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I thought of a weekly thread to post about what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you read.

So I decided to just try it. Maybe we find a format that works! It doesn't have to be me, feel free to create this post on Sunday if it's not up already.

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I'm currently reconsidering using a couple mikrotik for some layer 3 hardware offloading.
Not really homelab, but close.

I have a project that gets integrated with another network for an event. I'm thinking of using 2x crs504 (cause I'm using mlag for servers, think vrrp or whatever for "public" (it's all internal) ip) and seeing if I can get l3hw working as a router.
While I could sit on a subnet of the "host" network, having a gateway that traffic goes through allows me to test and prove everything for my system in my homelab, with just the final integration being a do-in-a-time-crunch problem.
I'm already using the crs504s for networking (I bought them ages ago, thinking 25gbps was going to be as easy as 10gbps. It's all running at 10gbps), and this saves having to use something as a router, cuts down on rack space, all sorts of benefits. I think.
Anyone have any experience with mikrotik l3hw offloading?

My actual homeland is just a NAS and some networking. It's a small flat, it's just me. Not complicated, no need to give me more headaches!