Early 2025 Update

Well, we’re into 2025 now, so we’ll see how things end up going over the next few years. I’ve still not picked up the Fitlet3: this is just an “other expenses more important” thing, but I’ve got its configuration nailed down finally. I was going to use OPNsense for the firewall VM, but some testing ... Read More

Planning (Part 3)

Quick follow up to the last one.I’m renting a /48 because I’m going to have connection failover at home at some point in the future, so why not borrow a /64 from that for the case?I plugged the test server into my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet the other night, spun an OPNsense VM up, set ... Read More

Planning (Part 2)

Wow, this is the closest posts have been together in a while. I was doing some research the past couple of days, and while I did mention in the last post that I was looking at OPNsense vs. OpenWrt, realizing that OPNsense needs more resources means that I’ll stick to OpenWrt for the firewall VM. ... Read More

Status Update

The last few months have been a bit tumultuous. First off: I’m now in the Pacific Northwest but not settled permanently yet. As such I’m using the mini case currently. It has served me well since I left Metro Atlanta 2 months ago. I was reading back through older posts, and I realized I had ... Read More

Downsizing

I wrote about this in the main blog the other day, so I’m not going to write too much about the circumstances here. Last weekend I pulled my gear out of Coloblox because I’m hoping to leave Metro Atlanta sometime next year. In place of there, I spun a Nanode up in Linode’s Seattle data ... Read More