After being home for weeks, I went away for business, the 1st night away there was a brief powercut and the firewall (on a UPS) seemed to get stuck.

So, that’s no DNS, DHCP, or connectivity between wifi and LAN… All due to (admittedly aging) hardware issue.

Since then my entire home system has had issues whilst it all settles down.

It made me think about getting some redundancy into the system to handle a single failure.

So,.can you give me any insights into High Availability like CARP (for pfSense), VM failover (on Incus?), mesh wifi, Home Assistant, etc?

Of course there are going to be single points, like ISP line, etc, but seems like something to test out.

  • ryan_@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    This used to happen to me occasionally and my way around it was getting a smart outlet and connecting it to my neighbors WiFi. If I was ever away and there was an issue I was still able to reboot my router thanks to that and it saved me several times.