The leaders in adoption appear to be the Mellanox Spectrum line, but this is 10G->400G interface speeds. Historically the industry has had limited incentive to provide in kernel support for their devices at the “homelab” interface speed. There is an exciting project called switchdev which aims to provide in kernel hardware offload of packer forwarding on bridge/switch ASIC(s) chips. In networking bridging is an application where ASIC(s) are utilized. An common example of this is a Graphics Processing Unit. You should be aware of specialized computing such as Application-specific Integrated Circuits. You should have a goal of clearly defining your objectives, such as:įor most of the lab you will utilize “ General Purpose Computing”, such as your workstation. My question concerns the best physical way to lay out this logical configuration.There are a lot of hardware manufactures in this space. I'd like to dedicate a port to each VLAN as well as dedicate one port to connecting back to the UDM for supporting the Wi-Fi side of the world (I have the UDM and two UniFi APs that I intend to keep using for Wi-Fi access). The FW6D has 6 ports (WAN, LAN, OPT 1 - 4). I've got 4 VLANs currently (management, private/safe, IoT/dangerous crap, and guest). I'm intending to cut over all the hard-wired and routing duties to the new Protectli router running PFSense, but keep the UniFi gear for the Wi-Fi side of things. There are too many traffic hiccups when going thru the UDM that don't exist when direct-connected to my ISP's cable modem. For the last 18 months or so I've been using a UniFi UDM and it's just not quite up to the task of all the real-time streaming work & video conferencing I need to do.

I just got a new Protectli FW6D router to use for my home business.

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