My trusted iMac Pro (2017) has started falling short for more demanding tasks. To keep pace with video editing, AI workloads, and virtualization, I added a modern Intel x64 workstation to my setup. The iMac still performs well for office work and regular development, especially now that the heavier apps are offloaded. This also presented an opportunity to reorganize the network infrastructure. Previously, the WiFi router also served as the DNS server, but OpenWRT was unstable.

This is not really related to the ToE like the rest of the blog, but who cares? It’s my site and my blog. If you’re into networking, this might be interesting for you anyway. Today, I remodeled my home network. I was not happy with the old design, even though it worked fine. This is basically my development environment, and it bothered me that I did not have a clean structure.