Moving my HOME NETWORK to a DATA CENTER w/ DMVPN - CCNA | CCNP
About this video
Filming first in Paris and referencing his Dallas data center, Chuck explains how he kept his full home lab after quitting his CBT Nuggets job, selling his cars and furniture, and travelling full-time with his family of five. Instead of shrinking the lab, he racked his two large Dell servers, routers and switches in a data center in Dallas and reaches them over DMVPN. His travelling remote site centres on a Cisco 881 branch router that builds the DMVPN tunnel back to Dallas from an Airbnb in Paris, a small switch providing four PoE ports for the three Cisco phones he travels with, and a UniFi access point broadcasting his own Wi-Fi, with its controller running on a server in Dallas — so the phones register to Call Manager in Dallas. For places with no Ethernet, he carries a UniFi Air Gateway to bridge hotel Wi-Fi to Ethernet. He monitors the setup with PRTG, which he says is free up to 100 sensors, and notes he runs EIGRP and OSPF, uses L2TP for remote-access VPN, and plans pfSense on a Raspberry Pi as a travelling firewall. His brother Cameron’s house is also joined by DMVPN.
Key takeaways
- The lab was not downsized for travel — it was moved intact into a Dallas data center and accessed remotely
- DMVPN from a travelling Cisco 881 router makes each Airbnb or hotel a remote branch site connected back to Dallas
- A compact PoE switch powers his three travelling Cisco phones, which register to Call Manager running in Dallas
- A UniFi Air Gateway covers the no-Ethernet case by converting available Wi-Fi into an Ethernet feed for the router
- PRTG, described as free up to 100 sensors, monitors the Paris-to-Dallas link and the data center network
Episode details: published July 16, 2018 · 10:24 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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