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Advice On Proposed Router Design (lemmy.tf)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I'm trying to build a router. Just need something to handle the networking in my house and the plan is to separate things out via virtual local area networks. Anyway, reading a bunch of threads and comments, I think my design will be something akin to this. Is this good or bad? Ultimately I wanna run OPNSense since that's what most people recommend, but wanna about x86.

NanoPi as a hub: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHU4JCV

AX3000 as an AP: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzPBBVX

Network Switch: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EITz5Gz

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you have an always on server, you can always run Opnsense as a vm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just my RPi, hence the looking for another SBC to do the routing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For people starting out, I highly recommend not doing this. You want to be able to mess with your server without bringing down the whole network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If you have a hypervisor in a home lab, which it turns out OP does not, odds are good your already running a DNS filter/ server, DHCP server, AD domain, etc so the whole network is down anyway during hypervisor restarts if you don’t have HA setup.