Subj : Re: Odd days at the Lab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Wed Aug 27 2025 12:26:15

On 25 Aug 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> I woke up to find my Proxmox server unresponsive. Saw a series of read
 pF> errors on /dev/sda. I power-cycled the box, and the web interface came
 pF> up - but there was no information for the VMs.
 pF> 
 pF> I saw this message in the error window:
 pF> 
 pF> TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed:   Check of pool pve/data
 pF> failed (status:64). Manual repair required!
 pF> 
 pF> I looked at the LVM, everything looked OK. Googled a bit, ran
 pF> lvconvert --repair pve/data
 pF> 
 pF> And my VMs appeared normally in the GUI.
 pF> 
 pF> SMART stats look OK, no reallocated sectors. It's getting a little long
 pF> in the tooth, I may use Clonezilla to clone it to another like drive
 pF> this week.

Ouch but nicely recovered!

 pF> My router (a Synology RT2600AC, nice piece of kit) has been dropping my
 pF> internet with the message "limited connection" recently, usually at the
 pF> most inopportune times. I was going to swap it out for a newer one, but
 pF> decided to wipe it and restore the config. So far, so good.
 pF> 
 pF> Not sure if I want to stick with Synology, seeing as they want to lock
 pF> in newer models with Synology-branded drives, but my older models have
 pF> run with whatever crappy drives I had laying around just fine.
 pF> 
 pF> I have a couple of Linksys WRT1900ACS routers running OpenWRT that I
 pF> like to play with, but the Synology, when it's stable, is a lot more
 pF> polished. It's got a nice DNS server built-in with views for
 pF> split-horizon DNS, a VPN server and a "threat prevention" firewall that
 pF> inspects packet headers for possible attacks.

Have you considered running pfSense in a VM? That's what I do =)
Virtualised my router, got an ethernet cable from the hole in the wall to my hypervisor on a nic I don't let VM's use or the host, and pass it through to the pfSense VM, as the WAN, then bridge the main nic and let that be the LAN for pfSense. 

It's a little more complex, but not really, just means I can virtualise my router and I don't need to rely on the ISP modem/router as pfSense handles it all. 

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