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On Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:46:17 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > On 29/2/20 11:31 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I |
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> >>> already have some "smart" switches set up - not full layer 3.) I thought |
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> >>> about running containers but if I ever have to do something like |
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> >>> emergency maintenance on my server the whole LAN would be down. Seems |
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> >>> like a no-brainer to have a tiny device like an RPi to do this. |
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> >> |
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> >> Yup. It really depends on your requirements. |
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> >> |
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> >> My main LAN uses a Pi as a DHCP+DNS server, for exactly this reason. |
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> >> I don't want to be replacing a hard drive in my server and now my |
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> >> lights/TV/whatever don't work. OpenHab runs on a Pi for this reason |
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> >> as well. |
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> > |
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> > Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out |
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> > there. |
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> > |
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> > I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo |
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> > based kernel and a gentoo aarch64 userland. Its used for lxc containers |
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> > for asterisk, dns, webdav, mail, calendaring and web running on the N2 |
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> > backed by an Odroid HC2 moosefs cluster (though I am using an intel |
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> > powered Odroid H2 for the master). |
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> > Its all working rather well now the initial install/config stages are |
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> > over. Part of the gain over the pi's is the use of eMMC storage over |
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> > sdcards - almost 5 times faster in my tests. The 4G of ram has proven |
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> > quite adequate so far - even the asterisk latency is better than my |
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> > previous QEMU/KVM on intel setup. |
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> > |
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> > I have currently have rpi 1B, 3B and a zero and while the specs for the |
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> > rpi4 are better ... its not the best out there. |
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> > |
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> > BillK |
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> Could you share some links to some of these things? As I mentioned |
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> earlier, I'm thinking about building a NAS system. Later, I may build a |
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> mythTV system. Then I can access the NAS from it or my desktop, or cell |
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> phone now that I am somewhat more updated, past the Motorola Razr stage. |
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> Thanks much. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Android has its optimal use cases for sure, but I have found embedded x86 APUs |
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to be more capable for network and server tasks. As an example: |
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https://pcengines.ch/ |
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