Matt Hylosium

A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

Hyper-converged High Available Homelab with Proxmox

This is me documenting my journey moving my Homelab from a Qnap NAS and a Single host Proxmox server to a Hyper-converged multi-node Proxmox Cluster.

The reason to document it here is twofold:

Information often it scattered 'all over the place', but never 100% applicable to the setup I have.
To remember 'what the fuck' did I do some months ago.
Writing it for 'a public' forces me to think it all through again and make sure it's correct.

It's written 'first to scratch my own itch' but hopefully it benefits others too, or even better, that others improve upon my implementations. Feel free to comment or share improvements and insights!

Install TrueNAS SCALE on a partition instead of the full disk

The TrueNAS installer doesn't have a way to use anything less than the full device. This is usually a waste of resources when installing to a modern NVMe which is usually several hundred of GB. TrueNAS SCALE will use only a few GB for its system files so installing to a 16GB partition would be helpful.

The easiest way to solve this is to modify the installer script before starting the installation process.

Enable Nextcloud SAML Login using AzureAD

Create an Enterprise App for Nextcloud

Open the Azure admin portal - https://portal.azure.com
Open Azure Active Directory > Enterprise applications
Click the + New application link at the top
Search for "Azure AD SAML Toolkit" in the gallery
Click on "Azure AD SAML Toolkit"
Enter "Nextcloud" in the Name and click the Add button

Sometimes it is useful to route traffic through a different machine for testing or development. At work, we have a VPN to a remote facility that we haven't bothered to fix for routing, so the only way to access a certain machine over that VPN is via an SSH tunnel to a machine that is reachable over the VPN. Other times, I have used this technique to test internet-facing requests against sites I am developing. It is pretty easy, and if you don't use firefox regularly, you can treat Firefox as your "Proxy" browser and other browsers can use a normal configuration (Although you can also configure an entire system to use the proxy, other articles exists that discuss this potential).

Open a terminal

	{
	"info": {
	"_postman_id": "7f9a258e-feee-40a7-827f-760caa441e43",
	"name": "Cognitive Search API Reusable",
	"schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.1.0/collection.json",
	"_exporter_id": "641744"
	},
	"item": [
	{
	"name": "Create SharePoint Data Source",

	---
	version: '3'
	services:
	checkmk:
	image: checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.0.0-latest
	ports:
	- "162:162/udp"
	- "514:514/udp"
	- "514:514/tcp"
	- "6557:6557/tcp"