If you have a Raspberry Pi, you can install a UniFi Controller in it and you can configure your network from there. I have a 4-port gigabit card dedicated for networking as I currently have an unmanaged TP-Link switch.Īnyway, for networking devices, you can start out with a couple of following: I then setup a virtual pfSense router (running in KVM) with static routes so that hosts that are segregated into their own network can communicate over the Internet, depending in whether I allow my devices to talk to the Internet or not.

I run Ubuntu Server 18.10 which functions as my router for my entire network. You can also choose a network portion of the IP address randomly such as 172.16.20.0/24 just to spread them out, which is something that I did for my network. 172.16.64.0/26: Computers, smartphones, tablets, laptops, printers, etc.172.16.0.0/26: Ubiquiti USG, Microtik, or pfSense as a router or whatever you have, UniFi Controller, any switches you might have, etc.This will give you up to 62 IP addresses (hosts) to play with. This will be a good start, although you can subnet a couple of networks into /26. 172.16.3.0/24: Wireless home automation devices with Home Assistant having it’s own IP address.172.16.2.0/24: Wired home automation devices with Home Assistant having it’s own IP address.

172.16.1.0/24: Computers, smartphones, tablets, laptops, printers, etc.

172.16.0.0/24: Ubiquiti USG, Microtik, or pfSense as a router or whatever you have, UniFi Controller, any switches you might have, etc.

If you are getting into network segmentation, I would recommend starting out with a couple blocks of IP addresses:

Mikrotik vlan firewall