Subj : Re: Home Lab Projects To : poindexter FORTRAN From : Zylone Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 18:20:32 pF> My needs are much more simple. I've got the Linksys WRT1900ACS as a pF> gateway router and a Netgear R6400 as an AP. Before, I had powerline pF> adapters everywhere and 2 wireless extenders, and it was all flakey as pF> hell. Oh boy, well none the less that is a huge improvement over powerline adapters and wireless extenders! It hurts my head just thinking of your previous scenario. =) I bet you are loving life now! pF> pF> I had 2 Cat6 runs done between the routers and got rid of the powerline pF> adapters and access points, and things are running smoothly. I bet they are! That is great, and with the extra shielding of Cat6, that will surely cut down any possible EMI/RFI they may encounter. pF> I've heard of people doing peripheral passthrough and using the bare pF> metal proxmox server as a desktop. Seeing as it's Debian, I suppose you pF> could just run a window manager on top of it! Funny you say that, probably so! However, I would still prefer this way.. as I can backup the VM running the desktop, etc and proxmox itself is on it's own drive so if it dies it is not that big of a deal, reinstall on a new drive, and import VM's an containers! =) pF> I played with Synergy a long time ago, still have a license. I've been pF> wanting to dig it up again, as I have been working from home since 2020, pF> along with many others. Right now, I RDP into my laptop and use my dual pF> desktop monitors in an RDP session. It might be fun to just use my pF> keyboard and mouse across all 3 screens. I am still running a really old version at work, before you were required to have a license but it works so dang well, as I have two screens on linux machine and one on windows machine at work and just works flawlessly! pF> Are you using LXC natively on Proxmox or do you have a guest VM hosting pF> Docker containers? I've wanted to do more with containers, like being pF> able to support them natively on Proxmox, but there doesn't seem to be pF> as much support for it or anywhere near the number of pre-compiled pF> images as compared to Docker. Yes sir, LXC native through Proxmox. I personally don't see a reason at the moment to run Docker other than having access to more prebuilt containers? pF> I have a Windows domain I'm setting up, and want to use Samba as a pF> domain controller on the main LAN and have a secondary VLAN for the pF> Windows domain traffic on Proxmox, between a Windows 10 client and 2019 pF> server. I've always wanted a guest LAN as well. Oh that's pretty cool! I have run a domain controller through samba but it has been many many years. I remember it worked well though! Having a guest network is nice, or at least gives a little more peace of mind ;) pF> My other project is going to be backing up my Synology NAS to the cloud. pF> I'm going to be setting up backup for a ESXi cluster at work, and am pF> going back and forth between Veeam and looking at a more do-it-yourself pF> solution with TrueNAS and rsync to AWS. That'll be early next year. That sounds like fun! I have thought about doing something like that before. How much data are you expecting to put in the cloud? It can get expensive fast. Also, I highly recommend if any of it is sensetive data, make sure the remote backup filesystem is encrypted at the least! pF> I went from working in IT management over the past 20 years to a much pF> more hands-on role and am enjoying the opportunity to play with cool pF> stuff again. Eww I feel for ya. But that is great you are in a happier place. My company has been trying to push me into management for years. I refuse. Not my cup of tea or my wheelhouse. I don't need to babysit people ;) Plus, working on servers is where it's at!! |15Z|07ylone --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/19 (Linux/64) * Origin: bbs.planetcaravan.org:23 ssh:1337 (46:10/196) .