My Network Setup

In this blog entry, I will cover how badly I over-engineered home network. Site VLANs So for each “site” (house/flat/car/boat/portable router), I keep constant VLAN schema. VLANs are always implemented on edge router and switches. VLAN Description Interface Remarks and use-case 1 Default LAN eth1 This is always untagged on all Ethernet LAN ports 2 Vendor Reserved My Netgear Switch reserves those 3 Vendor Reserved My Netgear Switch reserves those 4 IPv4 Only (DMZ) eth1....

July 2, 2022 · 4 min · Bart Prokop

Fix Broken Broadband

Substandard service So it is mid-2022 and my broadband is: PPPoE No IPv6 MTU at 1492 locked down router based on OpenWRT that provider thinks is awesome no static IP Time to fix as many things as can be fixed. Prerequisites There are two: Call ISP and get your PPPoE username and password. Quite often you need make few calls/online chats. Bin the provided “router” and connect something decent to ONT....

June 25, 2022 · 9 min · Bart Prokop