What network engineer can live without their own home network? Especially one that looks nice, has way more bandwidth and ports than should ever be necessary and demonstrates your tue geekiness? That would be like a Professional Landscaper without any Landscaping of their own or a home builder who lives in an apartment.

If the average computer user can build their own home network, then we network engineers deserve to have one that theirs pales in comparison to. ;) So without further ado, here is the rundown on my own home network. The picture here is a little outdated as I have added a few things since then.

My most recent DSL Speed Test Results

• Chatsworth 19" equipment rack
• Ortronics CAT5e 48 port patch panel
• Panduit Horizontal wire management
• 2 x Catalyst 3524-PWR-XL switch 24 10/100 and 2 GBIC slots w/ Inline Power
• Cisco 3725 router (2FE, WIC-1ADSL, WIC-1B-U, WIC-1AM 256MB DRAM, 192MB Flash)
  IOS 12.3(25) Advanced IP Services. The router terminates my DSL connection, acts as a NAT device and Firewall using Context Based Access Control
• Juniper/Netscreen 5GT Firewall
• Cisco AP-1220B 802.11a/g wireless access point
• SBC Pro-S 3008/512 ADSL service with a /29 static subnet
• BlueCoat SG400-1 proxy w/Secure Computing SmartFilter content management and SSL accelerator
  Transparent forward proxy, Reverse proxy, and SOCKS
  
• Compaq TFT 450 14.5" rack mount flat panel display
• Compaq rack mount keyboard with trackball mouse
• Compaq 8 port EO1004B KVM switch
• Buffalo TeraStation 1 Terabyte RAID 5 SAN Storage with a Gigabit interface
• Gentoo 2006.0 Linux server (DNS, Sendmail, Apache, MySQL, FTP, BOINC/SETI)
  AMD Athlon 1200 1.2GHz
  512MB DDRAM
  128GB 7200RPM 8MB buffer EIDE HD
  3Com 3C905B FastEthernet Adapter
  
• Gentoo 2007.0 Linux server (Backup services, BOINC/SETI)
  Dell Dimension 8200
  Intel P4 1.8GHz
  512MB RDRAM
  300GB 7200RPM 8MB buffer EIDE HD
  
• 3 x Cisco 7960G IP Phones inline powered from switch
• APC SmartUPS 1500 RM2U 1440 VA Uninterruptible Power Supply
  
• APC BackUPS-Pro 1100 Uninterruptible Power Supply
  

• Windows XP Professional SP2
  
• AMD Athlon 2800+ 2.08GHz
  Thermaltake Volcano 9 CPU fan
  512MB PC2700 SDRAM
  256MB ATI Radeon X800 XT 8x AGP video adapter
  2 x 128GB Western Digital Hard Drives with 8MB Cache
  Mitsumi 16x DVD/48x CD-ROM
  Sony 16x Dual-Layer DVD/CD Burner
  Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Audio card
  3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet adapter (onboard)
  Intel PCI FastEthernet adapter
  
• Viewsonic 19" G90fb Graphic Series Monitor
• HP LaserJet 1200
• Epson Perfection 1640SU Scanner
• Epson Stylus Photo R300 Printer
• APC BackUPS-Pro 1100

• Dell Latitude D610
  Windows XP Professional SP1
  Intel Pentium M 1.89GHz
  1.0Gig SDRAM
  128MB Mobile Intel 915GM Express video adapter
  Hitachi 40GB Hard Drive
  Hitachi DVD/CD-ROM
  Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Ethernet adapter (onboard)
  Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (onboard)