BGP Neighbor

Simulate BGP at Home

Hi everyone, If you’re like me, there are tons of technologies that you work with on a day-to-day basis, but never have the opportunity to touch. In my day-to-day role, for example, I work heavily with networking and even with BGP. But rarely do I have the chance to do anything BGP-related as it pertains to the internet. It’s quite the dilemma! How is one supposed to get the experience of operating large-scale networks, if only very few people have the opportunity to work on them? Let alone set them up from scratch! ...

December 9, 2025
Diagram

Relocating My Homelab

Hey all, I recently decided to purchase a dedicated server from RackNerd with the goal of hosting my homelab services remotely. Previously, I ran a high-availability Proxmox cluster out of my one-bedroom apartment in NYC, powered by a few Dell Optiplex 4090s. A few months ago, I moved into a new place and had to decommission that setup. Since my new setup is remote, it presented a few challenges: How am I going to administer my lab? How can I secure it? What services will I host? ...

April 5, 2025