It is planned as silent node host to connect at my parents flat 
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ā¦behind a home router that pukes at 50 nodes ?
That is to be seen. I bought them their current router not so long ago, should be decent. If not, then I will probably upgrade them with my hAP ax2 and get myself something even more powerful.
EDIT: Or I guess I could make the Ryzen box soft router + node host, and switch the current router to act only as AP/switch.
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Yeah Iād definitely do that. Otherwise bit of a waste to have such a powerful cpu.
On the other hand, running few nodes only will keep it cool.
Ooof. I am not a fan of tightly integrated custom hardware and software for routersā¦such as MikroTik (personal opinion).
Precisely, I stick with pfSense on hardware of my choice assembled together, so there arenāt vendor lock ins and hidden limitations (later discovered).
Currently, at 600,000 NAT state table entries in steady state (4 million max, though can be easily raised as it has 32GB of RAM on the machine (4% off RAM being utilized)), and the CPU is at 13% load on the router, which has a 5+ year old quad core CPU, 
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I couldnāt turn on more nodes because I reached the limits of my circuit breakers at my place, 
, so unless I convert existing old hardware with more recent CPUs on a lower nanometer manufacturing scale that is more efficient, I am maxed out at the current location.
I still have way more spare disk storage and ample bandwidth to offer to the network, but limited by current power draw .
May or may not tackle the current power draw requirements laterā¦ 
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Ohh, and happy to see all the interest in this thread and in general regarding the farming landscape on folksā setup, exciting times!
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That is surely deserving of a badge or award!
āFirst to trip their breakerā
āFuse blower of the monthā
āCircuit Breaker Breakerā
Can you economise on other things a bit? Who needs a fridge/freezer, microwave, kettle, TV or lights anyway?
Come to think of it - a circuit breaker is just a formality anyway. A suitably sized nail works just as well!
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Thats where you run a extension cord from the neighbours with some lame excuse why you need it and give them a carton every month. And then help them drink it
Till your wires in the wall melt the insulation and/or you blow the pole fuse
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what other routers are there that could run just as many nodes as the mikrotiks that are user friendly?
I canāt say or speak regarding consumer friendly equipment in the same performance realm as MikroTik. I donāt use either type.
I have been following pfSense for over 20 years, and prior to that, the project was forked from m0n0wall. There have been other forks of pfSense as well.
ah ok so your primarily use pfsense, to set one of those routers up has the same learning curve as a mikrotik?
The ccr2116 runs (seemingly for now) stable at ~400k. that is honestly a little disappointing for a router that is nearly a grand.
I feel like these folk should know more than me about routers so I trust them more than myself at doing a good job which is why I went this route instead of DIY.
Lets see what @Erwin manages when his gear arrives.
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About 20 years ago I setup pf on OpenBSD on an old Pentium 2 256MB with a couple of NIC cards and that was my router and firewall for my fibre connection for a few years. It can all be done but requires a lot of fiddling. SmoothWall was the thing most people were using then and that would have had a much less steep learning curve.
All this be done with a bit of googling. I think MikroTik actually requires more networking knowledge than these software based solutions.
I am always wondering if the performance of what should be a monster router is me not having enough of that networking knowledge and experience.
I just cant figured out why it suffers after 400k connections considering 1 million is advertised.
Makes me think that I am the cause.
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Do you know if fasttrack is good or bad for number of connections and such?
I disabled it because I run queues and FastTrack bypasses it.
But I did not notice any difference. You may want to look at connection tracking udp timeout.
Default is 10 seconds, brief discussion with Joshuef suggests it should match the node code which is 30 seconds.
But that is not official or neccesarily correct. Increasing it is also likely to increase your number of connections.
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Autonomi is the first āminingā application I have seen where upstream ISP traffic can exceed downstream. By multiples, 2x, 3x, 4x!
Is it due to relaying of traffic, free unlimited downloads, or both?
(Great for ISPs with symmetrical BW but it makes cable ISPs look ridiculously overpriced by the way.)
In future there should be more upload on nodes because lot of data will be downloaded by clients many times, but in the the beta it is 1:1 so far. At least for me.
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With todays load on the 200 nodes then I reached CPU limit running 95%. I canāt push the Mikrotik hAP ax3 any further. When looked in the terminal it says about the NAT table, 200k connections total and above 650k max.
Yesterday when ran 250 nodes, Vdash started to show more nodes as inactive. Donāt know if I trust Vdash when running about 200 nodes. Now also it shows 10-15% of nodes as inactive even if CPU load around 80%, RAM 55% Internet seems fine no lagging, no heavy load on the router, above 100mbit up/down load.
Vdash seems also to use relative high amount of cpu resources, that might be some of reason for the problem with relative high amount of inactive nodes showing in Vdash. As nodes using 80-90% of cpu utilization, then when Vdash uses 15-20% then some nodes might become more inactive, just a feeling. Or that Vdash has trouble keeping up with the number of nodes.
@happybeing
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yeh, I think you shouldnāt try using vdash with large numbers of nodes. It was my ālearn rustā project and turned out to be useful to others, but has its limitations!
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Thatās a very good point. Iāve changed mine to 30s and then 60s and notice no difference to anything.
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