<story><title>OpenBSD Innovations</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MobiusHorizons</author><text>This is on my list of projects I want to try. Can you recommend a hardware platform to start from?&lt;p&gt;Edit: hardware for building a router that is.</text></item><item><author>owenmarshall</author><text>One of my biggest knowledge gaps was networking, so many years ago I bought a little single board computer and committed to learn OpenBSD &amp;amp; roll my own router.&lt;p&gt;I learned a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt;, and definitely recommend this as the next step for someone who installed a BSD in a VM and is intrigued.</text></item><item><author>nesarkvechnep</author><text>It was discouraging to realise that I don’t know anyone who at least has tried a BSD.</text></item><item><author>vogon_laureate</author><text>Even if you&amp;#x27;re not an OpenBSD user, it&amp;#x27;s always good to see just what sort of innovations they (and the other BSDs) are regularly coming up with to solve all sorts of operating system problems, audit code, and improve security and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekster</author><text>Odroid H3 is pretty good. Bought one myself as my (yet to be fully operational) home router.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s small, quiet and has 2 ethernet for WAN and LAN and you can plug in an official USB Wifi dongle addon and it&amp;#x27;s good to go as a router.&lt;p&gt;You need to pick a few addons from the bare machine, like memory (I went with 8GB to run many containers), ssd (I went with m2 instead of emmc) and a case.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s x86, so you&amp;#x27;d have maximum compatibility for architectural differences.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;odroid-h3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;odroid-h3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenBSD Innovations</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MobiusHorizons</author><text>This is on my list of projects I want to try. Can you recommend a hardware platform to start from?&lt;p&gt;Edit: hardware for building a router that is.</text></item><item><author>owenmarshall</author><text>One of my biggest knowledge gaps was networking, so many years ago I bought a little single board computer and committed to learn OpenBSD &amp;amp; roll my own router.&lt;p&gt;I learned a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt;, and definitely recommend this as the next step for someone who installed a BSD in a VM and is intrigued.</text></item><item><author>nesarkvechnep</author><text>It was discouraging to realise that I don’t know anyone who at least has tried a BSD.</text></item><item><author>vogon_laureate</author><text>Even if you&amp;#x27;re not an OpenBSD user, it&amp;#x27;s always good to see just what sort of innovations they (and the other BSDs) are regularly coming up with to solve all sorts of operating system problems, audit code, and improve security and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owenmarshall</author><text>As mentioned the apu2s were great but EOL now. They also didn’t push line rate when I upgraded to gigabit Ethernet.&lt;p&gt;I just went to a local computer shop and picked up a HP desktop which was likely off a business lease, then tossed another NIC in. It works a charm and routes gigabit just fine.</text></comment>