tag: #homelab

The FortiGate 100F arrived this week and slots into the homelab between the Fritz!Box modem and the MikroTik core router, adding real next-generation firewall capability to a routing-strong but inspection-light architecture.

Operating a homelab as an observant Jew raises questions that no modern operations manual addresses. Which jobs can run autonomously through Shabbat. Which alerts may wake me.

Access technology lives in silicon — not software.

Manual carrier eSIM provisioning on MikroTik 5G via LPA decoding.

Scoped forward-auth for homelab services using tinyauth.

A 128 GB microSD started throwing ETIMEDOUT on writes. Instead of binning it, I used f3 to prove it wasn't counterfeit, then dd to force the FTL into remapping its bad blocks. The card has been healthy for two months since. A field-report on diagnosing and reviving flash storage on Linux

Self-hosting SearXNG - architecture, gotchas, and threat-model honesty.

Running endlessh-go as a Docker container on Strato VPS, deployed via Ansible

Running Cisco WLC 2504 and Aironet 3600 access points in a homelab for under 300 CHF

How to run WireGuard through CG-NAT and UDP-blocking networks by wrapping it in WebSocket with wstunnel, using a Raspberry Pi as a permanent LAN gateway and a Strato VPS as the public relay.