Homelab: Network Infrastructure
This covers a "rebuild" of an existing network, which previously occupied a single sub-net. This is coupled with 10G hardware from Ubiquity and a pfSense router to provide advanced capabilities to various VLANs.
pfSense: Interfaces & VLANs
The following were configured inside pfSense which acts as the primary router/firewall designated pfsense-master
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Hardware & Interfaces
- Intel 6700K CPU
- Asus Z170 Prime-A mainboard
- em0
- StarTech.com Dual Port PCI Express (PCIe x4) Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter - 2 Port Network Card - Intel i350 NIC - GbE Network Card (ST2000SPEXI) (Amazon)
- igb0
- igb1
- Intel X550-T2 10G NIC
- ix0
- ix1
Networks
Physical LAN:
- WAN em0 // 1G NIC on mainboard
- LAN ix0 // 10.10.0.0
- UniFi // 10.10.1.0
- UniFi Cloud Key // 10.10.1.3
- LAN2 igb1 // 10.10.2.0 -- This is purely a convenience 'console' port for tro ...(continued)