kris44dad

Just a typical home network with an Asus router and a few network switches.

Look... we all know 127.0.0.1 is the IP standard for a loopback address. Is there also such a standard IP address equivilent to /dev/nul? Nevermind found out there isn't...

Actually they don't. If they did, you would have no internet connectivity on your home network. My antivirus is logging an attack from a given IP address. I want to set the router firewall to deal with it before it gets that far.

I want my router to ignore/throw away any incoming traffic from a given IP address. I'm assuming you just set up a firewall rule to send it to the bit bucket. Is there a loacal network IP address used for that, or do I just send it to an IP address that doesn't exist on my network?

If a windows update is at fault, I'd just disable the event sound. But I'd rather not do that.

I was hoping the device events get logged in the event viewer somewhere. Not sure where to look. No errors listed, for the relevant times. The event seems to coincide with my monitors going to sleep, but windows had never had that type of audio notification behavior for that before, so I'm thinking it's something else related. I'm trying USBDeview to see if I can capture the event.

A couple of times per day, my computer is making the same noise that occurs when you plug in a USB thumb drive. The disconnect then the reconnect. I want to track down what event is occurring for Windows to give the audio notification, but am unsure where to look. Is there a place in the event viewer of elsewhere, where events of this type are logged? I want to track this down.

I had a thread on the display cable not letting the monitor shut off when I first went to dual monitors. Up to that point, I've been using DVI. According to that other thread, this is a common display port issue.

They really need to have a follow-up video to this one addressing the fact that display port cables sometimes don't let the monitor go to sleep.

Good points all. I'm also considering an external and take it off-line when not actively using it. The bandwidth would not be an issue, since my backups are coded to only backup new or changed items on top of what is already backed up.

I am not planning to give internet access to the NAS. I may get a drive to put elsewhere.

I did forget to mention that the equipment is protected by a UPS unit. I had a power hit take out my previous PC, last year.

I know about the off-site, but for a media collection that isn't an option. Hence, the only concern is some system problem that takes out both drives. I've got Dropbox for everything else.

If you're looking for a way to open a window on the Chromebook to the PC to have the PC do stuff, start looking here. https://alternativeto.net/software/tightvnc/?platform=chrome-os If you're just looking to share files: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/access-network-share-files-chromebook/

I'm running a system with 3 drives. 1 M.2 SSD boot drive 2 8 TB Iron wolf drives I use one of the Iron Wolf drives to store data backups for the two. Is there inherently more risk to having my backup device in the same case (and running) along with the source drives? I've never heard of any kind of power problem that could take out both drives at once, but... I'm considering picking up a NAS as a totally device separate backup of the backup.