cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/2392

Figured we’d start this community off with a question about what you’re running in your homelab!

This could be anything from hardware to software to things your running in the cloud (#cloudlab).

Hardware and diagram pics are always welcome!

  • gish
    2·
    1 year ago
    • Protectli microappliance running pfsense with all my VLANS/ DDNS/ IDS and OpenVPN to connect home
    • Some cheap Tp link 1Gbe managed switch (next on the upgrade list)
    • RS1221+ 8 bay NAS with 60TB raw (used to hold media to serve Jellyfin as well as Proxmox VM backups)
    • Intel NUC running proxmox (Home assistant/ Jellyfin/ Pihole/ Whoogle, etc)
    • TP Link EAP 660HD AP (most recent upgrade, and very happy with it, previously had been using OpenWRT/ Luci on a R7800)

    Also hoping to get a server style UPS soon, which reminds me, I have to go check if there’s a homelabsales community here :)

    • Hexorg@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      In case you’re interested - pfsense has a plug-in that works just like pihole called pfblockerng it uses the exact same format as pihole lists too. I was already running DNS on my pfsense to this made more sense than spinning up a separate machine.

      • gish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks! I had tried it, but I end up going back to pihole for the GUI <3

    • bazingabot@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nice setup, regarding protectli with pfsense, how much throughput do you get with intrusion detection set to on… Was wondering about protectli products and their performance. I can only make use of 1/4 of the bandwidth with my current thin client

      • gish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m getting about ~800-900 Mbps down and ~15 up (a bit more than what I pay for). I did notice that when I saturate the sownly speeds, my CPU will max out and I’ll start getting latency spikes to the point where the traffic stops on the network.

        After looking into it and adding a buffer bloat rule/ limiter, I’m not having any issues. I guess that’s the price of running IDS on 7 VLAN interfaces, but it’s getting by. When I go 10Gbe I will definitely pick something a little more capable, but it’s great for 1 Gbe