Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:30:23PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus:
Personally I prefer to use a FreeBSD machine as a router, because I
dislike "black boxes".
I second and carry the motion. Show me a consumer-grade black-box
"router" that I can run tcpdump on, then maybe I'll think about
switching... but probably not by a long shot.
Well I do have a Linksys WRT54G with hacked firmware... :)
These days I'd rather install a Cisco 1605R than a old computer with
FreeBSD on it. No moving parts and it's getting expensive to build and
support old PC hardware (the cost of DRAM is the real issue).
I do still have a few FreeBSD routers: underclocked Pentium with a large
heat-sink, 48 or 64 MB RAM, DC-DC PS with a wall-wart and a CF card in
an IDE reader from which an md / is loaded.
In my experience, there just isn't enough power in a 486 to handle being
a broadband router. A 100MHz Pentium running RELENG_4, however, has
more than enough to handle DSL and cable modem speeds with a pair of fxp
interfaces.
--
Darren Pilgrim
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