On 2/12/20 3:44 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
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.
There are other options
Traverse in Vic have
https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64
https://traverse.com.au/hardware-1.html
I import Lanner hardware
https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances/x86-desktop-network-appliances
but they have minimum orders.
I would be happy to arrange a group buy, I would need a minimum of 20 of
a single unit.
Cheers
Mike
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