Homelab on Bill's Bloghttps://billalrehmani.pages.dev/tags/homelab/Recent content in Homelab on Bill's BlogBill's Bloghttps://billalrehmani.pages.dev/images/eft-bg.jpghttps://billalrehmani.pages.dev/images/eft-bg.jpgHugoen-AUSun, 12 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +1000Virtual VLAN Segmentation on pfSense — Three Isolated Zones, No Managed Switchhttps://billalrehmani.pages.dev/posts/vlan-segmentation-pfsense/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +1000https://billalrehmani.pages.dev/posts/vlan-segmentation-pfsense/Building three firewall-isolated network segments — Trusted, IoT, and Guest — entirely in virtual machines, with no managed-switch hardware, and proving the isolation holds.Self-Hosted WireGuard Through a Nested Firewall — and the Four-Layer Debug to Make It Workhttps://billalrehmani.pages.dev/posts/wireguard-pfsense-nested-firewall/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:30:00 +1000https://billalrehmani.pages.dev/posts/wireguard-pfsense-nested-firewall/I already run Tailscale, but I wanted to build a VPN into my lab from scratch — raw WireGuard on pfSense, reaching it from my phone on mobile data. Getting the tunnel up was the easy part. Then came four separate silent failures, each producing the identical 'won't load' symptom for a completely different reason, at a completely different layer.