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Hi Lemmy gang -

Too many answers online across Reddit and misc forums, so I come to you.

I am looking to ditch my mesh net corporate ware Linksys setup for a variety of reasons.

From my cursory research, a mini PC for routing, or an otherwise dedicated box that I can OpenWRT/wireguard (EDIT: modem -> router box -> local net), then separately do the access points as desired, probably seems ideal. Would like 3-4 Ethernet’s and not two.

Should I get a hardcore commercial router? A mini pc for routing?

I will again decouple the media networking etc to a different box/PC. Mainly, I want to have the networking hub, and family WiFi, setup in the spirit of self hosting / OpenWRT / Wireguard outbound (thinking tailscale or headscale later, I’m a Jellyfin veteran).

But I am a total noob as far as getting really into networking, Linux things, etc. A simple noob hardware and setup guide is my desire.

Thanks fam.

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We're missing crucial information.

What bandwidth do you get from your ISP? Do you want to run things like IDS/IPS? what kind of throughput do you want from wireguard?

What it takes to connect a 100/10 DOCSIS based service is completely different to a 1/100 service is completely different to an 8/8gbps fiber service.

You said wireguard on the modem... your modem shouldn't be doing any routing of tunnels at all. I'm almost suspecting that you don't know what the difference between a router and modem is because of this "misspeak". If you don't, you need to go watch some networking basics youtube videos and get a firm understanding before you commit to buying stuff that you have no idea what you're doing with.

In my case, I'm blessed with 8/8 fiber. I have a full fancy supermicro server running opnsense. 10gbps on the wan side, 40gbps on the lan side for multiple vlans (about a dozen). It's overkill because my ISP offers it... but that means that the "router" I'm using to use the 8gbps is also ~$2k cost to do it. With big bandwidth comes big processing overhead if you want to do any form of protection and tunneling (VPN or SDN).

You shouldn't really care how many interfaces your router has outside of potentially doing LACP sort of redundancy. Use a switch to get more ports for your devices.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I've shared it on lemmy before somewhere...

Yeah found it... This thread. https://lemmy.saik0.com/post/1588364

For the stuff I do... it's not overkill at all. By a metric of any individual's house... yeah... it's pretty overkill.

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