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Also as someone who has a couple of Raspberry Pis in his house, memory card corruption is real and it’s annoying as hell. If I wanted an OpenVPN gateway I would not want to run it on Raspbian. Maybe on a distro that runs purely in memory after boot.

But like the other person said, if you value your time it is almost certainly not worth spending time on setting this up yourself, even if memory card corruption was not an issue.

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I am also super hesitant to rely on a raspberry pi for anything that should really work, networking related, considering that the ethernet interface is actually a USB 2.0 device hung off a very cheap USB bus. It's not like having an Intel or Broadcom PCI-Express interface NIC on the motherboard of an x86-64 platform PC. It also has only one NIC. All of the methods to get >1 NIC on a raspberry pi use additional USB devices and are ugly hacks IMHO.

If you are experiencing corruption issues you are likely using a USB power supply that is not sufficent, for the rpi3 you need at least a 2.5 amp supply to ensure reliability.

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