⚠️ WARNING: This pages makes future statements that may not be true at any paricular time while this banner is present. This page refers to a network that does not exist or is in partial state of build. Many of the components used to build this network will come from the equipment in the Condo network.
Villa Makalena is the new condo being built right now to be introduced into the rachelski household.
This page focuses on the Condo. And we are getting ready to build the Villa Makalena network, so I have extracted the common concepts between the 2 networks to the Rachelski Home Network page. Read that before coming back here to understand what is unique about the condo network.
We have big plans for this network and have already started securing equipment. Including:
opnsens on net-1 plugged into it along with switches for each building on the property to distribute high bandwidth trafficIt is anticipated that this network will have a number of VLANs that will be used to bifercate L2 traffic
The villa comes equiped with a dedicated server room behind the kitchen. This is where we will be housing the:
Additionally, the rack contains a small form-factor computer that is coordinating networking services. This computer, named net-1.rachelski.internal is running proxmox as an OS, and a total of 4 VMs:
Technitium. This resolver will also perform DNS re-writes for the rachelski.internal domain.This section lists the key devices used in the home.
This section should be filled in once the Fiber access point is installed.
The Wifi network itself is anticipated to be run as a series of hard-wired access points (APs). I expect them to be WiFI7 or WiFI8. The are then coordinated by the omada controller that is running in one of the net-1 VMs. Each building will have an access point with the Sala's AP being set up for outdoor use. Each AP is expected to be homed on a 2.5gb ethernet connection to an access switch in each building.
WiFi has become a transport protocol similar in nature to the ethenet plugs around the house.
SSN:
SSID Password:
There is a second device in the office bedroom that extends the range of this network. However, this device is basically invisible from a network perspective. The 2 devices speak to each other over a dedicated 5 GHZ wifi channel.
The network exposes a WiFi network over 2 channels: 2.5 GHZ and 5 GHZ. A 3rd 5 GHZ channel functions as a control channel linking the meshed devices.
There are currently no rules or guidelines established on which channel a household device would connect to. But this is likely to change in the future.
Be aware that the condo network was serving a SSN that many devices were plugged into.
It is common knowledge within the household of how to join that network:
SSN: I70 (a very long highway stretching over most of the U.S.)
SSID Password: rachelski
My latest philosophy is that such DDNS services are network services and should be located to a network device (the Asus router or the net-1 firewall host) to reduce the blast raduis of a NAS failure. If a service (in the DNS zone) is using this DDNS route, it will be CNAME'ed to mrachelski.synology.me
The following is an overview of the key services provided within this network. This is critical for understanding when doing network troubleshooting. Please see the primary rachelski-home-network page for a complete overview
This page is focused on services specific to the Villa Makalena network.
The ability to VPN into the home network will be provided by the OpnSense router.
DHCP services wil be provided by the OpnSense router on all VLANs