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…Pair it with an OPNsense router armed with Tailscale (or even a subnet router running on another PC), and the TrueNAS-berry Pi rig is pretty useful at pulling rsync tasks from…
…Install OPNsense on your old computer and use it to create VLANs along with firewall rules.
…I’ve got an OPNsense router at the center of my networking stack, and I’ve armed it with strict firewall rules (well, mostly deny all as the default, with exceptions configured…
…My router back then was pretty basic and didn't show much in the way of traffic metrics, but many consumer routers nowadays have this, and prosumer or custom builds using OPNsense…
Building an OPNsense router
I'm relatively new to Proxmox. I'm using unattended-upgrades for Debian security updates. It seems like there are Debian/Proxmox package updates available several times a week, if not almost daily. I'm more used to Home …
Build is done. 16 DGX Sparks on the fabric, all hitting line rate. Setup was time consuming but honestly smoother than I expected. Each Spark runs Nvidia’s flavor of Ubuntu out of the box with mostly everything pre insta…
Added a 16x Spark Cluster to my homelab over the last few days. Curious if this is the largest Spark cluster anyone has built. About 2 years ago I had renovated my basement and built a personal lab/datacenter into my off…
Added a 16x Spark Cluster to my homelab over the last few days. Curious if this is the largest Spark cluster anyone has built. About 2 years ago I had renovated my basement and built a personal lab/datacenter into my off…
…This is a straightforward WAN rule to add to pfSense or OPNsense . It varies by consumer router, but most have an IPv6 firewall that can be toggled on. It's nice that…
…Related Setting up OPNsense on a mini PC was easier than configuring my old router Consistent performance with predictable behavior ...but that doesn't stop you from making your own It's…
…Between the dining room where the OPNsense box is running, we have around 23 meters between the house and office, as well as around 18 meters between the same room and the…
…Affordable switches handle the connections, and OPNsense is running on a cheap, passively-cooled firewall PC. It's all nothing but flashy, but that's the point. The entire network is reliable…
…Even custom firmware like DD-WRT, OpenWrt, or OPNsense has many more features, but if you were going for a combo router, you might not want to DIY your home network equipment…
…Related 5 reasons to replace your basic router with a pfSense or OPNSense box A custom router and firewall gives you so many more options. Change the admin password Despite having per…