Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)

Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by jandrese on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:46PM (#28990849)

I just pulled out one this weekend after my ISP decided to refresh my IP and gave me on that was apparently used by Satan himself. All google services were just blackholing my traffic, it was breaking everything. I have never seen it that bad before, I've gotten CAPCHAs before, but never have I seen it just plain never respond to SYNs. I tried to force it to refresh but their router was insistent on me keeping that cursed IP address.

For a temporary workaround I set up a VPN endpoint on a VPS and configured a disused Pi3 to route through to the VPN endpoint, then turned it into an AP and had everybody connect through the Pi instead. It bypassed the breakage for the day so I could leave the connection off overnight to force my ISP to reallocate that IP.

It is this kind of Swiss Army Knife type job where the Pi is a perfect solution.

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Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by rytis on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:25AM (#28997064)

If you have control over the router that's connecting to your ISP, and assuming it allows such a thing, try changing its MAC address. EdgeRouterX for example allows this. Chances are, you get different IP.

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Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by jandrese on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:13PM (#29004900)

Years ago when I first had the service installed I tried this once, and discovered a $20 "additional device" surcharge on the next bill.

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