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Interesting. Looks like he’s actually using an R4. I’ve got an R3, myself, though. I use mine as my gateway router and it certainly seems under utilized. I’ve got SQM, adblocking, DDNS, DoH proxying, multiple VPN interfaces, and it’s a ‘router on a stick’ for my home networks (at 2.5gbe). Despite all of that, the CPU load never seems to budge and I’m only using a tenth of the RAM. I’m personally a bit torn on the device; on one hand, it certainly seems like it can do a lot more. It even has a m.2 slot for SATA/nvme, so it could definitely provide NAS or even some bigger applications. On the other hand though, I feel like it’s such a critical piece of infrastructure that I don’t want to introduce a bunch of non-router-related functions and risk one of those extra functions crashing the system and bringing down my whole network.

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abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
@K3can Ah yeah .. so that was a typo .. meant to say R3 - I have an R3 as well and am in the same position - (well without the technical capability to actually move things on.. I'm completely new to #proxmox and struggling a bit to even work out routing properly) . I actually have two - I just got a second one for a second location that I run a VPN to. But I'm still suck on things like properly flashing #Openwrt (should it be in NAND or NOR?? ) - so in the meantime I have a couple of Dell Micros that I have proxmox on to run random VMs to try out things.
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- K3can@lemmy.radio ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  should it be in NAND or NOR?? Why not both? My initial idea was to flash to NOR and then configure openwrt to a sort of “minimal usable state”. That is, I’d have the basic functions required run my home network: basic routing between local networks and WAN. Then I’d copy that image to NAND and that would be when I installed the “extras”, like SQM and whatnot. That way, if I ever broke it beyond repair, I could just flip the switches and copy the NOR back to NAND and start over with that minimal usable config.
  I sort of followed my plan, but I think things have changed enough that it would not be the simple restart that I hoped it would.
  I still think it’s a good idea, though.
  
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  - abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    @K3can Oh that is a good suggestion - I think I'll do that. I struggled to flash the NOR - I think you can only do that from SD Card which then was weird as it wouldn't start via the SD card and then.. and then ..
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