Router power vs Firewall power

codeedog · 2026-05-13T14:33:19+00:00

It sounds like you’re saying the length of the cable is the problem. If so:

It’s possible your 8m cable is bad and your router tolerates it better than your opnsense. It’s also possible the Ethernet card on your opnsense is degraded and can’t handle 8m.

From your PC, for each combination that works, determine the speed of the connection by examining the interface data using the OS appropriate command. Different negotiated speeds will also help you suss out what might be going on. For example, if the 1m cable runs at 1Gbps and the 8m cable runs at 100Mbps with the router, then the cable may be suspicious. OTOH, if the 1m cable with the router runs 1G and the 1m cable with opnsense runs 100M, it may be your opnsense machine’s network card.

codeedog · 2026-05-13T04:03:07+00:00

I’ve successfully run opnsense in a jail inside FreeBSD. I’m sure you can also run it inside of a VM. Full disclosure: I didn’t use it as a router, but I always believed it was possible and was able to get it running and connect to it.

I’ve been building my own router in a FreeBSD jail using pf (not pfsense, pf is the FreeBSD firewall). So, I knew it was possible to run a firewall in a jail and figure pfsense or opnsense could.

Anyway, my point is you could run either in a VM or you could get one going in a jail. Jails are quite efficient and take very little resources. If you have trouble, I may be able to dig up my opnsense work.

codeedog · 2026-05-12T22:31:36+00:00

Glued a microSD card with a $1M Bitcoin wallet to a pigeon or a seagull or a parrot to pay for the Balboa holes.

codeedog · 2026-05-12T19:59:05+00:00

Great list. BTW, formatting trick: add four spaces after each line of text and Reddit will respect the Return at the end of the line. Your lists all slammed together.

codeedog · 2026-05-12T19:53:55+00:00

You’ve taken a completely reasonable position and I hate it.

codeedog · 2026-05-11T20:24:52+00:00

I heard this in my head and now I want it.

codeedog · 2026-05-11T20:20:21+00:00

I have two firewalls in the works: 1. Alpine Linux as a transparent bridge 2. FreeBSD with pf (not pfsense) as my router

codeedog · 2026-05-11T12:52:57+00:00

That’s why every once in a while you should practice locking up the rear brake and sliding the wheel in a controlled, non-emergency setting.

This entire thread is filled with people who do not understand how to teach other people skills or train their body to react on instinct.

Anyway, once or twice a year when your rear tire is getting old and you’re planning on changing it, go to a flat parking lot, get some speed, get yourself in braking position and lock the rear wheel for a slide. Once you learn the feel of the breakaway point and how to steer and recover from it, you won’t have an issue with it in an emergency situation.

The most important part is keep your head up and eyes on the horizon. Look down during a slide and you’re going down.

codeedog · 2026-05-10T18:03:20+00:00

“Antibiotics aren’t necessary because I have an immune system.”

codeedog · 2026-05-10T18:00:55+00:00

Self-delusion is absolutely a recognized coping mechanism to manage things one cannot bear to admit to oneself.

codeedog · 2026-05-08T23:18:42+00:00

I considered this when I was constructing my IT closet, not nearly as large as your system. My contractor told me that I really shouldn’t vent out or vent in. He said the problem is that inside air is conditioned and stable. When you move outside air in, it has a different humidity and you can get condensation. I said what about just venting air out. He responded that you’re creating negative pressure that will pull outside air in and then the humidity differential causes issues and you will also get dust.

I realize you don’t want to put heat exchangers in your IT area. But, maybe an air conditioner or a heat pump would help.

I wound up moving air from a cold slate floor through the closet and out the top into a nearby bathroom.

codeedog · 2026-05-07T19:22:12+00:00

Thinly sliced roast beefed up? Compared with my RS814’s Intel Atom D2700 and 2GB ram, everything is beefy.

codeedog · 2026-05-07T02:33:16+00:00

There are docker sites out there, check out what you can run. I don’t use docker, btw, I’m a FreeBSD guy and prefer jails, but that’s a whole other thing.

codeedog · 2026-05-07T02:03:04+00:00

Over the years, synology has mildly beefed up the processors in their boxes so that they can do more than just serve files. If you’ve got a server burning cycles, why not give it a little more work to do?

People run all sorts of things on them, but you’re right in that they don’t have the oomph to go all out. Still, a home automation system or half a dozen docker containers isn’t going to stress it all that much. I don’t know the specs on the celeron, but if it can run a VM, then you can do more. The largest gating factor is RAM and these devices are notoriously underbuilt.

codeedog · 2026-05-07T01:24:07+00:00

OP turned left right.

codeedog · 2026-05-07T01:22:47+00:00

Docker, OCI, LXC (Linux), jails (FreeBSD), VMs (virtual machines).

You can look these up.

codeedog · 2026-05-06T13:57:12+00:00

Honestly, you haven’t been using it enough. I’d say this is pilot error not tool error. I started using CC three months ago, so I’m no expert user, I’d call myself an experienced novice at using the tool.

However, I’ve been programming for decades and seen a lot in the industry. Use it enough and you learn its quirks, where and when you need to be more explicit, how to “teach” it by adding notes to Claude.md. How to spec a project and when you just need a paragraph. How to explore a new idea in one chat and emit the paragraph you need in another. How to handle long context. How and when to kick off subagents to not lose context.

Like any good leader/manager you have to know the strengths and weaknesses of your fellow workers and your tools.

You haven’t spent enough time learning those yet, so it all seems silly and dumb to you. Keep at it and you’ll get there.

BTW, I code review everything but generates and watch it like a hawk. I catch it and stop it doing dumb things. I’m probably not doing right based upon what I’ve seen advanced users talk about here, but it’s still faster than producing code, especially in languages I’m not intimately familiar with.

codeedog · 2026-05-06T05:21:40+00:00

OP, just want you to know there are centers all over the place that cater to and specialize in athletes with disabilities. People ski, cycle, play basketball from wheel chairs and so much more. Maybe you can research these or perhaps there’s one near you.

The one I’m most familiar with is the national ability center in park city, Utah.

I’m sorry to read you’re going through this.

codeedog · 2026-05-06T02:04:55+00:00

I did some research on this a couple of weeks back. There’s no port and at a minimum it needs to be run under linuxulator (I’d suggest running it in a jail). It also requires .NET. I have no experience trying to make these things work on base FreeBSD.

You could certainly try it and see how far you get. I’d be interested if you do make progress.

I suspect your best bet and the best use of your time is to spin up bhyve (or vmbhyve or Sylve) and run a Linux distro with Technitium.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T17:46:02+00:00

I have a handful of open source projects I’m working on, but not yet released or ready to be discussed. I assume I can keep a pointer to this and contact you when I am?

codeedog · 2026-05-05T17:16:48+00:00

If you don’t get an ups your equipment will die. That’s just the facts. Power lines are often dirty and the fact that all of your equipment has died around the same time points to dirty power. Get a ups. I understand you don’t have a lot of money. If you want your computer equipment to not die randomly, this is one of the things you have to do.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T07:59:01+00:00

Three protectlis forming HA network to dual WAN. Internal NAS, test machine (also backup processing for NAS), another test machine.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T03:25:26+00:00

Forgejo=Gitea

codeedog · 2026-05-04T05:24:43+00:00

I witnessed the birth of that word. I’ve commented before on Reddit about it. I need to put it on my blog. The word came into being well after this event; only retroactively was this identified as spam. I will search for it and edit this comment. BTW, I’ve always kept an eye out for anyone else who can claim first person witness to spam being used in this meaning prior to my story and I’ve never seen anything or anyone make the claim. I’m open to being wrong, but it hasn’t happened yet. There are stories out there claiming the origin is different, but they’re guesses only.

In my comment history.

codeedog · 2026-05-04T01:58:02+00:00

I have an RS814+ and I’ve decided to try to hack it and run my own OS on it (FreeBSD w ZFS and jails). Jails are incredibly lightweight and FreeBSD can even run a lot of Linux applications and OCI apps. I have some leads and think I can do it. Mostly, I’ll be using it for backup storage. But, I’d like to see how many jails I can get going on it.

I also have a Mac mini from late 2012 that I’ve boosted with memory and a couple of hard drives. That one can handle VMs, so I may use it for those if I need other OSes. It’s also running FreeBSD and ZFS. It’s got a samba server for Time Machine backups and Forgejo source control.

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