RoadLab

A couple of years ago I created a IPSec tunnel betweem my RoadLAB and HomeLAB so I could access my home network and use my home as a my breakout online. In effect I was home. However it turned out to be a fragile setup. More often then not did it not really work. I never got the traffic from my Apple TV to go really go through the tunnel. We want to use the Delta TV Apple TV app also from our remote location. Using the iPad app works, when using the tvOS app, it complains that it needs to be on the Delta network. Annoying and this has to be solvable. ...

Recently I tried to connect to my home using my trusted Wireguard solution, but it just did not work. Although the client claimed to be connected, I could not access anything on my Home Lab remotely. What is the issue? Why did this stop working? End of last year I replaced the router to a N100 CPU based mini pc, could it be due to migration of my config? Time to investigate…. And hopefully find a working solution. ...

In my post Road to CISSP I mentioned my use of a Fanless PC with a Intel Core i3, 8GB of RAM and 6 ethernet ports and a simple Wireless Access Point TP-Link AC1200. This post describes the next steps I took in this road lab setup. Purpose For me the purpose of this setup is two-fold. First I would like to have the same level of online security when I am not at home. The roles the server would have to fulfill: ...