router solutions based on Debian?

From	Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	router solutions based on Debian?
Date	2016-11-23 16:00 +0100
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My ISP is upgrading my connection to gigabit on Friday and I suspect my
current router may struggle with it.

My existing router runs OpenWRT but I've found the firewall and IPsec
setup is a little bit constrained in that environment and it is tempting
to move to a router running a full OS.

I've seen a lot of discussions about making DIY routers running a free
OS like Debian, FreeBSD or OpenBSD and I was tempted to go with
something like that running Shorewall, strongSwan, DHCP and DNS.  Maybe
it will also do wifi or maybe the existing router will be a bridge to wifi.

Can anybody share any comments or links about this topic?

- quiet (fanless), low-power and low cost hardware suitable for Gigabit
routing and maybe use as a NAS too.  It would also be useful to have
fibre support in the router and avoid using a media convertor.

- are there any live builds or other out-of-the-box solutions that
address this use case particularly well?

- any blogs or other articles that provide a good example of how other
people already did this?

One particular concern for me is minimizing the number of components.
I've got a media convertor and fibre transceiver already, but that has
its own plug-pack PSU and those are all extra things that can fail at
some random moment in the future.  Having a self-contained solution
without a bunch of plug-pack PSUs would hopefully be easier to support
and make less clutter.

Regards,

Daniel

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router solutions based on Debian? Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2016-11-23 16:00 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2016-11-23 16:10 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de> - 2016-11-23 16:30 +0100
    Re: router solutions based on Debian? Jan Bakuwel <jan.bakuwel@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-23 17:50 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? maderios <maderios@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 18:10 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2016-11-23 22:10 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-11-24 14:50 +0100
    Re: router solutions based on Debian? Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2016-11-24 15:30 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-11-25 04:20 +0100
  Re: router solutions based on Debian? J Mo <jmomo@jmomo.net> - 2016-11-30 00:10 +0100
    Re: router solutions based on Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-11-30 13:30 +0100
      Re: router solutions based on Debian? Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2016-11-30 14:50 +0100
        Re: router solutions based on Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-11-30 15:00 +0100
        Re: router solutions based on Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-30 15:00 +0100

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