If you're practicing offensive security at home, the lab must be provably isolated — not "probably fine." Mine runs a dedicated Kali VM on a bridge with no physical uplink, behind a VyOS firewall segment built default-
Networking, security, and infrastructure — engineered hands-on.
Latest Posts
Recovering a Dead Server BMC: From Wedged IPMI to CH341A Chip Flash
A server's BMC (baseboard management controller) is the thing that saves you a drive to the datacenter — until it wedges. Then it can hold the whole board hostage: VGA stuck on a placeholder screen, USB dead, POST completing
Building a Segmented Home Lab: Arista Switching + VyOS Routing
I built my home lab the way I'd build a small production network: real switches, a real router, real VLAN segmentation — not a flat /24 with everything trusted. The layout * Two Arista switches, LACP port-channel trunk between