Hi, I got a new router from my ISP, but it doesn’t even have an option to change the address of the DNS server…

So I’m gonna switch (if necessary also the ISP).

I have never used a custom router, so I would appreciate a push in the right direction. What can you recommend? Synology? FritzBox? Asus? Bridge Mode on the ISP router + RasPi?

The following I am running on a separate device, but if possible it would be nice to have it directly on the router device:

  • PiHole
  • Wireguard
  • DDNS updater
  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    13 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    How much bandwidth and flexibility do you want? OpenWRT is what I use on consumer hardware but many people here also swear by custom hardware with opnsense

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      swear by custom hardware with opnsense

      …which is completely unnecessary and overkill for most people, even those with home labs, since OpenWrt can do it all.

  • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I have been using opnsense on a very cheap celeron nuc for a few years, very happy with it

  • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
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    8 months ago

    One more for mikrotik (I run the VM version on a small linux box).

    I tested a ton of those (pf/opn-senses, VyOS, even Cisco), and noone of the free ones can handle IPv6 in a reasonable way in 2024, which is slightly bizzare. Mikrotik has some annoyances, but it’s rock solid as a router.

    I don’t use its container features and instead run podman in a vm next to it. Works great.

    • ___@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      How do you mean? IPv6 in OPNsense is working fine.

      • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
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        8 months ago

        OpnSense is incapable of proper DHCPv6-PD, that’s when your route receives a prefix from upstream and delegates parts of it downstream. More specifically, it does the delegation, but it doesn’t add the relevant routes, effectively blackholing the allocated prefixes.

        VyOS fixed this specific bug since I reported it. RouterOS and IOS never had it.

        • ___@lemm.eeEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I’m isolated from this I suppose as I still use a separate line for upload. PD delegates and opens ports. What CIDR ranges do you use?

          • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
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            6 months ago

            PD delegates the whole prefixes, i.e. it allows the subrouters to ask for a subnet of the size they need.