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  • Is it possible to send the hint from OPNsense itself?

    Yes, to me it sounds like you’re already getting a big enough prefix from your ISP (all devices getting a /64), but you’ll have to request a bigger prefix from OPNsense. I believe it should give you the options to do this when you set the IPv6 mode to DHCPv6 on OPNsense, but I can’t say if your ISP router will handle it.









  • A lot of external status services just send a HTTP request to a certain url, if it succeeds then it’s up, if it errors or times out then it’s down. They also usually let you check if TCP ports do the usual handshake thing if you aren’t using HTTP.

    The response time can also be used to check if a site is running slower than usual too, and if you have a use for it you can usually specify the required response code for success.

    Although I wouldn’t be surprised if GitHub has some per-server analytics they can also use to estimate the load, but Instatus would work as described above.

    Sometimes these sorts of things are referred to as health checks, if you’re looking for search terms. For example Docker can be set up to poll a container’s web server every few minutes, and mark it as unhealthy it if it stops replying using the HEALTHCHECK instruction in the Dockerfile.











  • my vacuum is defying discovery because of UDP crossing the subnets.

    This is likely more to do with broadcast addresses. The vacuum would be broadcasting it’s presence on its own subnet’s broadcast address (x.x.151.255), but homeassistant is only listening on it’s subnet broadcast address (x.x.150.255). As routers don’t usually let broadcasts cross subnets, I don’t think there’s a way for the host or VM to listen for them like this.

    You could setup vlans and hopefully VirtualBox supports passing through vlans, so that homeassistant would have multiple interfaces. Or like other people have said, just increase the size of the home assistant subnet so that it’ll overlap with the IoT subnet and the broadcast address would be the same, but some devices might not like responding to a device that’s on a different subnet to them, without a router.