• 1couchpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Is this a qotom? When I bought mine the description on Amazon said it could be turned on via power restore from bios but I have 0 power settings in bios. No wake on lan, nothing.

    I’ve searched for how to update the bios (or if this would even help) but it’s hard to find clear information.

    • postnataldrip@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      It might be a jumper on the board. Mine (Q770G4) boots on power, if I can organise some downtime with the family I’ll take a look at it (set it up ages ago so can’t remember).

      Edit: CAB approval was easier than I expected! Mine is in the BIOS, under Chipset > PCH-IO Configuration, set State After G3 to Power On.

      • 1couchpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yeah I also tried moving the jumper for the power pins on the mobo but all that accomplished was a long press, which caused it to turn on and then off again.

        I’ll scroll through the bios again but I’m pretty sure I looked at every menu and submenu. 🤷‍♂️

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Is it an APTIO BIOS? My setting was hidden in IT813 Super IO Configuration —> Advanced —> Restore AC Power Loss. Took me ages to find it.

        • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’m sorry if I seem obtuse but isn’t it easier to just set up OPNsense, which is a fully configured router/firewall on top of BSD?

          • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            It is easier, but it can be considered as feature-bloat if you don’t really need the breadth of capabilities that it offers. Aside from that, OpenBSD has made specific choices to make it more secure than FreeBSD by default, though the configuration will depend upon the user.

            It’s also more fun to DIY it and you no longer need to rely on a specialist version of BSD. You are closer to the source, so to speak.

            Some reasons might just be philosophical, others can be technical if you have specific configuration that you’d want to achieve.

  • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    This is really cool. I’ve been interested in running something like this. Does it make sense to have this as a dedicated firewall in front of my Unifi lan?

    • Violet_McQuasional@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      That’s how I’ve got mine set up, with OPNsense.

      I’ve been using it a few years and I only know about half the stuff that pfSense/OPNsense can do. So I would advise newbies to just make small changes at a time because there’s a whole lot of stuff you can change. It’s worth learning, though. I wouldn’t use anything else for my main firewall/router nowadays.

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      yes, thats the purpose of this device. works very well for me so far.

      • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        What I meant was, I have a Unifi router and was thinking of putting a dedicated firewall in front of it. Does that make any sense or would the firewall on the unify be just as capable? Before the Dream Machine that is my current router I was running an opnsense router with my Unifi switches behind it so I’m not super unfamiliar with it I guess.

        • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I think opnsense is way more capable than unifi devices, even better if you are familiar. You could try Proxmox too, makes the box more flexible.

  • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Been thinking about buying a similar setup, and you just pushed me into buying a “Chinabox”

    Let’s see how this goes, if It explodes you owe me a beer, and a pair of hands, and another chinabox (I’m not a quitter)

  • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    What would be the difference of running this as opposed to pf/opnsense? I know they use FreeBSD but I am not that versed in BSD based networking

    • Daughter3546@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I personally would stick to *sense. I personally used OPNSense there’s a huge community backing, well documented, and actively maintained. I like to use the CLI, but using the Web GUI was a breeze and I mainly wanted to set it and forget it.

    • Oliver Lowe@hachyderm.ioOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      pf/opnsense essentially provide web interfaces to the underlying
      FreeBSD OS tooling. In this case I’m running plain OpenBSD. That means
      configuring the system is mainly done by reading and writing text
      files and doing stuff at the command line. There’s a whole bunch of
      reasons why some people prefer one way or the other or even mix things
      up a bit. My recommendation is, if you’re interested, have a go
      administering a system without a web interface and see how you feel!
      @Edgarallenpwn @selfhosted

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand

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  • kidpixo@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Really cool! I never touched *BSD, I have a mini PC/NAS home that ended with a minimal Arch install. This is something I can do at some point.

    And what about Wireless networks?

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Normally you use a separate AP to do that. BSDs don’t normally have good support for WiFi cards. Consumer WiFi cards aren’t really meant for use as APs anyway.