Networking
VLAN Setup In My Home Network
What VLANs are, why I use them at home, how my segments are arranged, and the checks that keep it reliable.
Blog
Insights & Thoughts
Insights on technology, leadership, productivity, and personal growth in the tech industry.
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Networking
Auditing static DHCP leases in RouterOS: ten mismatches and four missing devices
What happens when your DHCP config drifts from your network state file. How I found fourteen lease issues in RouterOS and fixed them with Ansible and a device-by-device review.
Networking
Why my MoCA adapters never showed up in DHCP
Four MoCA adapters stuck at 'waiting' in RouterOS DHCP - an investigation into Layer 2 bridges and why static leases can work exactly as designed, just not how you expected.
Infrastructure
Moving Proxmox VM disks between storage pools
How to use qm move-disk to migrate VM disks from LVM-thin to ZFS while the VM stays running, plus two gotchas that break things after the move.
Infrastructure
Migrating Home Assistant from Raspberry Pi to Proxmox
How I moved Home Assistant off a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4 and onto a Proxmox VM, covering Zigbee USB passthrough, backup restore, ZFS storage migration, and a DHCP lease time gotcha that caused WebSocket disconnects.
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