Homelab

Cisco Catalyst 3560CX-8PC-S

Wired core of the lab

A compact eight-port PoE switch running current firmware. It is the piece that makes the rest of the lab a network rather than a pile of boards, and it is where I intend to learn segmentation properly: separate VLANs for voice, staging, and a future NAS, with QoS applied where the voice path gives it a real reason to exist.

The point is not to collect IOS commands. I want to understand where the boundaries belong, what breaks when the policy is wrong, and how traffic behaves when services with very different needs share the same wire.

LattePanda 3 Delta

OpenBSD staging host for this site

The most established machine in the lab. It runs OpenBSD and serves as the development and staging environment for The Bug Report, which means every change to this site is built and tested here before it reaches production. Keeping staging on separate hardware is the whole point: OpenBSD-specific build and service behaviour shows up here rather than in front of a reader.

Production web VPS

Serves thebugreport.dev

An OpenBSD virtual machine running Caddy and the small C FastCGI services behind this site. It is the only machine a reader ever talks to, and it exists so that experiments on the LattePanda cannot take the public site down with them.

Nova coordinator VPS

Runs the Nova federation coordinator

The control plane for my Nova federation: authentication, metadata, placement decisions, and repair. It reaches donor nodes over a mutually authenticated connection and never holds plaintext object contents itself. The federation landing page lives at nova.thebugreport.dev.

Hidden DNS primary

Authoritative DNS for my domains

A hidden NSD primary with secondaries handling public queries. The plan is to move authoritative DNS off my registrar and onto infrastructure I run, which is as much about learning the protocol properly as it is about control.

Orange Pi RV2

Future Asterisk host

A RISC-V board, cabled to the switch and still on its stock image. The plan is Armbian first, then Asterisk, using the voice project as a concrete reason to learn segmentation, QoS, and telephony protocols rather than reading about them.

InnoMedia MTA 6328-2Re

Analog telephony adapter

Physically connected and waiting on the Asterisk host. Once the voice path works I want to point it at something genuinely silly and public, connected to this site.

GBS-Control upscaler

Retro video scaler build

Underway. I have the GBS-8200 v4.0 board, the clock generator, the ESP8266 controller, and the tools, and I am practising on LEDs and breadboards first — this is my first soldering project and I would rather ruin a handful of components than the one board the whole build depends on. The finished scaler goes to work on my Wii and whatever else the retro shelf accumulates.