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Fwd: Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches

With Dan Ritter's permission, I'm forwarding this and a few other posts in 
this thread back to the list.  (I unintentionally got the tread off list by 
accidentally responding to one of his emails directly to him instead of to the 
list.)
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:48:09PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I started to look for / at pfSense and OPNSense, and came across the Ubiquiti 
> Networks Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite ERLITE-3 Desktop Router, available on eBay 
> for about $100.

It's a great box. Pity that Ubiquiti 

a) violates the GPL
b) ships a form of Debian on it, but not enough to build your
own version and they are rather lax about upgrades

> I don't quite yet know what an edgerouter is (I've seen the term used, iirc, 
> on some drawings of large networks and / or the Internet).

In this case it's a product name. In general, "edge router"
simply means a router that directly connects to a customer's
network, as opposed to:

top of rack: in a data center
aggregation: used to bring several edge or top-of-rack units
    together
border: talks to an exchange or a specific foreign network
core: lives deep inside your own network

> Bbut it sounds like I might find a router (appliance) to do what you recommend, 
> and maybe in the range of $100 or so?
> 
> Do you have any recommendations along that line?

Basically anything that can run Debian and has two suitable
ethernet ports will do. An old laptop? One of the shiny little
Raspberry-Pi style devices? (Probably not the Pi itself; it only
has one ethernet port.)

-dsr-

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