Noob here. How fast can my LAN be with such a setup?
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JJGadget@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis 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.
BigDickMystic@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
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.confiptables –t nat -s 192.168.0.0/16 –A POSTROUTING –o $wan0 -j MASQUERADEiptables –A FORWARD –i $wan0 –o $lan0 –m state --state RELATED, ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPTiptables –A FORWARD –i $lan0 –o $wan0 –j ACCEPTJust set
$lan0and$wan0to 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.
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.
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.