I wanted to test a website behind Cloudflare (kinda blocked in Russia) before posting that the strategy is general/working, so I picked a random domain from my proxy filter (reason note "RU CF ECH ban?") - mpv.io. For some reason it's crazy flaky, refusing connections. And then this... Dial-up fr
![Screenshot of WinBox, crops of two Interface windows on SFP tab, sfp-sfpplus5 (PC) on the left and sfp-sfpplus8 (uplink) on the right.
Relevant differences between tables
Vendor Name: "XBIT" | "OEM"
Vendor Part Number: "S25GT0330" | "SFP-10GE-T"
Vendor Revision: "02" | "2"
Vendor Serial: "XTV"-[REDACTED] | "B"-[REDACTED]
Manufacturing Date: "25-10"-[REDACTED] | "25-03"-[REDACTED]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreiedj7spr7rudab4iyzokkj632qsgzabft6kgmhlqide33l6xryekq)
![Screenshot of the Desktop/discord.desktop file, read by bat.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Discord
StartupWMClass=discord
Comment=All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
GenericName=Internet Messenger
Exec=env https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:27100 /usr/bin/nice -n 5 /usr/bin/discord --proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:26203
#Exec=/usr/bin/nice -n 5 /usr/share/discord/Discord --proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:26203
#Exec=/usr/bin/nice -n 5 /usr/share/discord/Discord
#Exec=/usr/share/discord/Discord
Icon=discord
Type=Application
Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;
Path=/usr/bin](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreid27tz5ad2qnmc3d7kgbfhweu7uxjusbxz5vt2zmazlc6yq5j6fbm)
![Screenshot of the scripts/upgrade-discord.sh shell script, read by bat.
#!/bin/bash
DISCORD_REPO="updates.discord.com"
HOSTS_LINE="127.0.0.1 $DISCORD_REPO"
echo "Adding temporary lo to /etc/hosts"
echo "$HOSTS_LINE" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts >/dev/null
PROXY_PORT="$(shuf -i 57001-57099 -n 1)"
echo "Launching socat proxy on $PROXY_PORT"
socat TCP-LISTEN:$PROXY_PORT,fork SOCKS5-CONNECT:127.0.0.1:26203:updates.discord.com:443 &
sleep 1
[[ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ]] && XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
DISCORD_HOME="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/discord"
DISCORD_UPDATER="/usr/share/discord/updater_bootstrap"
#PROXIED_REPO="https://127.0.0.1:$PROXY_PORT"
PROXIED_REPO="https://$DISCORD_REPO:$PROXY_PORT"
set -x
# updater_bootstrap [FLAGS] <root-path> <release-channel> [repository-url]
"$DISCORD_UPDATER" "$DISCORD_HOME" stable "$PROXIED_REPO"
set +x
echo "Removing temporary lo from /etc/hosts"
grep -v "^$HOSTS_LINE$" /etc/hosts | sudo tee /etc/hosts >/dev/null](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreifcfcgfjuqpzaz7tjelv3homscka5s5mkjx2czlpw2ygszwctw7lq)
![Screenshot of the /usr/bin/discord shell script, read by bat.
#!/bin/sh
CHANNEL=stable
DOWNLOAD=https://updates.discord.com/
DIR=discord
EXE=Discord
BOOTSTRAP_SUFFIX=discord/updater_bootstrap
config_home=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
if [ -z "$config_home" ]; then
config_home=$HOME/.config
fi
discord_host=$config_home/$DIR/$EXE
if [ ! -x "$discord_host" ]; then
mkdir -p "$config_home/$DIR"
if [ ! -d "$config_home/$DIR" ]; then
echo "Fatal error, failed to create $DIR in $config_home" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ -t 1 ]; then
zenity=--no-zenity
else
zenity=--zenity
fi
bootstrap=/usr/share/$BOOTSTRAP_SUFFIX
if [ ! -x "$bootstrap" ]; then
bootstrap=/opt/$BOOTSTRAP_SUFFIX
if [ ! -x "$bootstrap" ]; then
bootstrap=`dirname -- "$0"`/updater_bootstrap
fi
fi
app_dir=`"$bootstrap" $zenity "$config_home/$DIR" $CHANNEL "$DOWNLOAD"`
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "Bootstrap complete"
exec "$config_home/$DIR/$app_dir/$EXE" "$@"
else
echo "Bootstrap failed or was canceled"
exit 2
fi
fi
exec "$discord_host" "$@"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreiamh2i7qfe7xsi4tcjwhrinmihw5jdda652w2bzgrxz27x77vfkf4)
![Screenshot of the terminal output from ./scripts/upgrade-discord.sh. The error from /usr/share/discord/updater_bootstrap mentions reqwest, the error object formatting is obviously derived std::fmt::Debug.
is2511@mainPC:~$ ./scripts/upgrade-discord.sh
Adding temporary lo to /etc/hosts
Launching socat proxy on 57055
2026/05/20 21:30:19 socat[3551495] E bind(5, {AF=2 0.0.0.0:57055}, 16): Address already in use
+ /usr/share/discord/updater_bootstrap /home/is2511/.config/discord stable https://updates.discord.com:57055
Error: Other(Reqwest(reqwest::Error { kind: Request, url: Url { scheme: "https", cannot_be_a_base: false, username: "", password: None, host: Some(Domain("updates.discord.com")), port: Some(57055), path: "/distributions/app/manifests/latest", query: Some("install_id=REDACTED&channel=stable&platform=linux&arch=x64&platform_version=7.1.0"), fragment: None }, source: hyper::Error(Connect, ConnectError("tcp connect error", Os { code: 111, kind: ConnectionRefused, message: "Connection refused" })) }))
+ set +x
Removing temporary lo from /etc/hosts](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreihssq3fg3ovcmzujg2pzzej2e6frzwh3kzjp7fytagwhsz3b5c4se)
![Screenshot of an apt prompt in terminal.
737 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 15 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,085 MB of archives.
After this operation, 218 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izz7zvgg7nclmkbcpiypnxjs/bafkreidahed7kmz5ypgkpiqdlkig3rtuactwtvv6jnkfxym7gntfdx7lai)
