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Can you please tell me all about your DIY router? (fedinsfw.app)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 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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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

When I retire my desktop PC, the old parts become my router. If you have two network ports, it can do it.

To warrant the power bill, it's also a NAS, NVR, mail server, print server and web server.

All my Wifi APs are various home routers flashed with OpenWRT.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Running an email server sounds super super difficult

[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I’ve been running mine for over 20 years. It’s certainly got more difficult, especially to be able to reliably communicate with Gmail-hosted servers and outlook.com addresses, but SPF, DMARC, and DKIM are all pretty straightforward to set up. Tightening the encryption/hash algorithms you accept and “anonymizing” your server greetings takes some finesse as well, but I definitely prefer it this way.

I avoid the entire webmail and spam filtering aspects, smtp(s) and imap(s) only.

[–] alibloke@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Not difficult with amazing software like mailcow

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, you can tear it down as soon as you get the certification.

Mine still runs decades later though.