Hosted at one of the small-ish cloud providers I have a small VM that I recently resized. Along with a small bump in RAM (for the same price), I was able to secure a bit more storage space. Win-win, right?

I have an OpenBSD RAID volume on the server. Built within this RAID volume is a softraid crypto virtual disk. I decided to resize this crypto volume, so I've booted the server up with the ramdisk kernel. First, I resized the physical volume's layout, so a quick "fdisk...

Windows has this nasty habit of spamming a dhcp server with DHCPINFORM messages unless the dhcp server provides a proxy auto-configuration script. As I've not yet found a way to make Windows stop doing this, I've set up the following in my dhcpd.conf:

The above is for OpenBSD dhcpd. For dnsmasq:

Or for ISC dhcpd:

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I have dual ISP connections at home due to the uptime requirements of working from the home office. It's nice sometimes to be able to connect back to the home office when I'm out (I've found various reasons over the years heh), and memorizing two ips is, well, twice as difficult as memorizing one ip.

The problem is, both my ISP uplinks are DHCP-assigned. They tend to be stable, but they could change at a moment's notice. And if working in tech has taught me anything, it's that...

Spent the better part of the night screwing around with installing OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (note the subtle extra character right at the end, there). It's irritating that a device can go from Version "3 B" to "3 B+" and so much changed. Spent a good bit of time goofing around with dtb files and trying to find the magic combination that would allow me to boot. Got close a few times, but the ethernet port refused to show up.

Ok, perhaps this is just an...

I was setting up smokeping in a docker container on a recently-repurposed machine on my home network, as I recently downsized from a Cisco 3560 core switch to two Ubiquiti US-8s (primary reasoning: the US-8 handles vlans like a champ, and I can run them both on my battery bank with a lighter wattage impact than the 3560). Smokeping was reporting some odd numbers which illustrates a quirk about switches/routers designed for management purposes, so I thought I'd write here about the effect and what...