u/Background-World-465

Hi everyone,

I am a non-business user/student starting my networking and home lab journey. I am currently trying to learn the basics of routing, VLANs, and firewall configurations, but I am on a strict ₹0/budget constraint.

I am looking to see if anyone in the community has any old, decommissioned, or End-of-Life (EOL) physical hardware gathering dust that they are willing to give away for free.

What I am looking for:

• A Managed or Unmanaged Switch: Any basic 8-port or 24-port switch (even 10/100 Mbps is perfectly fine for my learning phase).
• Old Desktop / Firewall Appliance: Anything I can flash pfSense/OPNsense onto, or an older hardware firewall.

I am more than happy to pay for the domestic shipping/courier costs (via Delhivery, Porter, etc.) if you are shipping it from another city. Alternatively, I can pick it up if you are located within Hyderabad.

Hi everyone,

I am a non-business user/student starting my networking and home lab journey. I am currently trying to learn the basics of routing, VLANs, and firewall configurations, but I am on a strict ₹0/budget constraint.

I am looking to see if anyone in the community has any old, decommissioned, or End-of-Life (EOL) physical hardware gathering dust that they are willing to give away for free.

What I am looking for:

• A Managed or Unmanaged Switch: Any basic 8-port or 24-port switch (even 10/100 Mbps is perfectly fine for my learning phase).
• Old Desktop / Firewall Appliance: Anything I can flash pfSense/OPNsense onto, or an older hardware firewall.

I am more than happy to pay for the domestic shipping/courier costs (via Delhivery, Porter, etc.) if you are shipping it from another city. Alternatively, I can pick it up if you are located within Hyderabad.