Courier too fast - Openwrt in proxmox - Structural guidance

Hello,
i bought a N100 box with 4 2.5G nics, but i was waiting for it in january, instead it's already here and i feel not ready :smiley:
However, eventually i managed to create a proper VM for openwrt (i decided to have a dedicated VM, not LXC) , i could also build a custom x86 image and get the system to boot.
But i have some questions to understand how to better structure everything:

  • i think that giving ONE nic to Openwrt is the right choice (this will be the WAN connection), but for the LAN connection is it ok to give access to the bridge used by the Host? i can't understand why it would be useful to passthrough another nic dedicated to lan..
  • i got used on my R7800 with the switch page to configure VLANs, now i see i have not switch page at all, why? is there a way to get it displayed or can i setup vlans only via command line?
  • It seems wifi cards on 2230 socket that also work as AP are impossible to find, do you know any? the box has also 2 wifi antennas, i do not have many range problems, but for sure a client only card for me is useless..
  • i plan to install also an openmediavault VM taking care of all the rest, so OpenWRT will just be my main router (sqm, wireguard, adblock, banip, vlans, letsencrypt, this sort of things..), so what would it be the right ram for the router itself?

Thanks

Because your device doesn't have a switch. VLANs are defined by adding the VLAN ID to the interface name, e.g. br-lan.10 for VLAN 10.

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