Comment on Is the Orange Pi 5 overkill for my needs?

• 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.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, not strictly necessary.

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