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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by greggyb » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

pm2222 wrote: post #32

I didn’t read in details. Why esxi is not incorporating whatever that’s on the rpis?

The Pis are using GPS receivers to serve as NTP servers on the local network. The specific appear to use GPIO pins. You would not be able to wire these to the ESXI machines as readily. You typically also want time-sensitive workloads running on metal, as there are all sorts of potential complications with virtualized time.

I am sure there are PCIe solutions that could easily go into a more standard form-factor machine, but perhaps these are more expensive or less readily available; this is just conjecture. The ESXi machines have minimal PCIe connectivity. Perhaps such a card could be put into one of the Supermicro chassis.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by systems_glitch » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

m463 wrote: post #24

LouisvilleGeek wrote: post #22

Really nice setup! the pfSense part made me smile!

as long as you're good that pfsense is not open and phones home.

Plus the domain squatting with hitler and goatse thing... :/

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by hqsolomo » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

dheera wrote: post #35

hqsolomo wrote: post #8

Nice and clean, great work! If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!

Having a rack alone doesn't consume anything, it's what you put on the rack. I have a rack setup and most of the time it consumes around 200 watts during the daytime and 100 watts at night, but can spike upto 600 watts if I put a heavy CPU+GPU load on it. I also put my desktop into suspend at night, something which I think a lot more people with desktops could do. Don't run 24/7 services (e.g. Home Assistant) on your…

I get that but the blog discussed a pretty beefy setup. My whole rack still used less power than my gaming PC at load but after doing the math I ultimately saved more money by going serverless for my apps and dumping (non-critical) data into a B2 bucket on paper. In reality I just started shutting things off and only turn them on when I need them.

I'm curious as to what others are doing to save costs if anything. I love the hobby but we're in a recession, lol!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by thecosas » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

"This is also how you are probably getting to this blog, which is hosted at home."

Curious to know how hitting HN impacted your setup (if at all)!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by comprev » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

hqsolomo wrote: post #25

m463 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as long as you're good that pfsense is not open and phones home.

I'm sorry- when did they start doing this? I've been mulling making the switch to OPNSense. If pfSense is phoning home aside from the update check I might have a busy weekend ahead of me

Have a quick search about the bad activity undertaken by pfSense against OPNSense and you'll soon change your opinion on the company.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by systems_glitch » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:55 PM UTC

woleium wrote: post #27

m463 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as long as you're good that pfsense is not open and phones home.

and that BSD still cannot do line speed gigabit on an Intel gigabit nic.

[citation needed]

We had no problem routing gigabit on an Intel Atom D525 years and years ago at a previous job. Consumer Mini-ITX board, onboard gigabit NIC, and an Intel gigabit NIC in the one expansion slot. It did require minor tuning, but nothing that couldn't be done thru the web UI.

Everything I have to manage runs plain OpenBSD managed with Ansible now, so I don't know what the current state of pfSense/OPNsense throughput is.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by systems_glitch » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:56 PM UTC

hqsolomo wrote: post #12

Dagger2 wrote: post #10

All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.

Lol I get sym 1G/1G from my ISP and a free static IP address for less than Comcrash offers for their 25/10 service in my area... The catch? _No IPv6 support whatsoever_

Yeah, even with Comcast/Xfinity I run a HE.net tunnel for IPv6, just so I can have truly static allocations and not goof around with their DHCPv6 prefix request system.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by systems_glitch » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

m463 wrote: post #26

Dagger2 wrote: post #10

All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.

Do you need ipv6 on a home network? Honestly I just use ipv4 and turn off ipv6 everywhere. Then I have just one configuration and one set of firewall rules (in and out).

To say "couldn't live without it" would be an exaggeration, but we do use it extensively for work, and having it at home makes WFH much easier. End-to-end connectivity, like in the old days, is very nice!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by hqsolomo » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:58 PM UTC

comprev wrote: post #45

hqsolomo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry- when did they start doing this? I've been mulling making the switch to OPNSense. If pfSense is phoning home aside from the update check I might have a busy weekend ahead of me

Have a quick search about the bad activity undertaken by pfSense against OPNSense and you'll soon change your opinion on the company.

Welp, that was... A thing they did. Reminds me of middle school antics, except these are grown folks. Guess it's time to jump ship after all!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by jonathantf2 » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 10:58 PM UTC

Dagger2 wrote: post #10

All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.

Probably not supplied, I’ve got no IPv6 on any connection I have access to other than a few Azure VMs (and it’s a PITA to set up so we haven’t bothered)