Lesley Carhart 
This is some incredibly janky shit. I’m exhausted and kind of proud
Ok ok I splain you my genius network engineering degree design - I bought a hotspot, found an ancient repeater with Ethernet out, repeated the hotspot and plugged my entire network into the repeater.
This is why I have a diploma from a really expensive university I think. Also, explaining subnetting and vlans while drunk.
Compuguy 🐱
rsalz@rsalz yes yo!!!
rustybikes 🐧
TheHerpaDerpaSherpa@hacks4pancakes God I love that former Buddhist monk
@TheHerpaDerpaSherpa Star Wars nerd
Raphael
Frank Endrullat 🌻@hacks4pancakes And now you have a backup link. Not unimportant if your work depends on your connectivity. 😎
Ian McKellar@hacks4pancakes
I wish I could hold my liquor well enough to understand vlans.
I wish I could hold my liquor well enough to understand vlans.
peejaybee@ian @hacks4pancakes I thought those were more of a psilocybin thing.
You S Blues@ian @hacks4pancakes @peejaybee If there was a table of pharmacological interventions best utilized for particular stunt tech tasks, I’d appreciate it if you would share.
@patmikemid @ian @hacks4pancakes Well, I don't really have any particular knowledge, just a sense that whoever came up with vlans must have been in a totally different reality from us.
Rita@ian now i want a video of @hacks4pancakes explaning subnetting using various liquor bottles as packets…
Piškvor🇨🇿 🇺🇦@ian @hacks4pancakes Right? Vlans are not to be understood by mere human though. By suppressing that, it is possible to obtain a configuration that works, yet doesn't make any sense.
Wayne Dixon@ian @hacks4pancakes I will fully admit that everyone else is like 1000x smarter than I am, but weirdly VLANs are one of those things that I do understand, without liquor. Now, could I explain it to someone, that’s debatable.
Salacious Crumb@ian @hacks4pancakes I'm currently trying to apply my Cisco education to a Ubiquity network and it's not going well. There's a lot of Captain Morgan involved.
QRSS_Test@ian @hacks4pancakes It’s like a regular LAN, but virtual. And then there are all these hardware specific limitations on what you can do due to the underlying ASICs of the switch.
coriolisdave@ian @hacks4pancakes vlans are just packets with additional metadata slapped on them, that the network pretends it can’t see unless it’s told explicitly that it’s ok.
Chip Christian@hacks4pancakes I work with someone who needs vlans and ARP explained to him by a drunk person
AMS@hacks4pancakes I can subnet and vlan sober. VRFs and BGP though...
Geoff Kratz@hacks4pancakes So few of my friends seemed interested in those kinds of parties. Their loss, I guess.
Lyle, a walking haunted house@hacks4pancakes The latter part is super interesting. The former is some of the best "well, this is the pile of things I have, and this is what I need it to do" engineering I've seeing in a while.
@hacks4pancakes if it’s ugly but it works it’s not ugly
That one Jewish network nerd@hacks4pancakes Ss somebody who runs networks for a serious chunk of the internet I 100 percent approve of this design.
@sng unless the hotspot melts
vandorb12@hacks4pancakes @sng how does the peloton do wheel friction? Is it a belt, dynamo, or fan?
@vandorb12 @sng Idk it’s all covered on mine.
@hacks4pancakes @sng darn, if it was a fan, you could've done human powered active cooling for your new network setup.
amd@vandorb12 Magnets induce eddy currents, I believe.
Michael W Lucas 
I have used ice packs to prevent a similar meltdown.
fraggLe!@mwl @hacks4pancakes @sng I love jank in network closets. Here's my sin from 15-odd years ago when our DSL modem was overheating in the summer.
@hacks4pancakes Only unexpected part is that ancient repeater isn't some janky old router running openwrt.
@AMS space efficient is a thing tho
Matt Cengia@hacks4pancakes by "hotspot" I assume you mean "device that acts as a Wifi AP for an LTE internet connection?"
I have *been* there, and it was a fun project to get going, but also I wasn't under too much time pressure to "just get a darn internet connection up and running, please and thank you!"
Nicely done.
I have *been* there, and it was a fun project to get going, but also I wasn't under too much time pressure to "just get a darn internet connection up and running, please and thank you!"
Nicely done.
@mattcen yea one of the little pocket phones without the phone part
Paul
Mike@hacks4pancakes I don’t think this rises to the level of jank. This is just “temporary workaround”.
The question I have: did you bridge your LAN to the hotspot and use it as the gateway for all devices, or did you bite the double-NAT bullet and use the hotspot as the gateway for your existing router/gateway?
@mikemacleod hotspot > wireless network 2.> repeater > repeater Ethernet port > router > firewall > wireless router
PrivacyDigest@hacks4pancakes @mikemacleod
In situations like this the question isn’t “is it pretty”, it’s “does it work “
In situations like this the question isn’t “is it pretty”, it’s “does it work “
Mike (no not that one)
Andrew (Television Executive)@hacks4pancakes I've done more or less exactly this.
hairylarry@ajroach42 @hacks4pancakes
We had a wireless ISP (radio with towers) and it was unreliable enough that I had my phone hotspot set up as an alternative and I had shell scripts on my system to switch between the ISP and the phone.
We had a wireless ISP (radio with towers) and it was unreliable enough that I had my phone hotspot set up as an alternative and I had shell scripts on my system to switch between the ISP and the phone.
@ajroach42 @hacks4pancakes
I just checked my home directory and I still have the scripts. You're right. I never delete anything.
I just checked my home directory and I still have the scripts. You're right. I never delete anything.
Denny Cherry@hacks4pancakes I have one of those same extenders. They make a nice bridge as well when you need one.
@hacks4pancakes You've...seen things. Things we people wouldn't believe. 😲
Spellucci
Kyle Rankin@hacks4pancakes I'm reminded of the XKCD "Devotion to Duty" comic.
MostlyBlindGamer@kyle @hacks4pancakes sharing this awesome resource for any of the lucky 10 thousand who may not know about it:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/705:_Devotion_to_Duty
birdpoofwhaaaat is going on here 🧐
@birdpoof I said in the alt text
Andy Price@hacks4pancakes Any ethernet port in a storm
I Thought I Saw A 2 
@andyprice @hacks4pancakes Especially a packet storm 😆
Sam J Sharpe@hacks4pancakes I also have a degree from a top flight university (not a good degree result mind) and I have an Asus router doing dual-WLAN with DSL (FritzBox) and 4G (Huawei) routers connected to provide service. It's not pretty, it's configured with a GUI, but it does work. I don't put it on my resumé