Tag: networking

LibreNMS auto-discovers your switches, APs, and UPS over SNMP with zero MIB hunting. Here's how to deploy it and stop abusing Prometheus for this job.

SmokePing turns your ISP no-issue-detected excuse into a documented lie. Set it up in Docker and get clear visual proof of latency spikes and packet loss.

Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest, no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.

Headscale gives you all the magic of Tailscale's zero-config WireGuard mesh, without trusting a SaaS control plane. Deploy it end-to-end with Docker Compose, ACLs, MagicDNS, and exit nodes.

A honeypot sits quietly on your network pretending to be valuable. Touch it and you've found an intruder. Deploy OpenCanary in Docker, dead simple.

Browser ad blockers miss half the ads. DNS blocking kills them everywhere, TV, phone, game console, everything. Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: here's which one to run.

iptables is being phased out. nftables is faster, cleaner, and already the default on modern Linux. Here's how to actually use it without wanting to quit.

Snort invented network intrusion detection. Suricata multi-threaded its way past it. Here's how to set up real IDS/IPS on your home lab and actually understand what it's telling you.

Linux ships with conservative kernel defaults. These sysctl settings tune your server for networking, memory, and file I/O, with explanations, not just paste-and-pray values.

Authelia is a bouncer. Authentik is the whole security desk. Pick the right self-hosted SSO for your home lab, with working configs, gotchas, and a migration path.

Real cloudflared config: many services on one tunnel, Access policies, origin TLS, what quick tunnels are for, and what Cloudflare can see in your traffic.

Fail2ban bans IPs that attack you. CrowdSec bans them before they attack you, using community threat intelligence. Here's how to set up both and why you might want both.