What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?

Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by 0xffff2 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:47PM (#17452245)

How does one go about building a router from a NUC? Don't you need two NIC's for a router? (One for the modem, one to connect a switch for the LAN.) Or have enough people given up on wired networking that they just build routers where the entire LAN is on WiFi?

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Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by jonathanlydall on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @03:41PM (#17453069)

If you have a VLAN capable switch and appropriate network card with the right drivers, then you can have all the logical ports you could possibly want.

I have done this at my parents place with a cheap Intel Celeron based computer with a single network port, but 2 logical networks with vlanning. One is for their personal network and the other is for their guest suite they offer through Airbnb.

It’s only 20MB/s fibre, so not much cpu power needed. The no name computer cost less than $250, came with a 60gb SSD and I put pfsense on it.

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Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by matwood on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:52PM (#17454663)

You can get NUCs with dual NICs or just use one of the mini PCs out there. Ars has few articles building a home brew router with speed comparisons.

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