Home Network Design – Part 2

This article provides a practical, security-focused guide to segmenting a home network to reduce risk and limit lateral movement. It explains key concepts (VLANs, ACLs, routing, firewalls, multicast/mDNS), offers top-down and bottom-up methods to group devices, addresses challenges like service discovery and guest access across segments, and outlines required hardware capabilities to implement a balanced, maintainable segmentation strategy.