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Fritz!Box 7360 and 7490: static routes over VPN don’t work

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/15

I’ve tried the below on a Fritz!Box 7490 configuration and it fails as well.

The case is that I’ve a VPN (see Getting Fritz!Box LAN-LAN VPN to work) between a Fritz!Box 7360 (having internal IP 192.168.24.1) and a Fritz!Box 7490 (having internal IP 192.168.71.1). This is how it looks from the Fritz!Box 7360 side:

Name Address in the Internet local network remote network
80.100.143.119 80.100.143.119 192.168.24.0/24 192.168.171.0/24

On the 192.168.171.0/24 side of things, the internal IP of the 80.100.143.119 router is 192.168.171.1. Inside the 192.168.171.0/24 network is is another router (192.168.171.22) having an internal 192.168.71.0/24 network.

Basically I want to tell the Fritz!Box 7360 (at IP 192.168.24.1) that there is an internal route to 192.168.71.0/24 via 192.168.171.22.

I found and read Accessing multiple IP networks behind a FRITZ!Box over VPN connection between two FRITZ!Boxes | FRITZ!Box 7360 | AVM International.

Based on it, I wanted to add this route on the 192.168.24.1:

Static IPv4 Route

IPv4 network 192.168.71.0
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.171.22
Enabled X

When you do that, you get this error message:

An error occurred.
Error description: The route is illegal.
Please enter your data again. If the error occurs again, please consult AVM Support.

How can I get this route to work?

–jeroen

Posted in Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Internet, Power User | 1 Comment »

my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/04

So my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too (actually a Leitz Rotho Profiline 10 Schübe drawer). The ix500 scans double sided and takes like 2 seconds per sheet. Works through WiFi (or USB) on both PC and Mac.

This is the process:

  1. I scan and roughly sort the document by destination in a drawer.
  2. A Windows VM creates OCR PDF and puts them into the cloud.
  3. It gets synced to my Macs, where spotlight indexes them by content.
  4. Once a month I split off the parts for my bookkeeper, file important non bookkeeping stuff and shred the rest.
  5. I name files on a selective base (as spotlight is very good at finding the rest).

This is why I like it over scanning with your mobile phone any time:

My ix500 setup just works.

Now I need to optimise the S510 scanned files. Maybe linux – optimize PDF files (with Ghostscript or other) – Stack Overflow (from the same thread) works.

–jeroen

via: Hey everyone, we are currently preparing the next release.

Posted in Fujitsu ScanSnap, ix500, LifeHacker, Power User, Scanners, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

Just discovered Vysor now has mouse shortcuts too – via: Cool: Vysor screen sharing by Koush

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/19

Just updated Cool: Vysor screen sharing by Koush with this:

Edit 20160217: new keyboard/mouse shortcuts

  • Old: keyboard shortcuts
    • Escape -> Back Button;
    • F1 -> Menu Button;
    • Home -> Home Button;
  • New: mouse shortcuts
    • Middle Click -> Home;
    • Right Click -> Back

"Escape

Now hopefully the screen resolution thing will be fixed: [Wayback/Archive] github.com/koush/vysor.io/issues/68

–jeroen

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Chrome, Development, Google, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Mobile Development, Power User, Vysor | Leave a Comment »

Fix for Visual Studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/10

Thanks User Josh Close – Stack Overflow. for answering the below on Stack Overflow: it got my Resharper Alt-Enter key workign again.

Re-apply Visual Studio keyboard scheme:

  • (VS2013 latest ReSharper)
    • ReSharper > Options > Environment > Keyboard & Menus > ReSharper Platform keyboard scheme: Visual Studio > Apply Scheme > Save.
    • This will reset the shortcut keys for ReSharper.
  • (older versions)
    • ReSharper > Options > Environment > General > Visual Studio Integration > Apply

–jeroen

via: visual studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Some links and references to IBM CUA: Common User Access which defines a lot of the UIs and UX we still use.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04

Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.

I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.

If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.

A few search queries I used:

The PDFs I think are most interesting:

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Posted in BitSavers.org, Development, History, IBM SAA CUA, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, UI Design, Usability, User Experience (ux) | 3 Comments »

VPN over HTTPS: Ultimate Powerful VPN Connectivity – SoftEther VPN Project

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/01

This is cool, as it allows to run VPN over HTTPS or even over ICMP or DNS. Impressive: 1. Ultimate Powerful VPN Connectivity – SoftEther VPN Project.

Equally impressive is the range of operating systems covered:

  • Windows (98 until Server 20012 with x86 and x64 implementations).
  • Linux Kernels 2.4, 2.6 and 3.x on Intel x86, x64, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC platforms.
  • FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x and 9.x are supported on Intel x86 and x64 platforms.
  • Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 on Intel x86, Intel x64, SPARC (both 32 bit and 64 bit) platforms.
  • Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 on Intel x86, Intel x64, PowerPC (32 bit) and PowerPC G5 (64 bit) platforms.

–jeroen

Posted in Network-and-equipment, Power User, VPN | Leave a Comment »

VLAN with multiple AP’s on Tomato? | LinksysInfo.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/26

Interesting: VLAN with multiple AP’s on Tomato? | LinksysInfo.org

Some additional links for back-ground info:

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, Power User, routers, TomatoUSB | Leave a Comment »

Getting Fritz!Box LAN-LAN VPN to work for @xs4all connections despite lack of @AVM_DE support

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/22

This is a follow-up of my post Fritz!Box VPN error messages.

I had been failing to get a LAN-LAN connection between two xs4all Fritz!Box internet connections working, despite the description in [WayBack] Adapting a VPN connection from FRITZ!Box to FRITZ!Box (LAN-LAN) | AVM International.

I was keeping the 0x1C error, and eventually contacted the customer support. At first they redirected me again to the documentation, so I replied with detailed PDFs for both Fritz!Box devices containing detailed information about:

  • both their internet connectivity
  • both their internal network settings
  • both their error logs
  • both their VPN configuration (including LAN-LAN and personal entries)

I got a reply back that – paraphrased – went like “We cannot provide network-administration-support, but VPN support of Fritz!Box in general works fine, so please read these pages”:

Given that they knew both connections were xs4all (which out-of-the-box doesn’t firewall), the PDFs didn’t indicate any firewall configuration and support not asking if the individual VPN connections worked (they do) but just blaming me or the Firewall is blatant, especially since they did not explain what the error codes meant.

Besides I already had read those pages and tried all the suggested solutions (more than a day work, as there are many suggested steps, Fritz!Box devices tend to reboot on many configuration change types and their DSL training is slow at best).

After the email, I went back to the drawing board based in this one twitter conversation that was partially useful (but failed to indicate more error codes and also pointed me to their email helpdesk which failed miserably).

The IKE-error 0x1C can mean that the remote IP doesn’t match the expected IP.

So I tried this:

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Posted in Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User | 1 Comment »

[NL] @xs4all – inkomende telefoontjes blokkeren: Fritz!Box of VOIP-selfcare

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/18

xs4all biedt twee mogelijkheden om inkomende telefoontjes te blokkeren: via de Fritz!Box of via VOIP-selfcare.

Als je in het VOIP-selfcare een nummer toevoegt onder “Inkomende oproepen blokkeren”, dan krijgt de beller een “bandje” dat het een ongewenst gesprek is. Dat wilde ik niet: net als bij inlog fouten wil je zo weinig mogelijk informatie geven over een oorzaak.

Als je oproepen van een specifiek telefoonnummer via de Fritz!Box blokkeert, dan krijgt de beller meteen xs4all voicemail. Ook niet wat ik wilde, maar het zette me wel op het juiste spoor.

De voicemail komt doordat de Fritz!Box dan een meteen een in-gesprek (line busy) genereert en zo het telefoongesprek afwimpelt. Omdat voicemail bij xs4all standaard aan staat, gaat het gesprek dan meteen naar voicemail.

In dit geval wilde ik toch van de xs4all voicemail af, dus heb ik dat gedaan door in de VOIP-self care alle vinkjes bij “Gesprekken doorschakelen” uit te zetten, zie het plaatje onderaan.

Een “Gesprekken doorschakelen” zonder vinkjes heft alle doorschakelingen op, waardoor de beller precies het antwoord krijgt dat de Fritz!Box voorschotelt.

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D-1541 with increased speed plus support for SR-IOV and DDR3 memory might end up in Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T somewhere in februari

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/04

I wrote about TinkerTry’s Xeon D-1540 fueled ESXi 6.0 home lab build begins LIVE! before as I think it is an amazing buy.

In the mean time, there are more some bundles of it available, even one shipping from The Netherlands:

Currently these machines (called SYS-5028D-TN4T) contain a Xeon D-1540 processor and use the X10SDV-TLN4F that also lists the Xeon D-1541 processor which will likekly be available on that board starting from about February. The Xeon D-1541 processor which adds new features: is about 5% faster and adds support for both SR-IOV (which can help with virtualisation, but isn’t supported by ESXi on these processors yet), DDR3 memory and Storage Performance Development Kit support for storage acceleration: Intel Xeon D-15×1 Storage Accelerated SKUs.

You have to choose, as they use the FCBGA 1667 which – like any other BGA – are soldered. So if you need these feaures and can wait 2 more months, then go for the Xeon D-1541. Otherwise, order now.

Some articles to help you decide:

On a different topic: if you want to cool the processor better, consider re-applying cooling paste: Socket FCBGA 1667 aftermarket cooling?? | Page 2 | ServeTheHome and ServeThe.Biz Forums.

And finally two more things:

  1. There is a D-1548 too which compared to the D-1540 has the CPU speed, but adds SR-IOV and DDR3 memory support.
  2. There will be 12-core and 16-cores varieties in the Xeon-D series later this  year: Intels Server-Prozessor Xeon D-1500: 16-Kern-Version tritt 2016 gegen ARM-SoCs an | heise online.
    According to the current SuperMicro Xeon-D information these will be available in boards that seem to fit in the SYS-5028D-TN4T system:

    1. X10SDV-12C-TLN4F.
    2. X10SDV-16C+-TLN4F.

Anyway: I think with either processor, you have a great deal!

–jeroen

Posted in ECC memory, Hardware, Memory, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | 1 Comment »

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