Tag: networking

Tinyauth vs Pocket ID vs Authelia compared for home labs: setup cost, forward-auth support, real OIDC, passkeys, 2FA, and when to move up to Authentik.

Used SFP+ gear turns 10GbE from a $5k fantasy into a $200 build. Mellanox NICs, the MikroTik CRS305 switch, DAC cabling, and where the savings stop.

Used enterprise-grade managed switches under $100: Aruba, Brocade, MikroTik picks, VLAN setup, wattage, and gotchas for home lab networks.

A WordPress login bot burned 90% of my Cloudflare Workers free tier in two hours attacking a site that has never run PHP. Here's what actually stopped it.

Four file-sharing protocols compared for home labs: NFS speed, SMB compatibility, SSHFS convenience, WebDAV over HTTP, and which one to pick per use case.

Stop opening port 22 to the world. SSH bastion hosts, ProxyJump chains, session recording, and self-hosted Teleport alternatives that actually work.

Your ISP's box doesn't have to run your network. How to find bridge mode, dodge double NAT, and hand real routing duty over to a MikroTik router instead.

Route only the traffic you want through a SOCKS5 proxy via ssh -D. Browser extensions, curl, git, ProxyChains, autossh, and DNS leak gotchas, no VPN needed.

Route specific Docker containers through Mullvad VPN via Gluetun, keeping Plex and everything else on your home WAN. No iptables nightmares, no tunneling drama.

Protocol mimicry only wins the hiding fight. Learn why relay cascades, domestic hosting, and disposable infrastructure make blocking your traffic expensive.

Meshtastic is a messaging appliance. Reticulum is a whole network stack that happens to run over LoRa. Why comparing the two directly misleads people.

wg-easy gives WireGuard a web UI: create clients, scan QR codes, see traffic stats, no SSH required. Self-hosted VPN made actually easy.