Home Labs

[davyboi]

Hello

 

I would like to set up a small home lab for testing and learning purposes, mainly in the networking side where I have some skills gaps.I have borrowed a spare Cisco 1811 router and a Cisco managed switch, I also have a spare PC that I will use to host some Windows Server/desktop VMs

 

What I would like, is to have the test environment on 10.x.x.x leave my home network (192.168.x.x) untouched, but still allow the test environment to connect to the internet. I've looked on the net and there seems to be a number of ways to do it using the 1811, so if anyone has a tried and tested method I would appreciate some advise on getting it setup.

 

Thanks!

[Davit2005]

NAT from your cisco router through to your home network then out again through your internet router.

 

Lab network > CISCO LAN > CISCO WAN > Home Network > Internet.

 

You are doubling up NAT but as long as you do not want to access systems inside your lab network from the Internet this should work fine. I set up similar during a Citrix PoC at a previous employment. This will allow you to set up DHCP servers etc.. behind the Cisco router in your lab network that won't effect your home network.

 

Make sure you do use different ip subnets in your lab network though :-) .

 

It is NAT overload you need to setup on your Cisco if you want many to one NAT.

Edited March 3, 2017 by Davit2005

[davyboi]

Thanks, I will give this ago at the weekend. Just one thing to confirm.

 

If I set FE0/0 as the inside NAT port, do I assign this a static IP address of say 10.1.0.1, then use that as the default gateway on my Lab network? then leave FE0/1 as DHCP connect that to my home router and let that give it a 192.168 address and assign that as the outside NAT port? or is it better to assign a static 192.168 address to the outside port too before adding the routes in?

[Davit2005]

Thanks, I will give this ago at the weekend. Just one thing to confirm.

 

If I set FE0/0 as the inside NAT port, do I assign this a static IP address of say 10.1.0.1, then use that as the default gateway on my Lab network? then leave FE0/1 as DHCP connect that to my home router and let that give it a 192.168 address and assign that as the outside NAT port? or is it better to assign a static 192.168 address to the outside port too before adding the routes in?

 

I'd personally set a static IP on the WAN FE0/1 . This would then give you ability to RDP etc.. into lab devices if need be with a fixed IP, exclude it or set a reservation on your Internet router to stop the IP address being given out to anything else.

[ITGURU]

Hello

 

I would like to set up a small home lab for testing and learning purposes, mainly in the networking side where I have some skills gaps.I have borrowed a spare Cisco 1811 router and a Cisco managed switch, I also have a spare PC that I will use to host some Windows Server/desktop VMs

 

What I would like, is to have the test environment on 10.x.x.x leave my home network (192.168.x.x) untouched, but still allow the test environment to connect to the internet. I've looked on the net and there seems to be a number of ways to do it using the 1811, so if anyone has a tried and tested method I would appreciate some advise on getting it setup.

 

Thanks!

 

"Borrowed" from the workplace?! lol