{"id":2105,"date":"2018-02-18T04:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2018-02-18T05:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T05:09:28","slug":"my-home-lab-testing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/my-home-lab-testing-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"My Home Lab\/Testing ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, my buddy, Greg Sowell posted his Mobile Home Lab<\/a>. I figured I would show off the rack in my home office.<\/p>\n

This is a mixture of gear that powers the basic network for the network in my home and for testing, blog posts, support, and videos\\. Each floor of our 3 story home currently has a Unifi Access point on it powered by a toughswitch\u00a0POE.\u00a0 My top level, which is where my office is has a unifi\u00a0pro that does both 2.4 and 5GHZ.\u00a0 The other levels just do 2.4ghz.\u00a0 This will change once I get a POE switch that does 48volt to power the UNIFI pro.\u00a0 I have stuck with UNIFI because of the bar in our house.\u00a0 Any self-respecting geek needs a guest wifi network.\u00a0 WPA keys are too hard to dish out for those late arriving guests after some rounds of crown and coke.\u00a0 So a Cloudkey makes guest access an easy venture.<\/p>\n

As stated before the UNIFIs are powered by a Toughswitch, and the PRO has a 48VOLT POE and is linked into a port on the tough switch.\u00a0 This switch is then uplinked into one of the gig\u00a0links of the active 2950 switch.\u00a0 Various other devices, some not plugged in at the moment due to need to get to a cubby hole for a roof project, are plugged into the 100 meg ports on this 2950.\u00a0 Things such as the DVR for the security system, network printers, ethernet to my desk for testing, network drives, etc.\u00a0 The other gig port is uplinked to our internet router.<\/p>\n

Our internet is handled by a\u00a0workhorse Mikrotik 493AH. This has a Comcast cable and a local WISP connection, which is a backup.\u00a0 From this router, I am initiating several VPN, EOIP, and other tunnels to various clients and remote networks.\u00a0 If you notice, this router also has a little rubber duck antenna.\u00a0 Inside is a r52 card that is usually disabled by default.\u00a0 This is a backup network for testing if I suspect an issue on the internal wireless network. I can log in, enable the card, and associate to the SSID and see if things are okay, at least as okay for 802.11b\/g speeds.<\/p>\n

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Most everything else is for Cisco certification testing and keeping up on those certs as well as labbing up scenarios. As you guys will hear on our latest podcast, GNS3 and packet tracer are great, but sometimes you can’t beat actual hardware.<\/p>\n

I too have a console server for turning my devices on and off. I do not have fancy remote access turned on, but I can remote to 6 devices at a time without getting up and moving the 4 feet to move a cable.\u00a0 Welcome to the future!<\/p>\n

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Run down of some equipment
\nCisco 2950 (one production and one lab)
\n2x Cisco 3750
\nCisco 3640
\nCisco 3560-X
\nCisco 1841
\nVarious Mikrotik routers
\nUbiquiti EdgeRouter Pro
\nUbiquiti EdgeSwitch 16
\n(The infinity is going into production soon at a data center)<\/p>\n

The Cisco 2541 at the top is a shelf for the monitor for the DVR.\u00a0 Make a great shelf!\u00a0 In the future, I hope to add a Juniper router and some more gear.\u00a0 As always, if you are a manufacturer I would be glad to review some of your gear and even do some configuration videos on it.<\/p>\n

On a side notes, you don’t see much wireless gear.\u00a0 That is a separate\u00a0spot in my office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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