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The Luckfox Pico Mini B - Linux in a Thumbnail (taoofmac.com)

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[–] pelya 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Tech specs are right in between ESP32 and Raspberry PI Zero. This would make a nice OpenWRT router or torrent server, if you can solder some external Ethernet chip on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is it really enough for a router? Does it have any hw acceleration for cryptography or network routing?

I have a pretty modern AP and sufficient managed switch that never crashed in 8 years, but my router is the bottleneck WITHOUT any analytics, logging or more involved security features.

[–] pelya 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, Cortex A7 has some crypto HW acceleration with Neon extensions

https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A7

But routers typically won't decrypt any traffic, they just route it. Bus, RAM and cache speed is more of a bottleneck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I'm thinking more in terms of UTM. It's been a project of mine to have an enterprise-like network while using prosumer or SMB hardware. Always looking for efficient upgrades.

[–] TCB13 1 points 4 months ago

Only if it had 128MB of RAM.