Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router
Charles Curley wrote:
> 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 bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-HUNSN-Barebone-Storage/dp/B0B53MKZBX/
(4 x 2.5Gb NICs, N5105 CPU) -- I paid about $250 including 16GB
RAM and a 500GB SSD. Works very nicely.
For about $70 less you can get them with 2x 2.5Gb instead of 4;
for a little more money you can get up to 5x 2.5Gb NICs.
You can add wifi via a miniPCIe slot; I didn't bother. There are
antenna holes.
-dsr-
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