As my Ubiqutity Acces Point broke, I changed the whole topology of my home network. Solid proof consumer-grade router in front (easy to handle for the family, minimizing overhead for myself). For the more professional requirements I added a N6000 based minipc as a firewall for my office. Connected as an exposed host from the front-router. Handles all the stuff I need and my personal devices via some vlans per usecase.

As I setup this network as a 2.5Gbit network I decided against pfsense or opnsense because I wanted to minimize potential driver issues which are reported from time to time with the freebsd drivers for some chipsets.

I had a debian router running all the years. But out of curiosity I wanted to try vyos and after 2 days of evaluating I was convinced to give that a try. Now I am quiet happy with it and did an additional installation on a hetzner vps. As a jumphost and to have a setup for playing with routing technologies in the wild.