[conspire] Quiet, Freedom-compatible NAT/firewall/misc box?

[Tony Godshall]

I'm thinking of a raspberry pi 2 for such an application. Not 100% freedom
but the proprietary stuff is in the video. And cheap and highly
replaceable. Debian by default. USB Ethernet for the second port might be a
deal killer but I've had pretty good luck with them. Combo USB 2.0 hub with
integrated Ethernet have been solid for me, USB 3.0 not so much.  Should be
able to keep up with routing and natting unless your connection is way
faster than mine.  Should even be able to saturate the line from USB
storage. I would add the copper heat sinks to the Raspberry Pi and use a
2.1 amp power supply. And stick to the 100 megabit usb ethernet- the
gigabit ones draw a lot more power .  If you need to go but that might be a
deal breaker as well. My current router box uses gigabit on the internal
side where it can be useful and 100 megabit usb Ethernet on the external
which more than exceeds my upstream connection.

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This is unedited. Heck, this may only be phonetically similar to what I
said,  which may bear only a passing resemblance to what I meant.
On Mar 13, 2015 7:42 PM, "Don Marti" <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for a small, preferably fanless, Linux
> system that has 2 or more Ethernet interfaces, which
> I can use for NAT, firewall, DHCP, and DNS for a
> home/small office network.  I don't need a wireless
> AP, since I already have that.
>
> Preferably running an actively maintained regular
> Linux such as Debian.  I might end up putting a few
> other miscellaneous network services on it.
>
> Anyone using such a machine?
>
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> Don Marti
> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> dmarti at zgp.org
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