My network home setup – v4.0
I don&#x27;t have pictures but I can describe it.<p>* Broadband 600&#x2F;60Mb&#x2F;s with seamless failover to 5G (varying speeds)<p>* Netgate 6100 router with VPN client, VPN server, site to site VPN configured, traffic shaping to reduce bufferbloat, uplink failover, etc.<p>* 4 Cisco SG 250-8 switches sprinkled throughout the flat. One acting as my core switch.<p>* QNap with 2 4TB drives in mirror for backups<p>* A HDD USB station with a stack of 4TB HDDs for backups. Backups are delivered to qnap at various times and then from time to time I make a complete copy to a drive which is put in a rotation. I keep three full copies of the data at any time and at least one of them is off-site with my family. When I visit my family I take the latest backup and replace the drive that is in their custody.<p>* a small, passively cooled server with 2TB fast SSD, 128GB ECC RAM, Ryzen 5 CPU, Asrock PRO X570D4U-2L2T. Hosts proxmox where I keep about a dozen VMs for various things, Ubiquiti management panel, NVR, dns filter, development tools, minecraft servers, jump box, etc....<p>* a 10 year old Thinkpad T440s running always on serving as my emergency server and a development environment.<p>* 4 Ubiquiti WiFi 6 access points -- before you jump in saying this is overkill, I live in a large flat in a dense urban area with about half a thousand 2.4GHz APs and 50 5GHz ones interfering with my WiFi setup. Most people and even network providers are clueless and set up their devices to max power as if it was going to help them -- it only makes things worse. I have 4 APs with reduced power so that anywhere you are at my flat you are always close to one of APs and you roam between them seamlessly as you move.<p>* Multiple VLANS and WiFi networks<p>* a VLAN + WLAN for my family for their regular devices to access the Internet and some defined services within network but otherwise disallowed to contact anything else<p>* a VLAN + WLAN for IOT, legacy devices, devices I don&#x27;t trust or devices that only support old protocols and would deteriorate WLAN performance (printers, a chinese projector, etc.) This VLAN does not have Internet access (so that devices can&#x27;t phone home), don&#x27;t have access to any other device in the network, don&#x27;t have access to other networks and can only be reached with defined firewall rules.<p>* a VLAN + WLAN for my work -- this is dedicated for my work laptop, my phone, my electronics lab (oscilloscope, multimeter, programmable PSU&#x2F;load, etc.)<p>* a VLAN + WLAN for guests<p>* a management VLAN -- any network devices, servers, QNAP etc. are only available through this separated VLAN which has very strict access through a jump box. Also does not have direct internet access so the devices can&#x27;t phone somewhere else (but I have a proxy for software updates, etc.)<p>* a service VLAN -- where my services are available internally (for example QNAP interface, apps running in VMs, etc.) Some of them have rules to be accessed from other networks<p>* a DMZ VLAN -- I expose some services to the world, DMZ serves to provide one more hurdle for any attacker