF to develop 3D models for precise surgeries on kids with hard-to-find tumors. This tech aims to make operations faster, safer, and easier, improving recovery and quality of life. bit.ly/3Lp7SYS

@rootpoint @TracketPacer Don't do this. We're not rigid about checking entitlement before helping with an issue, but only because people don't tend to abuse it. We apply more latitude to grey market gear when the customer is waiting on delivery of an order of supported gear.

@TracketPacer I read through the thread and I recall that the Arista TAC will sometimes just accept the call even if you have no support contract because of some esoteric issues like this. I had a client with a bunch of their HW and they did take the call even though no contract on it.

is there a single person on planet earth who can explain to me how to use ptp4l correctly & get 2 Arista switches to recognize a centos machine as PTP grandmaster

@TracketPacer @networkservice @er4hn_tech Informal ATAC ticket closed. "Problem with other vendor, sucker"

@networkservice @KWF @er4hn_tech the NIC that works is a fancy solarflare something & the other one is the NIC that came with the PC (need to look, sorry). ughhhhhhh yes you’re probably right

@TracketPacer @er4hn_tech Hardware time-stamping will also involve phc2sys I think. God speed.

@KWF @er4hn_tech thanks for checking this out. i do know that the NIC supports hardware time stamping (which is what i’m using). i’ll admit though when i swap back to the other NIC it works just fine. confused 😭

@TracketPacer @er4hn_tech This is all I got. Works for me on a random HP T620 baseT NIC and a CCS-710. #ThingsLayingAroundInMyLab

@TracketPacer @er4hn_tech Did you try running ptp4l with the -S software timestamping flag? Or do you know for a fact that your NIC supports hardware timestamping?

@TracketPacer @er4hn_tech Sup. What is the Arista having to say about it? What platform are you trying to use?

@er4hn_tech no TAC support 🫠

@fishpaste12 @ChrisShaver64 @JesseJenkins No kidding

@KWF @ChrisShaver64 @JesseJenkins Never get between a nukebro and his religion.

For context: at the beginning of 2021, installed battery capacity in California was a rounding error. Now it's cranking out the equivalent power output as six nuclear reactors when grid operators and markets call. That happened fast (and a lot more to come!)

@MarkusLandgraf @JesseJenkins The three hour ramp rate in net demand when the sun is setting would beg to differ on the need for power over energy in California.

@ChrisShaver64 @JesseJenkins But... California doesn't actually need 6GW of additional base load generation.

@JesseJenkins Six 1GW nuclear reactors will deliver 144GWh of energy every day. Is that how much battery capacity California has installed? If not, please stop lying and learn the difference between power and energy: cjshaver.com/bl0406/

@leviglenhue To be fair, these Ethernet switches start well above $10k

@KWF That’s so cool! I wish high end broadcast equipment had this capability since physical layer testers for 3G-SDI and beyond start at $10k

Fun Arista EOS facts! Some Arista platforms actually support dumping a raw eye chart from the individual phy lanes if you really want to drive yourself nuts chasing L1 issues.

@BobKerns @TracketPacer I normally use it to troubleshoot if the issue is with the optic modulator, line loss, or line dispersion so we know what hardware to focus on for flapping links.

@TracketPacer What is a network engineer going to do with this? Buy better cables, maybe? If you're trying to drive down error rates lower than you can with statistics? Honest Q, not dismissive at all. EE developing hardware wd use an oscilloscope. Someone put effort in, I'm curious why!

im sorry WHAT

@RebelbotJen @ShawnHymel @hackaday

Off to @hackaday Supercon! But first, I’m going to make a stop in San Jose to catch the #HackerTrain 🚅 Choo choo!