Comment on Best secure router for home use?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• JJGadget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This right here. get something cheap, throw opnsense or pfsense on it and start learning. It will probably be incredibly frustrating at first but when it starts to click then it is really fun and rewarding.

  I bought an old dell r210ii years ago and threw pfsense on it then swapped to opnsense and could not be happier. It is still in use today, a good 6 years later.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I did mine by just adding some iptables rules to set up NAT. It's all of four commands:

    echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

    iptables –t nat -s 192.168.0.0/16 –A POSTROUTING –o $wan0 -j MASQUERADE

    iptables –A FORWARD –i $wan0 –o $lan0 –m state --state RELATED, ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

    iptables –A FORWARD –i $lan0 –o $wan0 –j ACCEPT

    Just set $lan0 and $wan0 to your LAN and WAN interfaces. For wifi I've got a couple Unifi access points around the house for good coverage.

    Yes, I know IPv6 is better and yadda yadda yadda but I can't remember the addresses let alone type them so I'm not changing anything.

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    • d13@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did this as well, but I’m wondering if it was the wrong call. It’s harder to work with firewalls (particularly if docker is involved), and I’ve struggled with stuff like SyncThing.

      Most likely more learning could solve it, but I wonder if I should switch to a dedicated router OS where more support resources are available.

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      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I've got almost all of my services running on a separate, bigger system and only have a couple ports open on this one. Iptables isn't too hard once you understand the shorthand.

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  • BigDickMystic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Noob here. How fast can my LAN be with such a setup?

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    • Jivebunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As fast as the slowest denominator in your LAN. So give the PC that you’re going to host this on a decent Ethernet card and you should be flying.

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• Bimbleby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Got a suggested device?

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  • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fujitsu Futro S720 with a 90° 4x PCI adapter and an Intel NIC. It consumes about 6W (maybe something more with the additional NIC). You can get the former for about 20/30€ on eBay and the rest for about 30/40€. If you have a VLAN enabled switch, you can even just use the onboard Ethernet port.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have this little guy.

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    • Bimbleby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you! Seems like its unavailable in Europe unless you pay a hefty premium.

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      • glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are many similar. The best is GoWin R86S

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