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Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Re: Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Post by coolspot »

Having similar issue myself, I have found simpler and cheaper alternative - $20 Gl.inet mini router [1] that runs OpenWRT, but also has frienly UI where you can turn STA mode, connect it to your wireless network and have wired internet on the ethernet port.

I use it for wireless Wake-on-Lan for my homelab PC, integrated with homeassistant and Google Assistant voice command “Hey Google, turn on homelab”.

[1] - perhaps due to chip shortage, it is closer to $30 now - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TSK26W

Re: Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Post by rektide »

sneak wrote: post #5
zrail wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This seems like a lot of work I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!

I have 200TB in my garage.

too sharp a point apologies, but, some homelabs acquire gear, some acquire skill.

i don't see your claim about how much storage you have as any sort of technical claim, any proof of anything. i think it's expected that the homelab folk have an interest in going deep, in some areas. if networking isn't your bag, isn't interesting to you, fine. but the size of your storage cluster or how many vm's your running isn't really an interesting counter-claim.

Re: Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Post by rektide »

whalesalad wrote: post #6
sneak wrote: post #2

This seems like a lot of work to avoid having to run a long cable.

Not to mention a lot more latency.

wifi hop should be under 8ms. untethering sounds like a great & sophisticated way to skill up.

also within this island latencies will remain low.

Re: Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Post by jasonjayr »

coolspot wrote: post #3

Having similar issue myself, I have found simpler and cheaper alternative - $20 Gl.inet mini router [1] that runs OpenWRT, but also has frienly UI where you can turn STA mode, connect it to your wireless network and have wired internet on the ethernet port. I use it for wireless Wake-on-Lan for my homelab PC, integrated with homeassistant and Google Assistant voice command “Hey Google, turn on homelab”. [1] - perhaps…

Those little devices are in high demand. I've been buying them in quantities of 10-at-a-time (Especially when they were cheaper) since they are useful for putting VOIP phones securley behind VPN. I've seen a lot of folks recommend them on HN. They support OpenVPN + Wireguard out of the box and are easy enough for non-techs to reconfigure in the field w/ remote instructions.

Re: Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector

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Post by mbreese »

sneak wrote: post #5
zrail wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This seems like a lot of work I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!

I have 200TB in my garage.

To be fair, physically moving a small cluster of RPis around is a bit easier than moving 200TB. So a wireless linkup isn't that strange of a setup.
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