Infrastructure

Ultimate Custom Home Router (Mini ThinkCentre M73)

March 30, 2019

Introduction: Scratch all this and install pfSense on ESXi* There are many guides on building home routers – too many. Most of them revolve…

ESXi 7.0 with USB Ethernet Adapters

September 10, 2020

I spent some time tinkering with a home router setup over the last couple of days – now its running OPNSense and several other…

Installing TP-Link Omada Controller on Ubuntu

February 25, 2020

*Updated for version 3.2.10 (April 4-20-2020) Release of Omada Controller I recently purchased a TP-Link EAP-225v3 and the results have been nothing short of…

Downloading Google Music Library with Resume (YouTube Music Migration / Play Music End of Life)

June 26, 2020

As many Google Music users know, the service that we all enjoy is allegedly being ushered out of the product stable to migrate its…

Enable IP Forwarding / Routing on Ubuntu 18.04+

October 27, 2019

Enabling routing via iptables is slightly different on Ubuntu than Centos / RHEL. That is explained here in depth using firewalld. On Ubuntu the…

Configuring Dynamic DNS with DHCP on Centos 7 / RHEL 7

February 17, 2019

Dynamic DNS or DDNS, is useful for dynamically assigning host names to non-static IP addresses. To configure this we need to modify the configuration…