In a previous post, I wrote about the steps I followed to create a Gateway to separate my Home network from my Home Lab network. In this post, we'll configure a Raspberry Pi (RPi) 4 Model B to PXE Boot from a Synology Diskstation DS720+. What is PXE Boot? The…
Raspberry Pi
How To: Use your RPi as a router
I want to use a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B as a Gateway to separate my Home network from my Home Lab network. Internet Service Provider My consulting business utilises a small business NBN plan (100/40 Mbps) and the provider supplied a Modem / Router combination with support for FTTN.…
Setting up your Private Network
In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network that uses a private address space of IP addresses. These addresses are commonly used for local area networks (LANs) in residential, office, and enterprise environments. - Wikipedia The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of…
Docker on the Raspberry Pi
How do you take care of provisioning, configuration management, deployment, logging & monitoring, real-time analytics and workflow automation for your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)? And, what if your VPC was a Raspberry Pi cluster? For me the first step was getting Docker up and running on a Raspberry Pi Machine…
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Headless Setup
I was really looking forward to receiving my new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with its four 32-bit ARMv7 cores and 1GB of RAM. So, when it arrived I wanted to set it up as quickly as possible. In this post, I'll walk you through the steps I followed on…