06-29, 15:00–15:20 (America/Los_Angeles), Prime Dome
Are you ready to help fight the enshittification of the internet through self-hosting? Start here.
10Gb residential uplink is now being deployed in urban areas and it's deployment is only going to accelerate.
Come learn how to deploy 10Gb to your home net on a budget, from hardware selection to the software stack configuration.
I recently went though the process of upgrading my homelab to a 10Gb network stack.
While it seemed daunting at first, once I figured out the hardware selection, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be.
In this talk, we'll cover the following:
- Why? (Why not??)
- Hardware Selection, on a budget
- Configuring a Linux router from scratch
- Getting the uplink working, with or without your provider's help.
- Configuring a simple and secure network architecture through VLAN segmentation
- Routing / Wireless configuration
- Firewall rules and policies to not get pwned
- Further resources for learning / self-hosting
So what are you waiting for? Still loading? Okay, I'll wait.
Some familiarity with networks will help but isn't totally required (I'll cover the basics). We won't go deep on network concepts, but instead provide the tools and knowledge needed as a launching point for your own 10G homelab.
Alan is a Networking Nerd, Hardware Hacker, Optimist, and Defender.
After working at a fiber optic switch company out of college, he got a job at CloudFlare where he built and operated the observability data pipeline for millions of events per second (multiple Gbps).
Now he's building tools for detection and response at RunReveal, a security data platform.