Hacking a serial port into an EdgeRouter X
Although I'm not a huge fan of Ubiquiti stuff, some of the EdgeRouters hold a special place in my heart. The CLI isn't terrible, mostly like the VyOS CLI that…
10 gigabit inter-VLAN with a Mikrotik RB4011
Something I see pop up fairly regularly on a few of the forums, Discords, and subreddits that I hang out on is that the RB4011 is not capable of 10…
Battle of the Virtual Routers
This is going to be a bit of a long post, so I'll be brief in the intro. Over the last few years, I've become enamored with routing. As…
A New Switch for a New Day
I am constantly on the hunt for new switches. Between finding the right combination of power consumption, noise, and 10Gb, it seems like there is always something new on the…
Let’s Play with Routing – Part 1
In this series of posts, we'll be working through building a routing lab-within-a-lab featuring VyOS. If you are unfamiliar with VyOS, you can read more about it here. Over the…
Building a ZFS on Linux Fileserver
After my recent migration back to ZFS on Linux, I decided to roll my own GUI for server reporting/management. Unfortunately, as referenced in the above linked post, I recently picked…
The ZFS walk-of-shame with Seagate and OmniOS CE.
This is a bit of a long one, so I’ll put this first. The TL;DR Opinion #1: OmniOS and Napp-IT are nice, but there’s a good chance it’s not worth…
RouterOS and Switching, finally managed
I think anybody that's ever used a Mikrotik and RouterOS can probably agree. That tiny company from Latvia does things a bit... different. Since October of 2017, I've been fighting…
Building a Disk Tower, for all pain and no profit
In my lab, more than anything, quiet and power-sipping are the two factors that matter most to me. That means most of my servers are towers instead of rack-mount gear.…
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
On almost a daily basis, I am bombarded with ads on Facebook for the Sense. This device allows you to monitor whole-home power consumption. I could probably find room for…