I recently have started renting out some collocation space at a local datacentre, to run my external services, renting hardware from OVH is great, but I could never quite get the specification I wanted for the right price. I purchased…
Lenovo M920Q CPU Upgrade (i9-9900T)
I recently brought a Lenovo M920Q Tiny Desktop (1Litre PC) to use as a Proxmox VE host to replace the Chromebox 3. I got it used from eBay with 8GB of ram and 8600T i5 processor, for £150 in good…
OPNsense CheckMK Agent
I’ve recently moved to CheckMK Host/Service monitoring from LibreNMS, as it gives me better control over service check intervals, alerts and better integrations via the CheckMK agent the graphing is also better in my opinion. So far I’ve really liked…
PIA OPNsense WireGuard Dedicated IP Support
Back in March I had a request come in to my PIA WireGuard script for OPNsense to add support for dedicated ip feature of PIA. I’ve been waiting and waiting for PIA to release a manual connection script for this…
A Chromebox running Proxmox, Whaa???
So recently I had a Chromebox 3 (ASUS Chromebox 3, Core i7-8550U) given to me by a friend since they didn’t want it anymore and I learnt you could flash custom firmware on to allow you to run nearly any…
Scrutiny on OPNsense (S.M.A.R.T Monitoring)
I’ve been using Scrutiny by AnalogJ since the start of January to report S.M.A.R.T data of my HDDs and SSDs. The purpose of this is to alert me when the SMART status of a drive fails via an email. Other…
Two weeks with wireguard-kmod (OPNsense)
So I’ve been using the kernel implementation of WireGuard for nearly 2 weeks now, and so far its been rock solid. I haven’t seen any issues in my environments, which is 4 OPNsense devices in a mesh S2S design using…
Hello wireguard-kmod on OPNsense!
Update: Starting from OPNsense 23.1 wireguard-kmod is now installed by default instead of the go implementation. Yesterday (30th March 2021) OPNsense released their latest version of OPNsense 21.1.4, its just a minor update with few package updates and security fixes.…
Connecting to PIA using WireGuard on OPNsense
So I’ve been using PIA (Private Internet Access) as my VPN provider since 2014, over the years you could say they’ve had a bit of a bumpy road but nothing has come to light showing them giving out any logs/details…
The fun of remote working and VPN
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK and the country went in to lockdown back in March 2020, causing most people to have to work from home, the reliance on remote access VPNs become a crucial part of being able…