After two years of Homelab the time has come to expand my IP pools and introduce a second, entirely separate physical network. My 192.168.1.0 network is rapidly running out of usable IP addresses. I also like to batch IP addresses when wanting multiple for a project. So my new project will be to setup a new 192.169.4.1/23 network, giving me 512 usable IP addresses and freeing up IPs on the hone network, amd away from the consumer router that frustrates me so much. My first job following network install will be to move the first of three Proxmox Server over to the new network. Then the task of updating all static IPs to with there new addresses. As an aside the new network will also have two vlans each with there own set of 254 addresses. This is a long overdue project to finally tidy my physical network, and, properly airgap my homelab.

Hi, I am very happy to be part of this community. By trade, I am a software developer working in Level 2 industry automation. At home, I take care of the small network, as my family rents apartments during summer. 4–5 PCs are running 24/7 in my basement where I host my 2 software solutions for private use, NAS and VMware server where I run VMs on which I develop/maintain software for my automation job. I am always looking to improve my hardware and software, especially now as I took the photographer route and attending the school for graphic design. Usually I build my rigs from second hard hardware, mostly purchased from ebay.com. The image shows my small x270 with web front end of my production software - custom built for my tourism. In the center is my VM server (xfce ubuntu linux) acting - for now - as a photo editing rig (accessed via RDP) and on the right side is my (native ubuntu linux) asp.net core development PC (accessed via RDP). By the end of next week, I am expecting parts for my graphics and printing workstation to arrive. -o- I have a lot of plans for my home setup. I want to move all my machines to debian (12), now I have only 2 machines running it. There is a mikrotik router on my network and I would like to have a bit more control of the network traffic. In rare occasions, tourists come and start torrenting - throttling the network. I want to have dedicated DNS server, build software RAID 1 fields (now I use rsync scripts in cron). And more.