Daniel Denson

I'm biased, I actually run a PC Engines distributor... (embeddor) All APU2/3/4 run the same quad 1Ghz AMD Jaguar CPU. They have zero 'IME' or similar options and run coreboot open source bios. These units can support SATA controllers on the mPCIe which means you can potentially put 13 SATA drives on or more if you get fancy. These units absolutely smash an esspressobin. They are not in the same league. I've build a couple of hobby CEPH clusters on 2C4 units. They have good intel nics (seems a strange mix of an AMD SoC and Intel nic but I'm not complaining)

I'm looking at the NanoPi R1S, R1, or Orange Pi R1 as a simple bridge device for Zerotier. They all seem to have some limitations that likely mean ~100Mbps either from the 100M ports or the R1S' USB2 connected port so that's fine. I'm most drawn to the R1S for price and included case. Questions are: 1) Are these the only decent <=$30 devices for this task? 2) Is one of these known to be more stable/reliable? 3) Is there a likely software support issue with any of them? The deployment model is pretty simple. Plug WAN in to and DHCP port, have the firewall locked down tight, and bridge a ZT network into the LAN port.