Giovanni TheLinuxGuy

A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

Thunderbolt Networking

this gist is part of this series

you wil need proxmox kernel 6.2.16-14-pve or higher.

Load Kernel Modules

add thunderbolt and thunderbolt-net kernel modules (this must be done all nodes - yes i know it can sometimes work withoutm but the thuderbolt-net one has interesting behaviou' so do as i say - add both ;-)
1. nano /etc/modules add modules at bottom of file, one on each line

save using x then y then enter

ProxMox Cluster - Soup-to-Nutz

aka what i did to get from nothing to done.

note: these are designed to be primarily a re-install guide for myself (writing things down helps me memorize the knowledge), as such don't take any of this on blind faith - some areas are well tested and the docs are very robust, some items, less so). YMMV

Purpose of Proxmox cluster project

Required Outomces of cluster project

Home Assistant (HASS) with Homekit, Television Volume Control and Fire TV Stick connected to Sony Bravia

Basically it integrates and older Sony Bravia TV with Fire TV Stick on HDMI via Home Assistant in Apple Homekit with Siri Voice Control for Volume, Mute and Turning TV on and off.

Features of my setup

Voice control for television on, off, mute, set volume, play, pause
Control for television on, off, mute, set volume and input (which app to start) in Home app
Turn on TV light scene when TV starts playing
iOS Remote Widget inputs are forwarded to media player & Android TV

Used Integrations

Install FIO on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y fio lshw

Install FIO on Fedora:

On the host

Ensure these modules are loaded

cat /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables

Disable swap

sysctl vm.swappiness=0
swapoff -a

features

working macvlan with docker
systemd network devices
each container can reach the whole nework (full routing)
docker-compose.yml example with static ipv4 on macvlan
if no ip defined, container get a ip within 192.168.155.192/27

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	#
	# Dumb script to dump (some) of bcache status
	# Copyright 2013 Darrick J. Wong. All rights reserved.
	#
	# This file is part of Bcache. Bcache is free software: you can
	# redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
	# License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
	#
	# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Author: Markus (MawKKe) [email protected]
	# Date: 2018-03-19
	#
	#
	# What?
	#
	# Linux dm-crypt + dm-integrity + dm-raid (RAID1)
	#

	#!/bin/sh

	# This script runs every other night at 04:56 CET on a webserver I maintain
	# Results are always at: https://jult.net/block.txt ( or https://jult.net/block.txt.gz )
	# And much smaller, stripped of BS; https://jult.net/bloc.txt
	# For use in Tixati IP filter: https://jult.net/bloc.txt.gz !!!
	# And finally a txt file with just the bold IP-ranges: https://jult.net/bl.txt (or https://jult.net/bl.txt.gz )

	# Download open block-lists, unpack, filter:
	curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php \| grep -A 2 Bluetack \| xargs wget -qO - --limit-rate=500k \| gunzip -f \| egrep -v '^#' > /tmp/xbp