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[Lord Drachenblut]

Perhaps one of these products would make for a great router

http://soekris.com/products.html
On Oct 6, 2013 5:36 PM, "Josh" <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with you Ben.  I am currently using the super micro board for a
> file server. About to get another for a router due to not finding anything
> else that will run Debian with 2 Ethernet ports
>
> On Oct 6, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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