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@mailman.ampr.org On Behalf Of Rob PE1CHL via 44Net Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:54 PM To: 44net@mailman.ampr.org Cc: Rob PE1CHL 44net@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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