Charles N Wyble blog

Here is a quick write up on my current home network.

Production Network:

1) pfSense on a Dell Optiplex x86 (connected to my TimeWarnerCable connection).

2) Cisco 3548 switch. This is the switch that everything else ties into it. My network core switch. It also provides POE for when I’m messing with various POE devices.

3) 1 Villagetelco mesh potato providing WPA2 wifi to the entire apartment.

The above setup is rock solid. It also lets me support a lab network on same set of gear. I can do multi vlan/multi ssid/multi gateways. All without affecting my production network (that’s key!)

Development network consists of:

• Cisco 2600 router

• Cisco 2500 router (console server for everything else in lab)

• 2 Cisco 2950 switch and 1 Cisco 2924 switch (3 switches covers just about every cisco cert topology)

• Cisco 3640 router

• Cisco AS5200 (not much use and might get donated)

• Cisco 6509 (my pride and joy)

• Dell optiplex desktop for lxc (all sorts of hacking here)

• Dell optiplex desktop for freedombox dev (freedombox0. will run genode and linux guests etc.)

• PS3 (parallel development)

This gear is being used at the Free Network Foundation development and test lab.