When I first moved to my current house near Raleigh, NC, I was stuck without fiber internet, gbit down 35mbit up was the max spectrum would give me. To their credit, it was a good service, but with my homelab I craved more! Thankfully, within the last year ive gotten not one, but 2 fiber
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When I first moved to my current house near Raleigh, NC, I was stuck without fiber internet, gbit down 35mbit up was the max spectrum would give me. To their credit, it was a good service, but with my homelab I craved more! Thankfully, within the last year ive gotten not one, but 2 fiber
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I recently went on a crusade to find the best bang for the buck AI GPU cluster. Ive been using some GPU’s for a bit, but I found myself needing more. Unfortunately, since starting the self hosted AI journey, the prices for used GPUs have only gone up! Thankfully there are creative solutions now for
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This guide assumes that you have setup Gateway groups with the appropriate tiers as well as DDNS setup. For my setup, I have 3 tiers (Fiber, coaxial, and LTE through a VPN to a VPS provider) and I use Cloudflare as my DDNS provider. Both are needed for this to work properly. In order this
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What is ReBAR and Why Do I Want It Resizable BAR is a PCIe setting that allows the device (in this case GPU) to negotiate Base Address Register size (in this case access the whole frame buffer at once rather than in 256MB chunks). Some games make better use of this than others, and older
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This is a PSA for any pfatt users out there. PFsense 2.7 removed the functionality needed to get netgraph working. I compiled my own modules from the source and it was not enough. Upgrade to PFsense Plus and use its module to bypass or migrate OPNsense. Good luck with your decision! Maybe someone better can
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Given LastPass has once more been compromised, and this time it has been confirmed that password vaults have been accessed by the attacker, now is a very good time to transition away from it. Personally I feel that Bitwarden is a very strong option for a password manager to transition to. It is open source,
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Create /etc/systemd/system/step-ca.service Fill it with this, make sure your directories are correct in the ExecStart line: [Unit] Description=step-ca After=syslog.target network.target [Service] User=step Group=step ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/bin/step-ca /home/step/.step/config/ca.json --password-file=/home/step/.step/pwd >> /var/log/step-ca/output.log 2>&1' Type=simple Restart=on-failure RestartSec=10 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Next, populate the pwd file with the plaintext intermediate CA password. I put mine in /home/step/.step/pwd Next, configure the
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Step-CA is a decent CA management program but it has one issue, its annoying to set the algorithm on the CA and intermediate CA. So I spent the day figuring it out. Here are the results. Choosing the Right Key Type There are 3 supported key types : EC (elliptic curve), OKP (octet for “Ed25519”
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#edit /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf Find [ ca ] and make sure this matches: #################################################################### [ ca ] default_ca = CA_default #default ca section #################################################################### [ CA_default ] dir = /etc/ssl # Where everything is kept certs = $dir/certs # Where the issued certs are kept crl_dir = $dir/crl # Where the issued crl are kept database =
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