Road to Advanced Networking: Part 3 - Router (2) again

LOL so backlogged, so slow, much stuff inbetween. Alot has occured since Part 2 back in Sept 2022. I had to do a more unified simple solution for the Wise One (dad's meme nickname)

mostly updates on progress.

outline:

• lel ended up getting the topton one with a newer gen cpu. decided i want opnsense and the 6x2.5 gbE was too enticing.
• https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac3 for dad
• openwrt was trouble but ended up ok
• VLANs DO NOT WORK, probably because SORTA beta, not full release
• expected to work now since the full release is out and 2023 openwrt kernel i think has built in dsa support now too
• started working installing conduit at goldwater
• found the bananapi 3
• flawless
• struggling with opnsense and openwrt on the topton unit. in regards to vlans... probably not the hardwares fault but my understanding of bridges + vlans