Now that I have time for hobbies again I wanna dive right in to building up a home lab. Right now I just have a Netgear router that reached end of life, and a NAS i’d like to make accessible remotely, and a DIY router seems like the correct next step for me. I’m very interested in ad-blocking network wide and someday I’d like to host my own little webpage, but for now I’m really just barely getting started.
I’m information gathering, I don’t know what I don’t know and my networking skills are pretty weak anyway. But even if your needs and desires have nothing to do with mine, I also just like to hear people talk about their set ups. Please? 🌞
OPNsense on used dell optiplex. Very easy but it can do whatever you want to grow into as you learn more.
Is the power consumption too bad, if you know?
This is what I did before I went to all unifi gear.
I was Unifi gear and then went back to Opnsense :P. That shit is way too expensive to replace.
The extended warranty is pretty damn good, but that’s expensive too lol
How many NICs can you cram in these? I added a second one to my Lenovo Tinys but some more are nice for a FW…
Two NIC. I’m usually using the SFF. I went 10G last year and it’s been so great. Single, used, low profile, dual port SFP+ module. One port has SFP+ to RJ45 to my modem. Other port is SFP+ passive DAC to a used Brocade ICX 2750.