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? 🌞

  • Klox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    17 hours ago

    OPNsense on used dell optiplex. Very easy but it can do whatever you want to grow into as you learn more.

    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      dell optiplex

      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…

      • Klox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        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.