Comment on Is the Orange Pi 5 overkill for my needs?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
For Pihole or any other firewall applications two ethernet ports are nice and not many SBCs have that.
For Conduit or any other Matrix server, fast storage connection, ideally a NVMe drive is also very useful and again not many SBCs have that.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are two ports really necessary for PiHole? I guess if you have EVERY device in your house pointed at it and you have a LOT of devices, maybe…
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not in the slightest. Even with a couple hundred devices pointed at it you’re not going to exhaust a 1Gb port.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m currently running a PiHole, haven’t found a use for a potential 2nd Ethernet port. It’s not a router or firewall, both of which have value for two Ethernet ports.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, the PiHole is just doing a firewall function: DNS filtering. If you have a fully featured router/firewall like PFsense, you can do everything a PiHole does using that. So I see how one could argue that a PiHole might benefit from dual NICs, but in practice, for home users, I agree that it’s not necessary.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
No, not strictly necessary.