On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 12:28:11 PM AEDT Jason White via luv-main wrote:
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?
There is a serious lack of such machines. "Relatively low powered" by today's standards means a lot faster than servers were 20 years ago while much of the things that we do aren't more demanding than they were 20 years ago. So a company that sells servers with multiple ethernet ports would lost some of their profit in that market if they also sold small machines with multiple ports. Some models in the Intel NUC range support ECC RAM and multiple storage devices (suitable for RAID-1 on NVMe or SSD), if they had multiple ethernet ports they would be great little servers. I'm using some ARM systems from https://www.embeddedarm.com/ for work, they are reasonable hardware (although a little low powered) and run a slightly modified Debian distribution. They provide their own kernel and I'm not sure how they work with a regular kernel though. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/