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Finally ditched my ISP’s router and installed my own opnsense firewall with my own Access Point. I have crowdsec running on opnsense to block attacks + adguard to block ads and malicious domains. My network is segmented between my homelab that is exposed and my AP.

Finally feels quite safe in my network 😅

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[–] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m running on bare metal. I have a physical homelab behind. Can’t you add ram?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I could, if it wasn’t so damn expensive for 32gb

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't imagine why you need 32gb for opnsense. I can run it on a single core and 1gb, unless I literally want every DNS blacklist loaded in which case 4gb

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I’m running a proxmox instance on mine, with opnsense in a vm and plex, Jellyfin pihole and my omada controller on lxc. 16gb is just enough for everything, but I like to future proof and buffer things, so it makes me a bit nervous utilizing 12 of that 16 gb and only leaving 4gb for proxmox.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago

In some places you can still get 32GB DDR4 for a kidney if you‘re lucky.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I will get them a look