Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote at [1]: i'm looking for a small low-power computer with at least two ethernet ports. gigabit would be preferred although i wouldn't turn down an older one since I have nothing at this point. I want to make a router for my house, to go between the comcast bullshit and my internal network. How about using a fairly low-cost and low-power assemblage of a Raspberry Pi 3 [2] along with one or two extra USB Gigabit Ethernet dongles attached, and using an RPi3 distro for a sort of DIY "Poorman's"/"Poorperson's"-type router ?? According to David Both's 'Firewall your home network with a Raspberry Pi' [3], he's successfully used an ASIX AX88178 USB Gigabit Ethernet dongle as a second Ethernet port. According to to the Alpine Linux's 'Linux Router with VPN on a Raspberry Pi' [4], the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter [5] is recommended as it contains a ASIX AX88772 which "has good Linux support". There is further discussion on the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange about setting up and using such an RPi as a router/firewall, e.g., see [6] and [7] The wifi KRACK attack vulnerability that's infesting WPA-protected networks -- e.g., see Marc J's recent Mesh post [8] -- might even make it _imperative_ (yes?|no?) to disable the RPi 3's WiFi connectivity for such a dual-homed+ router. It's fairly easy to obtain or make a case for an RPi3. It's also definitely recommended to use a powered USB hub for powering the Rpi3 itself as well as the one or two Gigabit Ethernet dongles on this router. Hope that this helps :-) -A References ====================== [1]https://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2017-October/013635.html [2]https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/ [3]https://opensource.com/life/16/3/firewall-your-home-network-raspberry-pi [4]https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a_Raspberry_Pi [5]https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC704LL/A/apple-usb-ethernet-adapter [6]https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/7223/using-the-raspberry-… [7]https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/13860/how-would-raspberry… [8]https://sudoroom.org/pipermail/mesh/2017-October/002636.html ====================== aaronco36(a)sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org