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Just came into possession of some Dell 7050 and 7070 SFF PC's (circa 8 years old). Just blogging my attempts to upgrade these old PC's to Windows 11. I figure I can use them as low performance Kiosks (Just a browser), or as a router on a stick pfSense emergency...

Rename-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName PFSENSE280 -Name "Network Adapter" -NewName "NIC01"

pfSense 2.8.0 CE VM with one interface and wanting to do Router on a Stick in Hyper-V VM Powershell command to configure the Hyper-V VM Network Adapter to allow Multi-VLAN and a default Native VLAN on Unifi # Set Hyper-V adapter to be a trunk port and don't tag...

Note to self: Avoid using Onenote for critical documentation that includes screenshots and images Onenote isn't reliable I've been using Onenote as a "Daybook" since 2015. Every now and then I look back to find my Notes on things like SSL Cert renewal for a particular...

Original Configuration A dual interface pfSense install in Azure layout. Internet<= frontend subnet WAN Interface=><=Pfsense=><=LAN Interface backend subnet=>Protected LAN Package Update Causes Failure I made the mistake of doing a package upgrade on...

TLDR; Check your disk I/O or you'll spend hours fault finding for naught The following are stream of consciousness notes of attempts to get a Hyper-V Ubuntu 25.04 VM working when the root cause was disk I/O exhaustion Weird Issues Observed A whole bunch of issues...