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General Discussion / Re: Home setup - Looking to optimize, willing to pay for solid guidance

« on: November 20, 2023, 10:47:09 pm »

Fine Sir, with your FreeBSD knowledge and the use of bridging, could you share if it is wise to enable Hyperthreading on an Intel processor or would it be best to leave it disabled?

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General Discussion / Re: Home setup - Looking to optimize, willing to pay for solid guidance

« on: November 19, 2023, 09:35:45 am »

Interesting to learn that freebsd is part of the issue.

If someone wanted to run it differently, using Promox with OPNSense running and another VM that handles switching?

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General Discussion / Re: Home setup - Looking to optimize, willing to pay for solid guidance

« on: November 17, 2023, 07:59:10 pm »

Appreciate the replies, correct I'm currently running all the local ports in a bridge.

I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding why a switch would be required to achieve an optimal configuration, is this due to some limitation of OPNSense?

Are there other opensource alternatives that would work better with my current hardware/layout without the need for a switch?

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General Discussion / Home setup - Looking to optimize, willing to pay for solid guidance

« on: November 17, 2023, 07:00:15 am »

Hello,

I am looking for a lot of guidance on a home setup. I don't come with much networking background, so please bear with me.

Recently setup an Intel NUC NUC9VXQNX key features that I liked beside being a Xeon with ECC RAM, built-in Wi-Fi 6 (not using currently), dual onboard Intel 1Gb NICs and 2 x PCIe expandable slots, one expandable slot is being used with a 4-Port 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Card using an Intel I225 Chipset. For a total of 6 network ports.

Networked devices:

• Port 1: 1 Gigabit - Cable modem provided from ISP, not in bridged mode
• Port 2: 1 Gigabit - Microsoft Surface dock
• Port 3: 2.5 Gigabit - Asus GT-AX11000 running in AP mode
• Port 4: 2.5 Gigabit - Gaming desktop
• Port 5: 2.5 Gigabit - QNAP NIC 1
• Port 6: 2.5 Gigabit - QNAP NIC 2

Really looking for some insight on how to configure OPNSense properly as a router, understand some port forwarding rules. I've figured out so far, how to allow Plex running on the QNAP to be locally as well as externally accessible. I believe IPv6 is working on the internal network properly.

If possible I'd like to use the Intel NUC to host an AdGuard Home DNS system. Prior to this setup when using the Asus GT-AX11000 as my router, I hosted a PiHole, then moved to AdGuard Home on the QNAP device as a container. Currently not sure how to adjust DNS settings, I believe its using public AdGuard DNS IP.

Looking for and willing to pay for professional guidance to optimize the configuration.