@JourneymanGeek sup, did your router work well now ?

@yagmoth555-GoFundMeMonica I trust the current version :D

So yes

I'm planning on a new/more robust build next year - 20.04 has ZFS and building something with a failover boot disk sounds fun

(zfs send the main drive every so often, snapshots for config changes...)

@yagmoth555-GoFundMeMonica practically - its as flexible as you want it to be, with the tradeoff being, well. you do everything the hard way

I did use firewalld and its front ends (and some small helper scripts for port forwarding)

it's pretty cool

you can probably use some script like fail2ban, and other stuff too to make country block to block incoming noise, kind of stuff you can't with soho router

that's the big advantage

and it will work on any system you can run a general purpose linux on and has 2 network ports

If you're building your own, the ars technica guide I referenced is probably a 'better' starting point - they use proper iptables rules and bind9

mine's dumbed down/simplified a bit

I can recommend the hardware I use or something like it

J1800s are the 'standard' but the core i3/5 varients is what I'd go for

ok, yeah

I have a small system, mini-ITX, I would probably go that route, like such board; jetwaycomputer.com/NF796.html

I seen some that are passive cooling, which is nice, so it run without noose, and is small

but I will go check the article of course

like that one, fanless; onlogic.com/imb-155

Aliexpress is good for that ;p

I got mine from a company called qotom

much smaller than a mini ITX, slient, comes with a case and optionally storage (I went with 128gb cause it was cheap, but you hardly need any), ram (standard laptop, I went with 8 but that's overkill) and wifi

oh cool ! didnt knew it was good for that

the only thing I wish it had was a battery backup

I have a bit of an idea for that but ehh

we replaced our drier and that was the main reason I had power outages :D