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Easy to follow Small Secure (dual-stack) Network Firewall

Version 0.16 (?) - work in progress To add: add more IPv6 rules to improve IPv6 network compatibility, like ICMPv6 Router Solicitation / Advertisement, Neighbor Solicitation / Advertisement, FQDN query / reply, Multicast listener, Node information Request / Reply, Who Are You Request / Reply screenshots from the firewall rules tab as examples (af…

[not Devember] Easy to follow Roadwarrior multi-client single VPN setup

About the title

I wanted to poke a little friendly fun at Devember participants. Your projects are appreciated, but I can’t control myself, because I’m a rabid animal, and I have to [bring attention to what a good person I am] (I spent a few hours trying to find the internet slag for this and I am frustrated because I still can’t find it, for the lo…

Easy to follow Beginner Guide on s6 Starter Pack

The goal of this user guide is to get people started with the bare basics of s6, without the use of suite66 (Eric Vidal / 66 · GitLab). This is not a systemd bashing thread. We can make a separate thread for init wars and service supervision wars, but this thread is not for that. Here we just discuss s6 and how to use it.

Mindless ramble about s6,…

Easy to follow Samba autofs mount

This will be a short one. I wanted a link to point to whenever someone needs help with mounting a Samba share. I have previously mentioned this how-to here: If you just want a run once and basically forget script, go down to tl;dr. Prerequisites: a Linux terminal and sudo / doas permissions a Samba file share and its credentials to have autof…

Easy-to-follow disk backup and restore solution

This guide is intended to show an alternative to Clonezilla. Clonezilla is fine and all, but I prefer rolling my own solution using dd, because I like to put my data in jeopardy. /s This solution is more intended to show people how to send data over ssh in situations where you can’t easily attach a disk to your box, and it works well as an offline…

Void Linux update check (swaybar or desktop notifications)

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Being an infallible human (hello fellow hoomans), I sometimes forget to update my system. I do tend to believe that due to using minimalist software, I’m at less risk to vulnerabilities, and many malware being made for x86 makes me even slightly less vulnerable, due to using an ARM platform. Still, I want to at least have a way to check for update…

Void Linux util to check services and programs that have been updated and need to be restarted to run the latest version.

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For people who follow me for Void tips and tricks, I knew of xcheckrestart utility from the xtools package for a long time, but always forgot to use it. Here’s the deal. Void doesn’t automatically restart services or programs once you update them via the package manager, Void allows you to update, then schedule a restart at any point you want. Thi…

iSCSI target on FreeBSD and iSCSI initiator on Void.

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I just finished setting up iSCSI targets in FreeBSD and iSCSI initiator in linux, using authentication. It’s not difficult at all, I’m actually surprised how easy it was. Why didn’t I use this before? FreeBSD part zfs create -V 8G tank/test-target echo ctld_enable=\"YES\" >> /etc/rc.conf edit /etc/ctl.conf auth-group ag0 { chap user1 password…

Some insight on large production ZFS configs.

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I was working at IX systems (primary developers of FreeNAS) a few years ago, and they liked to have at least 2 extra data drives in any given commercial data set. Where raidz2 was not cutting it, ie people using a large raid array instead of an SSD for a database or to back the boot drives of VMs, they would have pools of mirrors. ZFS does mirror …

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By the way when making a stripe of mirrors, you can start with dual drive mirrors, then add drives to existing mirrors if your need for read speed increases, or add more mirrored vdevs as you need more space. The reason for a 3 drive mirror per vdev is that so that the pool remains online and high performance even as drives fail, get swapped out, a…

RockPro64 NAS fully-decked build guide.

Journey into SBCs (ThatGuyB in ARMland)

Long awaiting, here’s is a smol build guide to Pine64 official RockPro64 case. Pine64 does not recommend you run all 4 slots, HDD and SSD with their included power cable. So I had to make my own. Behold this monstrosity: 2 buck converters on top of each other. Pink or yellow cables is 12v output, red or bare is 5v. Both have a 19v 7A input. [IM…