On 2020-11-17, Mihai Popescu <mihscu@gmail.com> 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 is a real charm as performance and price. But it does not
> run OpenBSD and I miss the simplity of it mostly. This is how I was able to
> see the big difference compared to ISP router.
Agreed on all counts.. (you will find it hard to beat hAP ac2 for
price:performance, it's sad the hardware is not open).
> I already have a Netgear managed switch around here, with VLAN
> capabilities. I think I will go for RPi4. Mark K. told me on arm@ that it
> lacks storage and hardware acceleration for crypto used in ipsec and maybe
> VPN, but I will not use it. I use only pppoe as a hardware challenger.
>
> Did you run RPi4 in this scenario, is there good throughput, please? What
> do you use as storage?
I haven't run it in this scenario. I've done a bit of network performance
testing on the pi4 I occasionally use for ports work and was very pleasantly
surprised by how well the onboard nic worked.
I might give it a go sometime though, my APU was a bit slow for my
current connection, the slightly faster amd64 I replaced it with makes an
annoying noise ;)
For storage I have uefi firmware on a cheap small microsd, main OpenBSD
install on a usb3 sandisk ultra fit (the small ones) which I'm pretty
happy with. (If I was running Linux on it I'd look for a drive
supporting UASP though that doesn't really matter for a router which
won't be doing all that much disk io).
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