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Can you please tell me all about your DIY router? (fedinsfw.app)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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? 🌞

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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Currently running OPNsense on a small Dual-Nic Shuttle PC with an Pentium G4560 and 4 gigs of ram and it's been handling everything I throw at it perfectly fine. Ive got 16 Interfaces, around 10 Wireguard Peers and a SIT tunnel to HE and Im still getting Line Speeds through the firewall.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    I might be able to snag that same model with an i5-6500 for around 60€. Could you tell me more about your experience with it? In particular, how are the thermals and the power consumption, can it handle 1Gb/s on both ethernet ports, and have you encountered any compatibility issues with OPNsense?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Thermals are pretty much ok as long as you dont have the cpu at 100% 24/7. I've never had it go over ~50°C in normal use in my basement. Not sure if it can handle gbit on 2 ports but Iperf between two vlans on the same NIC works flawlessly with lots of cpu to spare

    Mine sits at around ~11W during normal usage (~40mbps into a wireguard tunnel)

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