Category Archives: Technical

WPA2 Enterprise

Posted on September 29, 2025 by larry

I dropped off my son to his dorm last night, at the same time I deployed a small server stack for his use. One of the challenges in the past was getting connected to wifi. The Wifi used WPA2 enterprise. … Continue reading →

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Wireguard Believer

Posted on September 28, 2025 by larry

Wow, that was easy, no certs to track too. The only thing is if a key gets compromised you dont know when it expires. I am going to start moving all my stuff to wireguard now. Kind of chill day, … Continue reading →

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Organizing Stuff

Posted on September 27, 2025 by larry

Moving some systems around to get a bit organized on the network front. I moved my first server from a think client to a mini PC, running some tests but it feels like a non event. Going from ESXi VM … Continue reading →

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Trying Out OpnSense Firewall

Posted on September 24, 2025 by larry

We will see how it goes, still configuring, a lot of new today. Another change happening really soon is moving to wireguard, already implemented tailscale. Finally, got new glasses, still in the container, I tried on my spares from 2023 … Continue reading →

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End Of Summer 2025

Posted on September 21, 2025 by larry

Technically still summer, tomorrow will be last day, but we are going to go to the Washington State Fair. I got the tickets at least. Going to go with a mission, because it will be late and we don’t have … Continue reading →

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Production VMs on KVM

Posted on September 20, 2025 by larry

Pretty big accomplishment, the first was a simple DNS server, then was a little bit harder with the main LDAP server. But the tough one, which I knew was going to be it was the Unifi Network Application server. I … Continue reading →

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Playing With QEMU KVM

Posted on September 18, 2025 by larry

Now that I got 1 QEMU server going, planning on getting more. Probably another production one and a development one. It is cool, I got a pair of Linux templates on my QEMU server now and am ready to move … Continue reading →

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First Production KVM Host

Posted on September 17, 2025 by larry

Got my first production KVM host built, this is based on a Lenovo M910Q, has a quality NVME storage for VMs and a cheaper 256GB SSD for the OS. There is a USB Ethernet for management while the onboard one … Continue reading →

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Vlans on QEMU-KVM

Posted on September 16, 2025 by larry

Cool. I figured out how to configure my KVM host to use a trunked VLAN for multiple subnet access. I can now land a VM on any subnet. Still reviewing if my process is right but here is a script. … Continue reading →

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ESXi to KVM

Posted on September 15, 2025 by larry

Taking the first steps in getting VMs on to a Rocky 9 box in production. This will lead to my migration off of ESXi. Doesn’t look like it will be an easy or quick journey, trying to figure out how … Continue reading →

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