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? ๐ŸŒž

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[โ€“] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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..

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is what I did before I went to all unifi gear.

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