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.

    • Faalangst_26@feddit.nlOP
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      10 months ago

      I’ve had some bad experienced with Ubiquitis edge routers and their Unifi software, so I’d rather avoid them for a bit. I’ll have to look into mikrotik!

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Personally they lost all credibility when they started to push for the Cloud Key. It’s just plain abuse to make hardware that is unable to self-setup properly and run autonomously. I get the whys but still plain abuse.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • Faalangst_26@feddit.nlOP
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      10 months ago

      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