Asus RT-AC66U – Installing the ipkg Command

Note: The RT-AC66U and the RT-AC66R are identical other than their product number. The RT-AC66R is the product sold through Best Buy and RT-AC66U is the product sold directly from ASUS. IPKG is a cli utility used for package management. It is required to have ipkg installed if you want to configure your router for SNMP,  install … Continue reading Asus RT-AC66U – Installing the ipkg Command

HomeLab Adventures: The Expansioning

Over the last few months, I have been building out more and more virtual machines in my HomeLab ESX Cluster.  Its time to expand. First came a four node Ceph Cluster, then an OpenStack Juno environment, and then an OpenStack Icehouse environment. Plus, I still needed to build out a Docker/Kubernetes test environment. It started to become apparent … Continue reading HomeLab Adventures: The Expansioning

Insync: The Powerful Google Drive Client For Linux

Insync is a very powerful and full featured Google Drive client for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I ran across Insync when I was looking for a Google Drive client for Linux after I kicked Dropbox to the curb and switching over to Google Drive for all my cloud storage needs. In all honestly, if it wasn't for the Insync client I do not think that I would have made the switch at all, as Google does not even offer a basic GUI client for Linux. Really Google?

HomeLab: How to Resolve Supermicro x8dti Fan Revving Issues

Specifically what was happening was this... The systems were running cool, so the fans would spin down to a low rpm and the system would then throw a low rpm threshold alert and spin the fan back up.When this occurs the system switches into some sort of "Critical Cooling Mode" and spins all the fans up to 100% for a few seconds. Rinse and repeat a few dozen times and you hear what almost sounds like an intoxicated neighbor playing with his new weedeater.

Disk I/O Monitoring on the Asus RT-AC66U Router

The Asus RT-AC66U, like many home routers that are on the market today, allow you to connect a USB drive to one of its onboard USB ports and share this disk out to your network.  Via the RT-ACC66U, you can share your NAS disk via CIFS or NFS. My configuration has a 1TB unmirrored drive used … Continue reading Disk I/O Monitoring on the Asus RT-AC66U Router