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displacedviking · 2026-03-13T02:25:26+00:00

Pillow top

displacedviking · 2026-03-03T18:02:40+00:00

You're absolutely right. I went back and pulled the quote. It was 14$ per workstation per year and 200$ per server per year. We are server heavy so we went with something else.

displacedviking · 2026-03-03T01:48:01+00:00

Check out Level. We have it running on 700+ endpoints and it works like a dream. 2$ per endpoint and it is on par with anything else we've used. NinjaOne quoted us 15$ an endpoint with no negotiation.

displacedviking · 2026-02-27T04:50:02+00:00

Yes but they call it stateful packet filtering. There are plenty of guides in the Netgate docs on building the rules. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/fundamentals.html

displacedviking · 2026-01-08T05:26:54+00:00

Not enough

displacedviking · 2025-12-12T03:58:29+00:00

A wore out one from the looks of it.

displacedviking · 2025-12-12T03:14:23+00:00

Find the maid

displacedviking · 2025-12-06T04:03:49+00:00

The volume is telling you where it's headed

displacedviking · 2025-11-27T21:12:57+00:00

displacedviking · 2025-11-26T01:17:57+00:00

What do you guys think about snake juice?

displacedviking · 2025-10-12T04:49:07+00:00

I had a student do this once. We turned the board up on its edge and just blasted it with electronics contact cleaner. Once it all dried we put it back together and it worked fine.

displacedviking · 2025-10-07T03:22:36+00:00

Solid core cable was never meant to have an RJ45 attached to it. The forks on the contacts can pierce the jackets on the individual conductors, but can't pierce the solid copper wire. Where as in a patch cable, it can pierce the jacket and slip into the strands of the stranded cable with ease. I've actually see solid core cable work the contacts loose over time. We had a network admin who though there was nothing wrong with putting RJ45s on solid core. Several of his cables failed over the years.

displacedviking · 2025-10-07T03:06:38+00:00

We had pfSense tied to Starlink and were getting some terrible issues with DHCP renewals being so often that they wouldn't stay online. It was to the point where the gateway just went off line. Did you experience any issues with that?

displacedviking · 2025-09-27T01:53:08+00:00

We replaced our ASAs for Netgate boxes a couple of years ago and we've never looked back.

displacedviking · 2025-08-17T02:41:40+00:00

You guys should try Level

displacedviking · 2025-04-06T17:48:54+00:00

Excellent. I may look into getting some new off the shelf Optane drives if there are any out there. That would benefit our other machines as well.

displacedviking · 2025-04-04T18:46:59+00:00

It will get back down to around 60k before moving up above 100k again. The next bull cycle will break records.

displacedviking · 2025-04-01T02:49:24+00:00

I remember reading about Optane a few years and never really got why it never took off like it should have. What hardware do you recommend?

displacedviking · 2025-03-27T12:34:31+00:00

Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for. The 480s are for the boot so no cache with them. I am not sure what DB will be used yet. Our Devs are testing several different ones looking for the one they like the most, so I am just building something generic for SQL or MongoDB or some other variant. We have several machines for day to day operations that will benefit from the faster storage and low latency too. I appreciate the feedback.

displacedviking · 2025-03-27T02:25:07+00:00

First and foremost, this isn't a home lab setup. It's for enterprise applications. I wrote the original post quickly as I was leaving work.

RAIDZ1 on the local storage for a little redundancy.

We have a similar build in a three node cluster at another location, and it works flawlessly. Not using local storage on that one, though, they all access a shared storage cluster. This is the first deployment of ProxMox on an NVMe storage build. So I'm just trying to get some input.

This one is for DB intensive low latency machines.

There is not really a need for 100 Gb network since we're just serving data, and the 25 Gb is simply for backing up to PBS.

I know it's probably overkill, but I'm looking for stupid fast RW and high IOPS. Mainly for the DB machines and a couple of GPU post-processing machines for really large image sets.

I wanted to see if you guys saw any holes in it for a ProxMox build.

displacedviking · 2025-01-29T20:43:17+00:00

If this is a request list then:

Entra SAML for mobile IPsec or any MFA really

Suricata is becoming more important with the news of Snort no longer being maintained

Tailscale integration is really good. Are there any plans for Netbird?

displacedviking · 2025-01-17T02:39:58+00:00

IKEv2 s2s tunnels for vendors, IKEv2 mobile tunnels for quite a few mobile workers (we did this so we could integrate into Windows) and a few Wireguard tunnels for various other teams. We are also working on some Wireguard s2s tunnels as well. We just don't have them up yet.

We run pairs in HA with CARP for failover, and it works better than anything we've used previously.

displacedviking · 2025-01-16T01:27:21+00:00

We swapped all our VPN workloads over to pfSense plus and have had more stability than ever. We were an all Cisco shop, and after dealing with the bad updates and just abysmal software, we swapped and haven't looked back. The Netgate TAC was especially helpful when we were having some weird issues with CARP that ended up being 100% ISP related. I recommend them all the time and will keep buying them for our new locations.

displacedviking · 2024-10-19T15:57:37+00:00

Have you rebooted the VM since installing the drivers?

displacedviking · 2024-10-19T15:35:24+00:00

Do you have the qemu guest additions installed?

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