network
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Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2022 with Azure Network Adapter
It has been quite some time since I have written about the Azure Network Adapter. This is a feature that is exposed in Windows Admin Center managed server of Windows Server 2012 R2 and higher, now including Windows Server 2022.…
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Networking
Weatherproof PoE Switch Enclosure for Cameras
I have been working over the past few months at building out my outdoor security camera network. I have gone with a combination of Ubiquiti cameras which I will detail. However, in a couple of mount locations outdoors, I needed…
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Networking
GestioIP vs phpIPAM Comparing IP Address Management IPAM Solutions
I have been looking at various IPAM solutions in the home lab over the last few months and especially looking at open source offerings. I had settled on GestioIP a few months back with managing the home lab network and…
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NSX
Secure Home Lab DMZ network with VMware NSX firewall
With the recent announcement from VMUG that Advantage subscribers now have access to VMware NSX, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the VMware home lab environments out there. VMware NSX has a ton of network security benefits that…
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Networking
What happens Same IP Range different subnet mask
I had this question posed to me the other day and it is one of those curiosity questions that you may have asked before or perhaps had a situation that presented itself that gave cause to thinking about this question.…
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VMware
ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…
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Virtualization
Overlapping Subnets Lab Environment
A while back I wrote up a post about creating an isolated test environment using the same ips and subnets with VMware. This post was written from a layer 2 perspective with users who needed access gaining access to that…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to take control of the networking components of your Windows 10…
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Networking
Sophos UTM allow Internet access additional vlans
Sophos UTM has plenty of features to protect your network, home network, or lab. Most likely if you are like me you are running multiple VLANs in your environment. If you want these VLANs/subnets to also have Internet access, there…
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Security
How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM
There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM. While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such as Untangle, it is still very easy to figure out.…
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