Build a Home Firewall on a Mini PC: VLANs, IDS, DNS Filtering, Updates
Turn a two or four port mini PC into a default deny home firewall with VLANs, IPv6, an open source IDS, filtered encrypted DNS, updates and backups.
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Turn a two or four port mini PC into a default deny home firewall with VLANs, IPv6, an open source IDS, filtered encrypted DNS, updates and backups.
CPU microcode updates patch a shipped processor at every boot. Learn how they load, how Intel and AMD sign them, and how to check your revision.
Alpine branches each May and November and fixes main for two years. Every branch from 2.1 to 3.24 with support dates, plus musl, apk v3 and secdb.
OpenBMC is a Linux Foundation open source firmware stack for server BMCs. Learn its Yocto build, D-Bus design, signed updates and how to harden it.
ChromeOS ships a new stable milestone about every four weeks, verifies each boot from read-only firmware and gets 10 years of updates. How each part works.
Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025: builds, release and support end dates, the security features each added, and how to plan an upgrade or rebuild.
Spanning tree blocks redundant Ethernet links so frames cannot loop. How STP, RSTP and MSTP elect a root, converge, get abused, and how to protect them.
VRRP lets two or more routers share one gateway address so hosts survive a router failure. How election, failover and VRRPv3 work, and how to secure it.
An optical transceiver pairs a laser and photodiode with driver, TIA and DSP chips, a microcontroller and a memory map. Here is how each part is built.
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