So I’m trying to build a router. Just need something to handle the networking in my house and the plan is to separate things out via virtual local area networks. Anyway, reading a bunch of threads and comments, I think my design will be something akin to this. Is this good or bad? Ultimately I wanna run OPNSense since that’s what most people recommend, but wanna about x86.
NanoPi as a hub: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHU4JCV
AX3000 as an AP: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzPBBVX
Network Switch: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EITz5Gz
Your router and wireless access point seem OK. The switch looks suspicious, there is conflicting information in the description, some parts indicate Managed and some indicate Unmanaged. I caution against that switch specifically.
Bloody hell, thank you!
If you have an always on server, you can always run Opnsense as a vm.
Just my RPi, hence the looking for another SBC to do the routing.
For people starting out, I highly recommend not doing this. You want to be able to mess with your server without bringing down the whole network.
If you have a hypervisor in a home lab, which it turns out OP does not, odds are good your already running a DNS filter/ server, DHCP server, AD domain, etc so the whole network is down anyway during hypervisor restarts if you don’t have HA setup.
