My Home Lab
The rack
Networking
Router
The Sophos XG 210 running OPNSense OPNsense 26.1.11_10-amd64. This firewall appliance comes with 8 x 1 Gbit ports as well as an expansion module. I opted for a Check Point M4E210G2SPI9-XR-CP2 2 Port 10 Gig Module to give me an additional 2 x 10Gbit SFP+ ports.
Switch
The Sophos feeds a Dell N1548P 48-Port PoE Gigabit Ethernet Switch. It also has 4 x 10Gbit SFP+ ports, which feed the rest of the rack. The rest of the house is wired up on 1Gbit. Before all this, I was virtualising OPNSense, and using a Fujitsu XG2000 which has XFP ports. It was a little awkward trying to keep everything sorted, there were various media converters to go from fibre to ethernet and it was quite nice to eliminate that aspect.
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