And MikroTiks can be purchased for much less and not require any assembly and work great. https://mikrotik.com/products On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:34 PM, pete M &lt;petem001(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: > they are not really hard to assemble. The power can be provided by a > picopsu 150 watt is usely more then enough > > > http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT > > > <http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT>a small form factor box can be > use: > > > http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure > > > > and they can be bought for cheap already assembled. > > > http://www.mini-box.com/Mini-ITX-systems-x86 > > ________________________________ > De : 44Net &lt;44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; de la > part de Rob Janssen &lt;pe1chl(a)amsat.org&gt; > Envoyé : 11 mai 2018 13:13 > À : 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org > Objet : Re: [44net] OT: Recommendations for a small to medium size router > for a multi-purpose repeater site > > > I would go with a small itx pc with dual gygabit nic and a 4 port pcie > gygabit nic. that give you 6 nic in a box. > > Run this under Openwrt, or opensense or pfsense. You could even run > miKrotiK OS > > you can have a small ssd in there and 4 gig of ram to be sure all is ok > and this setup would be able to do all of your need and even more. > > Of course it also uses more power, and takes more effort to construct and > install. > It can sometimes be useful to have more flexibility, but for general > router usage it usually is overkill. > Those MikroTik boxes work after unpacking and some basic config tasks. > However you can still spend hours and hours > to make them do a lot more :-) > > Rob > > _________________________________________ > 44Net mailing list > 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org > https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net >

Not if you do it right and firewall off anything going TO the router but not going THROUGH the router and only allow certain mgmt IP’s inbound Ruben - ON3RVH > On 11 May 2018, at 21:54, pete M &lt;petem001(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: > > And you hope no more worm take control of those 😉 > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > De : 44Net &lt;44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; de la part de K7VE - John &lt;k7ve(a)k7ve.org&gt; > Envoyé : Friday, May 11, 2018 3:45:05 PM > À : AMPRNet working group > Objet : Re: [44net] OT: Recommendations for a small to medium size router for a multi-purpose repeater site > > And MikroTiks can be purchased for much less and not require any assembly > and work great. > > https://mikrotik.com/products > >> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:34 PM, pete M &lt;petem001(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >> they are not really hard to assemble. The power can be provided by a >> picopsu 150 watt is usely more then enough >> >> >> http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT >> >> >> <http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT>a small form factor box can be >> use: >> >> >> http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure >> >> >> >> and they can be bought for cheap already assembled. >> >> >> http://www.mini-box.com/Mini-ITX-systems-x86 >> >> ________________________________ >> De : 44Net &lt;44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; de la >> part de Rob Janssen &lt;pe1chl(a)amsat.org&gt; >> Envoyé : 11 mai 2018 13:13 >> À : 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org >> Objet : Re: [44net] OT: Recommendations for a small to medium size router >> for a multi-purpose repeater site >> >>> I would go with a small itx pc with dual gygabit nic and a 4 port pcie >> gygabit nic. that give you 6 nic in a box. >>> Run this under Openwrt, or opensense or pfsense. You could even run >> miKrotiK OS >>> you can have a small ssd in there and 4 gig of ram to be sure all is ok >> and this setup would be able to do all of your need and even more. >> >> Of course it also uses more power, and takes more effort to construct and >> install. >> It can sometimes be useful to have more flexibility, but for general >> router usage it usually is overkill. >> Those MikroTik boxes work after unpacking and some basic config tasks. >> However you can still spend hours and hours >> to make them do a lot more :-) >> >> Rob >> >> _________________________________________ >> 44Net mailing list >> 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org >> https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net >>