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Package Caching on SmartOS

Package Caching on SmartOS

If you use package management software commonly across two or more systems, network package caching may be of benefit to you. In this article, we will setup a package caching solution to service multiple package management systems simultaneously. Methodology While caching packages locally in the file system is already common

2022 Home Router Refresh

2022 Home Router Refresh

With the new hardware up and running, it's time to redeploy new zones. We're going to start with the router zone, and as it's almost 2022, I'm going to call this article my 2022 Home Router Refresh. This article will overview rebuilding my zone based SmartOS router, and draw from

Homelab Updates Part 2

Homelab Updates Part 2

This is a continuation of the previous article on hardware updates [https://blog.brianewell.com/homelab-hardware-updates/] to my homelab, focusing on the configuration of the major hardware components discussed. No need for much of a preamble here, lets get into it. Network Configuration There are a bunch of advanced features

Tunnels on SmartOS

Tunnels on SmartOS

We've all been there: You're managing two private network segments that need to have quick, secure communication between them but are separated by a few hundredths of a second of the wild and open Internet. What to do... This is a brief guide on setting up a secure IPsec encrypted

Hurricane Electric on SmartOS

Hurricane Electric on SmartOS

Hurricane Electric [https://he.net] (HE) is a global Internet Service Provider that offers free IPv6 connectivity from most of its points of presence through IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels. This is a short guide on setting up simple IPv6 connectivity for a SmartOS Zone (or specifically, for a Zone configured as a

Home Router on SmartOS

Home Router on SmartOS

A SmartOS zone can serve quite nicely as a NATing router for a home network. It works incredibly well on the HP N54L Microserver [https://blog.brianewell.com/2013/06/18/hp-n54l-microserver/] in concert with other VMs. Note: This guide has been heavily influenced by the SmartOS wiki article on