Replying to Avatar Keith Mukai

Sys admin shit is hell.

Proxmox and its first VM working great... until it isn't. Spontaneously. Looks like everything is still running but the networking is getting knocked out.

Googling... specific ethernet controller + specific driver release = these failures. Sure, yeah, that classic "r8168 vs r8169" gotcha.

How do I install/revert to r8168? Enable `non-free-firmware` apt sources. But, what... can't resolve the domains? Total DNS failure... Oh, DNS server is set to localhost? Update to 8.8.8.8 (this is shit I'm surprised I know and am not happy it's taking space in my brain). Ah, now able to resolve DNS.

Cool, back to apt. Can't update from an unsecure repository? Okay, googling... edit `/etc/apt/sources.list` (again).

Nope, not there. Ah, remove the proxmox enterprise repos...

(endless spiraling sys admin hell continues)
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Mr Jims 2y ago

😂😂😂. I feel you on all of this. I’ve been a Windows sys admin for years and have only dabbled in Linux. I have been on similar rabbit holes many times and usually it ends with me getting pissed and quitting. Only to pick it back up again a few weeks later. Proxmox is cool and worth the work though!

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