My ISP is upgrading my connection to gigabit on Friday and I suspect my current router may struggle with it.
My existing router runs OpenWRT but I've found the firewall and IPsec setup is a little bit constrained in that environment and it is tempting to move to a router running a full OS. I've seen a lot of discussions about making DIY routers running a free OS like Debian, FreeBSD or OpenBSD and I was tempted to go with something like that running Shorewall, strongSwan, DHCP and DNS. Maybe it will also do wifi or maybe the existing router will be a bridge to wifi. Can anybody share any comments or links about this topic? - quiet (fanless), low-power and low cost hardware suitable for Gigabit routing and maybe use as a NAS too. It would also be useful to have fibre support in the router and avoid using a media convertor. - are there any live builds or other out-of-the-box solutions that address this use case particularly well? - any blogs or other articles that provide a good example of how other people already did this? One particular concern for me is minimizing the number of components. I've got a media convertor and fibre transceiver already, but that has its own plug-pack PSU and those are all extra things that can fail at some random moment in the future. Having a self-contained solution without a bunch of plug-pack PSUs would hopefully be easier to support and make less clutter. Regards, Daniel
