Static IP address provisioning process

[albonycal]

I'd love to have a pfsense router one day though..

 

[Chip]

@nishantt6969 its an ancient Core i7 3970x Extreme proc. with 32 GB RAM with 1 Intel (or is it Realtek?) NIC and a PCI-E Broadcom NIC. A huge over kill for pfSense but then heck man it was idle so it was put to good use. It's a headless system and I control it via the network. I plan to buy a low power router for pfSense this year, either Netgate or Protectli. Sadly we cannot import from AliExpress since they make some perfect appliances for pfSense.

 

[Chip]

@albonycal my PCs, routers switches are connected to a APC 2.2 KVA UPS or the home inverter. Only if its an extended outage do I shut all the machines down. Ditto if I am travelling out of station.

 

[albonycal]

Oh nice, I have a 600va APC UPS, and with my current setup it can easily last hours, I can't turn off the machines though

 

[MrGordon]

I use an x86 mini PC as my router at another location. It's a tiny unit and hardly consumes 5-6w idling. Not that power hungry.

 

[MrGordon]

@albonycal I am currently using something like this for backup - Amazon.in

It's a DC UPS and gives several hours of backup too.

 

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[albonycal]

Yea but can't power my server with that, maybe in future I will get something like that just for ONT, that way I can shift the location of my server.
Currently its just beside the ONT.
And btw, which mini PC do you have? does it have multiple NICs?

ZimaBoard - World's First Hackable Single Board Server Zimaboard is interesting, 18$ shipping to India though, and that doesn't include custom duties (if any)

 

[MrGordon]

@albonycal Yeah, won't work for a full blown server. I got a mini PC from Alibaba, has 4 gigabit Intel NICs. It takes 12V DC input, so I can use this DC UPS. I don't remember the exact name, but then most sellers on Alibaba just put their name on existing designs.

I also have a ZImaboard, got it during their Kickstarter campaign. Decent device, I currently use the Zimaboard to run my HomeAssistant installation and few other containers.

 

[albonycal]

Interesting... any custom duties on that?

 

[Chip]

@MrGordon is alibaba shipping to India?