Posts tagged: homelab

Back in early June I started getting emails from updown.io warning me of IPv6 ping issues to my CHR edge router. I didn’t notice anything wrong, and everything seemingly worked just fine, so I muted …

Back in 2021 I started to tag posts with Home network v2, and wrote about my plans to improve my home network. The year after — there was even an updated plan! Then it evolved into a series, with the …

I use Beszel to monitor all my hosts — Raspberry Pi’s, hypervisors, VMs and containers. But a problem arises if the Proxmox host running the Beszel container stops working. There are two mechanisms in …

Keep it simple, stupid — less is more, or as Albert Einstein didn’t actually say: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. What he actually said, according to Quote Investigator: It can …

In the fall of 2022 I turned off Zeta, my file server, due to the extreme price of electricity. I migrated all the data to a 3x18 TB raidz1 pool on Alpha instead. But last year I brought it back — and …

When I was trying out Netdata last year — I noticed I had lots of inbound_packets_dropped_ratio warnings, on multiple nodes. Time to investigate 👇

I’m using a Shelly Plus Plug S smart plug to measure the power usage of my homelab. I added it as a device in Home Assistant — and the power readings began! Kind of… Within a few days; I noticed …

I’ve been having a strange problem with outgoing WireGuard traffic, the problem has probably always been there — I just haven’t noticed, until now. Outgoing WireGuard traffic is very slow, while …

I built a rack out of wood in 2004 — it was at home, and a lab, of sorts, so I guess that makes it a homelab 🙂 Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at 20 years’ worth of homelabbing ❤️

While doing some WireGuard testing between local peers; I noticed weird performance issues on my virtual MikroTik router. This lead me down a rabbit hole of testing the layer 3 throughput on my …

My homelab rack has been running as is for a while now — it’s time for a few new projects. I’m rearranging stuff to better utilize the space, looking into 25 Gbit networking, and putting a HP Z440 …

I stumbled onto NextDNS recently — it’s like a cloud hosted Pi-hole. I tried it for a few days, but this post isn’t about that. Reading about the different block lists in NextDNS, and digging deeper …

Searching for a tool to keep track of IP addresses; I stumbled onto Netbox — and was blown away by what it could do 🤯 I could put everything there: racks, servers, patch panels, Wi-Fi access points, …

Last year — I wrote about plans for my home network, or home network v2, as I called it. Let’s take a look at what I have done, what remains, and what has changed since then.

I’ve had many routers over the years — Linksys WRT54GL, Linux and iptables, ASUS RT-N66U, Ubiquiti USG, OPNsense, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, and MikroTik CCR1009. At least those are the ones I can remember. …

I set up a super simple status page for the homelab — using a small bash script, NetBox, AWS S3 and CloudFront. But ended up using a hosted service instead — HetrixTools.

I’ve already written about my PDU suddenly dying — and in that post I explained that I was going to do some changes to the homelab power layout. It’s time to do those changes 🙂

It’s time for another ZFS pool expansion. When I last expanded; I doubled the capacity of my 2nd vdev — going from 16 TB to 32 TB raw capacity. This time I’m doubling again — replacing the last …

I’ve been planning to enable scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans ever since I built my file server, but it was just one of those things that I never got around to do. Well — when one of the 8 TB drives …

I have a local mail server with Postfix and Dovecot — I use it as a local SMTP smart host, and “notification center”. While gathering information for this post; I discovered that my file server have …

My homelab PDU suddenly died! It’s dead, D-E-D, dead! There are few things worse than a server rack suddenly going completely silent… The PDU has had an error since the power outage last summer — F11 …

I’m using a Raspberry Pi to communicate with the power equipment in my homelab rack; the UPS, ATS and PDU. For the UPS, I’m using NUT (Network UPS Tools), and for the ATS and PDU; my own PowerWalker …

I recently decided to give Altibox and their 6rd implementation another go — searching the interwebs I stumbled upon a Norwegian forum post that read (translation by me): Altibox offers native …

Back in August I wrote about connecting my ISP (Altibox) fiber straight into the Mikrotik CCR1009. I’ve since decided not to include the CCR in my network stack, but instead use my EdgeRouter 4 as, …

I’ve written a few posts now about my Home network v2 project. What’s the plan? Let’s go through that now.