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A comprehensive guide to designing and structuring a scalable home or small-lab network. This skill covers best practices for IP addressing, network segmentation (VLANs), selecting reliable gateways (like pfSense/OPNsense), and planning for future growth, ensuring stability and avoiding common pitfalls like Double NAT. Ideal for advanced users building robust IoT, server, and guest networks.

This skill guides the planning and review process for complex home or small-lab network changes. It covers creating staged migration plans for VLAN segmentation, implementing local DNS resolvers (like Pi-hole), setting up secure VPN access, and ensuring network safety through detailed inventory checks and rollback procedures. It emphasizes security best practices and trust zoning.

Pi-hole is a powerful, network-wide DNS ad blocker solution that runs on Linux hosts (like Raspberry Pi). It automatically blocks ads, trackers, and malware domains for every device on your network without requiring browser extensions. This guide details installation via Docker or bare-metal setup, configuring it as the primary DNS server for a home network, managing blocklists, and implementing advanced features like DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for enhanced privacy.

A comprehensive guide on segmenting a home network using VLANs to dramatically enhance security. Learn how to isolate different device types—such as IoT gadgets, guests, and servers—from main PCs, preventing cross-segment malware spread and unauthorized communication. Covers setup steps for UniFi, pfSense, and OPNsense.

A comprehensive guide to setting up a fast and secure WireGuard VPN server for remote access to your home network (homelab). Learn keypair generation, advanced Linux firewall (iptables) rules, and how to manage different tunneling modes (split vs. full tunnel) for optimal performance.

This skill guides the planning and review process for complex home or small-lab network changes. It covers creating staged migration plans for VLAN segmentation, implementing local DNS resolvers (like Pi-hole), setting up secure VPN access, and ensuring network safety through detailed inventory checks and rollback procedures. It emphasizes security best practices and trust zoning.

A comprehensive guide to designing and structuring a scalable home or small-lab network. This skill covers best practices for IP addressing, network segmentation (VLANs), selecting reliable gateways (like pfSense/OPNsense), and planning for future growth, ensuring stability and avoiding common pitfalls like Double NAT. Ideal for advanced users building robust IoT, server, and guest networks.

Pi-hole is a powerful, network-wide DNS ad blocker that runs on Linux hosts (like Raspberry Pi). It intercepts all DNS queries on your local network, blocking advertisements, trackers, and known malware domains before they reach your devices. This guide covers setup via Docker or bare metal, configuring network DNS, managing blocklists, and enabling secure DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for enhanced privacy.

A comprehensive guide on segmenting a home network using VLANs to dramatically enhance security. Learn how to isolate different device types—such as IoT gadgets, guests, and servers—from main PCs, preventing cross-segment malware spread and unauthorized communication. Covers setup steps for UniFi, pfSense, and OPNsense.

A comprehensive guide to setting up a fast and secure WireGuard VPN server for remote access to your home network (homelab). Learn keypair generation, advanced Linux firewall (iptables) rules, and how to manage different tunneling modes (split vs. full tunnel) for optimal performance.