[ale] Looks like time for a new wireless router

[Solomon Peachy]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 08:07:57AM -0500, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> b) Get off the "consumer" treadmill and get a generic x86-64 router 
> system (perhaps something from PC-Engines?) and use one of the many 
> x876-64 router distros like OPNSense, pfSense, OpenWRT, etc ... to get 
> 10+ yrs from your hardware.  Don't get wifi with it as wifi standards 
> change every 5 yrs, so you'll want to use cheaper wifi options than 
> any built-in option.  Do you really want to trust wifi at all?

I'm using an >11-year-old Supermicro 1U server (Xeon 1320v2) 
running Fedora Linux as my actual router; it has 4x GbE ports onboard 
(two in use), plus a pair of 10/25G SFP slots (both utilized) on a PCIe 
card.
 
This is plugged into a pair of switches that give me the necessary pile 
of POE GbE and 10G-capable SFP slots currently partitoned across four 
VLANs.

WiFi is currently handled by a combination of high-powered Engenius 
EAP1200H and EAP1750H access points running OpenWRT.

I'd love to swap that server out for something less power hungry but a 
pair of 10G (or better) SFP slots is a hard requirement.  (I could 
coalescae that down to one trunked feed but it would halve my 
inter-subnet bandwidth. And 10G-over-copper is worse on every metric..)

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)
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