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Insights.
Field notes on home network security, self-hosted observability, and homelab engineering. From the actual builds, written by me, Abdulmuhsen Alayouni.
When Latency Isn't Bandwidth: Symmetric NAT, Relay Detours, and the Static Port Fix
A real-world latency fix that had nothing to do with bandwidth. How endpoint-dependent NAT mapping forced a relay detour, how I proved it with STUN, and the one firewall setting that restored the direct path.
Why I Run OPNsense as My Home Firewall (with Suricata) for Real Home Network Security
Why I run OPNsense as my home firewall with Suricata IDS, and how self-hosted segmentation and flow observability transformed my homelab network security.
Self-Hosted Homelab Observability: How I Monitor My Network With Proxmox, ntopng, Docker and FastAPI
How I built self-hosted monitoring and network observability for my homelab with Proxmox, ntopng, Docker, FastAPI, OPNsense and ClickHouse.
Home Network Flow Telemetry with Suricata and ClickHouse: My Homelab Pipeline
How I built passive network flow telemetry for my homelab with Suricata, Vector, ClickHouse, and IPFIX, without touching load-bearing paths.
جدار حماية منزلي على OPNsense مع Suricata: دليلي العملي لأمن الشبكة المنزلية
كيف بنيت جدار حماية منزلي على OPNsense مع Suricata كنظام كشف تسلل، وأتمتته عبر الـAPI لرفع مستوى أمن الشبكة المنزلية في مختبري المنزلي.
مراقبة المختبر المنزلي: بناء رصد شبكة ذاتي الاستضافة فوق Proxmox و ntopng و Docker
دليل مهندس لبناء مراقبة ذاتية الاستضافة لمختبر منزلي: OPNsense و Suricata و ntopng و Proxmox و Docker مع خط تدفقات ClickHouse وكشف شذوذ.