On 2023-09-08 11:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I've been using PCs as my gateway machine for perhaps 25 years. I've been lazy and only changed when forced to (and sometimes slow at that). I've always run some Red Hat distro (RHL, CentOS, Fedora).
I had been using an HP compact desktop computer for years, initially with SuSE but later pfSense, but then it died. I replaced it with a Qotom mini PC, which works well and takes a lot less power.
I don't have multiple LANs or VLANs. People with home-made routers seem to like those things.
You might want a guest VLAN/SSID. I have my firewall configured so that the only thing a guest can do on my network is ping the guest VLAN interface. Beyond that, they can only access the Internet. I even point them to Google's DNS server, instead of mine.