For this project, I tried to create a comprehensive home network rack that consists of a modem, firewall, access point, switch, patch panel, server, IoT devices, cameras, and computers. This setup allows me to connect all of my devices to a centralized location, providing me with a secure and reliable network. I organized everything in this rack to look good and understand what is going on by do
The screenshot shows the network diagram that I designed to show how it looks after designing my network rack, it shows that I started it with Netgate Modem and it's connected to a Protectli product that is provided with OPNSense firewall, the firewall has 3 LAN Ports,so I connected the AP to LAN 1, and my PC to LAN 2 to have my PC seperated from my network, because each LAN has a different set of
The AP used to be a router but I changed it to AP because I enabled the DHCP on the firewall and the firewall assigns the IPs to the devices instead.
The Switch I went with is the Miktotik CRS326-24G-2S+RM and it's connected to a Patch Panel and I bought that to be able to connect all my devices to it such as the FreeNas, Sensers, etc.
One more thing I want to mention is that the whole Network Ra