Networking projects and guides covering switches, routers, DNS, VLANs, remote access, network design and troubleshooting.
After getting more and more of Realm Labs running on my Synology DS224+, I started looking at what else I could move onto it. WireGuard seemed like an obvious candidate. I was already using Docker extensively on the NAS, so…
A Pi-hole port 53 conflict was not what I expected when I tried to add network-wide DNS filtering to the Realm Labs home network. The plan seemed simple: deploy Pi-hole in Docker on the Synology DS224+, point the network at…
It provides managed Gigabit Ethernet, VLAN support, a proper command-line interface and remote management over SSH. For learning networking or building a more advanced home network, switches like this still have plenty of life left in them. This guide covers…
As Realm Labs grew, remote access became increasingly useful. There are plenty of services inside the lab that I normally access only from the local network: management interfaces, dashboards, shared resources and other internal systems. That is fine when I…
What started as an attempt to improve unreliable ISP Wi-Fi has gradually turned into the network backbone for the whole of Realm Labs. The original setup was fairly typical: a Virgin Media Hub providing routing and wireless coverage for the…