SirLagz

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Share your homelab power usage and energy cost! mine is ~50W and less than $3 USD a month! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

About 300W, ~7kWh a day, costs me about $80 AUD a month.

Looking for a NAS for my homelab in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thunderbolt has nothing to do with an integrated GPU.

Absolute best backup software for Linux/KVM? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Proxmox with Proxmox Backup Server will do most of that if you were willing to move of CentOS Stream and onto Proxmox.

Anyone ever heard of "Memory Bay" RAM? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of them but I've bought a lot of random RAM before. If they use proper RAM chips like micron, Kingston, hynix, Samsung, etc then I wouldn't be too worried.

What do you use to make your network/homelab topology diagram? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Excalidraw's sketchy style can also be done in draw.io for anyone who is torn between the two lol.

Multiport network card in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I've come across a NIC in the last 15 years that hasn't been VLAN capable.

M.2 ssds for raid10 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Micron, and Intel would be the ones I would use if you wanted reliability.

If you can find some Samsung enterprise spec drives then that would be ok too.

RAID 1 noob question in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What 2 drive case with hardware RAID do you have?

Proxmox networking help in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The newest version of Proxmox supports some SDN (Software Defined Networking) so that might be of use to you here.

I haven't played with it yet, so can't help too much, but might be worth a read of the documentation

CIDR address in Twingate in c/[email protected]
What do you use to make your network/homelab topology diagram? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As an alternative to the other suggestions, map out your network in Netbox and let Netbox draw your diagram for you!

Proxmox Cluster Ideas in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Are all nodes dedicated to labbing or do you have some HomeProd services running as well?

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Netbox Drawing Diagrams for me (alien.top)
 

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Netbox Drawing Diagrams

Has anyone else used the Netbox Topology Views to do your network diagrams for you?

I'm testing one of the plugins out as my work is starting to use Netbox to do the diagrams for us rather than us having to manually update diagrams.

Just looking for feedback or if anyone has any tips / gotchas when doing it this way.

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Device working at Homelab A, but not Homelab B (alien.top)
 

So I have a device, it's an IP Camera - yes I'm aware of the security implications and will be making sure it is firewalled off but for now, lets assume there's no restrictions in place for the purposes of troubleshooting.

I plug it in to Homelab A - it works fine, gets an IP address, can view the stream, no issues.

I set a static IP address when at Homelab A to the same range as Homelab B, and I can ping it while located at Homelab A with a device that has the same IP address range as Homelab B

I take it to Homelab B, and plug it in, and it doesn't get an IP address if it's set to DHCP. It has worked once before, but not since then. I've tried the following -

  • Set a Static ip address when it was plugged in at Site A, then taken it to Site B - nada.
  • When the camera was set to DHCP, could see layer 2 traffic from the camera occasionally.
  • Factory reset the IP Camera
  • Factory reset the main switch at Homelab B
  • Tried different cables
  • Tried putting a switch between IP Camera and main switch
  • Tried plugging it straight into the hypervisor server and pinging it from there
  • Tried Setting the switch port to half duplex,100mbit, full duplex, gigabit, all sorts of combinations

The switch at Homelab A is a TP-Link Jetstream 24 port.

The switch at Homelab B is a Cisco SG300

Both homelabs run Proxmox.

Is there anything else I can try to see if I can get this IP Camera working before I throw in the towel?

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This is why I prefer real servers (ibb.co)
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