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The NVR doesnt have to live in the same VLAN if you give it explicit firewall rules to traverse to the tainted camera VLAN for the explicit purpose of fetching the rtsp stream from the cursed cameras. Its how I setup my network. The cameras are islanded, I setup Frigate to be allowed to go in and open that port over TCP. The cameras try to phone home and pull DNS but are ignored, only traffic they’re allowed to product is rtsp to Frigate.

Its more that laptop fans are not designed for 24/7 usage, it will wear out quickly. Plus I hated hearing it.

I did something similar awhile back. Since you already cut open the bottom of your laptop I would suggest you cutting another window over the CPU and adding a large plate of aluminum as a shelf between the laptop and you hard drives. Then add a shim so the CPU cooler and plate touch, then you will have a passively cool laptop server with an internal UPS battery.

Ok sorry its been a busy day but here are the things I ordered and all work: This one adds two ports, uses the M keyed slot, top right. I do not recommend this one because there is no way to mount the ports. You’ll have to zip tie it like I did. Very sloppy. This one is what I’d recommend, it will take full use of that 1xPCIe 3.0 lane and fits the A+E slot. The RJ45 will screw nicely into the back of the chassis. FYI this is not EXACTLY what I bought but looks pretty much the same. If you want to use this with pfsense you might consider an Intel based chipset but i used Realtek fine on my setup. Godspeed! Image

I’m in a rush but ive out Ethernet cards in both slots of my optiplex 3080 m.2 slots. The top right slot is vanilla and 4xpcie lanes and full sleep. The bottom left is A+e keying ans only 1x lane which is enough for 2.5gig Ethernet. This is ultimately what i used. For my prfesene box I added a second card, a 2 port Ethernet card to the top right m.2 slot and made it a four port beast.

Those look a lot like white spider mites.