Comment on Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?)

Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1. DNS resolver, like pi-hole, unbound with adguard, diversion, etc.
  2. RMS server: a lot of Remote Desktop software has the option to install a listener on a low power device elsewhere on the network that can use wake-on-lan to access computers within the network without keeping everything on 24-7.
  3. Log aggregator: would be useful for anyone who troubleshoots stuff regularly, but historical info of any kind can come in handy to many.
  4. Simplest form might be a scribe server. Network gear often has an option to send logs to a particular URL, so if you added the scribe server IP/port to the field you’d have historical network logs.
  5. Additional loggers could also be run on-device, such as a wifi connectivity checker or a Fing server.
  6. If you have a smart home setup, you could also log state data or energy monitoring history at a particular interval.

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