In my house, I’m using a general-purpose Linux machine as router. This is a much more flexible setup than using a dedicated device, it provides numerous benefits comparing to using a dedicated router, but it did pose a unique challenge: my router is actually a VM, not a physical machine: the host’s LAN carries multiple VLANs and the router/firewall VM just passes traffic between them. This works great, but introduces multiple additional points of failure, comparing to a dedicated hardware...
