Set up sorted for the most part.

I do need to get a 2.5gb network switch though. Other than that all is working. I ended up going with Proxmox with a pfsense VM and also changing my dual port 2.5g network card from a realtek chip to Intel. The realtek one apparently does not play nice with pfsense.

I will have to do some VLAN stuff once Yayzi is installed but apart from that I should be able to unplug from the Virgin Hub 4 and connect to the newly installed ONT and carry on

I managed to get all this working with no IT work experience and yet I cant get a job in the IT sector as I have no IT work experience.. Go figure.

I managed to get all this working with no IT work experience and yet I cant get a job in the IT sector as I have no IT work experience.. Go figure

That's a bit like saying you changed the brakes on your car with no work experience but no garage will hire you as a mechanic.

If you are going up for trainee jobs then it could just be people with more experience/qualifications are getting the jobs - the market may be strong enough that there are people with lots of experience going for relatively junior roles. To get a foot in the door you might have to start on an IT Service Desk or similar role to get some experience - you also need to be doing as much learning as possible doing whatever training you can get in order to round out the CV.

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

I ended up going with Proxmox with a pfsense VM and also changing my dual port 2.5g network card from a realtek chip to Intel.

I managed to get all this working with no IT work experience and yet I cant get a job in the IT sector as I have no IT work experience.. Go figure. laugh

Padawan you show great promise.

Tryout other firewalls OPNsense, Sophos XG HOME edition.
Can do samething in XCP-ng other then Proxmox.
Master Docker and Kubernetes.

Most off all have fun learning.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/sophos-xg-fi...

Edited by amiga_dude (Tue 04-Jun-24 09:12:47)

Game servers don't use that much CPU power.
I've got mine running on an Intel N100.
You could have got an N300 model that has 8 cores and that would be more than enough to do OPNsense and game servers.

Thanks Dan

You would think... but not so much

We run a MC server thats got well over 400 mods and uses a goo chunk of ram and a butt load of CPU.

The system I am using at the moment will do the job, Im going to change the CPU to an i7 4770K vs the other one I mentioned as its much cheaper.

I am planning on upgrading my main PC later this year so my server will become what I have now and that will be overkill. (Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 64GB DDR4-3600) I'm not to worried about power though, right now the intel server is using around 70 watts, Sure its a little more than a lower power i3 but cost wise its a few £ a month.

Will also be running a Palworld server, Satisfactory and maybe one other on top. Plus the pfsense router VM, Proxmox and a webserver (game server and web server are on the same Ubuntu VM)

Oh I get that but there's a lot more to it than that.

I know much more than just this but my point was that with out a good base knowledge on how this stuff works I would never of gotten it working at all or at least it would of taken a long time.

Its not like I am going in not knowing anything or very little at all.

The car thing is a funny way of putting it to me as I grew up fixing cars with my dad as he was a mechanic, and now fix my own motorcycle so that's a job you would think I could get... I've not tired tho .

Honestly, I have tried to "show off" my computer knowledge at interviews and its been the same answer every time Lack of work experience. How is one to get it if that's what employers want xD

I did go for an apprentice job at the same company my Mother works at... I got turned down due to my age and they took on a fresh out of collage 18 year old. They never said that to my face mind but that's the information my Mother was able to glean from them since her job is quite high up the "food chain".

I would go and grab me some Comp TIA curses but at £200+ a pop and then going to an interview and getting told the same thing id probably choke the interviewer with the certificate!

The joke goes:
I'm here for the job. Oh you need experience for a job, That's what I am here for. Then go get a job for experience. Give me a job then? You need experience to get a job...

Anyway, Way off topic

Minecraft is single core.
The N100 has is close to single core speed of a 4770k but lower multicore performance.
The N305 is faster in single core than a 4770k and much higher multicore performance.
Both have way lower power usage.

Thanks
Dan