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Preamble Having a Guest interface with its own VLAN in OPNsense is nice as you have a way to separate out their traffic from your regular network, have fine-grained controls over the firewall rules for the entire network, enable traffic shaping on the entire interface. Assumptions This setup assumes that you already have a guest interface setup for OPNsense and a guest VLAN for any switches downstream. This setup also assumes that you already have a wireless access point system setup that broadcasts an SSID that’s attached to said guest VLAN....

Motivation I assembled my desktop way back when I started college which would be early 2019. Back then, I used an MSI B450M motherboard for my Ryzen 7 2700X plus an NZXT H510 for mATX compatibility and extensibility. Plus, it just looked good. Fast forward to today, after a CPU RMA and two motherboard replacements, I have a Ryzen 5 5600X since it probably had better performance than the 2700X (it most likely had better performance-per-watt though)....