tags : Selfhosting, Networking
What’s on the table?
- There are three major players OPNSense, PFSense, OpenWRT. These can be mixed and matched, eg. You can have OPNSense as the gateway and OpenWRT in the APs.
- Between OPNSense and PFSense, better go with OPNSense
- There are three major parts
- Router(Gateway)
- Firewall
- Access Points(AP).
- All of this can be done by one device or separate device based on preference. Eg. You can run commercial routers in AP mode and have some old laptop be the router, or simply use a commercial router which will do all 3 etc.
- Things you can do(most of them overkill for a homelab)
- policy routing
- firewalling
- DNS filtering
- I(D/P)S
- Dual WAN
- Monitoring
- AntiBufferBloat
- Traffic shaping
- RADIUS etc.
OpenWRT
- Started as a firmware replacement for a Linksys WRT54G, ended up being a powerful Linux-based router OS
- Designed to run on small embedded devices, like commercial routers and single board computers. can also run x86
- Designed to be a powerful wireless access point/router.
- Firewall is good but the *Sense are better at this.
- Upgrading to a newer versions is little painful