On 7/22/22 07:20, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
 >> That's cool... I've got a 4-port intel mini box that has 4x 2.5Gb
 >> ports I'll be playing with next weekend.
 >
 > I keep seeing people running high-powered boxes as routers and running
 > pfSense as a VM, for the time being I'm sticking with my appliance
 > router. Running OpenWRT it seems to do OK for my needs; a 64 bit ARM
 > processor and 512 GB of RAM should suffice.

Yeah, when my home security system and cameras were added my router just 
doesn't seem to quite keep up, which is what brought the shift.  May be 
using ProxMox on the device, and just map the other 3 ethernet ports 
into a VM for the router/firewall software.  That way I can more easily 
run the couple other things I also want on there (pihole, wireguard, 
reverse-web proxy with https).

 > I did see an interesting youtube video about a thin client with a
 > PCI-e slot, for around $100 the tuber got the client, some cabling
 > needed, and a 4-port gig ethernet card. 2.5ge a possibility, too.
 > Tempting.

Yeah, those are pretty cool... One thing to watch out for, is some 
devices that support 10g ports will only do 10g or 1g, not 2.5g, which 
is kind of wild.  Just bringing it up, depending on any switches/hubs 
you plan to use.
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