Personally will be trying to transform my server which is currently in a fractal R5 case, into a small-ish Homelab rack, combined with all my network equipment. Will require complete relocation of all network equipment in the house as well as cables so it will be a bit of a project. Also on the lookout for a good quality rack so let me know if you have any recs. Still unsure if u want to do full width rack or mini. Part of me really want the UDM Pro from Unifi…

What are your goals and thing you want to accomplish during 2025?

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Hopefully I can finally get the IPv6 stack fully working.

    OPNsense works, Proxmox works, LXC works, Docker works but Docker Swarm does not.

    Either I move away from Docker Swarm or a miracle happens and they finally fix their IPv6 support in 2025.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      As a networking noob: what are the benefits to having/using an IPv6 stack? I realize that eventually we all have to move to IPv6, but any point in being early on it?

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.

        The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.

        For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.

        There are a few advantages that this brings:

        • Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
        • It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
        • Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)

        There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          The no NAT thing really messed with my brain and was probably the hardest thing to overcome for me.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I love havingipv6. Hard to learn and had roadblocks but now that it’s set up works fine.

        Does it matter no but just nice to know I have it figured out.