On 14/11/23 06:57, Charles Curley wrote:
My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386 Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a router/gateway computer. It should run Debian. It should either have two gigabit (or better) Ethernet interfaces or have suitable expansion capability. It should be quiet: no fans, and low power requirements. A small physical footprint would be nice. Most of the time it will run headless, but occasionally I will need to stick a monitor and keyboard on it. VGA will do fine. It will be a router. It will have at least DNS, DHCP, apt-cacher-ng and firewalld on it. Modest disk and RAM will be fine. WiFi is handled elsewhere for now, but I won't turn it down. SSD for storage would be nice, although the FIT-PCs do fine with IDE spinning rust.
I use FriendlyElec devices that match all your requirements. You just have to load and configure the software yourself.
Current examples include NanoPi R6C for a simple router or NanoPi R6S if you want to run a DMZ LAN as well as an internal LAN. They all have 2.5Gbit ethernet out of the box.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=69
