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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 week agoI’ve had pihole years before the opnsense, but also opnsense is not the main router but just sits in front of my homelab. The wifi etc is a FritzBox, which also acts as WAN for opnsense.
That way, everything still in the house still works if my homelab/opnsense is down. Pihole is on a pi in the FritzBox LAN.
zo0@programming.dev 1 week ago
That sounds overly complicated, why not have it all on opnsense instead of 3 different devices?
Is your opnsense unstable? Otherwise regarding network availability you are just introducing unnecessary failure points the network.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 week ago
The point of the opnsense is that I can tinker with it without risking our home wifi. It needs to stay up for my wife, for our mqtt devices/home assistant etc.
I don’t introduce points of failure to our home network which is the critical part. If something in the opnsense misbehaves, it only impacts my lab stuff. The FritzBox + Pihole combination has proven pretty stable over years, even though I’m considering getting a second Pihole device for high availability.
zo0@programming.dev 1 week ago
Ah right, I thought you were doing it like this
Internet -> Fritzbox + Pihole -> Opnsense -> Home Network
It makes sense now :D
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 week ago
Yeah that would be a bit convoluted :D