Haven't done it myself yet but did pick up an rpi cm4 based board to do this: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/two-tiny-dual-gigabit...
Re:Please log in with router's password
by washadjeffmad on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:39PM
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They still sell the ER series, but Microtik sounds like what you want.
However, it's likely that your ER-4 will far outlast the majority of devices you can find running OpenWRT. They're very well built units.
Re:Please log in with router's password
by stephen_g on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:17AM
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Yeah, I’ve used Microtik gear, and I never liked their software. I hear the performance has improved a lot though (that was a big selling point of the Ubiquiti gear when I got into it with their hardware acceleration).
I expect I will eventually move to embedded server hardware (even maybe Xeon-D) on a machine running vSphere or something with a router VM and other VMs for stuff I want to run. Just have a few separate NICs and pair it with a separate managed switch (which I already have anyway).
When the EdgeRouter-4 I have dies, I suspect I'm going to need to find a new hardware brand, this time preferably running OpenWRT. Potentially it could get to the point where I'll have to look for an ARM based server with low enough power usage and a few independent network interfaces and just run pfSense or VyOS or something...