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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoInteresting, yeah I’m not actually well versed, that’s why i began with “afaik” hah. My experience with EdgeRouter is that you basically have to enable hw offloading to get the full throughput, and my assumption was that probably all off-the-shelf routers are doing something similar for them to be usable in such a small/cheap/lower-power box.
When you say I might be thinking of “switching hardware”, I assume you’re referring to “managed switching”, and isn’t that just routing without any NAT? Like, if your pfsense router has 4 NICs, then it has to do the job of both a router and switch, no? First one, then the other for each packet?
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Doing routing/firewall in software is a lot more flexible, and easier to patch when vulnerabilities come out. Keep in mind those edgerouters look like they have dual core embedded MIPS CPUs. My dell power edge is a full blown rack-mount server that could run your plex instance.
That’s what makes up for the lack of dedicated asics.
As for the four NICs they are as follows:
1gb - wan (to modem) 1gb - config (to config vlan on switch) 10gbps - main lan trunk to LAN switch 10gbps - trunk line to public server VM host (DMZ’d from rest of lan, each VM has its own vlan/subnet/firewall ruleset)
They don’t act as a switch because it handles packets, not frames, allowing/dropping/denying them based on rules set in software.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Man, just when I think I understand home networking…