If you are a Proxmox Virtual Environment (aka PVE) user, chances are that you probably have a few LXC containers running on server. If that is indeed your case and you are interested in leveraging GPU hardware in them, this is for you! In this post, we are going to setup Intel GPU passthrough on…
Most Internet Service Providers (ISP) install devices in our houses, such as a cable/DSL modems or a ONT/ONU for optical, which have a web interfaces on a private IP address of its own. Since the device is not connected to any port of your local network switch, and therefore, sit outside your your network, accessing…
Private Internet Access (aka PIA) provides a cheap VPN service that allows up to 10 simultaneous devices. Recently I have switched from Surfshark to PIA because although Surfshark allows unlimited devices, having multiple connections in the same device (pfSense router) doesn’t always work. The reason is that different connections to different countries can have the…
In this short post I will describe how to force your DDNS service to periodically refresh your IP on your pfSense. In theory, that should never be needed because when your WAN IP changes, DDNS service should notice it and update your IP on demand. However, I have notice my IPSEC tunnel never reconnected after…
On Wednesday, September 29th 2021 a widely used Certificate Authority (CA) from Let’s Encrypt expired and brought the world to its knees. Well, at least my homelab, anyways. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority R3, C=US” The fix is quite…
After a couple months working on my new place, I am finally back. It look longer than anticipated, but the new homelab was fired up this weekend. I have managed to find a storage room to host my homelab and rewire all data wires through the lab because… why not? lol This is how it…
Folks, some of you may have noticed I am a little (not that little, but…) absent. The blog is still alive, though. I’ve moved to a new place and need some time to rewire my bat cave, bring the servers online and maybe even get some furniture lol I will be back soon and reply…
While I was writing a post on how to route specific WEB traffic through VPN, I’ve got inspired and decided to write another post on how to route specific DEVICES (your NAS server, laptop, iPhone, etc) through VPN while the rest of your house still uses the default ISP gateway. This kind of approach might…
For those who followed my previous post on how to configure a VPN client on pfSense, one cool application for it is to route only specific websites through the VPN while the rest of the traffic goes through the default ISP gateway, as usual. That is interesting when you want to use an IP from…
If you are like me, you probably got most of your gear at eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Craig’s List, OfferUp, etc. From time to time, things break or they come with missing parts, etc. I don’t know about you, but I go a long way to make my Homelab as nit as possible. Recently I’ve acquired…