I mentioned to a friend that if he cannot describe his home network setup in under 500 characters, I doubt "home networking setup" is the proper description.
That may also be true of our own LAN, but it's seriously simpler than his. To wit …
Ziply Fiber gives us residential 1 Gb/s FiOS service with DHCP.
Behind the router (below), the primary network is a flat /18 address space. Multiple physical machines host virtual and/or emulated machines, and internally route packets destined for them.
The primary switch is a ~ 2007 24 port 1 Gb/s Netgear unit; 4 8 port Netgear units help in various rooms. (Collectively, they can be thought of as Dumb & Dumber.)
3 eero 6 units provide both our primary Wifi access and a guest Wifi network. We'd use one of them as the router, but they don't support IPv6 tunneling via 6in4.
The router is a Raspberry Pi 4 CM plugged into a dual Ethernet Seed Studio board using OpenWrt; it runs services for:
- NAT services & port forwarding
- An IPv6 tunnel (via 6in4) to Hurricane Electric
- DHCP server
- Dynamic DNS to publish our IPv4 address
A Raspberry Pi 3B Plus runs services for:
- NTP
- DNS
- git
- SMTP relay
As for the devices actually on the network, it has (not counting virtual/emulated devices) :
- 13 streaming devices
- 10 computers
- 10 IoT Devices
- 6 tablets
- 2 watches
- 2 iPhones
- an iPod
- a game console and
- a printer
p.s. most importantly about the network — Our network manager of 31 years is Binkley the Ether Bunny.
