forgive me yospos for i have sinned

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fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

post your sins

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 02:44

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# ¿ May 8, 2024 09:42

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

i set up a new ipx network today

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 02:44

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

Captain Foo posted:

i don�t believe you

code:

~$ ifconfig
ens32     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:6b:9f:75
          inet addr:192.168.0.192  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80:[redacted]/64 Scope:Link
          IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:000F0F0F:000C296B9F75
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:000F0081:000C296B9F75
          IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:000F0082:000C296B9F75
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:303196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:275784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:68014705 (68.0 MB)  TX bytes:40031679 (40.0 MB)

~$ netstat --ipx
Active IPX sockets
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address              Foreign Address            State
IPX        0      0 81000F00:0540              -
IPX        0      0 81000F00:0440              -
IPX        0      0 81000F00:0340              55020000:000000000001:5104 ESTAB

~$ mount | grep ncpfs
[redacted] on /home/[redacted]/mnt type ncpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,owner=1000,mode=0775,dirmode=0775,timeout=60,retry=5,flags=1,wdogpid=1553)

# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 15:33

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

yeah hold on why did you set up a new ipx network

someone spilled coffee on the box that ran the old one

# ¿ Jan 9, 2022 23:58

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

Kazinsal posted:

if this isn�t a bit I need an effortpost with the full details

consulting for company X. they ask me to give an assessment on the current state of their it systems. predecessor "knew networking".
oh the horrors i have uncovered. i guess at some point somebody hosed around with their "router", which lead to each machine on the internal network having between 2 and 4 ip's assigned on different subnets, but with no real routing. afaict, predecessor's extent of networking knowledge was 192.168.0.0/24 or bust. weird things happen when you have multiple workgroups named WORKGROUP on multi homed desktops, each with their own weird combination of hard wired addresses. firewall? yes we have a firewall. with all interfaces allowing all traffic to everywhere. and vlans. lots and lots of vlans. vlans for every conceivable thing. except tagged vs untagged seemed to be too much for the guy, so there's not a single actually used vlan.

wiring is spaghetti. no patch panels. just wires out from the wall/ceiling straight into switches. unlabeled.

and then came the accounting system. complaint of 'its taking longer than usual to log in to it, and the server is making a funny noise.'
steps to log on: boot up a windows 98 vm, wait 10 minutes, loginto novell netware client, fire up dos based client.
then the coffee incident. the magic blue smoke was released from the "server", thankfully the hard drive clicked through a 20+ hour dd_resuce session to give something to work with.

so the new IPX network is built from whatever i could get from the 36GB ATA drive, running as a newly installed Novell 4.11 server, virtualised on a ESXi box that happened to be half set up.

another tidbit

code:

#
# SYS:ETC\NETWORKS
#
#       Network numbers
#
loopback        127             # fictitious internal loopback network
novellnet       130.57          # Novell's network number

#
# Internet networks
#
arpanet         10      arpa    # historical network
milnet          26              # not so historical military net
ucb-ether       46              # Go bears!

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 21:10

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# ¿ May 8, 2024 09:42

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

aaaand a literal rat's nest in the ratsnest of cabling had me here since 2 am. i keep a bottle of scotch inside the remains of the "server" now.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2022 12:07

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