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Along the way my ISP's router #DNS cache and #DHCP server helped to frustrate me at every turn 😅 it's why I tacked on the side-project of installing #PiHole, though not quite ready to cut over to that as DHCP server yet.

At the very least my three main network machines now have easy to remember static IPs so when all else fails I don't have to open the awful router web interface to find my stuff.

Overall though I'd call this experience a success. No data was lost and I learned a lot 😁

Jack C.

@GandalfDG@indieweb.social · last week

Well it took a whole long weekend of troubleshooting and rebuilding, but once again my #homelab is running smoothly. There were a few factors that combined to degrade things to a point where I just needed to examine my whole network and what was running on my machines.

The root turned out to be a network bridge configured with #systemd-networkd not playing nicely with docker being installed to run a big compilation job.

Once #docker screwed with the network config things spiralled from there.

A diagram of my network infrastructure. This includes two physical machines on my home network, and my off-site backup box connected via tailscale.

This diagram was made using FossFlow which is a really nice piece of software that makes pretty isometric diagrams — A diagram of my network infrastructure. This includes two physical machines on my home network, and my off-site backup box connected via tailscale. This diagram was made using FossFlow which is a really nice piece of software that makes pretty isometric diagrams

Jack C.

@GandalfDG@indieweb.social · last week

At the very least my three main network machines now have easy to remember static IPs so when all else fails I don't have to open the awful router web interface to find my stuff.

Overall though I'd call this experience a success. No data was lost and I learned a lot 😁

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) boosted

Ronald Klop

@ronnie_bonkers@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

My #FreeBSD jail needed a second interface in the storage #VLAN.
I like to use #DHCP for central configuration, but this extra interface should not set the hostname, routing, etc.

Ended up adding a kind of dummy entry to the dhclient.conf which only gets the IP address AFAIS.

interface "epair13b" {
send host-name "myhost-vlan1";
request subnet-mask;
}

✅ 💪

Tips for a better way to do this?

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

https://www.isc.org/kea/

#HackerNews #Kea #DHCP #open #source #DHCPv4 #DHCPv6 #server #ISC

Ronald Klop

@ronnie_bonkers@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

My #FreeBSD jail needed a second interface in the storage #VLAN.
I like to use #DHCP for central configuration, but this extra interface should not set the hostname, routing, etc.

Ended up adding a kind of dummy entry to the dhclient.conf which only gets the IP address AFAIS.

interface "epair13b" {
send host-name "myhost-vlan1";
request subnet-mask;
}

✅ 💪

Tips for a better way to do this?

Hannes

@hannes@social.coop · 6 months ago

I've a question about #dhcp... so if I have a server/data center setup, and a virtual machine has both a management and a public/service interface. Are there any DHCP options I could use (on the management, where DHCP is spoken) to configure IP on the public/service interface? I don't see any advantage of running a DHCP server on the public/service network... anybody has ideas/experience with that (I just went through the list of DHCP options,and of course I can use some reserved option)...