World of EUC

Its not a Synology but I've been running a loaded QNAP TS-1685 in my lab and its been solid.

I have a Synology 1817 with built-in 10G and an 1817+ with an add-in 10G NIC.

<https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J1X9T5Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1>

<https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y4N5PCX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s02?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1>

That's the _Minimum Firmware Version_
Maybe you can find something newer than that

try installing it in a windows system where you have Samsung Magician and scan for fw updates

I should have asked here first...   EdgeMax or Unifi Security Gateway?

EdgeMax is more your standard router vs Unifi is software defined. Unifi requires you setup a cloud key which controls and provisions your entire network. With Unifi I can plug in a switch or router and the cloud key provisions it automatically right from my phone app or web page.

If you are doing other UniFi I would do USG for single management pane.

Same as <@UK6S90JDR> - I have had both and prefer the USG.

I’ve had both as well. Started with EdgeMax and tough switch long time ago with UniFi WiFi. Have since switched over the years to UniFi.

<@U3YT1PA2F> Here’s my old writeup. Since then have much more gear and a full setup at another location. It’s solid but some USG Pro firmware can cause the Pro to reboot in my experience. Like when you’re really taxing the network. Think it might be something related to memory. <https://www.jasonsamuel.com/2017/01/30/building-a-secure-high-visibility-wifi-network-using-ubiquiti-networks-unifi-gear/>

Super article, Jason! WIll have to read through it all when I have a little more time on my hands. Love the detail!:+1:

Hey everyone.... wow feel like I haven’t been on in soo long ... chasing back up to a request I had earlier this year. I need a complete bom shopping list for the latest version of the e300-8d setup as I just got my P4 finally after 3 months of waiting from Nvidia and I am going to build an F1 racing rig for the citrix SYDNEY ebc off it using the workspace hub as the client 

So I need the bom for that mini server, case, fans, memory, ssd, etc etc and if you’ve got an amazon link or super micro link all the better as I need pricing too

That would be a straight forward build. The e300 comes pretty much complete. Just drop in RAM and an NVME and your done.

E300
<https://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-servers-compact-embedded-processor-sys-e300-8d-10026325>

2 32GB DIMMs
<https://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-components-memory-ddr4-mem-dr432l-sl02-er26-41110239>

1TB NVME
<https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG>

You only need to make sure to select an E300 with a x16 slot instead of x8. For example: SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP

<https://vhojan.nl/building-a-low-power-vsan-vgpu-homelab/>

Only running my PiHole on a Pi2 and works perfectly, may virtualise it one day.

Same like Carl. Running smoothly on an Pi3 with UBNT and a little nginx...

I am thinking about virtualizing or mounting something like this - <https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1134497833598349312?s=21>

Also considering installing it on my UniFi UAS

The out of the box experience is awesome. Unfortunately I had to whitelist youtube because MiniMe was on a rant...

I have it running as a Docker container on Synology. Works like a charm

Thanks guys. I’ve got Synology and Pi but prefer to keep the number of devices down due to already high heat output in the room. I’ll try the Synology and Docker container option first since the NAS is always on already.

Working great as a Docker container on the Synology :+1:  .05% CPU usage and 124 MB RAM usage so far.  Now I’m setting up a secondary pi-hole in GCP on a free micro instance so I can use it with OpenVPN. This will be good for mobile devices when off the network to run either in split tunnel for just DNS traffic or full tunnel with all traffic. I don’t have to open up my home network to the Internet this way.

Actually there's a limitation with running it on the Synology.  I don't know if you have come across the same issue <@UGP5T65LY>.  All the queries show up from 1 client in the Pi-hole logs.  Meaning if I want to see all the DNS queries coming from one machine on the network, it's almost impossible to dig for it through all of this network traffic.  I've had like 1500 DNS queries in 10 minutes and I can spot for example some IoT traffic in the logs.  I want to be able to drill down on that stuff and it's impossible with everything showing as coming from 1 client on the network.  I have a Pi3 B+ here (1 Gbps network interface) so I think I will try that if I can't figure out how to separate this traffic in the logs.

I've been running it for over a year. Its still finding things. As it finds stuff you sometimes have to "combine" them. Say the dryer kicks on and then the heating element. Two items that may need combining.

I looked at Sense for shedquarters but haven’t pulled trigger yet