Draw your home network (and Media) diagram

jaybee

jaybee

jaybee

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You can use paint/visio/free tools > there appears to be a free tool called network notepad which is free to download.
This will be interesting to see everyones home network. I thought it would be good to include Sky/Cable/Freeview/whatever as well to see how each display in the house gets their content. The last thread I found in a search was from 2006 so it looks about time we had a new decent thread.

It can be as complex or as simple as you like.
 
I'll do mine later when I get home, but nice idea for a thread, will be nice to see how many people are using more complex network topologies.

I'll be using visio as I have the cisco stencils for the kit I'm using.
 
my vanilla network (Visio 2003)
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Very interesting thread. It would be good if everyone could include ALL their technologies that they use on a network connection. If your a guru also include addressing and host names of your networks with alittle explination to why you have the setup in your home e.t.c.
 
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It's in a shared student house so only about 1/4 of the stuff is mine, we've kept it nice and simple in terms of network setup, the WRT54GL handles all the internet/dhcp stuff and the server is there for torrents & file storage.


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network notepad didn't run for me so.....

pc---ethernet cable---o2 II box----o2 20mb internet (20,730kbps to be exact :D)

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A little over-complex for home use, but most of it is either for home teaching, or just "because I can". The phone system is only internal, it has no break out to outside lines, and is literally for learning purposes only.

The two sections at the bottom actually contain an xbox360, another four PC's, and occasionally a PS3, but as they are only host devices I left them off. The WiFi section is the same deal with iPhones, laptops and other wireless devices, but again as they are only hosts they aren't really of any interest.
 
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Coloured connectors just to differentiate between network types rather than VLans :) although there are some I don't think its relevant info, same for detailed network addressing :p
 
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A curious setup in many ways, I don't use private IPs at all (allowing me to laugh at those burdened with NAT) and I'm playing with IPv6 fairly extensively.

It's basically divided so one connection does my public subnets and IPv4 traffic whereas the other does my IPv6 and VPN traffic. As all my download/upload to datacenters is all over v6 now this works fairly well for me.

Two high end firewalls, the SRX isn't doing much firewalling, it's a router in this scenario, SSG does edge firewalling and terminates tunnels for v6 and VPNs.

The Cisco 1841 is running NAT-PT to let me run IPv6 only hosts (along with totd on one of the unix hosts to mangle DNS to make it work). It's rubbish, NAT-PT is on the way out but Cisco's implementation is particularly bad as it can't process it in CEF, which means it's dog slow. I will replace this box sometime.

The whole lot are talking ISIS because I needed a v6 capable protocol, OSPFv4 sucks, BGP's a hassle and I'm a network architect at the end of the day - I like ISIS.

Simple. In the future I'll replace that NAT-PT box and move it to the datacenter side I think and likely kill one of the little unix servers as I try to cut down on kit, may yet consolidate both firewalls into one higher end unit. Speed of routing between my NAS and desktop is annoying me a tad...

I've obviously missed the hosts, but they're not very interesting, media streamers, desktops, laptops, phones, TVs etc...
 
Here is mine, there is a few things I need to implement at some stage

1) Get a dedicated access point so I can turn the Netgear DG834GT into modem only mode, at the moment I cant as the laptops and phones need to go over wireless.

2) I have a Cisco 1720 to set-up on my network, im probably going to use them alongside another switch so I can devide my network in to two and use the Morandasrv2 server on a seperate network then test routing between the two, will give me a chance to learn everything then.

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