Boot memtest

Leave it to do it’s thing overnight. That will at least check for badly failing RAM.

I’ve run this on machines that I thought were ok, only to find… they weren’t.

That was all resolved.

I held off switching until very recently, but reading the githubs, etc. it’s all settled down now.

From memory it was just a bit of a nieve handover (ie “hidden” in the background, not out in public)

If I understood correctly, for your usecase (not OPs), take a look at syncthing.

With… or without their knowledge? 😉

But yeah, there’s so many wifis around me, I could probably load balance across them all…

Wow.

Ok, that sounds like that has evolved over some time!

Yeah, I think the firewall has a hardware issue… it reboots, starts stops fine under normal conditions, but, just sometimes a weird glitch throws it off.

Good point about VRRP, I’ll look into that some more as I think that’s the open, non-Cisco one.

That (2 FWs) was what I was considering initially.

But, looking at some other posts, I’m starting to rethink my design as I only have 1 WAN connection, then I only need 1 FW (maybe). SIM would be rarely used, I’m not sure the overall cost would be worth it

So separating FW from DHCP & DNS might be a better solution.

Not heard of BeeGFS, had a quick look on the Arch wiki… looks quite involved…

But, ok, at least I know that the DHCP part can be dealt with - thanks.

I’ve not looked at Proxmox clusters - can they restart VMs on a different host if they’re all using the same shared storage?

Ah… I was reading this thinking “ah, I’ll have to reply about the battery…”… glad you’re limiting the charging…

But an interesting point… I have a spare OLD Dell laptop kicking around which has various issues, but might be able to do what you’re doing. Thanks

Yep, all good with DHCP vs DNS… just my grammer was terrible.

Nothing was getting an IP from the DHCP, when the wifi returned…and… DNS was also not working for the few devices that still had an IP.

Sry bout the confusion there.

Good points there.

For 1. The ISP router is a Fritz one set to bridge mode running over a PoE adapter from the same UPS the firewall is using. It stayed up all the time (looking back at the logs)

2. Not sure what happened here, but the firewall is the DNS resolver and when everything else powered back up, nothing got an IP address. Now, whether thw service failed or the WAPs took longer to start than the devices could wait, I’m not sure, but as Scotty said: it’s dead Jim.

3. Good point. I don’t need it ALL to be redundant.

4. Also good. The UPS is directly connected to the firewall (which has NUT in), but it doesn’t inform anything else… I’ll look into that too.

Nice mental reset for me about over thinking it… thanks

Well, in my case the most crucial single point is the firewall.

The rest isn’t too bad

Nice.

Running different SSIDs too?

I put all my IoT stuff on a dedicated 2.4-only network, VLANd it to the (pfsense) firewall which allows the VLAN trunk to be split into separate logical NICs that I apply different policies to, like no access to the internet, etc…

Ah, it was full health & safety… large stainless steel vat containing hot molten chocolate, rotating stirring paddle, steps (unsecured) up to an open inspection hatch… but they wore hair nets…

And, I think they had that policy where all the staff could take as much chocolate as they wanted… so of course, all got sick & tired of that and never took any more.

Put the chocolate in the fridge, that makes it easier to snap the larger bits in half 😉

Several years ago my daughter’s school had a trip to a (small, local) chocolate factory.

For part of the trip the children queued up to dip a marshmallow into a vat of chocolate to taste it.

My daughter was one of the first in the queue, ate hers and went to the back of the queue for a second one… I was so proud 😁

👆🏻 This is the link everyone needs to look at.

It covers things like keeping your phone active for 2FA, subscriptions that need to be paid until data is saved, etc.

It’s what my SO & I use.

Very thorough

Yep, I’m using a Pi3 for my DMZ services… Radicale barely registers on the CPU

This is the way 👆🏻