TNSR for my homelab.
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@tsteine Thank you very much for sharing your experience and the details of your journey. Glad to hear that TNSR addressed your requirements and is performing so well.
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Great write-up of your TNSR experience and packet pushing needs. You're definitely moving data in a big way. I have a 1000/1000 fiber connection at my home in the US that I anxiously look forward to abusing (not EULA
) one day. As for your formatting, they do say that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." I'm geeking out knowing that I'm not the only home user of TNSR. -
I absolutely believe there is a market for TNSR among networking enthusiasts looking for high performance routing at home.
In all fairness, the amount of throughput for TNSR is usually limited by my internet connection's bandwidth, the high throughput tasks across vlans will be DMZ servers accessing the storage, or me moving files to my storage boxes from my workstation, etc.
Most of the really high throughput stuff will be local to the vlan it originates from, and not having to get elevated to the router and pass to a different vlan.
99% time, the throughput is less than 1gbit, but having the ability to push a monstrous amount of packets and throughput when the need arises is any networking enthusiast's dream. The ease of not having to manage firewalling and routing on the switches also cannot be overstated in my opinion.
There is something immensely satisfying with having rock solid networking performance and seeing your file transfers, backup tasks, vm migrations, etc running at several gigabytes per second.
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@tsteine said in TNSR for my homelab.:
There is something immensely satisfying with having rock solid networking performance and seeing your file transfers, backup tasks, vm migrations, etc running at several gigabytes per second.
You must be my doppelganger...
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@tsteine looks like you're famous.
https://twitter.com/NetgateUSA/status/1278742734031982592?s=19
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Now it's my turn to geek out
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@audian said in TNSR for my homelab.:
@tsteine Muito obrigado por compartilhar sua experiência e os detalhes de sua jornada. Fico feliz em saber que o TNSR atendeu aos seus requisitos e está funcionando tão bem.
@tsteine Sou grato por você partilhar sua experiência e os detalhes de sua carreira. Fico alegre em saber que o TNSR compre os seus requisitos potenciais e está funcionando de forma excelente.
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One huge weakness of TNSR that I've encountered is that it does not support dhcp relay.
Even though I am a home user, I do not want a DHCP server running on any of my switches or routers. Following the same thought process, I do not want a full Unbound DNS server (any dns server, frankly) running on my router.
It's nice to have the option, but it creates unnecessary vulnerabilities and increases your overall attack surface.
In order to enable DHCP relay, you require a managed switch with a related SVI to relay DHCP requests. This is a huge weakness in my book. Even though TNSR is dumb fast, it does not have many of the basic (crucial) features that other routers have.
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