Now that I have time for hobbies again I wanna dive right in to building up a home lab. Right now I just have a Netgear router that reached end of life, and a NAS i’d like to make accessible remotely, and a DIY router seems like the correct next step for me. I’m very interested in ad-blocking network wide and someday I’d like to host my own little webpage, but for now I’m really just barely getting started.
I’m information gathering, I don’t know what I don’t know and my networking skills are pretty weak anyway. But even if your needs and desires have nothing to do with mine, I also just like to hear people talk about their set ups. Please? 🌞
I ran a linux box with two gigabit Intel NICs for years with iptables. Almost any device can do it.
Like others say, opnsense is prob your best bet unless you like the abstraction of iptables
I don’t know for sure what I like or don’t like, but I am pretty sure I do not want to start with iptables. Thank you :)