I’m moving a bunch of homelab hardware into a colocation rack. Some of it will be exposed to the public internet but most of it (storage server, ipmi interfaces, etc) will be private. My understanding is that the colo gives you an ip public prefix and you bring your own networking equipment, and they have a web control panel for doing firewall configuration, but I’m having trouble understanding the specifics and how to set things up.
For starters, should I try to replicate my home setup by having a router at the perimeter instead of just a switch, to keep things private by default and then open things up as needed? And if I do that, how do I passthrough the public IP addresses I’m given to select public devices, eg Proxmox VMs, that should be on the public internet ?
Or should I be relying on the colo’s firewall to create my private network somehow?
For starters, should I try to replicate my home setup by having a router at the perimeter instead of just a switch, to keep things private by default and then open things up as needed? And if I do that, how do I passthrough the public IP addresses I’m given to select public devices, eg Proxmox VMs, that should be on the public internet ?
Or should I be relying on the colo’s firewall to create my private network somehow?