March 2021

Going back to Cisco

This blog post has been in the works for a while, but after the latest snafu with Ubiquiti, I’m calling it quits and going back to Cisco. What happened Yesterday, Brian Krebs posted an article that the Ubiquiti breach was “catastrophic” according to a whistleblower. Yikes. We all knew the breach was bad, but it

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You don’t want to use Wireguard on pfSense…

File this under “Technical Drama” but if you haven’t heard, Netgate, the developer behind pfSense, sponsored a FreeBSD kernel module for Wireguard which brought it into pfSense 2.5.0 which was released back in February. Netgate committed these changes to FreeBSD and this module was slated to be included in FreeBSD 13.0 set to be released

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Why you want to run newer hardware in your homelab

In my homelab, I run HP servers. I’ve always liked HP servers since my employer switched to them from Dell in 2012.  At home, I’ve ran a HP ProLiant DL160 G6 for a couple years now. It’s a beast! Very reliable hardware and doesn’t make too much noise. But there’s one problem with older generations:

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