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Oct 18, 2015
Warning: This post was written 3205 days ago, and may contain incorrect information, outdated opinions, and incorrect language due to my age at the time. Opinions in this post are not representative of who I am as a person today.
Driven by some techie mental disability and the thirst to understand more i’ve slowly expanded out my home network into a “homelab”. A few months ago I picked up a cheap HP ProCurve 2824 from eBay, its a great gigabit switch with Layer 2 and basic Layer 3 capabilities, after a quick retrofit of the fans with some nice quiet Sunon Maglevs its been ticking over nicely as the core switch of my network.
In addition to the new switch I “acquired” Jo’s PC to use as a VM host, with some extra network cards and a bit more memory its now serving as a multifunction machine; pfSense, various lab VMs, and monitoring systems.
From time to time i’ll be posting about my latest experiments, what i’m learning, and how its now presenting a even larger drain on the electricity than it was previously.