Comcast has been down since ~2am this morning and they're projecting not being up until 5pm tonight, so I decided to try to get iPhone tethering working on my #mikrotik RB5009 router.

After an interminable number of reboots and uploads I finally got the upgrade to RouterOS 7.22.1 to take (turns out it's not happy if there are packages missing for whatever reason).

Plugging the iPhone into the router's USB port worked immediately. Assigned the new automatically generated lte1 interface to the WAN group, it got an IP, and then everything just started working. Feels good.

#homelab #selfhosted

Funny deadlock situation... I’ve reached peak security on my remote MikroTik Router (AS201379).

By "peak security," I mean I’ve successfully locked everyone out - including myself. SSH, WWW, and WinBox are dark. Even the Hypervisor management is trapped behind the router's new, very effective, accidental firewall rules.

The data plane is running perfectly, which is the ultimate taunt. See you tomorrow for the 80-mile "Serial Cable Walk of Shame" to the datacenter.

This is a brutal reminder that the "Safe Mode" button in WinBox isn't just a feature. It’s a lifeline.

#sysadmin #mikrotik #networking #fail #AS201379 #PacketPushers

Home-lab WiFi yak shaving rabbit hole from hell.

1. UAP-AC-Pro only negotiates 100baseT on an 8m cable with PoE injector
2. I re-crimp both ends of the cable, multiple times
3. I replace the switch with an RB4011, move the (48V) PoE injector in front of the switch
4. Still 100baseT, but the AP is now resetting when it gets warm
5. I replace the UAP with a hAP AC
6. The hAP negotiates GbE, but iwlwifi (AX200) firmware crashes on connect: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221360

#MikroTik #Unifi #WiFi #iwlwifi

It's almost 9 AM. I fixed my #Mikrotik server as its HDD is almost dead.

I didn't sleep.