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The price wasn't my primary concern; I got the APU because I wanted a system that's as close to fully open as you can get. Any x86 machine with decent NICs shou
by chousuke 7y ago
The price wasn't my primary concern; I got the APU because I wanted a system that's as close to fully open as you can get. Any x86 machine with decent NICs should work, however.
The non-x86 alternatives I don't have much experience in save for an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, which works fine, but is a bit of a pain to operate because there's no syspatch support.
If you just want a secure router at a low price, OpenWRT on a well-supported platform probably gets closest to that; I have an old TP-Link router in the closet somewhere that's over 10 years old now and could still run the latest version of OpenWRT.