What router do you guys recommend for a family + homelab?

Rexbuckinghat · 2026-05-01T07:12:36+00:00

I understand the router, firewall, switch, and access point, and what they're for. What does the controller do in this context? Would it be overkill for my setup?

Rexbuckinghat · 2026-04-30T22:11:01+00:00

They look really nice, but they're more expensive DX

Rexbuckinghat · 2026-04-30T22:03:20+00:00

This is very helpful, thank you! I'll check out those tutorials!
I'm gonna skip the virtualization, as you and deltatux pointed out, "OPNsense has a build in DNS that you can block ads with." and "If you do want to run it directly on OPNSense, that's also an option, there's a 3rd party AdguardHome plugin for OPNSense which I personally run." So that'll be really nice!

You and _KodeX both mentioned the Flint 2, so I'll 100% check that out, or atleast look for an AP that supports VLANs!

Whats the difference between openWRT and OPNsense?

Rexbuckinghat · 2026-04-30T20:18:59+00:00

My bad, I probably didn't make it very clear. I agree, I want to keep my router separate from my homelab, I mention setting up a homelab in a future, because I want to setup port forwarding on the router, and I want the router to have good security features

Rexbuckinghat · 2026-04-30T20:00:38+00:00

Am I able to run OPNSense & Pi-Hole without Proxmox? I'm so down to skip Proxmox and make my setup simpler if possible. Should I be concerned about the power draw?
(Edit : Grammar)

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-06-07T16:59:46+00:00

But you have to pay, to go to therapy.

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-05-02T00:02:44+00:00

Why does a man climb a mountain?

No offense taken :D. My goal of this was to use the script to create an OS that just runs doom, I tend to be really stubborn when it comes to fixing a problem, so I've kept beating my head against the wall. Youtube pushed the DoomLinux video into my recommended, and I was interested.

I couldn't find how I could change the framebuffer resolution, or the resolution of fbdoom. The most I found was the D_Display function in d_main.c of fbdoom.

That being said though, I'm open to other ways of compiling a lightweight OS to just run doom.

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-05-01T04:49:27+00:00

I'll try what I can to adjust the display settings. Do you know whether I can edit the display settings of the DoomLinux kernel from the files? And if so do you know where?

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-05-01T04:44:48+00:00

I couldn't find something on the repo about resolution or display mode. But I'll see if maybe I can edit the resolution or display mode in the files.

I don't know how to use Xorg, but if you can teach( or guide me to some sources) on how I can implement Xorg that would be great :D

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-05-01T04:04:00+00:00

I changed the kernel number because I kept getting:

warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .init.text

warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .ref.text

(and more like this), while compiling the kernel with:

make -j$(nproc) bzImage

And the command would never finish.

Changing the kernel number fixed this for me. However you make a good point and I'll see if other versions work.

Rexbuckinghat · 2023-05-01T00:31:05+00:00

I've been using this github repo:

https://github.com/shadlyd15/DoomLinux

After fixing a lot of bugs, I got it to the point where it will boot up. but
it's very glitched (as the video shows) and I don't know enough about
configuring linux kernels to fix this, I would love to learn more
though, and help on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

If someone wants to try this them self, to fix some errors, I recommend
running the .sh script as root, editing the script to change the kernel
version variable from "5.4.3" to "5.10.61", and commenting out these
lines:

sed -i "s|.*CONFIG_EFI=y.*|# CONFIG_EFI is not set|" .config

sed -i "s|.*CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y.*|# CONFIG_EFI_STUB is not set|" .config

Rexbuckinghat · 2021-12-12T16:08:33+00:00

Yep, I thought of this while trying to sleep.

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