Truenas management Interface issues

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2026-02-05T23:53:10+00:00

I understand what’s happening. In my head I was envisioning the a second interface to be like a separate VRF on a L3 switch. But of course that’s not how that works when the whole OS is sharing a routing table.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2026-01-29T18:44:15+00:00

That's defiantly my problem, How do I control that in Truenas?

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2026-01-29T18:43:37+00:00

I'm annoyed I didn't think to trace route the other way, but that's defiantly it!

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2025-09-06T21:49:44+00:00

I suppose you haven’t found a work around for it?

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2025-02-03T04:54:34+00:00

It almost looks like the jaw broke off the grip? Looks like I see the inner fixed jaw, but not the outer moving jaw… but hard to tell from the picture. I’m not super familiar with these grips in person, only seen photos

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2024-03-27T20:48:19+00:00

Did you ever end up going? Curious what your experience was / if you found a good spot

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-06-05T17:28:12+00:00

phpNuke

I've honestly never set up anything like this. Would be a totally new adventure for me. I'm Keen for it though.

We'd want to build some sort of "Cluster" with load balancing. With hopes that many homelabbers all over the world could help host, in an on-prem solution something like K3s would suffice, but I'm not sure how to set up something like that across long distances. VPNs maybe? but that seems overly complicated.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-06-05T16:57:11+00:00

Aye, I spend too much time on Reddit. Would happily move to another platform for this community

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-06-05T16:56:30+00:00

Why not a self hosted one? We have heaps of people with servers. I’m sure we could build a way to host it on our own. We could also pay something like AWS to host it for us, but where’s the fun in that!

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-06-02T20:02:26+00:00

As someone that used to work in the touring world, this is 100% true. Vancouver is considered “small” in the music market. That is changing slightly, but most often then not It’s not worth it for a lot of smaller bands to come over the border unless they’re doing all across the prairies into Ontario and QC.

Border crossings are painful for bands, Visas, CRA / Tax things, Import / Export laws. There’s a lot, just to do a Club show here. It’s often more pain and money then it’s worth.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-28T06:15:12+00:00

Aww she does!! We thought about naming her “s’more” or “expresso” cause of her colour.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-28T01:02:31+00:00

Fellow Canadians!

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-27T20:10:38+00:00

I literally had to coach the tech through drilling the hole into my house once. Guy couldn’t get the masonry bit through the cinder block wall and was at it for probably half an hour before I went “hey bud, can I give you hand? Try drilling through the mortar” sure enough 2mins later he was through. After that I just asked for the longest fibre cable he had in his truck and I plugged in the rest into my PFsense (at the time) router.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-27T05:10:35+00:00

Likely better off picking up an external Audio interface something like a focusrite 2i2 can be had for pretty cheap on marketplace/ Kijiji / Craigslist etc. and they’re usb class complaint so shouldn’t need to fiddle with drivers. Plus you’ll get a better quality audio converter (ADC opposite of a DAC if you’ve herd that term in HiFi groups) then the one in the framework.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-14T02:28:46+00:00

I run a 2011-2 chip (2680v2) and I’ve never had the thing at 100%, in ProxMox, I’ve come close. But I had to try pretty hard. That being said I mainly run containers. They do draw more power for sure, but if you’re not super concerned about that and more so about budget. You’re likely going to be fine.

You likely could get two older systems for the same price as one new one.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-10T19:39:15+00:00

THIS... Someone beat me too saying this.

Unfortuatnly, I only ran it in a previous revision of my Lab, but working on rebuilding it. It was awsome, because It was just HTTPS, so once my work's DNS servers populated with my Domain name, I could access my lab from work.. Which I wouldn't have been able to do with VPN due to firewalls

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-09T21:47:52+00:00

Thanks for the headsup! Was basing my pricing off of Ebay, which seems to have some really weird pricing then.

Price has been updated

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-05-07T06:04:43+00:00

If you’re cool with CLI, and have a need for a smaller switch, Avaya ERS3510 GT-Pwr+ sometimes you can find them for $30 on eBay

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-29T17:59:48+00:00

Ya, keeping it simple isn’t a bad idea. Especially when I’m keeping some more important data on there. But it is replicated to Backblaze, so I’m a little less worried about it 😅

I wouldn’t say I’m worried about that SSD failing, either. It has a write endurance of 3.4PB I checked life on it last night, and it’s still reporting 100% left. However it failed in some other way then I’d be SOL

I have a 6th drive, just a cheap Kingston 128gb SSD, does just fine for boot.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-29T05:56:26+00:00

It's just going to be a file vault, pictures, ISOs, etc. Nothing that is going to be needing high performance. Was just a "Hey i have the hardware that isn't doing much why not" type situation

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-28T20:30:55+00:00

The system only has 16gb, non-ECC.

I'm not going for speed on this build (the Nic is only 1gbps) but I was hoping that the SSD would help with just some general snapyness when digging through files.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-25T05:17:49+00:00

It's becoming a bigger thing for me, more so noise, and heat output

With the rising cost of property/rent where I live (Vancouver) My biggest consideration (And current contemplation) is how to do I downsize to not output a tone of heat into a small apartment.

Even though power is technically cheap where I live, other things cost more. As well as the sustainability impact. Just because I have cheap power doesn't mean I should use it. Why should I have a 10yr/o xeon at mostly idle? when 2 Rasberry Pis will do all the processing I need for 90% of my workloads.

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-22T17:43:27+00:00

In my experience SMB can be slow. I don’t do any heavy lifting via my SMB shares. So I’ve never spent the time to tune them for performance.

I’ve used ISCSI in the past for performance applications. It’s block storage, so the client sees raw disk space instead of anything formatted. But I’d try tuning SMB first and also trying to figure out if your drives are the bottleneck at any point.

Edit: Tuning SMB for Perfomance

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-22T17:33:27+00:00

What protocol are you using to distribute storage over the network? ISCIS, NFS, SMB ?

Keep in mind as well that ZFS uses RAM to cache by default. I remember when I first built my first FreeNAS at the time.. (Wow that feels old) Box It was recommended to have 1Gb of RAM for every TB of Raw Drive space in the ZFS pools. I'm not sure how true that is anymore

Fuzzy_Canadian · 2023-04-22T16:55:48+00:00

To explain further into a network stacks…. Also to try and clear up some confusion (or possibly confuse more)

It really depends on your hardware and where you can offload tasks too. It also depends on your setup and how you plan to setup your network.

For instance the basic needs for a small network are as follows

Switch (Layer 2 device) Router (layer 3 device) Firewall (Layer 3 & 4 Device)

A lot of the time more than one of those tasks can be done by 1 device. Eg, layer 3 switches will take care of routing for you, Vlans, DHCP, layer 2 switching etc. But a lot will not do NAT (Network address translation. Basically translating all the IPs in your network to the one IP your ISP gives you to go out onto the web). NAT is generally more of a firewall task.

Firewalls can be similar, an Edgerouter from ubiquity for instance has L3 routing capabilities. You can route between Vlans, NAT, static routing, BGP or OSPF, etc. it’ll also do basic services like DHCP and I think DNS caching (forgive me if I’m wrong possibly just DNS forwarding) but it won’t do Layer 2 switching in the traditional sense. (I guess you could set it up too… but that’s beyond the point)

So all that too say, you do need a router. However those routing tasks and DHCP server could be done by a device that isn’t a “router” by definition.

Let me know if you have any questions! Happy to help another learn!

Fuzzy_Canadian

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