Hi Daniel, > On 24/11/2016, at 04:26, Bernhard Schmidt <be...@birkenwald.de> wrote: > > Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > >> 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? > > My recommendation if you basically want a fanless mini PC is the PC > Engines APU (2C4 for example). Quadcore 1GHz amd64 with AES-NI, 4 GB > RAM, 3 GE ports, USB 3.0 external. I recommend using a M2 SSD for boot > media. With PSU and case it starts around 220 EUR. Debian works out of > the box. > > You can also have a look at the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter line. There are > models with SFP slot available, even the small models are supposed to be > able to support GE throughput and are < 100 EUR. They are MIPS Cavium > boards with a custom kernel, but you can get a rootshell and there is a > Debian (I think Wheezy at the moment) userland on it. I don't think you > can get the hardware to be fully-free running a vanilla Debian, so YMMV.
+1 for PCenigines APU boards. Used the predecessors (Alix) for years, now using APU's where higher speeds are required, all running Debian out of the box. These never missed a beat. They also have a SATA port if you'd like to use it as a NAS as well. SSD is great if you can afford them. They also work with cheaper SD cards. regards, Jan
