You call THAT a router?! 2 Tiny Raspberry Pi Routers

Sure would be nice to have a 3rd port (via pci-e) with a GigE 8port switch chip and connectors on it. This would allow for 1 port for Internet, 1 port for DMZ, and 8 ports for the home lan.

I would like to see pi5 be able to have a external graphics card and faster four core processors. Might be eight core at 2.5 ghz

I use edgerouter most of the time, but the normal pi4 is awesome for router duty. I've been using mine as a backup router on my home network, when my DSL dies. Either through its wifi and my phone in hotspot duty, or through a 3g usb modem. Openwrt works like a charm with minimal fiddling

Pi is rubbish as router, either wifi or ethernet. Just for test is ok.

They should put a pcie packet switch chip and dual 2.5gbe nic's + 1gbe from the cm4.
If they can get a 3 port packet switch then they can also include a usb3.0 controller but all would be limited by the maximum bandwidth of 1x pci gen 2 bus so if both 2.5gbe are at full use then it would not leave much bandwidth for usb3 but still you will have some ports and you are not going to use full bandwidth all the times anyways to those usb 3.0 ports can allow extra storage.

Fantastic Hardwork. Very informative

I'm confused. Do I need to buy anything else or can I just get the router module and a network switch and a wifi access point?

orange pi has also built in 2 ethernet ports and its basically raspberry pi

things I didn't expect to see appearing the same shot: a hacksaw and a raspberry pi :)

What 3d printer do you use?

How about IPS/IDS packet sniffing? How much throughput then?

HI, very nice video.
I now you are mostly into RPIs but I would love to see your take on NanoPi R4SE (1GbE alternative to DFRobot and Seed board), NanoPi R5S and newly released R6S as these two feature 2.5GbE ports.

What a pity there is no recommendation to set up SSH RSA (or other) keys for authentication and disable passworded SSH. This is the easiest way to increase the security of the router.

About tests: there are "standard" Xena tests. Tests with additional bridging, ip filtering, ipsec rules to get figures of what is could do in various real life situations.

do you have more videos about building router with raspberry?

I can confirm the USB Ethernet port lights work on the seeed board. 500-600 Mbit throughput still holds.

Hey, please could You indicate were to buy?

seriously who uses safari

The Seeed unit is a great little edge device and isn't unobtanium these days and now runs Ubuntu out of the box or ever a RHEL clone if you want to monkey around with or rely on open UEFI. The power sipping of the robot board is interesting, tho, I need to take a look at them and hopefully there are now reasonable cases available for them. If you want dirt cheap, low power, adequate performance, and easy config, Mikrotik still holds the crown and some of them can be hacked to run OpenWRT.

i'll stick to my trusty tp-link archer c7 for now. openwrt works wonders on this device.

ROCK Pi E?

Would this work as a PFsense machine? As it only needs 2 lan ports.

So from the sounds of it, the DFRobot board would be better suited to a kub cluster with etcd since etcd would be writing a large amount of smaller packets. I do intend to use an external ssd like I have with another Pi build to avoid sequential read/write bottlenecks on the storage. Would it be possible to boot off of SSD using a CM4/CM4Lite on the DFRobot board? The USB2.0 bandwidth limitations are not a huge concern for me since I don't believe the data is really bandwidth intensive enough to reach a bottleneck there. Love your content! Thanks!

Vpn performance would have been great. If your main router, TV, etc. does not support VPN and you have a device you can hook between to have VPN on a device that does not have support otherwise..

USE IRQBALANCE!!!

Are you using raspberry pi OSes on these? If so, what is the performance like with different PiOS installations (lite, for example.)

The best part is the ending.

Very nice explanation. Can I use any of those boards to implement Modbus/TCP and daisy chain them?

it's a neat little gadget, but the ubiquiti edgerouter ER-X is $60 last time i checked. alternatively, you can buy an older thin client PC and stick a quad 1G NIC or dual 2.5G NIC into it for under $90. so, this is really not worth it. but that's just my opinion.

Why do I need to turn a Raspberry into a router when I can buy a wonderful Mikrotik router with an excellent operating system for $25. Mikrotik is a reliable router with many options and capabilities. Your project, like any project to turn a Raspberry into a router, should be for fun only.

What if you just want to use one of these as a standard IO board, and dont need any router functionality? For instance, I am hoping to build an mt32-pi hat for my mister FPGA and the device requires a pi with gpio on it. Could i simply combine CM4 with this board to get gpio on my CM4?

imagine using raspberry as fucking router how fucking cheap can you be

What's the minimum spec Compute Module 4 board that would be needed for the DFRobot router? I want to get the kit for this but the only wireless CM4 board that's in stock is the 2GB Lite version. It's that good enough?

Hey Jeff, Great video as always. For relatively normal home / family router using Streaming services, work from home type life. In your testing. Do you feel that the DFRobots board running pfsense could stand up to the test?

Hi Jeff, any ideas how to extend the Router Carrier Board Mini with WiFi capabilities or with LTE/GSM module and still have it inside the same case as Router Carrier Board Mini?

Great video. U already played with a 4g board? I want to host a small webshop that controls a vending machine. So far I want to use some feather boards or if I can get them some pi nanos all connected over utp to the pi internal and need a router plus fire wall running next to the webshop. But dont decided as yet if the internet gonna be glass or over 4g.

I've been using a p3b+ as a router for years. I don't have or need gigabyte speeds so it's worked perfectly for my needs.

I was going to use my Raspberry Pi model 3B as a backup router/signal booster... will it still be any good even with the slower ethernet port?

Questions.... Are these 32Bit of 64bit CPU architecture?. I am looking fora device that will give massive speed on OPEN VPN and 64bit is a must!!!!
and the Dual NIC gig ports of course.

so what would you recommend for doing synchronous gigabit cake qos using openwrt? my downstream gets around 30ms bloat on the downstream but 150ms of bloat on the upstream. Thanks!

hey man great video,

As a long-time networking nerd still gnawing at the idea of finishing my CCIE, one thought was to perform UDP based iperf to get TCP windowing and retransmissions out of the way.

What's the CPU usage like for each core on the DFRobot?

Can you use the dfrobot board to flash on board emmc?

Are there some other linux software for the PI i can use for a firewall "Minus JAVA"

did you ever check out vyOS? :)

I went and bought a dfrobot and am only getting 570mb down and 30mb up. Plug in my other router and I get 960 down and 50 up. Weird... driving me nuts because I want so badly for this to work to get away from the limitations of the ISP router.

Did the dual build happen? What you would suggest for a wireless router/access point with a lot of connections