How to Homelab Episode 3 - Planning your Network Layout

The "How to Homelab" series helps you plan your very own home server setup for world domination (or for even just hosting some apps). In the third episode, we look into networking and how to plan your layout.

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[camerontgore]

VLANs are awesome! Even if you don't have a home lab it's still great for segregating IoT devices that are trying to phone home to mother base.

Really clear explanations, loving the series! A diagram of your lab and services that you have running would be nice for the next video

[DaveSomething]

my raspi4, the things I've installed on the poor thing. it's holding up so far!

[remixedMind]

nice logo, i have learned a lot from you and Tom, great job, thanks you for the time and effort, keep on doing this great videos

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Jay. Nice new graphics, logo.

[marcoslozano]

Thank you for all the great content you provide, Jay! I decided to make a homelab to keep my files and services away from Big Techs and your videos have been very inspiring and I’m learning a lot from them. Not just from this homelab series but all the awesome linux content as well.

[gustavgurke]

I already learned significantly more than I thought I'd learn from this series. Keep it up!

[DarthDweeb]

Good video. Would love to see how to set up the vlans on pfSense and how to set up subnets. I have had a consumer grade router for many years and anyone who has set up a plex media server or something akin would have a pretty basic understanding of a static DHCP lease and some port forwarding. But vlans and subnets are mostly an enigma for me. I recently bought a device to install pfSense and dabble in these networking tools. Would love to see your implementation of them.

[noam]

Homelab network troubleshooting and resolution? That can certainly be another topic. Good stuff.

[ericclingo]

LOL! The idea to set up a VLAN as leverage on my kids.. now that's motivation!

[nbarrager]

"Use what you have" My friend gave me a Poweredge R410 that he was going to throw away. Good machine, quiet enough to sleep next to, fastest transfer speeds I've ever had. Only problem was it had a software based RAID card which only works with Windows. So I bought a new RAID card which runs very hot, and therefore so loud I don't even want to work next to the thing, let alone sleep next to it. What's worse is now I'm not even sure I want to primarily run Linux. "Use what you have"

[michelangelop]

My isp make me buy the router, and it was locket, it haved enough features unlocked but the admin account wad a different password, I fount on a forum the password from someone who managed to get his hand on he code, the admin account allowed me to have additional ssids for my cameras, and I configured the voip to ring and operate on two lines independently, so I can have 2 calls from the same line without interfering.

Thanks for the video series, as a starter homelaber my self (R710) I found it very helpful, keep up with the great content!

[kimotroph]

Thank you Jay for this video. I am improving on my homelab and this was very useful for me to refactor my network. I am definitely using ipcalc now..Thanks again.

[GCTWorks]

Suggestion for a future topic: since people will want to wet up several servers that might by internet facing, but they only have one internet connection, you might want to show how to set up a reverse proxy with NGINX. I have done this with a raspberry Pi 4, and points to other physical raspberry pi servers as needed.

[murlock]

Thanks for the new installment of the Homelab series Jay. Im literally in the process of creating a home lab. Server is an HP ML350 G6 186GB Ram 4.3TB array 2x DGS1210-28 Dlink Switches and an Asus AX82 Router. a couple of NAS boxes are already here and im in the process of loading Proxmox on the server. Youve already helped a lot and id like to see how to best set up my switches as they are managed. Keep up the good work and thanks for your effort in making information like this available.

[derekgoodwine]

Amazing series more video can satisfy my eager! Please keep it up!

[pepeshopping]

Most cable modem-routers will not let you change the IP address scheme, just the DHCP begin/end, DNS and other basic, but enough parameters that somebody that knows what they are doing can configure correctly.

[VirendraBG]

Appreciate your efforts. 👍🏻
Good series. Keep it up.

[dean]

Greetings from Israel. Your new book is always out of stock on amazon.. I check every day for the paperback version and no luck. As a book collector, the kindle version is a no no. I really want to start and learn this book, where can I get it?

[christopherbui]

Thanks! Appreciate the video. Been planning on getting a pfsense box but wanted to get hands on experience. Even more fortunate that I currently have a asus box !