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Some day I hope there will be a Raspberry Pi with two network interfaces.
by mongol 5y ago
Some day I hope there will be a Raspberry Pi with two network interfaces.
- Nux 5y agoYou can push 1Gbps through a usb3 ethernet adapter.
- CameronNemo 5y agoI tried on my rock64 and only got ~900 Mbps haha. Rpi CPU is beefier, though.
- forty 5y agoYes there a a bunch of good rk3328 based board with 2 Gb eth ports. If you need something beefier there is the rk3399 based boards (pine64's rockpro64 has only a single Ethernet port but there is for example the nanopi r4s which has 2). I'm not sure what's the heat is like if you do gigabit NAT with them though :)
- zokier 5y agoThis RK3568 board looks interesting, but I have no idea if "firefly" is any decent vendor; that is generally the problem with these random chinese boards. https://en.t-firefly.com/product/industry/rocrk3568pc.html https://en.t-firefly.com/product/industry/rocrk3568pc.html RK3568 has 2xGbe built-in, and the board has additionally a Wifi 6 chip (broadcom), seems like pretty ideal router platform to me. There are even some hints that it might have half-decent mainline support, but who knows really though..
- GhettoComputers 5y agohttps://pine64.com/product-category/single-board-computers/ https://pine64.com/product-category/single-board-computers/ Try pine64 if you must, they release hardware for the software community to add features. You can just use a spare laptop with less cost, more performance, and neglegible energy cost differences unless your electric bills are very high rates.
- zokier 5y agoDid you miss the part where this subthread was about boards with 2 (or more) network interfaces? none of the pine64 boards fill that basic criteria
- GhettoComputers 5y agoYes I did not see that sorry.
- CameronNemo 5y agoRadxa rock pi 3 is an rk3568 board I think. Although I don't think it has two ports :/
- Zenst 5y agoCan always add another network interface via USB and the RPi4 has USB3 if you need the thruput.
- ktpsns 5y agoThere is a Banana Pi variant with five network interfaces: https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_R1 https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_R1
- sneak 5y agoI like the pcengines apu2, which I use as routers. They're also standard x64.
- xnyan 5y agopcengines is as good as it gets for DIY whitebox router. Their prices are really good too, $100-150 USD for very capable high efficiency x64. https://www.pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4 https://www.pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThey look mostly OOS, wouldn't a nice old x64 laptop be just as capable for cheaper? I see this in the same catagory of the smart clocks, its just a rebranded withered technology (nintendo term). Love the simple site though!
- xnyan 5y agoOld x64 laptops are great, and I've certainly used one as a router before, however they do have drawbacks (cooling profile is usually shitty for 24/7 use, and they often don't love to be stripped from their shell, lose their display and etc). A laptop generally does not have all the peripheral chipsets and connectors you want and usually has extra stuff you don't want. For $120ish I'm not sure you could beat the value prop of one of these boards with a used laptop. Supply is certainly an issue and was even before COVID. Waiting until 2022 sucks, but I'd argue they are by far the best overall option for a DIY whitebox router I've personally seen.
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- rsync 5y ago"Some day I hope there will be a Raspberry Pi with two network interfaces." You can do this right now with an CM4 attached to the seeed studios dual ethernet carrier: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Rapberry-Pi-CM4-Dual-GbE-Carrier-Board-p-4874.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/Rapberry-Pi-CM4-Dual-GbE-Carrier...
- forty 5y agoThere is friendlyarm nanopi R2S and R4S or orangepi r1 plus (which looks like a copy of the R2S).
- riobard 5y agoA single 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps NIC would be better IMHO.
- zokier 5y agoI've been lately drooling for Solid-Run ClearFog CX LX2. 4x10Gbe + 1x100Gbe should be enough for anyone, and pretty hefty ARM CPU is an additional bonus. Yes, its absolute overkill for any sort of hobbyist use, and its not cheap. But it certainly has potential to be a networking powerhouse.