Posts tagged "networking"
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Portable Arch Linux: Surviving BIOS Updates — What Breaks and How to Fix It
A practical guide to fixing the three things that consistently break after a BIOS update on a dual-boot Arch Linux + Windows 11 setup: Ethernet ID changes, Windows stealing the EFI boot order, and Secure Boot key loss.
UniFi Inter-VLAN Routing: Bypassing the Dream Machine Bottleneck
How to configure L3 inter-VLAN routing on a USW Pro Max 16 PoE switch so that PC-to-NAS traffic never hits the Dream Machine's 1Gbps backplane — unlocking the full 2.5Gbps path between devices on the same switch.
Fixing NAT After Inter-VLAN Routing: OS-Level VLAN Tagging on Windows with Hyper-V
When UniFi inter-VLAN routing breaks port forwarding and makes gaming NAT go Strict, the fix is OS-level VLAN tagging — keeping NAS traffic on a tagged path while internet and gaming traffic flows through the Dream Machine as normal.
Automating Cloudflare DNS Updates from a Kubernetes CronJob
When my ISP started rotating my residential IP weekly, I stopped updating Cloudflare manually and built a Kubernetes CronJob that does it automatically every 15 minutes.
Running Pi-hole on Kubernetes with Helm and MetalLB
How to deploy Pi-hole as a Helm chart on K3s, assign it a stable IP via MetalLB, and use it for ad blocking and internal DNS resolution across your homelab.
Setting Up MetalLB on K3s
How to install MetalLB on a bare-metal K3s cluster to get real LoadBalancer services without relying on a cloud provider.