I just recently got 1 gigabit up/down at home when they put in fiber. Now I’m looking for a router/firewall to use. I run a homelab with a few VMs.
I was looking at getting a Cisco router to tinker with, as I’ve just finished a course on IOS. What routers would you recommend (2nd hand) for less than 150€? Is Cisco even feasible at this price point or should I just get a mini pc and run pfsense/opnsense?
I’ve looked at the ISR900 and it seems to meet my requirements, but I am not sure if it also offers a web interface, which would be quite useful for me.
Bit of an unstructured post but I hope you’ll be able to help me regardless.
EDIT: I ended up getting a mikrotik hAP ac3 router. It seems to meet my requirements and after trying the routerOS demo they have up I decided that it would work for me.
Cisco and web UI are a nope all cisco enterprise exams are based on the cli with the exception of DNAC.
The ISR900 series has a max throughput of 250Mb so it will not work for your case.
Go for the opnsense on a mini pc. It will be more capable than a cisco router
If you are keen on continuing down the cisco line get GNS3 or EVE-ng setup and learn the cli with the iosv and iosv_l2 images.
Though so, thanks.
I’m comfortable with a cli, but in a homelab environment quick testing might prove easier using a GUI, so I’ll probably go with the pfsense route then
@Faalangst_26@feddit.nl why not OpenWRT? You most likely don’t need anything more than that: https://lemmy.world/comment/7527708