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Set up centralized SSH …

Intro I was tired of entering my password every time I SSH’d to my VMs, but setting up SSH keys would mean manually copying my public key to each host I wanted to connect to. I then read about one key feature of FreeIPA, which is serving as a centralized key repository. This posed another …

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Install the scrutiny …

Intro I set up scrutiny to monitor the drives in my Proxmox host. I like having access to all the SMART data in my drives in one single spot, so I decided to include my NAS’ drives as well. This is how I did it. Pre-requisites Scrutiny depends on smartctl v7+ which, unfortunately, my NAS did …

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Set up scheduled SMART …

Intro My Synology NAS sends weekly (quick tests) and monthly (extended tests) health reports of its hard drives to my email. I wanted to add this functionality to my Proxmox server to keep an eye on my drives. After some trial and error, I successfully achieved this functionality. Now, I receive …

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Automatically renew WAN …

Intro Every now and again I would wake up to my internet being down while my local network being fine. This usually happened when my ISP renewed my assigned IP overnight. The only solution was to reboot my pfSense VM to force the IP lease renewal. Searching the web I discovered it was not uncommon …

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Set up multiple domains …

Intro I recently acquired a second domain for one of my projects and wanted to set this up behind the HAProxy instance in my firewall. The problem was that I was already serving my primary domain with it, so I was looking to serve my secondary one as well. It was not as straightforward as I thought …

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Enabling SR-IOV for an …

Intro In the quest to get more performance out of my inter-vm communication, I stumbled upon SR-IOV and virtual functions. I then purchased a 10gbe X540-T2 from a Chinese seller on eBay making sure to get one with a fan, as reports of this specific card say it runs quite hot. After setting …