OT: Trying to offload some new wireless network hardware

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 1 22:12:34 UTC 2009


Peter wrote:
> David J Patrick <djp at ...> writes:
>   
>> linuxcaffe's access points are working fine, but our central router gave 
>> up the ghost a while ago. Our principal packet re-director is a 
>> consumer-grade Belkin piece o junk, and I'm hoping to upgrade. I'm 
>> debating the use of an "appliance", like a WRT, vs. a "snottier" box, 
>> like P4, and a stack of NICs.
>>     
>
> Imnsho a P4 and a 'stack of NICs' will likely do better than any consumer grade
> box you can buy for money now. Otoh, if you would shop around for an older Cisco
> or other brand name business grade router, that would very likely fit the bill
> for the same money and work almost forever. A well used older model Cisco should
> be well under $100 and with some expert programming will very likely fulfill ALL
> your special packet routing needs, plus it's an all metal super rugged part that
> will last almost forever.
>
>   

Another brand of similar equipment is Adtran.  I have a lot of
experience with it and it works well.  My firewall is a mini case Compaq
with an 800+ MHz P3, running OpenSUSE 11.0.

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