merox May 3, 2026 #pfsense#networking#homelab#freebsd#troubleshooting

Three separate failures from a single accidental reboot — CAM disk detection delay, serial console locking the keyboard out, and NIC enumeration mismatch. Documented as it happened.

merox Oct 6, 2025 #security#ssh#linux

Practical SSH hardening for production Linux servers — key-based auth, sshd_config, 2FA, host-based auth, fail2ban, and log monitoring.