Networking

Home Network

In this section, we are going to look at the home network and what I’ve done to help protect myself from threats and allow my self the freedom of exploration via the web. As far as I’m concerned, there are three major parts to networking. Of course there are more intricate details to networking when speaking in terms of troubleshooting, but I’m not going to be speaking to networking on that level. Instead, I’ll be speaking on Hardware, Software, and Tunnels. I’ll detail the services and hardware I use, why I use it, and how it works. These points will be applicable to home labs as well as scalable for enterprise use. Please feel free to move about subject by the section that interests you most, but please know, they all work together to form a complete system.

Hardware

If you’re like me, or millions of others, you may have a router or access point provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Now, if you’re just playing video games, checking emails, shopping on Amazon, or death scrolling social media, the standard modem/router works great. It’s only when you decide to do anything outside of the average web surfing, you should consider stepping up your hardware to something with more control and ability.

Home Network In this section, we are going to look at the home network and what I’ve done to help protect myself from threats and allow my self the freedom of exploration via the web. As far as I’m concerned, there are three major parts to networking. Of course there are more intricate details to…

VPN/OpenVPN

If you deviate from the common place of web browsing, you potentially leave the door wide open for intrusive users and/or software. More often than not these intruders have nefarious causes. They can either piggyback off of your traffic or target you anonymously through apps made to randomly find vulnerabilities. A Virtualized Private Network (VPN) can protect you from these types of threats.