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Is the Orange Pi 5 overkill for my needs?
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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For Pihole or any other firewall applications two ethernet ports are nice and not many SBCs have that.
For Conduit or any other Matrix server, fast storage connection, ideally a NVMe drive is also very useful and again not many SBCs have that.
Are two ports really necessary for PiHole? I guess if you have EVERY device in your house pointed at it and you have a LOT of devices, maybe....
Not in the slightest. Even with a couple hundred devices pointed at it you're not going to exhaust a 1Gb port. It's just answering DNS queries, it's not a firewall in and of itself.
I'm currently running a PiHole, haven't found a use for a potential 2nd Ethernet port. It's not a router or firewall, both of which have value for two Ethernet ports.
To be fair, the PiHole is just doing a firewall function: DNS filtering. If you have a fully featured router/firewall like PFsense, you can do everything a PiHole does using that. So I see how one could argue that a PiHole might benefit from dual NICs, but in practice, for home users, I agree that it's not necessary.
No, not strictly necessary.