Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router
On 14/11/23 06:57, Charles Curley wrote:
My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386
Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a
router/gateway computer. It should run Debian. It should either have
two gigabit (or better) Ethernet interfaces or have suitable expansion
capability. It should be quiet: no fans, and low power requirements. A
small physical footprint would be nice. Most of the time it will run
headless, but occasionally I will need to stick a monitor and keyboard
on it. VGA will do fine. It will be a router. It will have at least
DNS, DHCP, apt-cacher-ng and firewalld on it. Modest disk and RAM will
be fine. WiFi is handled elsewhere for now, but I won't turn it down.
SSD for storage would be nice, although the FIT-PCs do fine with IDE
spinning rust.
I use FriendlyElec devices that match all your requirements. You just
have to load and configure the software yourself.
Current examples include NanoPi R6C for a simple router or NanoPi R6S if
you want to run a DMZ LAN as well as an internal LAN. They all have
2.5Gbit ethernet out of the box.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=69
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