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Day 46 of #100daysofhomelab and I haven’t had much time to work on the homelab this weekend, but have had some time using it, somewhat indirectly. Plex, Netflix and Disney Plus streaming, etc. Internet is more stable (but not 100%. more messing on that part soon) and the RB5009 is definitely more stable (IPv6 BGP is currently off, and only using 5 of my 14ish BGP sessions I could use. I think 1Gb RAM is struggling, or my filters are wrong. Hopefully, it’s a filter thing, that way I can sort it out without new hardware.

Day 45 (little late) of #100daysofhomelab, and still quite busy with $DayJob stuff. Mostly monitoring of the network and the like. Some links are below:

• How to Set Up a 24/7 Livestream Powered by Starlink – Speedify
• How To Boost Starlink Internet with Two Additional Connections – Speedify
• Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership – The Verge
• Announcing pricing updates and more flexible payment options for Google Workspace | Google Workspace Blog – price increases if you pay monthly…
• Frebniis: New Malware Abuses Microsoft IIS Feature to Establish Backdoor | Symantec Enterprise Blogs (security.com)
• Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS · Tailscale
• 4.0.0 — Homebrew

Day 44 of #100daysofhomelab and still quite busy with $DayJob. so some links below.

• Intel Launches Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Processors For Workstations: Up to 56 Cores and 112 PCIe 5.0 Lanes (anandtech.com)
• Tiernan on Twitter: “RT @ZeroTier: ZeroTier 1.10.3 is now available. This release includes low bandwidth mode, a duplicate path bug fix, and OIDC improvements..” / Twitter
• swarmlet/swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service that enables easy swarm deployments, load balancing, automatic SSL, metrics, analytics and more. (github.com

Also, I have been fiddling with some JQ and Zerotier-CLI commands. Not finished, but working on trying to get some data out of the CLI. I have a GitHub Gist with some details. I plan on adding to it over time.

Day 43 of #100daysofhomelab and I missed yesterday, but instead of skipping numbers, I am just not. I have been up to my eyes with $DayJob so not a major amount of work. But a couple of links for the day:

• VMware ESXi 8.0 Patch History (v-front.de) – looks like there is a new patch for ESXi 8. This page has an RSS Feed I subscribe to and they even include the CLI params to update.
• Veeam 12 has been released. The release notes (PDF) have the full details. Downloading the community edition to try it out…
• Geekbench 6 Launched Big Benchmark Updates We Try It (servethehome.com)
• LibreNMS – looking at replacing Observium.

That is it for today.

Day 42 of #100daysofhomelab and I spent way too many hours last night messing with MAAS. It all started with a Techno Tim Video I posted back on Day 25. I started messing with it last night around 11 pm or so, and then I realized it was 4 AM this morning. So, link drop for today:

• MAAS | How to install MAAS

• MAAS | Power management reference

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Going to be a very quick update here. Things are a little more stable at the moment. I figured out why my FTTH connection was acting up. the VM I moved it too had the default free 1Mb/s license for RouterOS. After moving my unlimited CHR license over, things have gotten better. screenshots over on my mastodon instance:

So, today, not doing much other than monitoring. I am taking a day of rest and will be back tomorrow…

Day 40 of #100daysofhomelab and the internet is a little more stable. Still not 100%, but “stable”.  Speed test results have dropped, as you can see in the graph below, but weirdly, ping times are a little better…

Download speeds. The swap over happened around the 8th Feb, 9th was pretty much a wash, 10th things got a bit better…

Upload Speeds. less spikey upload speeds, but also less upload speed…

this post is for day 38 and 39 of #100daysofhomelab. and i have finally moved over to my #RB5009. and, well, it has not gone so well. It has rebooted a few times due to memory issues (too many BGP tables being held, so I shut a few down to start with. some cleanup needed there), then the internet connections are a little unstable, and, well, in the last 48 hours, I have spent more time on LTE than on proper internet. It does seem to be working (ish.) now, but not as fast as it was. I am just using the #Zerotier link, so the #Wireguard links are currently off. Anyway, below are some links. I hope to make things work better tomorrow. And i also hope to have a better write up soon too…

Day 36 of #100daysofhomelab and after yesterday’s post about RAID 10 on my external array, I found ZFS on OSX, and well, now I have a ZFS RAIDZ pool setup. It is showing as around 28.8Tb usable space, and so far, so good.

Other than that, I have been looking into Ubuntu Landscape to monitor my Ubuntu fleet of machines. If you host it in-house, you get 10 machines for free, so hopefully, that’s enough for me to start with. I am working on getting it running on 22.04, using these beta install steps. RB5009 install is still pending. keep hitting stupid blocks stopping me from doing it, but hopefully this week.

Day 35 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been trying to clean up some stuff for my Mac Book Pro. I have an external enclosure from Yottamaster that has 5 3.5" bays and connects via USB C (USB 3.1). I got 5 8TB Seagate IronWolf drives in there. Currently, I have it set up as RAID 10 with 16Tb usable, which is named Archive, with 1 extra drive non-protected 8Tb drive. The details on setting up RAID 10 on MacOS is in the links section. I was looking at using RAID 5 for the archive pool, but the only option that seems to be available is SoftRAID but it’s USD250 for a license unless you have an OWC enclosure. Given the enclosure cost me that much in the first place, I think I will keep with RAID 10 for the while. RAID 5 would, potentially, give me 32Tb usable on my Archive, but 250 is a bit steep. for now…