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23.11.2016 4.54 ip. "Daniel Pocock" <dan...@pocock.pro> kirjoitti:

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> 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
>
>

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