Any tips , how to use?
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Hello, do you have any tips on how I can use my mini‑PC? I bought a new router, the ASUS GT‑BE19000AI, and replaced my mini‑PC running pfSense. I mainly want to use the mini‑PC for security or privacy purposes or as monitoring my home network. I don’t want to use it as a NAS or media server. The mini‑PC is based on an Intel N100 with 16 GB RAM and has four Intel i226 Ethernet ports. It will be connected to my main ASUS router, but not as the primary router.
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Interesting security choice.
Those mini PCs make reasonably good hosts for something like Proxmox. Then you can run many things.
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@AndyRH What the bonus to use proxmox behind asus router. If me correct understood minipc with proxmox should be afront asus router, for example with pfsense. But my minipc connected to asus router lan port.
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@Antibiotic If you are going to use an ASUS router for your perimeter protection, then you would not put pfSense on the mini PC?
If you want to run pfSense on the mini PC, then you do not need the ASUS.My Proxmox server does not run pfSense, that is left to dedicated HW. Proxmox runs all my other services.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought you were looking for ideas as to what to use the mini PC for and you decided an ASUS router was a good idea.
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@AndyRH Thanks for a tip. But I would like to use minipc as backend not as main router. Could you please tell , what kind of services you using in proxmox? Like me understood that if for example i will install grafana on proxmox , for this to work i need to pass all my home traffic over proxmox? Lets say asus lan port to minipc wan port , than minipc lan port connected to switch than all the rest my home network? The main guestion to work properly , proxmox on minipc should be in the middle, between asus router and network switch?Any way to use proxmox connected only to asus router lan port or its will be useless? One of my target to reduce bufferbloat andI tought to install openwrt on minipc. But without lucky))) May be possible pfsense or opensense to install on minipc and make as bridge?IPS ethernet cable + minipc in bridge mode to reduce bufferbloat only than my main asus router?What do you think?Any tips well appreciated.
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@Antibiotic You only get I firewall with a real WAN port. If that is the ASUS, then the mini PC is just another computer on your network. I would avoid running both pfSense and the ASUS, that will result in a double NAT situation. I doubt OpenWRT has features pfSense does not have other than good WiFi support.
My Proxmox runs many things, Plex, the *arr stack, a wireguard VPN server, Unifi Network Controller, NAS, PiHole, and so on. It can run anything you want and have resources for.
You need to make a list of things you want to do then build to meet the list. When you make the list be generic, such as "I want ad blocking", not "I want pfBlocker" then find the thing that meets the need that you like the best.
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@AndyRH Proxmox on minipc should be in the middle, between asus router and network switch?
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@Antibiotic No, the mini pc should be on the switch. It would not be a router or firewall.
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@Antibiotic Time to leave ASUS as there are too many take-over bots out there.
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@coxhaus Never)))
