Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote: Bear in mind that the added electricity costs will more than cover the cost of a new Linksys (or equivalent) router in a few months. If energy consumption is a concern, you might try one of these:

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread Nerius Landys
Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD): http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a headless system (such as one of these small devices) via

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes: Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a headless system (such as one of these small devices) via serial port? It's documented in the installation chapter of the Handbook. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD): http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm Is there a nice guide that explains how to

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/12/2010 2:39 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD): http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm Is

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:26 PM To: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws Cc: Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Home Router With PC Yep

Re: Re : Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Law
+1 for psSense and if you need a quick to setup home NAS box, you could do worse than FreeNAS, which is also derived from FreeBSD -although I don't think it supports ZFS currently. When it does it will be even better. Best, Matt On Thu, March 11, 2010 7:59 am, Alexandre L. wrote: You can use

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu writes: I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on). I've got an older PC that would great as a

RE: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: mailinglist [mailto:mailingl...@ucwv.edu] Sent: 11 March 2010 01:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Replacing Home Router With PC I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/10/2010 8:50 PM, Ed Jobs wrote: On Thursday 11 of March 2010 03:36, mailinglist wrote: The question is, can it use that wireless card to act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be used)? you can run the hostapd daemon to configure a card as an access point.

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/11/2010 9:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu writes: I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on).

Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread mailinglist
I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on). I've got an older PC that would great as a routerhowever I also need it to be a

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread Ed Jobs
On Thursday 11 of March 2010 03:36, mailinglist wrote: The question is, can it use that wireless card to act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be used)? you can run the hostapd daemon to configure a card as an access point. I did this on an openbsd box, so i'm

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread Nerius Landys
I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on).  I've got an older PC that would great as a routerhowever I also need it to be a

Re : Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread Alexandre L.
 : De: mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu Objet: Replacing Home Router With PC À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Jeudi 11 mars 2010, 1h36 I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless