Hardware for the router

Question

Iron

At the moment, I use dlink type routers on which, due to restrictions on the size of flash memory, only distributions such as OpenWRT and ddwrt can be installed.

Personally, I have some complaints about them (for example, OpenWRT uses unsigned repositories, but ddwrt does not have them at all) and in general I doubt their reliability.

Therefore, I decided that I needed to find some kind of hardware platform suitable for use as a router (with several ethernet ports, etc.) and on which I can use, say, Debian.

Please suggest me such a platform. Also write if I don’t understand something and this is a bad plan =)

Answer 1

You first decide what you need: a router or a home server.
On the subject:
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Answer 2

Pay attention to these pieces of iron
mikrotik.ru/katalog/katalog/marshrutizatory/marshrutizatory It also
supports virtualization. You can put inside a virtual machine that will work with the torus, but even without this the functionality is huge.

Answer 3

Another option is to take any atomic computer and set up what you need in your favorite Linux distro, and you will have a tor and girls to it