Comment on Homelab hardware choices

• Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a 7530. (Is yours a typo?)

  Yes, those instructions look about right.

  My pfSense box has the username & password, so the router really is just being used as a dumb modem (I used to use Draytek modems)…

  … but…

  The router’s diagnostics will show the DSL details, so you can check if your external connection is ok (ie OSI Layer1), but it will always think it’s offline.

  So once you get your OPNSense setup and working, have a look around the Fritz diagnostics and get comfy with what you can / can’t see, because when there’s a failure you won’t know what is really failed.

  Also… write down what you did and how to reverse it, as you (or others) might want to reset it to full router if your OPNSense is down.

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