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

[Ben Rousch]

Call me old fashioned or paranoid, but I prefer that my firewall/router be
a separate piece of hardware from everything else. It just feels good to
have an actual physical separation there.
On Oct 6, 2013 5:04 PM, "Mike Williams" <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:

> 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<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<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<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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