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I’m curious what your home network involves that’s more complicated than simply plugging everything in to one cheap router.

• BrandoElFollito 2y ago
  My network is not particularly complicated. It is the ISP router that manages the biber connection (FTTH). So I have to have that specific ISP provided box, which offers me some more or less crappy features (DNS, DHCP, ...). If I want to use Pihole for DHCP (because it handles internal registration well) and DNS (because if offers filtering) I need to disable DHCP on the ISP router. But since the TV is handled through IPv6 I need to understand it to make sure that that stack is correctly implemented. Then I have two mesh networks (tailscale and Wireguard as a backup because I manage family networks that are not available from internet) and a docker stack which has its own surprises. I would love to put a linux box as the egress router and handle everything there (the fiber, DNS, DHCP, etc.) but it is not possible with the provider because the SFP is proprietary (sort of)). I am really happy to have a relatively stable 1 Gbps fiber connection so I am not complaining - but doing things exactly as I would wish is not always possible.