Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread Matt Jolly
On 20/5/25 09:55, whiteman808 wrote: Can you recommend some Mikrotik model? Really it's going to come down to what your requirements are and how much you want to spend. Get something with sufficient ports for your current requirements and any (near) future expansion. Don't spend money on things

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread whiteman808
Can you recommend some Mikrotik model? I have an 8 Gbps optical fiber network, 8 Gbps download / 2 Gbps upload and I've started building my budget homelab. I plan to expand my network to support 10 Gbps Ethernet in the far future so router should have one 10 Gbps Ethernet port. I'll need to connec

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 00:00:35 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 5/19/25 6:27 PM, Michael wrote: > > No buildpkg on this system. :-( > > Gentoo provides a large (45 gb) public buildpkg cache at > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart > > >> I'm not sure how to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/19/25 6:27 PM, Michael wrote: > No buildpkg on this system. :-( Gentoo provides a large (45 gb) public buildpkg cache at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart >> I'm not sure how to >> fix that. Basically, portage stores data on what is installed in /var >> but the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 May 2025 23:35:02 British Summer Time Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to install and configure on it GNU/Linux or OpenBSD so that this > > computer will serve as router > > > > Is it a good hardware for that purpose? > > Honestly, it's likely that even those specs are overkill

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, I want to install and configure on it GNU/Linux or OpenBSD so that this computer will serve as router Is it a good hardware for that purpose? Honestly, it's likely that even those specs are overkill for the intended purpose - compare to your bog-standard AIO modem/router which likely uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 May 2025 14:17:49 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Just as I was celebrating the last python upgrade has been a breeze, a > > disk > > failed on one PC in the most inopportune moment. The / directory was on > > the SSD disk which failed. The /var/db, /var/cache a

[gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread whiteman808
Hello, I have a computer with the following specs: Motherboard: ASRock QC5000M Micro ATX RAM: 8 GB DDR3 A cheap working 128 GB SSD available in the store Integrated AMD Radeon HD 8330 Graphics Power supply: Seasonic Ssp-350St2 Bulk 350W, Pc Power Supply (SSP350ST2) AMD FT3 Kabini A4-5050/5000 Qua

[gentoo-user] Permission error when trying to rsync over nfs

2025-05-19 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm wanting to move a Data partition over to a new set of drives that are encrypted.  I decided the easiest way to do this is to put the new drives on the NAS box and mount them like I do when I backup my large Video directory only copy the Data files instead.  So, on the NAS box, I set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > Just as I was celebrating the last python upgrade has been a breeze, a disk > failed on one PC in the most inopportune moment. The / directory was on the > SSD disk which failed. The /var/db, /var/cache and /var/log are on a > different (spinning) disk. > > I restored / from a

[gentoo-user] Expand host name for all subdomains except primary domain name

2025-05-19 Thread whiteman808
Hello, I'm configuring dnsmasq for virtual machines and have no idea how can I configure dnsmasq to exclude primary domain name from expanding its name. I have a domain rpk.lan, which is the PC running VMs, and virtual machines have set accordingly following domains: vm1.rpk.lan, vm2.rpk.lan and

[gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
Just as I was celebrating the last python upgrade has been a breeze, a disk failed on one PC in the most inopportune moment. The / directory was on the SSD disk which failed. The /var/db, /var/cache and /var/log are on a different (spinning) disk. I restored / from a backup which was 5 weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing LVM from disk, or disks, and being like new drives again.

2025-05-19 Thread byte . size226
Dale wrote: I'm not necessarily needing to use shred or dd everything to make sure data can never be recovered, just reset to like new so I can start clean with a fresh new setup. <>> What is the fastest way In that scenario I would simply use gdisk (sys-apps/ gptfdisk). When you open the dri