TheLordlessBard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installing a hardware firewall/DHCP/Wireguard Server⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to confirm, you don’t have space next to your modem and/or router for the new Celeron box, correct?

  I’m not sure how good of performance you would have if you run the firewall on the Celeron box connected to the LAN portion of your current router, but you could always give it a shot and if it doesn’t work the way you’d like it to then you could try a different solution. From my understanding this setup would cause all traffic to go through your router at least 2x (even if it’s only on layer 2 via the built-in switch.) it may not be that much of a drain though, I’ve never run a setup like that before

  The best layout would be modem -> opnsense router -> Tplink device running in AP mode. From what you’ve said that doesn’t sound feasible at this time. You might be able to utilize a bridge mode somehow, but at that point I’d be guessing since I don’t remember much about the tplink consumer router capabilities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installing a hardware firewall/DHCP/Wireguard Server⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re comfortable running your own router, my suggestion would be to install Opnsense on the new celeron box (as long as it has multiple ports and all the drivers exist in FreeBSD) and keep the TPLink in AP mode so it only handles the wifi side of things Opnsense is incredibly powerful and should have no problem running as your DHCP/firewall/wg box. I don’t run pihole anymore since it has an Adguard Home plugin you can set up, but I did find it a bit more challenging to configure than pihole was