Yay! Now to the task of getting my self-hosted services to be reachable from the outside world. So, with those hardware issues out of the way, my devices were all connecting and getting DHCP addresses. Initially, my iPhone wouldn't pull an address, and I feared I was about to hit my original issue all over again, but with a bit of testing I realized the wired connection in my wall was not working properly, and the jack i had my AP plugged into wasn't actually allowing it to communicate with the OPNSense router (Not the same issue I had with my first setup by the way). The user experience is similar, the menus and options are almost identical beyond their placement on the screen, but a few things in OPNSense felt easier to me.Īgain, I was able to get it setup for DHCP, and I was able to get my DD-WRT APs setup easily, and got them working with no issue. It's a forked version of pfSense, but over time the two have gottem some real separation in the way the work. I shelved the idea for a few months, then came back to it again a week or so ago. This was a huge bust and a bit soul-crushing as I read more and more documentation, articles, forum posts, and so on of people trying to make it work in all kinds of situations, and nothing I tried worked.

Essentially when I call the services running on my home machines by a URL that is running inside the same network. This initially seemed to work, but then I ran into multiple issues trying to get it setup to route my traffic via NAT Reflection (sometimes called NAT Redirection or Hairpinning). I then tried pfSense with the DD-WRT Routers set as APs only, and pfSense set to assing out DHCP addresses. The system functioned, but for whatever reason DHCP was not working, and none of my DHCP devices would get an address.

I have made several attempts to do this over the past six months, but each time I found I just wasn't able to get everything setup the way I needed.įirst, I tried to setup just DD-WRT on a few routers, using one as the main router and the rest as APs. I really wanted a system that I had more control over, and an open source option was my ideal situation. I've been wanting to switch away from my Eero mesh wireless network for almost a year and a half.

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