Introduction

Security of a system is often overlooked or not considered important enough. Some might think not about the possible consequences, which might result in a hacked or compromised server. Maybe sensitive data gets stolen or encrypted with major consequences.

Lately I moved to my new home. My idea was to setup a good stable and high performance LAN network within my home. This project sounds pretty easy at first, but it was harder than I initially suspected it to be.

In this article I talk about my goals for this project. The list of materials to get you started and creating your own network. I will talk about some useful unix tools for network analysis. How-to setup your own NFS (Network File System) server. Last but not least, I will give some Linux network tweaking advise and share my future plans.