| 15 Aug 2021 |
 nixinator | if i need a nice system to run as a nixos router. what would i use? | 17:09:28 |
 eyJhb | nixinator: The APU2 seems nice for that as well :p I run some SuperMicro stuff at home. Kind of overkill. | 17:10:53 |
 toonn | I have no experience whatsoever but the BananaPi stuff I saw mentioned ages ago does look sexy. | 17:11:13 |
| nixinator | yeah, low power would be nice, and lots of physical ethernet ports at 10gb/s or aboive. | 17:11:27 |
| toonn | "Kind of." 🙄 | 17:11:31 |
| nixinator | i also want the moon on a stick. | 17:12:03 |
| eyJhb | I really want to try out the bananapi... | 17:20:01 |
| eyJhb | It was my initial choice actually. | 17:20:05 |
| nixinator | thanks for the suggestions, i will check them out, see if i can source them | 18:32:07 |
 CRTified | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
I have no experience whatsoever but the BananaPi stuff I saw mentioned ages ago does look sexy. Which one exactly? The BPI-R64 seems to be the most powerful as far as I can tell | 20:47:17 |
| CRTified | (http://www.banana-pi.org/r64.html) | 20:47:23 |
| toonn | All of it. My needs are pretty basic : ) | 20:52:20 |
| CRTified | I mean, getting something with PCIe and an appropriate NIC might also be worth a try | 20:53:20 |
| 16 Aug 2021 |
 hpfr | Somewhat unrelated to NixOS itself, but I have a router PC I'm running OPNsense on currently and I want to move it to NixOS, but I don't really know enough about networking to feel comfortable switching yet (no pun intended). Anyone got any resources they recommend for learning home networking for the Linux router use case? I don't really have time to do a full-fledged networking textbook at the moment, so I'm looking for something more focused | 20:50:15 |
| hpfr | * Somewhat unrelated to NixOS itself, but I have a router PC I'm running OPNsense on currently and I want to move it to NixOS, but I don't really know enough about networking to feel comfortable switching yet (no pun intended). Anyone got any resources they recommend for learning home networking for the Linux router use case? I don't really have time to do a full-fledged networking textbook at the moment, so I'm looking for something more focused. I know pretty much nothing about firewalls, NAT, or VLAN's which are things I feel like I need to understand to set this up securely and with the features I want, like a site-to-site VPN | 20:52:09 |
| eyJhb | What do you currently have on your router? Ie. what do you use? | 20:52:35 |
| hpfr | * Somewhat unrelated to NixOS itself, but I have a router PC I'm running OPNsense on currently and I want to move it to NixOS, but I don't really know enough about networking to feel comfortable switching yet (no pun intended). Anyone got any resources they recommend for learning home networking for the Linux router use case? I don't really have time to do a full-fledged networking textbook at the moment, so I'm looking for something more focused. I know pretty much nothing about firewalls, NAT, or VLAN's which are things I feel like I need to understand to set this up securely and with the features I want, like a site-to-site VPN | 20:52:57 |
| hpfr | * Somewhat unrelated to NixOS itself, but I have a router PC I'm running OPNsense on currently and I want to move it to NixOS, but I don't really know enough about networking to feel comfortable switching yet (no pun intended). Anyone got any resources they recommend for learning home networking for the Linux router use case? I don't really have time to do a full-fledged networking textbook at the moment, so I'm looking for something more focused. I know pretty much nothing about firewalls, NAT, or VLAN's which are things I feel like I need to understand to set this up securely and with the features I want, like a site-to-site VPN | 20:53:26 |
| hpfr | Redacted or Malformed Event | 20:53:46 |
| eyJhb | Like, what features. Ie. When I started out with NixOS, I just got a bare minimal router working. | 20:55:32 |
| hpfr | if you mean features, I set up a Wireguard VPN to access my LAN from away and custom DNS for homelab services. In the future I want to try network wide ad blocking and VLAN's for IoT | 20:55:34 |
| eyJhb | Ie. so that I could access the internet, and then went on from there :) | 20:55:43 |
| hpfr | * if you mean features, I set up a Wireguard VPN to access my LAN from away and a DNS server with some overrides for homelab services. In the future I want to try network wide ad blocking and VLAN's for IoT | 20:56:51 |
| eyJhb | But I can't even give you a good base config to use hpfr , I think mine is too specific now... :/ | 21:03:16 |
| hpfr | even if you had one, I'm not sure I'd want it. there are others available anyway. my main concern is I want to have enough knowledge not to shoot myself in the foot and either accidentally make my network unusable (obviously a serious issue) for some period of time while I struggle to troubleshoot due to lack of knowledge, or worse, make some security blunder | 21:05:17 |
| hpfr | so I'm looking for Linux networking resources that are somewhere between "blindly copying commands from the internet" and "reading a networking textbook" | 21:06:12 |
| CRTified | Depending on what level of knowledge you're looking for a textbook might be your best bet to be honest | 21:11:12 |
| CRTified | Or just start with a toy setup with multiple virtual machines? That way, you can test stuff and build your config as desired (this is IMHO one of the biggest advantages of nix - you can test more complex setups like this, too) | 21:13:58 |
| hpfr | oof, ok. got any book recommendations | 21:14:50 |
| hpfr | as for the VM's, how does nix make things easier here? | 21:15:01 |
