I think the ms01 is way way way overspecced to be used as a router for home.
maybe @Shu can shed some light on what specs to consider for a.dedicated router appliance ?
Im building an opnsense router on a hp T730 thin client with 8g ram and a dodgy inspur dual 10g nic that prevents the box from booting (grrrrr). But now on hold till a proper dell dual 10g nic is delivered.
Exactly, I’m thinking handling up to 2M NAT entries, for something like 2K nodes (1M entries might be fine since I’ve observed that each node fill about 500 entries).
Also, maybe I’m overestimating what my connection could handle (8Gbit/s symmetrical), but I’d say 2K nodes would be okay (but hard to predict how it will behave once the network is launched).
With 2k nodes from home you wont need central heating anymore…
I run around that from home. It is toasty in my office for sure. 
maybe you can earn a bit extra on the side by renting it out as a sweat yurt
I have a cockatoo that plucks its feathers. It likes it in there now that its winter 
You just made my day. Someone on discord ruined the logo for me a while back with another comparison.
I like it again, thank you. 
I’m currently using ~0.3w/node on 9 year old laptops, it would be 600W for 2K nodes, I might be able to heat my bathroom with that 
Which router did you end up using?
I have 5 routers. Most overkill but when we set out on this journey there was not much info to go on. I like the MikroTik RB1100AHx4, I have 2 of them. Then I have that CCR that was just crazy heat of the moment purchase.
Also have a couple L009’s.
Any generic hardware (intel / amd / arm) architecture with pfSense or equivalent (most hardware nic’ should be supported by freebsd if they contain mainstream enterprise NIC chipsets).
I run an old box which needed an update to 6 core x 3.3Ghz (turbo to 4.5Ghz) with 32GB RAM.
State table is at 1.2M+ in steady state.
They are plentiful here, this is from the property next door across the river. They’ll chew through anything, including ariel coax cables
I can only imagine the sound a flock will make 1 is a commitment to eventual hearing loss.
The local flock is about 50 strong. We have so much greenery that they have no need to chew the cables fortunately. But out west its a real problem to protect the cables.
I haven’t updated my nodes in weeks (same # of nodes running at home) at a lower version: v0.112.3 (haven’t had time to keep up with the upgrades 
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Interestingly enough, the state table now has reached basically 1.5M+ (wow).
CPU usage on the 6 core router is at 50-55%.
I do wonder when and where the next bottleneck will be in the at home setup, 
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Just ordered another refurbished 1.5TB RAM server this weekend, as I managed to find another 600W off unused power at home…
The server will be partially for safe nodes, and partially to serve as another HA endpoint for CEPH’s MDS daemon (its steady state is a ton of RAM usage that only a few off my machines have the capacity to serve that daemon properly), but due to needing to support rolling reboots for OS patching purposes, without downtime, I need to have a few MDS daemon(s) in standby state etc.
I guess I am going to find out in a week or so if the current router is itself the bottleneck at 1.5M state table size or not…
If not, it will be exciting to see it cross 2M+ state table size… 
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No hot water anymore?
Using Candles now?
Sacrifices must be made… 
Was talking with some lines men when i worked at the control centre on their super computers for the distribution company and some of the stories.
Like lines men who had clips to be able to boil their water for a tea break.
Or the person who cut into the feed line into their house.
Or the person who had a “permanent” clip on the ariel cables down the pole and running into their house.
And many others.
