On 2020-11-17, Mihai Popescu <mih...@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).
