Home network

This project contains the OpenWRT configuration files to setup a home network with three subnets:

IoT: for smart home devices like Chromecast
Main: for trusted devices like laptops
Guest: to provide internet, through a VPN, to guest devices

This is a simplification of how those should work:

graph TD
    A[ISP\nmodem] -->|VLAN 7| B(router)
    B -->|VLAN 11, 13, 17| C[managed switch]
    C -->|VLAN 13| IOT
    C -->|VLAN 17| MAIN
    C -->|VLAN 13| GUEST

    subgraph IOT
        D[Chromecast]
        E[Thermostat]
    end

    subgraph MAIN
        F[laptop]
        G[pc]
    end

    subgraph GUEST
        H[phone]
        I[watch]
    end

Using it

This is built using Vaal, so make sure you have it installed. You will also need to create a config.secrets.yaml, with the same structure as config.yaml, but replacing the values with your real secrets. Don't commit that file!

After changing the secrets properly you can run:

vaal sync

and restart your router.

Playground

Inside the playground directory you'll find the play script that can create a virtual network, using VirtualBox, and all necessary hosts to test your changes to OpenWRT configuration files. Check the playground Vaal config file and adjust, if necessary, VirtualBox subnet addresses (192.168.56.*) and network device (vboxnet0).

To first create all hosts and network run

playground/play vm create --all

You'll need VirtualBox, bash and docker installed on you computer. Beware that this may take a while since it will build OpenWRT multiple times. Also, run

playground/play --help

to see all commands available.

tskarthikkumar/homenet

Home network

Using it

Playground