This is my home lab. It might not be pretty, but it is constantly changing with new and different hardware. Recently went from a Netgear Smart Managed switch that had 5x1Gb ports, as of now have taken that out of the network and am using a QNAP 5x2.5Gb unmanaged switch between the pfsense firewall appliance and my Asus GT-AXE11000 router that has a mesh node on the other side of the house.

   

As you can see in the picture above the network topology flow is that from the Motorola MB8611 DOCSIS 3.1 with 2.5Gb ethernet (which is hiding behind the glass tower) and is connected to the Pfsense Firewall appliance of which has 4x2.5Gbe with configured port security by disabling 2 of the RJ45 ports. The outgoing LAN is connected to the QNAP Unmanaged Switch which has 2.5Gbe and is connected to the Asus GT-AXE11000 this is where my bottleneck starts since this Router only has 1Gb LAN ports.

This is Batman's Domain and he watches over the network

For this only the game consoles (XSX, PS3,5 and Switch) are connected to it. The WiFi has been segregated for our mobile devices and the other mesh AP which is an Asus RT-AX88U. We Only have a couple IoT devices but those are on a guest WiFi network since we know how secure IoT devices can be /sarcasm.

 

Now that we have a basic understanding of the network layout, would imagine like other tech enthusiasts there are to many devices and PCs to go over in one post. Would like to mention the 2 PCs that have been getting the most use in 2022. First off my Lab PC can be seen below

This PC has been going hard since starting the CSULB Cyber Security Bootcamp through CSULB towards the beginning of the year, for a lot of the challenges those have been documented and can be found in the Project section from the landing page.

The hardware in this PC consists of an Asrock X370 Taichi Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5800X3D CPU, 32Gb 2800Mhz RAM, AMD Radeon 5700XT GPU, and a 2.5Gb PCIe NIC, 2Tb M.2 Samsung SSD, and a Corsair 750w 80+ Platinum PSU. The Host OS is Windows 10 Pro version 21H2. This is a virtualization beast and has been solid through the course material. Still working on fully understanding the Rubber Ducky there in the bottom of the picture, but will definitely be making a post on this in the near future.