MPLS (by alaric)
This strikes me as a good bit of technology. I'd quite like to set up an MPLS backbone; currently my home network's subnets are all joined by a single IP router, using the magic of VLANs to easily bring all the networks together to one central point for routing, but it'd be nice to have less single points of failure in future. But I also have two other networks out there, reachable only via the public Internet, and I could join the three with MPLS over IP links.
That'd gain me little over normal IP VPN tunnelling, but it'd lay the foundation for future growth. Particularly when I move to having a proper mesh of routers at home, rather than one single point of failure. Secondly, if I ever get the time and money to work on it, I want to develop and expand my Xen cluster, perhaps into a virtualised hosting offering, and an MPLS backbone would allow me to easily host virtual networks between virtual servers, over a redundant distributed architecture. So experience playing with MPLS at home would be a boon there!
Luckily, there's an experimental MPLS stack for NetBSD, Ayame, and plans to merge it into the official kernel...
Sun 1st Apr 2007 12:13 pm 
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By Ben, Sun 1st Apr 2007 @ 6:41 pm
The problem with all this stuff on a 'home' network is that there just aren't enough users to play with.
Now I've got an additional full time user on my network, stuff will be used more. So a wired network is needed (and I'm going to Gb just for fun), and I've just had to look up instructions for transfering calls on Asterisk. But even with two people, it still hasn't got the usage to really try funky stuff out.
I suppose you could always connect up the cats or something.