[GRLUG] friends, geeks, linuxheads, lend me your advice!

[Mike Williams]

Some research suggested that one of the bigger gotchas to worry about 
with putting both the router and the storage on the same box is botching 
the firewall config and leaving the entire filestore open to the 
Internet. I think the best way to minimize that risk is to virtualize 
one of them. Security-wise it would be best to run the router on the 
host and virtualize the storage, but the other way would be faster. In 
some cases it's possible to directly assign a network adapter to a 
virtual machine, which should let me run the wireless and outside 
network in the VM and leave the host for the internal. Hmm, that would 
have all wifi file sharing going through the VM, but at least disk 
access would be from the host.

For OS, I've been experimenting with Arch Linux, but OpenWRT has been 
compiled for desktop chips, and that might work well for at least the 
router OS, but I'd rather have the same one on both if possible.

The hardest part is hardware, I think, as I'm pretty cheap, but I don't 
want to end up underspending and having to do it again.

On 10/06/2013 04:36 PM, megadave wrote:
> Another option might be a slightly older laptop, at least for the
> "router" and "wifi AP" parts.
>
> wifi "master" support can be hit or miss, but as long as its got USB
> you could add a known supported one.
>
> one benefit is that as long as it has a working battery, it will stay
> up for short power outages.
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, josh <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> I would be very interested in your final choice on this.
>>
>> I am also currently looking for a home router setup.  I really want it run
>> debian or pfsense, be fanless and take little to no power.
>>
>> Top options so far are
>>
>> Choice -- remote management - KVM over IP - 2 ethernet ports - 6 sata and a
>> pci-express
>> https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-X7SPF5B
>>
>> for complete fanless get a power supply like this
>> http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT and a notebook power brick.
>>
>> -- I think that is exactly what your looking for..
>>
>> Other options
>>
>> an arm board -- need to add usb ethernet
>> http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php
>>
>> or one of these embedded setups -- it says debian pkgs but its been eehh
>> when researching that
>> http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax  -- there is a 100 buck version.
>>
>> There are many other options but this is a quick list.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at replacing my house router and NAS box with something that
>> works a little better. I'm thinking a small, low power consumption box of
>> some kind, hopefully something that can handle wireless router duties,
>> simple file sharing and media streaming, and an IPv6 tunnel. Any
>> recommendations on hardware specs or distribution to make this out of?
>>
>> The current setup that I would be replacing is an embedded router and a
>> stand-alone NAS box. The router is an old WRT54GS running OpenWRT, but it's
>> so starved for memory that it can't handle above a 2.4 kernel, and the IPv6
>> tunnel doesn't work very reliably. The NAS box is a Netgear Stora with a
>> mirrored pair of 2TB drives, but despite what some reviews might have
>> suggested, performance using software RAID at that size is abysmal.
>>
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