So I’m trying to build a router. Just need something to handle the networking in my house and the plan is to separate things out via virtual local area networks. Anyway, reading a bunch of threads and comments, I think my design will be something akin to this. Is this good or bad? Ultimately I wanna run OPNSense since that’s what most people recommend, but wanna about x86.
NanoPi as a hub: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHU4JCV
AX3000 as an AP: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzPBBVX
Network Switch: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EITz5Gz
If you have an always on server, you can always run Opnsense as a vm.
For people starting out, I highly recommend not doing this. You want to be able to mess with your server without bringing down the whole network.
If you have a hypervisor in a home lab, which it turns out OP does not, odds are good your already running a DNS filter/ server, DHCP server, AD domain, etc so the whole network is down anyway during hypervisor restarts if you don’t have HA setup.
Just my RPi, hence the looking for another SBC to do the routing.