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    Recommendations for a DIY

    Absolutely, nothing is 100% guaranteed, but as far as I know ZFS is one of the only filesystems that can detect in-flight data corruption and correct it. The second greatest thing to me are snapshots. Lots of systems have snapshots, but I've not seen any that operate at the block level like...
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    Recommendations for a DIY

    That's why I like ZFS. The chances of a hardware failure corrupting your data is almost nil, unlike RAID or similar strategies. In the end the data is what's most important. I did have a motherboard fail several times on my NAS, and it was because of a bug in the actual motherboard hardware that...
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    Recommendations for a DIY

    Depends on the manufacturer. I just built a PC for my son using a $70 Asus A520M-K board that supports ECC with the Ryzen 5600x CPU I put in it.
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    Recommendations for a DIY

    That's what holds me back from buying the hardware and software from one vendor: it's essentially an appliance at that point. If it breaks you have to rely on their customer service. If you build your own system and use something like FreeNAS or NAS4Free you can easily build a system to your...
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    Recommendations for a DIY

    Do either of those support the ZFS filesystem on the consumer level hardware? I think that's important for data integrity (and great features).
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    IPSec VPN keeps dropping: "lease 10.10.10.2 by 'foo' went offline"

    I was running an OpenVPN server for my mobile devices, but for OpenVPN Connect and OpenVPN for Android consume massive amounts of battery on Android 10 (like 5% an hour or more). Never had the problem with Android 7, but what can you do? I decided to try setting up an IPSec VPN to use Android's...
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    Looking to upgrade from RT-AC66U for my situation and router location

    What's the matter? It's only 12% more expensive than it was when I bought it in July. What's wrong with an annualized 41% rate of inflation? ;)
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    Asus AX58U 2.4Ghz band keeps denying internet access

    Have you checked for other interfering stations recently? If a neighbor installs a new AP, or just changes their WiFi channel it could cause lots of interference. That would manifest as you describe.
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    Why no new Merlin firmware?

    I would just be looking for a good router that was supported by one of the other open source firmwares. I won't buy one that's locked down to the company's firmware until I have no options left.
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    Why no new Merlin firmware?

    January 10, 2022.
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    SIX months since Merlin included updated Asus GPL - what's cooking at Asus ???

    Is their code subject to the terms of any open source licenses? It's always people who have little or no understanding of security that think hiding things improves security. The source code will not help "hackers" if your product is secure. If it weren't a fact, things like OpenSSL and GPG...
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    SIX months since Merlin included updated Asus GPL - what's cooking at Asus ???

    If the traffic is TLS how would you monitor the contents of outgoing packets?
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    SIX months since Merlin included updated Asus GPL - what's cooking at Asus ???

    I know they won't do it, but for future router development it might be an interesting idea to have different models from Asus differentiated by open source content. Meaning having some models with no closed source components at all. It would at least relieve Asus of trying to honor their legal...
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    Best method of extending RT-AX86U

    If signal is a problem, then you'll need more APs, but one router can handle a hundred devices without issue. You shouldn't need more APs just because of having a lot of clients. Router placement can also eliminate the need for APs. I have on location with a single RX-88U that wanted to do a...
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    ntpMerlin Hardware or software

    I was thinking the linearity ruled out entropy as a cause. Of course, that is unless the hardware clock is somehow effectively measuring entropy directly or indirectly.
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    ntpMerlin Hardware or software

    Not so much worried about the accuracy as the change in accuracy. Specifically, what causes a linear degradation in a hardware clock?
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    ntpMerlin Hardware or software

    I haven't. I doubt it's software related. The offset is still hovering around zero, it's just that the hardware clock is slowly getting more out of whack over time. I just don't know what the possible ramifications are. It's mainly just an interesting phenomenon for me to watch rather than a...
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    ntpMerlin Hardware or software

    The drift value continues to climb by an average of 0.0112 ppm per day.
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    Solved Possibility to increase the length of the password (16 characters for the moment) ?

    I would consider anything stored remotely a vulnerability unless you have the source code to both the client (phone) and the servers to verify that there are no back doors and all data is not only stored encrypted, but never transmitted without being encrypted before transmission.
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