The ZeroPoint Lab

A real lab, documented in full.

This is the working example behind the advice: every hop from the ISP to a VM, plus the hypervisors, services, and segmented networks actually running here. Updated by hand and deliberately public-safe.

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Nodes
3
Services
3
VLANs
16
Clients

Updated by hand · As of 2026-09-22

Full topology

The whole network, end to end.

Internet edge, gateway, wireless clients, VLANs, switches, hosts, and running workloads in one sanitized view.

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Centerpiece

Click any node for detail.

InternetUniFi GatewayUniFi SwitchingProxmox ClusterWireless APLab NetworkOPNsenseCisco Switch

ISP

Internet

The WAN link everything else on both networks depends on.

Hypervisors

Proxmox nodes

Two nodes, clustered, running the virtual machines and containers below.

pve01

HP EliteDesk Mini

Online
1%CPU
45%RAM
8%Disk
Cores
6c
Memory
3.4 / 7.5 GB
Guests
1/2 running
pve02

HP EliteDesk Mini

Online
2%CPU
39%RAM
7%Disk
Cores
6c
Memory
6.0 / 15.4 GB
Guests
2/2 running

Workloads

Virtual machines & containers

Shown by role rather than hostname — enough to see what the lab does without handing out a map of it.

StatusServiceRoleNode
RunningInternal DashboardMonitoringpve01
RunningMesh VPNRemote Accesspve02
RunningIdentity & SSOAuthenticationpve02

Two networks, on purpose

Home network & Cisco lab

The house runs on UniFi. The Cisco lab hangs off a dedicated link, but OPNsense gives it its own routing domain and firewall policy — used purely for learning, and never trusted by the home VLANs.

Home Network

ISP → UniFi

Hardware

Gateway

UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra

Routing, firewall, and the UniFi OS console

Switch

UniFi Flex Mini

Compact managed switch feeding the AP

Access Point

UniFi U7 Lite

Broadcasts the Trusted, IoT & Guest SSIDs

VLAN 1
Trusted9 clients

Core devices — full access to internal services.

6 wired3 Wi-Fi
VLAN 20
IoT7 clients

Smart-home devices, isolated from trusted traffic.

0 wired7 Wi-Fi
VLAN 30
Guestidle

Internet-only, walled off from every other segment.

0 wired0 Wi-Fi

Cisco Lab

Own routing domain · Enterprise gear
OPNsense · Cisco SwitchIts own routing domain