Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-18 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Stuart Henderson [s...@spacehopper.org] wrote: > > Do you have evidence to back this up? People were saying the same about > PCEngines not being reliable compared to Soekris too. It all seems nonsense. > Old rpi 1 and 2 machines are still running fine doing the job they were > intended to do. I'm

Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-11-17, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> The combination of the computer and switch together can be considered a > router. > > I have Mikrotik hAP ac2 in test for a few days. That is exactly something > like this, 4 cores ARM for routing, switch attached for vlan'ed interfaces, > plus wifi. And it

Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> The combination of the computer and switch together can be considered a router. I have Mikrotik hAP ac2 in test for a few days. That is exactly something like this, 4 cores ARM for routing, switch attached for vlan'ed interfaces, plus wifi. And it is a real charm as performance and price. But

Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-11-16, Noth wrote: > Buy a switch, and buy the APU4. Two ports don't get used, so what? For starters, that means you at least might as well use APU2 instead (which is often easier to buy - not all vendors have the APU4 - PCEngines don't sell direct in some countries other than to

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:37:50PM -0700, John McGuigan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 6:05 PM Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > bridge (and theoretically switch but I never got it to do anything > > useful) make a group of ports act like a network switch (maybe with > > filtering between the

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread John McGuigan
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 6:05 PM Stuart Henderson wrote: > > bridge (and theoretically switch but I never got it to do anything > useful) make a group of ports act like a network switch (maybe with > filtering between the ports). > I've been having issues with switch (4) as well... The reason I

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-11-16, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> bridge(4), and add a vether ... > > Reading thru man pages I see there are other options: switch, aggr, trunk, > etc. aggr and trunk are for combining two or more ports into a single uplink (aggr only for LACP, trunk for various methods). Rither used to get

Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Noth
Buy a switch, and buy the APU4. Two ports don't get used, so what? It'll be more reliable long term than a RPi4. A router with only one physical port isn't a router, it's a host, no matter how many vlans you throw at it. Cheers, Noth On 16/11/2020 18:06, Mihai Popescu wrote: bridge(4), and

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
> bridge(4), and add a vether ... Reading thru man pages I see there are other options: switch, aggr, trunk, etc. I barely understand these, since IP is an ugly business. My intention is to replace ISP router with something based on OpenBSD I can configure myself. I see now that APU4 is too much,

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-11-15, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > In the scenario of building a router with APU4, one interface is for wan, > the rest of three are free to use. > What is the most sane and performance wise ( CPU load, interface load, > etc.) way to tie together the remaining three interfaces as a

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 11/15/20 12:25 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote: Hello, In the scenario of building a router with APU4, one interface is for wan, the rest of three are free to use. What is the most sane and performance wise ( CPU load, interface load, etc.) way to tie together the remaining three interfaces as a

APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, In the scenario of building a router with APU4, one interface is for wan, the rest of three are free to use. What is the most sane and performance wise ( CPU load, interface load, etc.) way to tie together the remaining three interfaces as a switch, and avoid using one IP class per