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10-wancarp – OPNsense CARP Helper

2026-06-092026-06-07 by Eric Schewe

TL;DR – The script can be found here. Was recently on vacation and of course, while out of the country and 2 days into a 7 day trip, the Proxmox node running my OPNsense Firewall failed taking out my home internet connection. Hilariously, setting up CARP had been on my TODO list for a while … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags Firewall, Networking, OPNsense Leave a comment

Cooling a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+in

2026-04-272026-04-26 by Eric Schewe

Going to keep this one short. Purchased a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+in to add a few 10GBe SPF+ ports to my office. Installed the following SFP+ modules in it: When I initially hooked everything up I did some temperature logging and found this little switch runs fairly warm and so do the SFP+ modules: Since I have … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags 3D Printing, MikroTik, Networking Leave a comment

Using Tor Onion Services with Traefik

2025-12-282025-12-28 by Eric Schewe

Before we get started, I just want to state I am new to Docker and Traefik. I suspect how I am doing things is overly complicated and/or “not the right way”. My intention with this blog post is to help walk you through how to setup a Tor Client within a Docker Container, attach it … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags Networking, Privacy, Security Leave a comment

OpenSense and Crowdsec blocking internal IPs

2023-04-22 by Eric Schewe

I’ve been running Crowdsec on my OpenSense VM for a while now and today after a OpenSense upgrade that included an update to the crowdsec agent, it randomly decided to block my internal webserver from accessing the internet. No idea why. Turns out Crowdsec has a allow list module you can install that prevents this … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags Networking, OPNsense, Security 4 Comments

MikroTik CSS326 fan installation

2023-04-012022-08-14 by Eric Schewe

It was time to upgrade my networking equipment in my homelab. I needed two 24p 1GB switches with 10GB uplinks to facilitate moving my homelab into my crawl space and out of my office. As things are configured right now I’d easily saturate a 1GB uplink between the switches and since I don’t have any … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags 3D Printing, Hardware, MikroTik, Networking, Tinker 9 Comments
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