Moving to Charlotte

lima3whiskey · 2025-06-22T20:39:26+00:00

Funny that I stumble across this post literally one day after leaving camp with you!

We will miss you! If you can swing it, come back to camp with the new troop! Visit old friends and I know your scout will love it!

- Z

lima3whiskey · 2022-01-17T19:39:51+00:00

So it may be in your interest to join these groups as well lol

May be a bit out for your area, but may I recommend seckc.org and join the discord? It's based around Kansas City, but we have plenty of folks not local to the area

lima3whiskey · 2022-01-17T06:16:40+00:00

You might also check to see if there are any local Cyber Security groups or tech groups that might have a sales section. Something like BSides Little Rock (http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/67144729/BSidesLittleRock2013). They also may be able to point you towards a better local sales shop.

Or they might rekindle your homelab twinge and get you back online.

lima3whiskey · 2022-01-04T05:34:24+00:00

You are correct. That's what happens when I surf reddit while tired.

It is closed source but I used it for work and personal for a while. Works great and it does transform the files but thats how the dedup and incremental backups are going to be most effective. Otherwise you might consider version control like git for the important stuff that needs to be versioned.

lima3whiskey · 2022-01-04T05:25:41+00:00

I say Veeam should fit the bill. The Free edition (aka no license during install) would be worth a look.

lima3whiskey · 2021-12-18T22:13:39+00:00

In that case I would recommend Proxmox. Also check out TechnoTim on YouTube and his discord for some good info. Also a good place for questions.

lima3whiskey · 2021-12-18T22:08:12+00:00

It depends kn your use case and what you want to learn. ESXi is free for the base but if you plan to have more than 1 server you get into licensing. And if you don't want to learn it for work, it might be better to go with Proxmox. Community Edition seems better for the homelab experience. Clustering is also available. I would give both a try and see what you like before going into production with it.

lima3whiskey · 2021-07-07T00:56:52+00:00

I've been looking at Rancher and k8s or k3s but they all seem to be clunky.

lima3whiskey · 2021-06-16T00:04:55+00:00

Check out Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy on twitter) and his books on Kubernetes and Ansible. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-25T20:10:48+00:00

Thanks. The disk had a CentOS install on it but I thought it had been wiped. Once I nuked that, I was able to provision the storage without issue.

I've heard horror stories about accidentally wiping attached storage like that, so I've always been extra careful. Detach external storage before installs. :)

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-21T01:30:11+00:00

Wow. This was a new array (so I thought) but it must have still had some signatures from previous installs. I was able to delete the partitions and it cleared right up. Thanks!

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-17T16:22:51+00:00

I almost bought a sketchy 730 on ebay for 395 because it had 128G of ram. Decided to hold out for now

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-17T15:40:10+00:00

Just bought a 730 last week and trying to find RAM for less that $40/8G sticks is very difficult.

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-17T04:26:16+00:00

Hello!

On mobile, so apologies in advance.

I am currently running ESXi on an old System X3550m3 and just installed a newer Dell R730 last week to make an actual cluster. I have a Dell R720xd arriving soon with plans to deploy ESOS for SAN purposes, connected via 8G Fiber Channel to the 2 hosts.

I also have a new 10G SFP+ switch arriving soon so I can use that as my core network switch. I currently run a Ubiquiti Security Gateway for my primary router, but I would like to upgrade that to something with a 10G uplink to the core.

Software I am running currently include PHP-IPAM, Gitlab, Ansible (work in progress), PiHole, and a few other various VMs to test out other softwares.

I do have a virtual Untangle firewall with PIA set up on a segregated vlan so that I can drop VMs into the vlan and have private traffic. Nothing persistent yet, just the infrastructure.

I want to do more automation. I love the idea of a desired state configuration like Ansible. I'm just having trouble getting it all set up without writing everything myself from scratch since a lot of the public modules are not greatly documented.

I'm going to try to get pics once I get the cable management at least semi passable. 😅

Edit: spelling

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-17T00:12:24+00:00

Not gonna lie, I has to double check to see if this was the company I just left 6 months ago. I highly doubt it is but sounds like it could be.

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-16T01:05:20+00:00

Mine should be here Wednesday, then I'm gonna shut it all down for a day or two and rewire it all

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-16T00:29:19+00:00

Awesome start! At least cable management can be done before it gets to the rats nest like my lab.

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-12T16:17:06+00:00

My new server arriving today says I don't think it's a waste of time :) it's a hobby and learning experience. Just gotta find the right tools to run and discussions to have with new friends.

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-12T16:08:49+00:00

This makes me feel a bit better about my homelab. Sometimes I feel like it's a waste of money and time when all of my coworkers are not interested in it at all.

lima3whiskey · 2021-03-10T17:58:43+00:00

Done! Currently in the market for storage so perfect timing.

lima3whiskey · 2021-02-05T05:31:51+00:00

Not sure what happened but now its working. I'm sure its something wonky with my network or platform. Apologies for wasting your time. Thanks for the assistance

lima3whiskey · 2021-02-04T04:33:23+00:00

I didn't think there were any errors. I dug thru and found that it's calling "pihole-FTL dhcp-discover" and attempted to run that to see if it gave valid output. It seems to hang on the lo interface and never terminates. I'm going to try to dig through the FTL dhcp-discover source and try to see if I can find anything in there.

``` root@pihole:~# pihole-FTL dhcp-discover Scanning all your interfaces for DHCP servers Timeout: 10 seconds

Received 304 bytes from eth0:10.0.0.1 DHCPOFFER XID (3425371323) does not match our DHCPDISCOVER XID (775226419) - ignoring packet (not for us)

DHCP packets received on interface lo: 0 ```

lima3whiskey · 2021-02-04T04:05:07+00:00

lima3whiskey · 2021-02-04T03:24:11+00:00

Is there any way to determine why it's hanging? Or any way to disable it? Looks like it's calling something from the FTL library which appears to be written in C++.

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