Take your time and don’t hang your hat on anything until you’ve run it for a while yourself before you subject your family to it, no matter how excited you are. You’ll just get people wary of trying your projects if it’s always failing, unless you have someone that knows how these things go and that you’re learning, and is willing to help you sort out bugs.
You probably don’t need anything. Laptops using disk have been in use in bumpier environments for decades prior to SSDs.
But let’s say you do. Bolt some eye hooks to the top of your case and suspend it with paracord. It’ll turn vibration into sway and your disks will happily keep on turning.
When I install a new router I do the initial install with all network connections disconnected (physically or virtually since it’s proxmox). Once I get my IPs and ports set how I want I do the switcherydoo and disconnect the old one and connect the new one.
If you’re using the same subnet and your router has the same IP address the only down time should be the process of connecting devices, and maybe a bit for DHCP on your wan side. All internal devices should continue working fine, but expect their IPs to jump around as they get new DHCP leases.
You need to have a dedicated WAN interface, where you connect your WAN cable. The rest of the ports must be put into bridge mode.
You need to create VLANs, one for the WAN, then your home network, eventually your IoT network, guest network, etc. and expose those VLANs to the respective bridge ports.
You would also need an AP that supports VLANs, so anything that runs OpenWRT or other supported device. The routing would be done on the OPNSense’s side.
On the Proxmox you need to expose the network ports to the VM running OPNSense.
But there are more steps involved and if someone can share a step-by-step guide explaining the whole process would be better.
Update: I finally installed RYOT, and wow is it slow, and resource intensive. It’s using more than 20% of the CPU on my NAS when it isn’t even open! Might switch to Media Tracker…
Plug your phone into the pc and choose to trust the PC. This should share your mobile internet with your PC
I use it all the time, when I distrohop on my laptop with a wifi card that needs to download b43 from the internet before WiFi works 🤪
Definitely unplug existing router, else you may end up with a doubleNAT… I have a physical opnsense (without wifi antenna) plugged between my IPS router which in modem mode and another proprietary router which acts as bridge and wifi access point.
I have a 2N+C backup strategy. I have two NASes, and I use rclone to backup my data from one NAS to the other, and then backup (with encryption) my data to Amazon S3. I have a policy on that bucket in S3 that shoves all files into Glacier Deep Archive at day 0, so I pay the cheapest rate possible.
For example, I’m storing just shy of 400GB of personal photos and videos in one particular bucket, and that’s costing me about $0.77USD per month. Pennies.
Yes, it’ll cost me a lot more to pull it out and, yes, it’ll take a day or two to get it back. But it’s an insurance policy I can rely on and a (future) price I’m willing to pay should the dire day (lost both NASes, or worse) ever arrive when I need it.
Why Amazon S3? I’m in Australia, and that means local access is important to me. We’re pretty far from most other places around the world. It means I can target my nearest AWS region with my rclone jobs and there’s less latency. Backblaze is a great alternative, but I’m not in the US or Europe. Admittedly, I haven’t tested this theory, but I’m willing to bet that in-country speeds are still a lot quicker than any CDN that might help get me into B2.
Also, something others haven’t yet mentioned is, per Immich’s guidance on their repo (Disclaimer right at the top) is not NOT rely on Immich as your sole backup. Immich is under very active development, and breaking changes are a real possibility all the time right now.
So, I use SyncThing to also backup all my photos and videos to my NAS, and that’s also backed up to the other NAS and S3. That’s why I have nearly 400GB of photos and videos - it’s effectively double my actual library size. But, again, at less than a buck a month to store all that, I don’t really mind double-handling all that data, for the peace of mind I get.
Maybe add one of those dummy HDMI or Display dongles so you don’t need to connect a monitor and you can set the display resolution who whatever you want.
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