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1Gbit fiber connection between MikroTik and Unifi switch

While replacing my router at home by a MikroTik CCR1036-8G-2S+ router I also wanted to uplink my Ubiquity switch using a Multimode (OM3) connection.

Is fiber really needed? Not really, but it saved me an additional RJ45 port on my switch which allows me to connect more.

Link up, down, up, down

The link between my MikroTik router and Unifi switch kept going up and down. In the logs on my MikroTik and Unifi switch I saw:

<14> May 26 19:19:07 SwitchPatchkast DOT1S[dot1s_task]: dot1s_sm.c(314) 454679 %% Port (26) inst(0) role changing from ROLE_DESIGNATED to ROLE_DISABLED
<14> May 26 19:19:07 SwitchPatchkast DOT1S[dot1s_task]: dot1s_sm.c(314) 454677 %% Port (26) inst(0) role changing from ROLE_DISABLED to ROLE_DESIGNATED
<13> May 26 19:19:07 SwitchPatchkast TRAPMGR[trapTask]: traputil.c(743) 454676 %% Link Up: 0/26
<14> May 26 19:18:58 SwitchPatchkast DOT1S[dot1s_task]: dot1s_sm.c(314) 454668 %% Port (26) inst(0) role changing from ROLE_DESIGNATED to ROLE_DISABLED
<13> May 26 19:18:58 SwitchPatchkast TRAPMGR[trapTask]: traputil.c(743) 454667 %% Link Down: 0/26

19:25:12 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
19:25:20 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link down
19:25:21 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
19:25:29 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link down
19:25:30 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
19:28:48 interface,info sfp-sfpplus1 link down

I am using optics from FlexOptix which I programmed to MikroTik and Ubiquity using their programmer. (We have those at work).

Auto negotiation

After trying many things it turned out that turning off Auto Negotation on both the switch and the router resolved the issue.

On the switch I turned it off via the UI of the Unifi Controller and forced it to 1000 FDX.

On the router I turned it off using the MikroTik CLI:

[admin@router] > /interface ethernet export
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=sfp-sfpplus1 ] advertise=1000M-full auto-negotiation=no speed=1Gbps
set [ find default-name=sfp-sfpplus2 ] advertise=1000M-full speed=1Gbps
[admin@router] >

sfp-sfpplus1 is the interface I am using for the connection to my Unifi switch.

Link is now online! Below is a picture of my 19″ rack at home.

Building Ceph .deb packages

Once in a while I have to build Ubuntu packages (.deb) for Ceph to test some of the Pull Requests I write.

I always forget on how to build these packages and probably other people do so as well.

I build Ceph on my laptop using a Docker container with a few commands.

docker run -v /home/wido/repos/ceph:/usr/src/ceph -ti ubuntu:18.04 bash

I have the Ceph repository checked out locally in /home/wido/repos/ceph which I then map into the Docker container.

Once in the container it’s fairly simple:

apt update
apt -y install dpkg-dev
cd /usr/src/ceph
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -j 4

This will now yield a list of packages you need to install. Once you’ve installed them:

./do_cmake.sh
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -j 4

Now be ready to wait for a long time as this can take 2 hours as it does on my laptop.

After the build succeeds you’ll find the .deb files in /usr/src

Exploring the CAN bus of my Tesla Model S

The CAN bus of a Tesla vehicle can show some interesting information about the state of different components in the vehicle.

Using a CAN bus cable, Bluetooth adapter and a App on your mobile phone you can gain much more insight on your Tesla vehicle.

I own two Tesla vehicles:

S85 from September 2013 (pre face-lift)
S100D from September 2018

Somewhere around 2015 Tesla switched to a different connector for the CAN bus so I needed two different cables. I bought my cables in Germany at EMDS.

EMDS also sells a cable for Model 3. I haven’t used this one as I don’t own a Model 3.

The CAN bus connector in a Model S can be found under the MCU’s main screen in the vehicle. You need to pull down the ‘chubby’ and there you will find the connector:

I am using the TM-Spy app on iOS for reading the values on my iPhone.

For Android there is Scan My Tesla which also seems to be a very good app. I don’t have an Android device, so I was not able to test it.

I was mainly looking for these values:

Usable Full
DC Charge Total
AC Charge Total

After 253.543km of driving my battery has 75.6kWh of remaining capacity where this was ~81kWh when it was new. (The 85kWh battery was actually a 81kWh battery….)

Tesla also throttles a vehicle’s SuperCharging capabilities after more than X amount (I don’t know the exact value) of DC charging. My car seems to be affected as I SuperCharged a lot.

Charge Total is not a total sum of AC+DC, but from what I’ve read early firmwares did not count AC and DC charging in different values.

Interesting information though! I encourage everybody to use this information to gather more information about their vehicle’s state.

Happy exploring!