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Banana Pi BPI-M7 router board now available for $165 (RK3588 processor, dual 2.5 Gb Ethernet, WiFi 6 and BT 5.2) (liliputing.com)
submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
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Does this look like a decent starting point for a first router build?

Cross posted from: https://lemux.minnix.dev/post/204890

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[–] lemmyuser100002@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is the software support? It seems like you could alternatively get a nice quad-core x86 Intel box with a handful of 2.5G ports off of AliExpress for around $120(you'd have to bring your own RAM and SSD in those cases though) and enjoy full Ubuntu/OpenWrt support.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

According to the official website, it will officially have Android 12.0, Debian 11 and Buildroot support and will unofficially support Armbian, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Kylin OS.

As for x86, I'd really like to try and avoid it for a router.

[–] davidfreina@lemmy.davidfreina.at 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As for x86, I’d really like to try and avoid it for a router.

Why? (genuine question)

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago

It's a couple levels of power more than what I need for a router in my opinion.

[–] smotherlove@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

x86_64 is inefficient and insecure

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is this board using FOSS RISC-V with open schematics? If not, there's very good reason to suspect it too.

[–] smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also, I trust ARM (almost definitely backdoor'd) over x86_64 (confirmed backdoor'd)

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're both with backdoors how do you trust either?

[–] smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't trust either, I'm just saying I trust ARM more. English is confusing and trust can be both boolean and float at the same time

ARM trust: 0.2 (false)

x86 trust: 0.1 (false)

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know RISC-V routers were a thing. There's OPNSense support for RISC-V?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There isn't. I was asking if the Banana Pi used RISC-V

[–] smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

RK3855 = 4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55