Working on my Home Lab today, I have an old Thinkpad with a broken
keyboard running Proxmox. I've upgraded the OS and maxxed out the RAM,
it'll run a couple of containers and OSes just fine.

I have a Netgear router running DD-WRT, a big honker with an 800 mhz
CPU, dual cores, and 512 MB of memory. Way more than I need to use it
as an access point and gig switch. I'm going to play with Entware,
it's a way to load traditional packages on it. The router supports
CIFS/Samba natively, but NFS needs some Entware packages to do so.

Proxmox is already mounting the router's drive via SMB, but I'll have
more flexibility with NFS. Not sure of the speed difference, but
there's one way to find out. I've got an 8TB drive arriving today, a
Black Friday present to myself, it'll back up my desktops and be share
to Proxmox.

All in all, it's a tidy little home lab.



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Re: Monday
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Nov 30 2020 07:52 am

Working on my Home Lab today, I have an old Thinkpad with a broken
keyboard running Proxmox. I've upgraded the OS and maxxed out the RAM,
it'll run a couple of containers and OSes just fine.

I have a Netgear router running DD-WRT, a big honker with an 800 mhz
CPU, dual cores, and 512 MB of memory. Way more than I need to use it
as an access point and gig switch. I'm going to play with Entware,
it's a way to load traditional packages on it. The router supports CIFS/Samba natively, but NFS needs some Entware packages to do so.

Proxmox is already mounting the router's drive via SMB, but I'll have
more flexibility with NFS. Not sure of the speed difference, but
there's one way to find out. I've got an 8TB drive arriving today, a
Black Friday present to myself, it'll back up my desktops and be share
to Proxmox.

All in all, it's a tidy little home lab.

... Omens are there to be broken.

Hehe nice.

I try to have my routers act only as routers, and externalize services to other machines.

I am a big fan of Mikrotik routers. The low end models feel like high-tier cunsumer hardware running low-tier enterprise software. You can configure ARP entries, customized QoS, foster nearly all the power of a Linux packet filter...

I use it to run friendly MITM attacks in my networks to force the LAN clients into my ad killing proxies. Sometimes it feels like you can do anything short of hacking the Penthagon with these things :-P

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Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I try to have my routers act only as routers, and externalize services
to other machines.

This is my first time running anything on DD-WRT, it's more a
challenge and an exercise of "Just because you can doesn't mean you
should..."

The Proxmox server is there to run all of my services in the end
game, it supports containers, and until I get them working can spin
up little ubuntu VMs in a couple of minutes. I already have pi-hole
running in a VM, and can add more as I go. The more I think of it,
setting up a reverse proxy is going to be next, my LetsEncrypt certs
aren't auto-renewing without inbound port 80 access...

I am a big fan of Mikrotik routers. The low end models feel like
high-tier cunsumer hardware running low-tier enterprise software. You
can configure ARP entries, customized QoS, foster nearly all the power
of a Linux packet filter...

I'll have to check those out, I've been seeing their name around.

I use it to run friendly MITM attacks in my networks to force the LAN clients into my ad killing proxies. Sometimes it feels like you can do anything short of hacking the Penthagon with these things :-P

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Well over here it's Monday afternoon and the part of the country I am based
in is totally socked in with overcast skies and rain. It does not feel at all like a normal summers day here :( Meh.

I've got two more days of office work to go then am taking some annual leave over the Christmas/New Year period.

Gotta pull on a rain coat soon and go get the last Christmas gift for my
wife. Leaving it late I know! :) But in my defense I'd ordered this book some weeks ago and shipping/supply line issues caused its delay. So luckily it's landed before Christmas.

I watched the last episode of The Madalorian over the weekend. I enjoyed the whole second series. On the flipside the latest Star Trek Discovery two
parter I didn't think was that great... I expect the last few episodes of S3 will pick up the action pace... it's almost like the producers create a dull episode so the audience appreciate the action when it finally arrives..

I'd best eat some lunch and go into town.

Figured I'd post something here as it's been rather quiet as of late. I guess people have a lot on their plates night now with Covid, Christmas etc. etc.

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On 21 Dec 2020, Avon said the following...

Figured I'd post something here as it's been rather quiet as of late. I guesspeople have a lot on their plates night now with Covid, Christmas etc. etc.

My city begins a new lockdown starting tomorrow. The premier of Ontario will be making another announcement tomorrow, rumours on the news say it could be a province-wide lockdown or some other sweeping restrictions. At any rate, we'll find out tomorrow. I forgot to buy cat food today, so I get to deal with the fun new restrictions when I go get it tomorrow or risk the kitties staging a mutiny.

I got a parental guilt-trip from my mom about me not coming home for the holidays, but they understand. I don't really feel safe driving three hours north and risk exposing myself and family members to something. My grandparents are near 90 so I choose to play it safe.

Weather wise, we've had next to no snow this year. A light dusting here and there, but thankfully I've not had to shovel the driveway just yet. We're sitting at +2oC and it's 8pm on Sunday, so nothing to complain about.

Nothing like the winters I remember as a child. I would have had several snowmen built and cool snow fort that my sister wouldn't be allowed in... ;)

Jay

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Warpslide wrote to Avon <=-

My city begins a new lockdown starting tomorrow. The premier of
Ontario will be making another announcement tomorrow, rumours on the
news say it could be a province-wide lockdown or some other sweeping

I'm sure we'll be next... I can't believe we weren't shut down with
Toronto as they all come here to infect us anyway.

cat food today, so I get to deal with the fun new restrictions when I
go get it tomorrow or risk the kitties staging a mutiny.

Getting a case of it today for ours just in case. If they see the food
is low they start emailing PETA to get us on their watch list for cruelty.

Shawn

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Hello Avon!

On 21 Dec 2020, Avon said the following...

Well over here it's Monday afternoon and the part of the country I am basedin is totally socked in with overcast skies and rain. It does not feel at alllike a normal summers day here :( Meh.

Same thing here -- but a winter's day (without any winter in sight) here... :D

I've got two more days of office work to go then am taking some annual leaveover the Christmas/New Year period.

Thats great! Hoping you'll get some well-deserved rest during the holidays!

someweeks ago and shipping/supply line issues caused its delay. So
luckily it'slanded before Christmas.

Got all Christmas presents (OK so they're not too many) ready here. :-)

Wishing you (and everyone else) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Best regards
Zip

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On 21 Dec 2020 at 03:52p, Zip pondered and said...

Same thing here -- but a winter's day (without any winter in sight) here... :D

World weather has a case of the wobbles eh? :)

I've got two more days of office work to go then am taking some annua leaveover the Christmas/New Year period.

Thats great! Hoping you'll get some well-deserved rest during the holidays!

The trick will be not to do too many of my wifes to-do list, if I do that she'll know I am capable of doing more :)

Got all Christmas presents (OK so they're not too many) ready here. :-)

Got my last one sorted yesterday but still need to wrap it - I'd better hurry up.

Wishing you (and everyone else) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

And to you too... I hope you have a nice Christmas/New Year with your family.

Best, Paul

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the whole second series. On the flipside the latest Star Trek Discovery two parter I didn't think was that great... I expect the last few
episodes of S3 will pick up the action pace... it's almost like the

I enjoyed them, though I guess I can see the criticisms that they didn't develop the character in the correct way for that particular growth to be entirely in keeping.

I did kind of wonder if they were planning a spinoff based on the outcome of that episode.

But I know there _is_ a spinoff in the works based on the people Discovery
left behind.

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I did kind of wonder if they were planning a spinoff based on the outcome of that episode.

But I know there _is_ a spinoff in the works based on the people Discovery left behind.

Oh wow. How did I miss this?

Star Trek Spinoff Strange New Worlds Starring Discovery's Pike, Spock and Number One Ordered at CBS All Access. May-15-2020.

This is excellent. I really enjoyed the new Pike.

It also looks like you're right about a Spinoff for Philippa Georgiou. It will be called "Section 31" and was supposed to start filming right after Discovery Season 3 wrapped. Looks like the promos for this are already starting.

This is good news I think. I'm glad to see CBS/Paramount finally doing something with Trek.

Bob Roberts
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Re: Re: Monday
By: Bob Roberts to Adept on Tue Dec 22 2020 10:01 am

This is good news I think. I'm glad to see CBS/Paramount finally doing something with Trek.

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