3 Aug
2021
3 Aug
'21
11:56 a.m.
I like the MikroTik Hex line and use them myself but their UI isn't the easiest to
deal with and their OpenVPN client in RouterOS v6 isn't very good. I'm waiting for
OS 7 where it's said to be improved before I start suggesting that platform.
-----Original Message-----
From: 44Net <44net-bounces+jason=mfamily.org(a)mailman.ampr.org> On
Behalf Of Rob PE1CHL via 44Net
Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:54 PM
To: 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org
Cc: Rob PE1CHL <44net(a)pe1chl.nl>
Subject: Re: [44net] On Allocations, PoPs, and Proposals
While I agree that it is attractive to use a Raspberry Pi because of its
availability and the capability to also host some applications on the same
device aside from doing the routing, in my experience it is much easier to use
a dedicated router like the MikroTik hEX (RB750Gr3) available for about the
same price, but having
5 ethernet ports and all software required for VPN and routing pre-installed
and much easier to configure and maintain than a Raspberry Pi.
Of course there always are multiple options. And Raspberry Pi should be one
of them.
Rob
On 8/3/21 6:26 PM, Steve Stroh via 44Net wrote:
I agree strongly with N8EI's suggestion 3 to
base the "Get on Net44"
appliance on a Raspberry Pi. It's ubiquitous, capable, and
well-understood. Please scale it down as much as possible so that it
runs on a RPi 3 (so that there's at least one Ethernet port).
Please (for those of us mortals who don't routinely compile Linux
kernels), make the "appliance" available as an ISO image so that it
can be downloaded to an SD card and just stuck into the RPi and
booted. Then have a one pager (or even better, a small script) that
lets you "fill in the blanks" like callsign, VPN that you're trying to
connect to, etc.
Thanks,
Steve N8GNJ
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