One of the most important aspects of building out your home lab environment is paying attention to the design of your home network. Network segmentation is a core component in securing your home lab network, segmenting traffic, and protecting your network resources. In the video we talk about how to properly design your network with VLANs, using a firewall to filter traffic from specific sources

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Introduction – 0:00
Talking about the basics of VLAN – 1:37
How many home lab networks have been designed – 3:35
How an attacker can pivot into a non-segmented network – 4:43
Starting to create VLANs – 5:36
Showing the existing VLANs on a switch – 6:01
Running the commands to create a new VLAN – 6:25
Configure a switchport as an access port for the newly created VLAN – 7:15
Test connectivity between two PCs and see how VLANs work – 7:59
Testing Connectivity with Ping Commands – 8:37
After adding the additional port to the new VLAN – 9:25
Overview of a network design using multiple VLANs 9:54
Using Firewall Rules to Filter Traffic Between VLANs – 11:44 AM
Looking at firewall rules and associating them with different interfaces – 12:42
Add a firewall rule for a specific interface and block traffic between VLANs – 12:59
Looking at micro-segmentation within a VLAN – 14:01
Limitations of Firewall Filtering – 14:27
Creating a Layer 2 Segment (Logical Switch) – 15:05
Looking at creating a distributed firewall rule – 15:31
Add Active Directory to NSX Manager – 15:44
Thinking about the possibilities – 16:28
Covering and wrapping up the basics – 16:56

pfSense proxmox installation and configuration:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/pfsense-proxmox-install-process-and-configuration/

pfSense VLAN to VLAN routing:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/pfsense-vlan-to-vlan-routing-in-vmware-esxi/

Segment your network with pfSense:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/segment-your-vmware-network-with-pfsense/

Enable VMware NSX-T distributed IDS configuration:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/05/enable-vmware-nsx-t-3-0-distributed-ids-configuration/

Identity-based firewall with VMware NSX-T:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/identity-based-firewall-configuration-with-nsx-t-and-vsphere/

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