I hope you don't need internet.... - PfSense Router Update

This whole time, we thought we'd been watching linus tech tips, when in reality we were watching a real life version of the office.

there's gotta be nothing more terrifying as an ltt editor than seeing linus and jake walking around handling any kind of server hardware

Jake is the guy all HR people want. 22 years old with 30 years of experience.

"That's for Later Jake to figure out" "Screw that guy" Genuinely love their on screen chemistry.

" No don't...well he's doing it..." must be the company mantra in regards to Linus at this point

I feel like that server rack is a representation of day to day life with Linus. The finished product looks great from the front, the back end where Linus spends his time is pure chaos.

Linus: "This should still be running 10 years from now, 15 years from now" Jake: (five years from now) "Our router is soooooo old"

A label printer is an amazing tool for labeling both ends of a cable...like a power cable or a patch cable. It's time consuming but pays off during maintenance or upgrades. You can even color code it.

"This will still be running 10 years, 15 years from now" Jake in 5 years time: "It's OLD!"

As a former lab technician, this server rack triggers my PTSD lmao

As an IT professional of like 12 years, these videos are some of my favorites since these are all things I might have done 10 years ago

I love that Jake has went from Linux's "sidekick" on these projects to a very competent network engineer. Using the VLAN switch as a media converter to work around missing NIC was a good call.

Jake: “That’s for a later Jake to find out” Jake & Linus: “Screw that guy” 😂😂

Jake and Linus' work so unbelievably well together. Their chemistry makes videos with them together so entertaining that I end up forgetting the point of the video

This is likely already a video that you guys want to make, but I'd love to see you guys build an enthusiast/small business pfsense router walking through the basics of hardware selection, software setup, etc.

I like it how they had a detailed written timeline on the days upgrade, including “Plan B” procedures 🤗

15 years ago, when reconfiguring a router with a colleague, I started a count down from 10 when internet became unavailable. At 5 someone already entered the room complaining about a lack of internet 🤣

Honestly, at this point I feel like everyone in the office, when the internet goes out probably just thinks, "Linus must be upgrading something"

It's a testament to how entertaining these videos are that I watch them, even though I understand about 1% of the jargon.

Network and security admin here, at 17:01 can confirm. Exactly why I make backups before I make weird, possibly breaking changes. Also so happy most enterprise grade network switches forces you to to a copy running-config startup-config to save any changes. So worst case you just run really fast, unplug it, and plug it back in. (and then wait 5 minutes for it to power up making the running part a little stupid) Also yes, Router should be at the top if it's rackable. Our order is Router Core MDF switch o3x office switches rack with random ISP crap 3x big ass battery backups which we could scale down now since we have a generator now. Our patch panels are in a separate rack next to this.