William Kenworthy wrote: > On 29/2/20 11:31 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I >>> already have some "smart" switches set up - not full layer 3.) I thought >>> about running containers but if I ever have to do something like >>> emergency maintenance on my server the whole LAN would be down. Seems >>> like a no-brainer to have a tiny device like an RPi to do this. >> Yup. It really depends on your requirements. >> >> My main LAN uses a Pi as a DHCP+DNS server, for exactly this reason. >> I don't want to be replacing a hard drive in my server and now my >> lights/TV/whatever don't work. OpenHab runs on a Pi for this reason >> as well. > Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out > there. > > I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo > based kernel and a gentoo aarch64 userland. Its used for lxc containers > for asterisk, dns, webdav, mail, calendaring and web running on the N2 > backed by an Odroid HC2 moosefs cluster (though I am using an intel > powered Odroid H2 for the master). > > Its all working rather well now the initial install/config stages are > over. Part of the gain over the pi's is the use of eMMC storage over > sdcards - almost 5 times faster in my tests. The 4G of ram has proven > quite adequate so far - even the asterisk latency is better than my > previous QEMU/KVM on intel setup. > > I have currently have rpi 1B, 3B and a zero and while the specs for the > rpi4 are better ... its not the best out there. > > BillK >
Could you share some links to some of these things? As I mentioned earlier, I'm thinking about building a NAS system. Later, I may build a mythTV system. Then I can access the NAS from it or my desktop, or cell phone now that I am somewhat more updated, past the Motorola Razr stage. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
