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Tinker Tuesday for April 22, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

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

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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One thing you'll need is a decent switch. You can usually pick up retired enterprise switches on eBay for not too much. But you'll want something that can at least handle a variety of VLAN configurations, so you can segment your testing networks and prevent things from talking to each other that should not be able to.

You might also want to consider beefing up one of the computers (or getting a retired server) with RAM and installing Proxmox, a free hypervisor for KVM/LXC. You can then set up a VM for docker containers, and VMs for various test systems or toolkits.