So what I’ve got at the moment for a firewall / router is an RPi3 and a USB-Eth adapter running openwrt, it has one wired port in, one wired port out, and wifi. The wired port out is connected to a switch which then distributes to my study, my tv, etc.
What I would like is to have one (bonus: 2 or more) extra wired, routable ports. 3 total, 4 or 5 preferable. I could, of course, just add another few usb-eth adapters to my RPi3, but I would prefer a nice simple solution all in one nice neat box.
I don’t want switched ports (ie, what https://i.mt.lv/cdn/rb_files/RB750r2-160719140140.png looks like, a single port connected to a switch that happens to be on the same pcb - in the same box. I want real, routable ports).
I don’t want to use vlan tagging or anything like that to get around not having real routable ports. That’s just the ugly software-equivalent of plugging in another usb-eth adapter.
I want (the equivalent of) /dev/eth0, /dev/eth1, /dev/eth2 (and 3-4 as a bonus) without doing anything complicated.
So is there any Mikrotik hardware that suits this purpose?
The RBM33 looks sort of ok, https://i.mt.lv/cdn/rb_files/RBM33-1565865697.png isn’t exactly clear whether eth1 and eth3 are the same ‘logical’ port, or if they just share the same Gb bandwidth.
And I’d have to add on a MiniPCIe card to get wifi.
hAP all look to have a switch chip, and so do hEX. (and with hEX, I’d have to use one of the eth ports to go to an RPI3 to act as wifi AP, defeating the purpose of getting rid of the Pi).
So is there anything here that sounds remotely suitable for what I need?
(10/100 is fine, my internets is only 25Mbps and I doubt gigabit internets will ever be available in my country in my lifetime. Ditto wifi, bgn is enough, ac is a bonus but not mandatory).
