Hi, for an upcoming house renovation I am thinking about the computer network I should build there. We are talking here about a 3 floor + cellar house, incoming network is fiber, which arrives in the cellar. I plan to have here an own router and run cat6 or cat 7 ethernet cable to the router/AP of each floor. I suppose I could setup wifi mesh and or roaming using openwrt to cover the whole house and the garden.
So the main router should have a WAN port + 1 LAN port for each floor + 1 for the garden + 1 for the NAS, alltogether at least 6 LAN port + a WAN port. I am wondering, If I could use a "yet-to-be-built" NAS with Illumos (Omni or SmartOS) as a main router, as my current one mostly idle with 0.1 load, so it should be able to act as a router, but I have no experience with this kind of setup. My general idea is to build a computer with at least 2 full size PCIe port, one for a HBA and the other one for a 4+ port network card or maybe 2 card to cover the port requirements. The integrated LAN (2,5G or better) should take care about the WAN, then pass the LAN card to a zone / VM. I assume I shouldn't do routing in the GZ. Then apply VLANs and firewall rules, set up SMB shares, and other things. Or am I supposed to use a high-throughput LAN port instead and delegate the task to a switch? What are the traps? Is this a sane idea at all? Right now I have a much smaller network built around an OpenWRT router/AP + an OmniOS NAS, so I don't have the practical experience. Some background info: I plan to have a workshop/lab in the cellar, with all the infra running there. I need only ~ everyday (youtube + web + chat + mailing) connectivitiy on the first and on the second floor, but I'd like to have a home-office space in the attic, so we need proper wired networking there. Our everyday work consist connecting to citrix / RDP, downloading files, a 1G line should suffice for the next couple of years I suppose. How would you build this network? Thanks for your insights. Best Regards, -- ext ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Te48ebdf162c5566b-M757d641069ac5d791c11eaed Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
