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qprimed ,

a fully extended chassis on rails in a wall mount anything (frame or enclosure) is going to place an extreme amount of pull force on the wall attachment points.

I would personally not place anything but a static, fixed load into a wall mount.

equipment on rails is a lifesaver and, if you really want to do it, consider a freestanding enclosure thats designed to take deep servers, extended loads and has anti-tip features.

just my 0.02

qprimed , (edited )

lag bolts into shields into concrete may be secure if its done really carefully. it still leaves possible issues with the frame integrity - there are quite a few low quality frames and cabinets out there and mechanical stress on those vertical rails and all of the connection points in-between when equipment is extended on rails is no joke.

I am used to datacentre grade mounting gear (even in my home lab), so I am a bit spoiled. however... take a look at Rack Solutions for harder-to-find quality mounts, rails and adapters. a source for excellent quality steel open racks/frames and enclosures is x-mark (now owned by belden). thats the stuff I use for myself.

edit: as was mentioned in another comment, OEM rails are almost always your best bet, however high quality 4-post sliding shelves have saved my butt on ocassion. Rack Solutions also offers those.

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  • qprimed ,

    strongly recommend that Democracy Now! regularly be part of your personal news rotation.

    qprimed ,

    is your ISP double NATing you? specifcally, are they providing a public IP address to your EdgeRouter? ISPs will often provide a residential router/modem combo and their router will distribute a private IP to your router - a double NAT. double NAT is usually not a huge issue, but its not nice to live behind one. if the ISP confirms that their equipment is bridging (and not routing), then the double NAT issue goes away.

    all of the symptoms you describe sound like intermittent packet loss and there are lots of possible reasons for this including poor signalling from your ISP and misconfigured routers (possibly your ISP customer premesis equipment)

    as long as your have verified good LAN cabling, including the ISP CPE to your router (you indicated a switch to GigE+ speeds - that needs good copper), the fact that you get this possible packet loss from devices behind your router but not between your router and the ISP CPE may mean your router and the ISP CPE are not playing well together due to double NAT.

    hope that helps.

    qprimed ,

    if two devices in the same LAN have the same IP address, sending host or switch gets confused to tries to sent packets to the wrong receiving device. this can cause long periods where devices seem to “drop off” the network, or only get some of the packets they are expecting.

    if you have no issues with device-to- device connectivity (e.g. large, long lived files transfers between your PCs are fine), then its likely not the problem.

    qprimed ,

    disaster capitalism on a global scale.

    qprimed ,

    its amazing to watch the legacy of “hate the other” play out. I am in awe of the human capacity for stupidity and manipulation.

    qprimed ,

    not sure why you think that. any ‘actually left’ person fully understands that Russia has devolved into a authoritarian oligarchy and would rail against it as ardently as they would against the current western capitalist oligarchy.

    I am not saying cooption could not happen, but there is ample reason to think this could be avoided. if not, then yes, we are all fucked - and deservedly so.

    qprimed ,

    I would suggest that, to your average conservative, “consequence” is (and will remain) simply a big word that they can not spell.

    qprimed ,

    oh, absolutely. but, as you have pointed out, we have had 8 years of covert/overt interference. anyone who cares is going to be looking out for it more intently now.

    I may be overly optimistic, but surely the easily manipulated crazies have mostly migrated to the right, leaving the slightly less insane of us to figure out what to do next.

    like the recent UFO / UAP crap… who the hell is watching this circus side show distraction? no one I know. the distractions are wearing thin, especially as the world bakes.

    qprimed ,

    “similar priorities” instead of “smart”?

    the self sorting has been hard and fast over the last 10 years. my point is that hopefully the alligned groups who prioritize things as I do, are less likely to be peeled off and rendered ineffective. I really do think the bulk of self sorting has already defined hard lines in global society.

    'Old friend': Henry Kissinger meets China's Xi Jinping in second surprise Beijing talks ( www.cnbc.com )

    Veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday during a surprise visit to Beijing, according to state media... Reuters reported that the White House said Kissinger was not visiting China on behalf of the U.S. government.

    qprimed ,

    Veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger…

    this is too kind a phrase by giga-orders of magnatude.

    edit: one can only hope he does something remotely beneficial for humanity before becoming worm food. but the odds are staggeringly against.

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