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For those who wish to undergo lesser trouble to get similar performance/security there are number of Single Board Computers(SBCs) with OpenWrt support[1] someti

For those who wish to undergo lesser trouble to get similar performance/security there are number of Single Board Computers(SBCs) with OpenWrt support[1] sometimes with official support like those from Friendly Elec. [1]https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_single-board-computers https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_single-board-computers [2]https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=69 https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/category...

rektide 5y ago
espressobin is currently #90 on the openwrt table of hardware for single board computers you linked. personally I'd way rather have a system that boots a good Debian rather than openwrt, & the espressobin will fair many times better/be much easier than many of these openwrt-centric alternatives. and it will happily run openwrt too. this line of chips from Marvell has done a good job over the years keeping good upstream/mainline kernel & u-boot support. whereas openwrt often good es out of itcs way with out of tree patches to support all kinds of difficult hardware environments.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  Number of SBCs listed there boot debian as well. My suggestion wasn't a debian vs OpenWrt one, But rather a 'If you like OpenWrt, then you got SBC options too'.
edf13 5y ago
I'm constantly looking for good priced SBC with cellular connectivity - that chart shows only 2/3 with modems and all appear to be via external modules. Anyone know of any?
- westurner 5y ago
  > This page shows devices which have a LTE modem built in and are supported by OpenWrt. https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_lte_modem_supported https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_lte_modem_supported It looks like this table is neither current nor complete though. And there's a different table of OpenWRT compatible devices that have a battery as well. > [The Amarok (GL-X1200) Industrial IoT Gateway has] 2x SIM card slots for 2x 4G LTE modems (probably miniPCI-E so maybe upgradeable to 5G later), external antenna connectors for the LTE modems, MicroSD, #OpenWRT: https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/4g-smart-router/products/amarokgl-x1200-industrial-level-4g-router https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/4g-smart-router/produc... The Turris Omnia also has 4G LTE SIM card support (and LXC in their OpenWRT build). https://openwrt.org/toh/turris/turris_omnia https://openwrt.org/toh/turris/turris_omnia There's also a [Dockerized] x86 build of OpenWRT that probably also supports Mini PCI-E modules for 4G LTE, LoRa, and 5G. Route metrics determine which [gateway] route is tried first. From "How much total throughput can your wi-fi router really provide?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596395 : > In 2021, most routers - even with OpenWRT and hardware-offloading - cannot actually push 1 Gigabit over wired Ethernet, though the port spec does say 1000 Mbps

rektide 5y ago

espressobin is currently #90 on the openwrt table of hardware for single board computers you linked. personally I'd way rather have a system that boots a good Debian rather than openwrt, & the espressobin will fair many times better/be much easier than many of these openwrt-centric alternatives. and it will happily run openwrt too. this line of chips from Marvell has done a good job over the years keeping good upstream/mainline kernel & u-boot support. whereas openwrt often good es out of itcs way with out of tree patches to support all kinds of difficult hardware environments.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Number of SBCs listed there boot debian as well. My suggestion wasn't a debian vs OpenWrt one, But rather a 'If you like OpenWrt, then you got SBC options too'.

edf13 5y ago

I'm constantly looking for good priced SBC with cellular connectivity - that chart shows only 2/3 with modems and all appear to be via external modules. Anyone know of any?

westurner 5y ago
> This page shows devices which have a LTE modem built in and are supported by OpenWrt. https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_lte_modem_supported https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_lte_modem_supported It looks like this table is neither current nor complete though. And there's a different table of OpenWRT compatible devices that have a battery as well. > [The Amarok (GL-X1200) Industrial IoT Gateway has] 2x SIM card slots for 2x 4G LTE modems (probably miniPCI-E so maybe upgradeable to 5G later), external antenna connectors for the LTE modems, MicroSD, #OpenWRT: https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/4g-smart-router/products/amarokgl-x1200-industrial-level-4g-router https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/4g-smart-router/produc... The Turris Omnia also has 4G LTE SIM card support (and LXC in their OpenWRT build). https://openwrt.org/toh/turris/turris_omnia https://openwrt.org/toh/turris/turris_omnia There's also a [Dockerized] x86 build of OpenWRT that probably also supports Mini PCI-E modules for 4G LTE, LoRa, and 5G. Route metrics determine which [gateway] route is tried first. From "How much total throughput can your wi-fi router really provide?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596395 : > In 2021, most routers - even with OpenWRT and hardware-offloading - cannot actually push 1 Gigabit over wired Ethernet, though the port spec does say 1000 Mbps