On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Jason White wrote:
On 11/29/20 7:51 PM, Mike O'Connor via luv-main wrote:
This is connected to a PC router (6 ethernet ports) running a standard Linux and a 24 POE switch. I like the flexibility of a full Linux disto for my router.
I'm currently using OpenWRT, but, next time, I would prefer a device that can run a more typical Linux distribution. Are there small, relatively low-powered and quiet machines with multiple Ethernet ports suitable for the purpose?
Interesting you say that. At the start of the pandemic, I replaced my network with openwrt everywhere - router, APs etc. It's nice having wireless all the way out to the far corner of the garden, complete with a VLAN for work's untrusted devices (trusted to them, not me), the IOT devices blocked off from talking to China, or if they do talk to china, not anything else in my network. I don't have the skills to configure iptables itself with the complex rules I've set up in openwrt, but I'm pretty confident it all behaves as my network diagram says it should. Given the risks involved in the last update of my router a few days ago to 19.07.5 (vlans were half expected to change, and I wasn't sure I would be able to access the router anymore), I had considered logically moving the router to an openwrt VM inside my proxmox instance so snapshots and rollbacks were trivial instead of having to solder uarts, but then realised my well-out-of-support switch would be exposed directly to the internet, and I don't know how kosher it is having proxmox protected only by VLAN separation. -- Tim Connors