Hi all,
I am looking for a new router for my 1gb fibre connection and saw this nice device;
At the moment I am running a rpi which goes to a switch, but seeing the amount of ports on this device I was wondering if I could configure it as followed;
Eth0 - wan port
Eth1 - 5 as a bridge (which make it a software switch?)
If this is the case I could remove my switch also!
Hope someone can give me an answer so I can pull the trigger buying this device, or not! Thanks!
A used Dell Edge E42W 620 is ~$60 on US eBay.
8Gb RAM, 128GB SSD, 16GB eMMC.
Comes with AC wifi, and two SFP+ ports.
Yes you can use software bridges as virtual switches.
There is a lot more choice and lower price in the x86 boxes if you are willing to accept 4 ports instead of 6. At some point your network will be more than 5 LAN devices and you'll need a real switch.
Do you have an example? I thought the price was nice already for this device
Depends on the price, I guess.
Cyberoam CR25ing, CR35ing, Wing, if you want wifi.
Trustwave TS-25
Sophos 85, 86, 105, 106, 115, 125, 135
Sophos 85w, 86w, 105w, 106w, 115w, 125w, 135w if you want wifi
Barracuda F12, F18, F80
partial C&P from a very informative post by @NC1 on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1ez2iyj/comment/ljhutnz/
The Cyberoams and Trustwave can be found on eBay for as low as $25.
Thanks, does it matter what kind of chipset I choose for the NIC? I see a lot realtek..
Probably not, Realtek are cheaper, but use more CPU.
Intel have on the other hand had issues with their NICs, lots of issues with their 2.5GbE NICs.
I'm guessing the devices I listed all have intel gigabit NICs.
Your picture does not provide any technical specifications of that device, rendering any discussions about this rather moot.
There are quite a few alderlake-n/ n100 mini-PCs with four 2.5GBASE-T ethernet ports on the big electronic market places, for rather affordable prices (~120-250 EUR/ USD). More than four ports tend to get unreasonably expensive and reduces your selection quite a bit, it's probably more sensible to keep the existing switch and to concentrate on the other features. Likewise the AP features will need external/ dedicated devices.
Sorry, indeed I had to add the specs.
The specs are exactly as you describe, n100 with 6x2.5gb intel NIC for around 300€ with 8gb ram.
I thought that the price different for a version with 4 ports was minimum and this would be a good deal if I could also remove my switch. 
https://www.ebay.nl/itm/226214736858 seller will probably accept a price around 160€, at least they did in the past, before they increased the price, due to popularity (deal was posted here).
but you don't want it anywhere near you, fans are noisy using default config.
Thanks. But are these devices supported by openwrt? X86 or? I will have a check on the local market place here!
I am not familliar with the CPU but the other specs look good!
The ones I posted are all intel x86-64, but the Cyberoams, which are AMD, if I remember correctly, they're all fully compatible with Openwrt.
I came across this nice device:
Perfect for my needs but I am not sure if it is capable for SqM with a 1gb connection and the intel J3160?
Anyone can confirm?
Kind of steep at 290€, with no RAM and storage.
But it's a good brand.
Yeah but I can get it for good price. Just wondering if the CPU is powerful enough. The nics are intel, so that is good!
From my brief experience (bought 2 then returned both due to switching noise), OpenWrt inside a ProxmoxVM running on N100 takes about 30% CPU for Speedtest.net on my 1Gbps PPPoE connection; 8505 would be about 17% doing the same thing.
The thing about noise is that it changes depending on traffic load. So if you decide to go for it, tuck it somewhere far away.
Oké so I went with a FW4B, configured it with OpenWrt as main OS and setup my 1GB pppoe connection.
Unfortunately it is not powerfull enough to do SqM with my 1GB connection. I tried to disable some power saving features in the bios, but without luck... Strange thing is, I never see it boost to MAX cpu speed, even when cores hit 100% running a speedtest.
This is an example of a speedtest with SqM, packet steering and irqbalance:
As you can see, 2 cores go to 1600mhz (but it should boost to 2,2ghz?) and the other 2 cores stay @ 480mhz...
Is it possible to set it up to run all 4 cores @ 2200mhz 24/7? I think if all cores are working correctly @ full speed it shouldn't be an issue.
There wouldn't be anything (except an extremely low price, e.g <<50 bucks) that would convince me to buy anything below alderlake-n n97/ n100 today; especially not for almost 300 bucks.
I dont get it why my raspberry pi with the CPU oc’ed @ 2ghz is capable and this device with a better intel chip and higher boost clock is not…
Bought the FW4B for 100 bucks, so not a big deal if it ain’t gonna work, just wanted to give it a try..
Try these in the terminal and see if that does anything for max boost clocks
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy2/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy3/scaling_governor
and please show output of
cat /proc/interrupts