On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:45 PM A. J. Trickett via Hampshire <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the near future I'm hoping to get FTTP. The roll out in France > is fibre to the actual house with a single RG45 Gig-E connection > from the media converter. > > For my money I get: > 2 Gig download speeds > 1 Gig upload speeds > 1 x IPv4 address > 1 x IPv6 block > No transfer cap > > I think they also give you a crappy ISP router/switch which you > may or may not have to keep. > > Assuming I can swap the device out I'm thinking of setting my own > router up, with WAN, DMZ and LAN ports. Because the address is > static, I can route stuff to the DMZ and keep that separate from > everything else. > > One of the reasons for doing this is so I can run WireGuard > directly on the router and hook it to other houses with family > members in, and to my server in York (to get a UK GeoIP). > > I'm happy with the software, using a stripped down Debian, or > router distro, but not sure what hardware to look for. > > Any suggestions?
I run one of these: https://www.mini-itx.com/~JNF9HG-2930 Has quad onboard NICs, fanless and enough CPU to do firewalling / VPN / home server. It's a little dated now but there are plenty of similar boards available with a good number of gig ports. Another option could be something like an Odroid H2+, which has dual 2.5Gbe ports. I run openSUSE on it with NF-Tables for the firewall, nothing fancy but simple and effective, I don't need a GUI or similar. I also have a wifi card in it and run hostapd for some wifi as well as some other access points. Regards, Chris -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
