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Past Year Review (2022)
The end of the year has arrived, and it’s time to look back and sum up all the good and bad things that have happened in the year. It’s a great exercise to review each achievement and to focus on how to get better.
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Server Rack Pet-Project: Cabling
After having configured the firewall, I needed to have one extra cable to plug it to the switch in order to connect my laptop to the network. (Un)fortunately I ran out of spare ethernet cables, so I took advantage of this to learn how to make one.
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Server Rack Pet-Project: Firewall
What server rack project would it be without a firewall?! I got myself another bargain deal with a WatchGuard Firebox XTM25. I should have enough fun with some Stateful Packet Inspection and Threat protection (such as DoS attacks, fragmented & malformed packets, blended threats, and more), and if I manage to reactivate a WatchGuard subscription I…
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Server Rack Pet-Project: NAS
After mounting and finally managing to have a UPS working, I can guarantee that a NAS will “always” be powered on without disrupting the data availability… I started in a very naive way by plugging my HDD into the Pi, then one of the two almost broke and I had to run take shelter and…
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Server Rack Pet-Project: KVM
It happened already a handful of time that the Raspberry Pi are not reachable in the network, so I need to have a proper way to access them directly. The solution would be a KVM switch, a little overkill for my Pis, but I’m looking for something more flexible.
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Server Rack Pet-Project: UPS (Part 2)
After quite a lot of suffering and sweating with my new UPS I managed to finally have it working.
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