Enabling IPv6 Broke Functionality to My IP Security Cameras
After the long journey of learning more about IPv6 and how to enable it on my home network (see my page for detailed info), I discovered that I broke …
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Network-Wide DNS Blocking of Advertising, Telemetry, and Malicious Domains
In my home network I wanted to set up a dedicated Pi-hole installation so that I could have network-wide ad blocking. Additionally, I could reduce the …
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Advantage of Using Single Purpose Network Devices
It is not uncommon for many home networks to utilize an all-in-one network device provided by the users' Internet Service Provider (ISP). For ease of …
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How to Configure VLANs in OPNsense
For the uninitiated, VLANs are Virtual Local Area Networks. Think of them as logically separate networks that are similar in concept to physically …
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Router on a Stick
A “router on a stick” (aka “one-armed router”) is a network configuration in which a single network switch is connected to a …
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