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In 2014 I decided that what I wanted most out of my house router was ongoing software updates from the distro, and that I would be willing to pay more for the h
by dsr_ 5y ago
In 2014 I decided that what I wanted most out of my house router was ongoing software updates from the distro, and that I would be willing to pay more for the hardware in exchange.
For seven years, then, I've had a mini-ITX x86-64 box with a small SSD, 4GB RAM, and 5 gigabit NICs running Debian Stable. It's been upgraded in place and I see no reason why the upgrade to Bullseye in a month or two won't go as smoothly.
I think a Pi4 is roughly comparable in computation capacity, perhaps less so in I/O -- but what I've got is clearly overkill, anyway.
- IntelMiner 5y agoThat's effectively my current setup, some random Dell i3-4310 machine. But it's just overkill as hell for a basic router on a 100 megabit internet link The Pi one can apparently saturate a gigabit iperf test without issue, so it sounds like a great replacement and rainy day project
- pak9rabid 5y agoThese systems here make pretty bad ass router/firewalls: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm I've been using them for years w/out any issue. I just run standard Debian stable as well, with a few tweaks to make it more friendly for a read-only operating environment (to prevent wearing out the flash memory).