On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 08:20:09PM +1100, Brett Pemberton wrote:
> It's not what you're asking for, but it'll do the job much better IMHO.
>
> https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/
>
> I've been using one of these for a few years now and it has been perfect.
> Don't miss OpenWRT/Tomato at all
I was going to say that for the price this sort of thing usually goes for,
you'd be better off building a micro-atx PC with 2 or more ethernet ports -
but scorptec has them for $85, so they're surprisingly good value.
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Networking-Wired/Routers/66592-ER-X-AU
I was expecting them to be $300 or more - you can build a pretty decent PC
router running linux for $300, but not for $85 unless you don't care about
size or power consumption and can scavenge a free PC to re-use...and a 2-port
Intel NIC is going to cost at least $100 or $150 (cheaper if you don't mind
using Realtek stuff...some of which is OK, some is garbage. I've been using
a TPLink branded Realtek 8169 NIC for my ADSL pppoe link, but I want an Intel
gigabit NIC when I upgrade to NBN 100).
"I'd be better off building a PC router" is where I always end up whenever I
look into openwrt stuff...but this looks pretty good. Good enough to be worth
reconsidering, anyway.
I'll put these on my list of things to consider when I upgrade to NBN myself
soon (FTTC is available in my area), but I expect that the things I want to do
on my router/firewall are beyond what any little box is capable of (fail2ban
is essential for my network but is also a bloated pig, for example...OTOH, I
guess I could get f2b to ssh into the router and run iptables there to do the
banning and unbanning)
For someone who isn't running their own services (web, mail, gitlab, asterisk,
dns, dhcpd, hostapd, and more) on their own /24 network at home, they look
pretty good.
BTW, these edgerouters can also run openwrt:
https://oldwiki.archive.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_x_er-x_ka
craig
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