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How I went from 16 months of VPN pain and port forwarding nightmares to a flat mesh network connecting two sites 40 miles apart. Covers subnet routing, ACLs, LXC container access, Unraid bare-metal Tailscale, and the routing table hacks that made it all work.
Years of remote desktop frustrations, a brief WireGuard experiment, and the mesh network that finally made everything work. A journey through every way to access your homelab remotely.
The complete timeline of my homelab journey. ESXi to Proxmox, single drives to redundant arrays, VPNs to mesh networks. What worked, what broke, and why I'm still doing this.
From mystery drones to NAT complications, here's how we hardened the Gentoo Build Swarm against network chaos and edge cases.
A week of chaos on the storage server. Fighting a massive rsyslog flood, then debugging a total network collapse caused by a single USB ethernet adapter.
How a forgotten LXC container infiltrated my build swarm, and the NAT masquerade bug that almost rebooted my gateway. Lessons in zero-trust networking for homelabs.
I self-hosted RustDesk to replace TeamViewer. Then spent three days debugging why I couldn't connect to anything from inside my own network. NAT hairpinning strikes again.
Creating a secure 'Quarantine' network (VLAN 90) for untrusted devices using a MikroTik switch. Debugging 'tagged vs untagged' logic and broken ports.
How I went from open ports and pray to zero inbound connections. Cloudflare Tunnels, Zero Trust Access, and the split-horizon DNS trick that makes it all transparent.
A month of obsessive research into replacing my consumer ASUS router turned into 11 months of not buying anything. OPNsense vs MikroTik vs just keeping what works.
Four days, 463 messages, and one reverse proxy that refused to cooperate. The story of how I containerized my entire infrastructure by sheer stubbornness.