Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of dhcpcd

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Friday, October 31, 2014 03:46:50 PM Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:16:04 +0100
> 
> schrieb "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>:
> > On Friday, October 31, 2014 11:47:50 AM Marc Joliet wrote:
> I didn't explicitly mention this, but the problem is that the router and
> modem are in my brothers room (four room shared students apartment, plus
> bathroom and kitchen).  Now, I'm not about to drag a cable out of my room,
> across the hall, and into my brother's room, never mind that neither of us
> could close our doors anymore without unplugging the cable and dragging it
> back.

I had a similar issue a long time ago. With a little remodeling of the door, 
you can make room for the wire to pass and the door can then still close.
Just make sure you do it without the owner of the building seeing it. 
(Bottom of the door on side of hinge is a common location)

> So the alternative would have been to teach my desktop WLAN, which would've
> been slower unless I could find something for PCI(e) or USB3 that works
> with Linux, *without* me having to check out some git repository and
> manually compile things in the hope that it works.  The first USB3 WLAN
> adapter I found would've lead to that, so I made a snap decision in favour
> of powerline.  It also didn't hurt that I was curious about it and wanted
> to try it out :) .

PowerLine is ok for this kind of use. I just have too many items on the wires 
here that can cause interference.

> (I actually had to (unexpectedly) to do that with my wireless keyboard.  Now
> there's app-misc/solaar, thankfully, although why Logitech couldn't just
> stick with infrared...)
> 
> > (If you accept the reduction in line-speed)
> 
> How long ago was this?  I read that all modern devices incorporate various
> filters to mitigate disturbances coming from other devices and, thus, that
> they perform much better (or at least more robustly) than previous
> generations (they also *cause* less disturbances). Either way, I can
> saturate our 16 MiB/s internet connection with enough parallel downloads
> (or with a fast enough server, such as with speedtest.net), and LAN
> performance is satisfactory.  I suspect one limiting factor is that the
> powerline adapters only have Fast Ethernet connections (of course, so does
> the router, so it doesn't matter).

My internet connection is 180Mbit down, 18Mbit up.
Without Gigabit network (including the WAN-port), I can't get use this.

> [...]
> 
> > > > I once connected a fresh install directly to the modem. Only took 20
> > > > seconds to get owned. (This was about 9 years ago and Bind was
> > > > running)
> > > 
> > > Ouch.
> > 
> > I was, to be honest, expecting it to be owned. (Just not this quick).
> > It was done on purpose to see how long it would take. I pulled the network
> > cable when the root-kit was being installed. Was interesting to see.
> 
> I bet :) !

The rootkit also was installed using "make -j". Suddenly slow server is a bit 
of a give-away.

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Joost