On Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:46:17 GMT Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-)
Android has its optimal use cases for sure, but I have found embedded x86 APUs to be more capable for network and server tasks. As an example: https://pcengines.ch/
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