Earlier I had posted a brief summary of my foray into OPNsense, when I ran it as a VM on my main server. This was always intended to be a proof-of-concept, and last November I built a separate machine to serve as my Internet Gateway. Main Post There is Hardware Used (and why) Resources
OPNsense is a free Router OS that allows you to have more control over your networks. While the process of setting one up has gotten much easier, it is still an excellent way to learn some Networking and VM basic skills.
Use the free resources available to learn more about how VPNs operate, and to be able to access any of your digital documents at home while you are anywhere else.
eve-ng is a phenomenal resource that can help learn and practice networking fundamentals from the very easy to the more advanced concepts. eve-ng can be a little tricky to get set-up, but I struggled so you don’t have to!
I bring a Dell T7810 along with me on my learning journey, upgrading almost every part I could. Here, I collect some of my thoughts, tips and lessons learned.
GNS3 is a tool I have spent an incredible amount of time in recently, and here I will walk you through getting it set up, and how to make the most of this opportunity!
Gotta go fast! I upgraded two computers with affordable 10Gb NICs and got one of the first low-priced consumer switches to handle the fastest network I’ve ever had to myself.
Using a GPU in a Virtual Machine running in Proxmox can be tricky, but the benefits are definite, and I have compiled the steps and tricks needed here.
Grafana is a visualization tool that is rapidly growing in popularity. It allows a way to quickly pull several data sources together to show you that data in a couple of different formats.
The Raspberry Pi is an excellent part of many journeys and solutions. Here, I have compiled some of my experiences using the Pi and bme280 sensors to collect temperatures, store them in InfluxDB and visualize them in Grafana.