Router recommendations...
Hi all...
I'm looking for a low power (but fast) SBC to use for a #router.
It needs to be able to handle ~500Mbits. On REAL Gigabit (or SFP!) ports. Of which it must have at least two.
None of that USB-ethernet crap either.
RiscV or ARM, and the ability to take a PCIe WiFi card would be nice. (WiFi isn't a requirement but wouldn't hurt).
Answers on a postcard. Pls boost.
Ian Molton
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•david
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I distrust commercial routers.
I've been running openWRT on BT home hub 5a hardware, but kaceys connection is about 4.5 times faster than the poor hh5a can actually handle, and mine is around it's limits.
It's be happy to use another openwrt device, but I think I'd prefer to just run Debian on some small SBC instead.
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•It looks like where SBCs come unstuck is on the multiple Ethernet port front (unless you go down the USB-Ethernet route like I have with my server).
What about something like a mini-ITX board?
Alastair Cooper
•I just noticed that you put RISC-V/ARM as a hard, not soft requirement, but I'd already found this:
https://www.mini-itx.com/~JBC420
mini-itx.com: Jetway JBC420R Fanless J3455 Dual LAN Pico-ITX PC Mini PC
www.mini-itx.comIan Molton
Ideal, performance wise.
Far too expensive.
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I don't want this machine doing anything but routing and VPN stuff.
Maybe house monitoring too.
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