Author Archive for: SaschaITC257

The Fritzbox is the standard for many households: plug it in, enter your login credentials, and the network is up and running. For a simple home network, that’s perfectly fine. But as soon as you want more control over your network, you’ll hit its limits relatively quickly.

I’d been using a Fritzbox 7490 up until now. It served its purpose, but had become noticeably slow and simply didn’t offer enough options for my planned expansion of the home network.

So I made the decision: out with the Fritzbox—the modem and firewall will be separated.

A 10 Gigabit network sounds simple on paper: install a suitable network card, connect an SFP+ module or DAC cable, attach it to the switch, install the driver – done.

In practice, however, the weak point is often not the server, the NAS, or the switch. The real problem can be the Windows client.

In my case, the 10 Gigabit link basically worked. The switch was stable, TrueNAS was able to deliver 10 Gbit/s, and the cabling was not the issue. Still, the Windows side showed instability, system freezes, and uncertainty around the network card being used. In the end, the solution was a different card, targeted cooling, and proper temperature monitoring.

Safe Shutdown for TrueNAS Scale and Proxmox using an APC Back-UPS and NUT Remote Shutdown Many small businesses and homelabs today operate multiple systems at the same time: a TrueNAS Scale storage server, a Proxmox virtualization host and several network devices such as routers or switches. Even a short power outage can cause unclean shutdowns […]

Viele Unternehmen betreiben heute eine Vielzahl an Webdiensten: Cloud-Speicher, Ticket-Systeme, Projekttools, Monitoring oder interne Dashboards. Jeder dieser Dienste verlangt üblicherweise eigene Benutzerkonten und Passwörter. Das führt zu drei klassischen Problemen: Hier kommt ein Konzept ins Spiel, das viele aus großen Plattformen bereits kennen: Single Sign-On (SSO). Eine moderne Lösung für dieses Problem ist Authentik, ein […]