Snot Flickerman

there’s a reason that bitlocker sounds so much like bootlicker

Nice timing to go along with the new version of Ubuntu. Fuck all the haters, Ubuntu 4 lyfe dawg, I got it tatted on my nutsack.

Yes, consumer routers are much lower powered because they’re built to be a router so they can simplify it to the basics needed just for routing. The trade-off is that most off-the-shelf consumer routers don’t support V-LANs. The person you were responding to notes they have a Mikrotic device, which is one of the most popular series of devices for people to put OpenWRT on. (EDIT: Memory was foggy it’s actually devices with MediaTech CPUs is what I am thinking of) The major downside here when it comes to exposing devices to the internet is you lose the strong firewall. Part of why the OPNsense firewall is stronger than what a consumer firewall even with OpenWRT on it is because it isn’t just built to be a router, and being much beefier allows it to handle much more complex firewall rules and things like packet inspection or intrusion detection. OpenWRTdevice has a basic firewall which will do the job, for sure, but I am definitely on the side of using something a little bit more powerful for more firewall features and options. You’d probably still be relatively safe with OpenWRT/, but the low power of the devices may make them less robust depending on how many users you plan on having, in which OPNsense’s beefy nature makes it more robust for more data passing through.

EDIT: Those Mikrotik devices OP is referring to are different than what I was thinking of, but they also have a good price point and are dedicated routing appliances thus lower power draw (many of them support Power over Ethernet). Their OS isn’t as open as any of the others though, however it offers a full featured enterprise grade router OS. A good choice for someone who isn’t as savvy off the bat, although you lose the powerful firewall.

https://mikrotik.com/products/group/ethernet-routers

They also have a demo of their RouterOS which seems like it’s very full-featured: https://demo.mt.lv/

Yeah, get your new OPNsense device fully set up through the guide, and it will act as a router and firewall. Once it’s ready to go, plug it in with ethernet to the Verizon router (with the ethernet connected to your OPNsense going into the WAN port) and make sure it’s picking up internet from the Verizon router. Once you’re sure it is, then go into your Verizon router’s settings and turn on bridge mode. The internet should auto-reconfigure for your new router to grab the IP from the modem by passing through the Verizon router.

If for whatever reason this doesn’t work, you can regain access to the Verizon router by doing a factory reset (as you won’t be able to view it’s settings as it no longer has an IP on the network in bridge mode). So don’t be afraid of it, worst that can happen is a factory reset. Just back up your settings beforehand (either manually writing them down or exporting a config file) so you can restore them easily.

I am pretty sure both switches will need to be managed because you will need a trunk between the firewall and the first switch and a trunk between the first switch and the second switch. A trunk needs to be defined on both ends, and with an unmanaged switch in between the firewall and managed switch I am fairly sure that’s not possible.

There are two types of ways VLANs communicate, and that’s through trunk ports and access ports. Trunking ports basically bundle all the VLANs together and send them to the next destination, such as another switch. Access ports are for giving access to end devices for a specific VLAN.

So I am fairly sure you’ll need a trunk between Firewall and Living Room Switch and a trunk between Living Room and Office Switch. It’s been a minute since I did work with VLANs myself though, so others feel free to correct me.

Related, I am also fairly sure the router itself will need VLAN support so while it’s understandable to not want to replace it, it may be a requirement and most consumer routers don’t come with VLAN support. Options are finding a router that supports alternative firmware like OpenWRT or DD-WRT which adds VLAN support or go whole hog and set up OPNsense or PFSense and essentially build your own router/firewall.

EDIT: I just looked at the Home Network Guy’s guide you linked to. His guide is helping you build a combination router and firewall with OPNsense. If you really need to keep the Verizon router, check if the Verizon router has an option called “Bridge mode” where you can bridge the connection to your own router/firewall and basically turn the Verizon router into a dummy passthrough device that the network just sort of passes through and otherwise ignores.

Always has been.

1. Shorter and more reasonable copyright lengths would make this a moot point because then there would sufficient literature in the public domain to pull from.

2. These kind of charges are what put the Pirate Bay admins in prison and caused Aaron Swartz to kill himself because of a threat of lifetime in prison. The claim that they did this either with the goal of profit or actually successful profit and that this was a serious crime. Neither TPB or Swartz at that point in time had ever moved as much data as Meta has for these claims, nor did they ever have the profit or possibility of profit Meta aims to make from their AI offerings.

3. Now Meta is claiming they’ve profited so hard you can’t possibly hold them accountable.

It will be the biggest “fuck you” in history to anyone ever hit with civil charges for piracy in the early 2000s, let alone the TPB admins and Swartz, if they let this go. Which means they probably will because in America, apparently if you crime hard enough and big enough they stop putting you in prison and start patting you on the back and calling it good business sense.

US Corporations: But we can’t start paying people to do work! That would completely wreck our business model!

Workers: So you would actually be bankrupt? Your corporation is that much of an empty shell?

US Corporations: Well, we really just don’t want to have to spend less time golfing, and having to pay people might eventually cut into golf funds and time.