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UPS Battery Replacement Guide for a Home Lab
Replace a UPS battery when its runtime has dropped sharply, when it fails a self-test,…
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How to Tell If You’re Behind CGNAT (and Why Port Forwards Fail)
The fastest way to tell if you're behind CGNAT takes about thirty seconds: find the…
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Site-to-Site VPN for a Home Lab
A site-to-site VPN permanently stitches two networks together so machines at each location reach each…
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IPv6 at Home, Demystified: A Practical Setup Guide
An ipv6 home network setup guide only has to answer one thing well: how do…
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APC vs CyberPower UPS for the Home Lab
For a home lab, both APC and CyberPower make pure-sine line-interactive units that will serve…
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UPS and Proxmox Integration Guide
To integrate a UPS with Proxmox, install Network UPS Tools on the host, point it…
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CGNAT & Double NAT: How to Get Your Home Network Reachable
If a port forward you configured perfectly still refuses to open from the outside, the…
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Tuning IDS Rules for Home Networks: From Noise to Signal
Tuning a home IDS means three things: setting HOME_NET so the engine knows your network,…
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NUT Network UPS Tools Setup Guide for a Home Lab
Network UPS Tools (NUT) lets one Linux machine own the USB connection to a UPS…
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Unbound Recursive DNS for a Home Network
Unbound is a recursive DNS resolver: instead of forwarding your queries to Google or Cloudflare,…
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UPS Runtime Calculation for a Home Lab
To estimate UPS runtime for a home lab, start with the battery's energy in watt-hours…
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Installing Suricata on pfSense: A Step-by-Step Setup
To install Suricata on pfSense you add the Suricata package from the System > Package…
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