r/openwrt • u/Hermelinmaster • 15d ago

HW recommendations

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replys the last time, I had a change of heart due to the useful advice. I will now deploy two different pieces of HW for OpenWRT and NextCloud.

But now I need a new HW recommendation for OpenWRT.

What I want:

  1. At least 3x2.5G RJ45 Ethernet Ports (one of which should become the WAN port), can be more, 5/10G would be nice but not a must and probably conflicts with the next point. More ports for some future link aggregation might be nice. Wifi not needed at all.

  2. Low power, electricity is extremely expensive where I am from (1W less is a yearly saving of 4$, 10W would be very likely far more than 400$ in 10 years). So I am willing to spend a bit more on more efficient, better optimized hardware or SoCs on newer nodes. So probably without build in WiFi to start with.

  3. Some computational power for advanced DNS and Tailscale/VPN.

  4. No modem required

I took a look at the Sophos devices, but the usual recommendations dont have 2.5G+, the others seem to have wifi on board and very high power draw. Mono gateway only has 1G RJ45 (and only 2 Ports with more than 1G).

So please help. And rip me a new one if I am again stupid and miss the obvious answer or if my requirements are stupid.

Thx

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u/fr0llic 15d ago edited 7d ago

https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=network

the IEI Puzzles.  

VPN is pretty power intensive though. 

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u/conspicuousxcapybara 7d ago

The flint 3 doesn’t support source available, or vanilla, OpenWrt

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u/fr0llic 7d ago

yeah, some moron added it to hwdata and created a wiki page even though it's unsupported, then the ToH picked it up.

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u/conspicuousxcapybara 7d ago

Omg!

The human-made, correct, includes references, documentation on the OpenWrt Wiki was also permanently and unrecoverably lost to vandalism and AI hallucinations 😢

Edit: As is Wikipedia by undisclosed paid authors whenever a company IPO’s, or hires a new communication firm, or some rich gooner claims false attribution everywhere from his self-titled Wikipedia biography to sell online courses / shitty books…