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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  3mo ago (text post)   491 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for January 7, 2025

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Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

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I've rebuilt my home network. My good old router (Xiaomi Mi 3G running OpenWRT) wasn't able to handle v2rayA properly and I upgraded to a fanless N100 mini-PC with 4 NICs by BKHD. My old router is just a wireless switch right now.

The good things: the new setup can handle 500Mbps of traffic with ease: it can route each packet to the VPN or the ISP at full speed and when routing it to the VPN it can both decrypt and encrypt it at full speed as well (god bless AES-NI). It would likely handle 1Gbps with ease if I needed this much bandwidth. The temps are around 45C. Not that cool, but not that hot, no real need for me to reapply the thermal paste. I'm running Proxmox, so I plan to add some more stuff to it, like a LDAP server. Anyone has any ideas what I should put there as well?

The bad thing: the company that hosts my VPS doesn't have enough upstream bandwidth in its datacenter. Depending on the congestion I am getting 20-100 Mbps. Which is better than 20 Mbps my old router could push through xray, but still worse than I expected.

I'll probably order a new mobo to upgrade my NAS next. The same company should have one with Intel N305.

And here I am just trying to get my shitty fiber modem and 10yo router to play together.

So what's v2rayA doing in your setup? Deciding what does to the isp vs VPN? Is there a big advantage of the router doing that rather than individual machines?

I'm still using smb for all my network shares, at least when it's actually working rather than throwing mysterious errors. Been wanting to try some home assistant things for solar and security cameras, as well as set up my own weather station logging.

Is a mini-PC the route you'd go for all that? It'd certainly be nice to give up on purpose-built routers entirely, ngl.

The big advantage is that it works on all devices. I don't have to configure the VPN on my desktop PC, my laptop, my phone, wife's phone, wife's tablet, son's laptop, son's tablet, MIL's phone, MIL's tablet and our TV. And yes, v2rayA does the routing: Russian hosts and traffic-heavy stuff avoid VPN, everything else goes through it.

My old inexpensive purpose-built router could route to VPN just fine as long as it had to route based on the source IP. But this was much less convenient. Maybe one of these murderdrone-looking modern ASUS routers could do this, but I paid less for my mini-PC than I would pay for one.

Could I bother you for the results of your research into VPNs? The free proxy I use to look at furry porn is banned from all respectable places like YouTube, and the more reputable VPN I used to have seems to be blocked on the country level.

I rented a VPS and set up my own VPN. Actually, they had a VPN server template that I used.

The only websites that aren't happy with it are imgur and redgifs and even they, I think, are triggered by something in my VPN setup and not its IP. I should try curling them from the host.

I see. Something that I too had once upon a time, at the beginning of the crackdown those years ago. But now I'd need to gather strength to look into the eyes of the easiest conduit of transborder payments for me after having let him down, though.

This VPN protocol is also both an assurance of access to information for the technically knowledgeable, and an anxiety about the way that access can be decisively closed. Make every SSL/TLS connection mandatorily registered with RKN at one of the two ends, and it's game over. Banking, commerce, WFH, they go on, unsanctioned activities not so much.

Gah, I went back to work today and realized everything was broken. I should've realized this yesterday. I did a bunch of hysteric changes to get Checkpoint VPN to work in my work VM, but now everything else is slow and I don't know what caused this:

  • I set up a new Hyper-V external switch to the wifi adapter because I did something to the default switch by mistake
  • I went back to redirects from tproxy

Now my plan for the evening is unfucking my setup. I have a suspicion that going back to redirects fixes the issue I had with exhausting the limit of open file handles on the router. If I go back to tproxy I'll have to solve this problem as well, but I have no idea where to start, lsof reports that no files are open.

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