ntopng vs darkstat
ntopng vs darkstat: full DPI flow analysis vs a tiny always-on stats page. Pick the right tool for home-lab network visibility without losing your mind.
Tag: networking
All the articles with the tag "networking".
FRR vs BIRD
FRR vs BIRD: two open-source routing daemons compared for BGP, OSPF, and home-lab dynamic routing. Which one belongs in your stack?
HAProxy vs Envoy
HAProxy vs Envoy for L4/L7 load balancing, config style, performance, observability, service mesh fit, and which one belongs in your home lab.
LibreNMS for SNMP-Heavy Home Networks
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 for Internet Connection Sanity
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.
ZFS Send/Receive Over WireGuard for Off-Site Replication
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: Self-Host Your Own Tailscale Control Plane
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.
Cloud Gaming Tips That Actually Work
Network setup, latency tricks, display settings, and genre matching, everything you actually need to know to stop fighting your cloud gaming setup and start playing.
OpenCanary: Honeypots for Your Home Lab
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.
Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Block Ads for Your Whole Network
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.
nftables: Modern Linux Firewalling
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.
Suricata vs Snort: Network Intrusion Detection That Actually Works
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.