That seems a bit pricey considering you still need a few items. I've had a QOTOM for quite a while that has served me well. Looks like they have Intel four 2.5 Gb ports with an N100 for pretty cheap.
Throw a stick of RAM and an m.2 drive in there and it would be cheaper and more capable than the Banana Pi. You could even throw Proxmox on there and virtualize pfsense.
You just described my setup of about a year. I’m struggling to update opnsense, last time I tried it just stopped working and I had to restore a snapshot from proxmox to get it working again. If anyone reading this has any suggestions I’m all ears!
Just updated proxmox and opnsense with few snags and it just worked. Phew.
I've been running OPNsense on Proxmox for years now, it just seems to plug along. I run ZFS for the datastores and do a snapshot before updates, but I've never had to use one.
Recently got it working with HA and inadvertently tested it by having a drive failure on my primary node. I remoted in for for something else and realized it had failed over to the second node about a week before, and I'd never heard a word from the family about internet being down.
That’s great. It’s been chugging along beautifully with no downtime for me too. It’s just that one failed update attempt, losing internet and network while it was down, and needing to go Ethernet directly into the box to do the snapshot rollback late at night made me afraid to try again. Last night it took me two hours to update everything , first proxmox 7 to 8, then OPNsense needed 4 rounds of update and reboot but each one was seamless.
I’m also on ZFS with two primary mirrored drives. Do you have to check zfs status regularly to see if a drive has failed? Or is there some kind of warning system when logging in via SSH?
I’m thinking of turning my rarely used windows gaming PC into a proxmox host with a Linux gaming VM for my next adventure.
Edit: realized it was a whole node that failed, not just a drive. Cool setup! I’m not there yet. I’m curious about your setup, what’s between the modem and the router?
Proxmox will report SMART errors via email if you set that up. You could also run a system like Nagios to run the checks via another box. I actually run Home Assistant with the Proxmox HACS extension to monitor it. It's on a VM so that isnt' ideal, so I also run Node Red on the little I5 PBS box to send alerts if it can't contact Proxmox itself now. The node going down without me realizing it was a bit of a wakeup call, though it failed my docker host and router over so seamlessly it was astounding.
I have nothing between the router and the modem except a switch so each Proxmox node can have a NIC on the external network and failover/migrating can pick up the modem and use it. I suppose I could VLAN, but the servers have 2 network ports anyway so that works fine.
It's likely you could use winlator to play the windows version of the game (I know, not quite the same, although it does run wine via a linux container lmao)
Winlator is kind of a bitch to configure to get things running smoothly. I spent wayyyyyyy too much time trying to get new vegas to run at 60fps on my fold 4 just because I wanted to see if I could. I got close but now it crashes every minute or so. Moved my save over to my pc lmao. If you'd like, you can dm me and I can try to help you out with getting it to run. I ended up joining several discord servers to try to learn what the options do. It sucked but I think i have a somewhat basic understanding of how things function now.
Appreciate the offer. I managed to get it running full screen on a sever I can vnc into, just like steam link except not slow.
Note: SL may not be slow, but the server it's on aty place is a potato. Doing DF and steam (goddamnit I'd love to kill steam webhelper) and steam link will make you crazy.
They claim made in califoria anyway. they don't have any n100 though just slower last generation hardware. Maybe good enough, I'm looking for a jellyfin server now though.
I think nowadays you will hardly find Hardware in that area that is not made in China, no matter where the company sits that sells it. There are a few, sure, but hardly in that price range, unfortunately.
One thing oft overlooked is that alot of manufacturing of computer components is essentially illegal in other countries. Texas Instruments stopped producing in Texas because of Cancer claims/lawsuits and regulatory changes.
For anyone who loves retro PC stuff, I highly recommend LGR on YouTube. His videos are a treat to have in the background, and sometimes to even fall asleep to.
How hackable is it? Are other distros or OSes devs going to be able to get their system ported to it? Seeing Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, or OpenBSD on this would be pretty cool.
Armbian lists several BPi boards as supported. Has anyone run Armbian on the BPi stuff?
The Pocket 386 gets its name from its 386 SX compatible processor, and the system should be able to run MS-DOS and Windows 95, but isn’t going to good for anything much newer than that
Or use your pocket pc capable of anything for that.
Faster isn't always better -- there's software from the era that relied on hardware limitations to throttle itself -- but I'd think that emulators probably have pretty good support for such throttling.
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