Hi Chris,
I built a Linux router recently, my second one really, but the first was
a piece of garbage. I'd be curious how you'd rank this one:
- Industrial rack-mount case w/ redundant hot-swap power & 8cm cooling
fan
- 128M ECC SDRAM, 'major brand', but not Kingston, say
- 4 Kingston KNE100TX Tulip cards (the only card I could find with a
_real_ tulip chipset)
- ASUS P3B 'Flagship' MB w/ 5 pci slots
- Intel boxed PII-450 (w/ Intel fan)
- No video; serial-console support (w/ Dec vt420, yum!)
- CDROM & floppy; normal mode is load 16M ramdisk from CDROM & run in
RAM from then on; save changes to floppy and burn those changes
permanently to CD as necessary.
- Uses about 20M in ramdisks
I'm very pleased with this box so far, but my $1200 falls far short of
your $5000, and I wonder where/if/how badly I screwed up. The floppy/CD
might not sound good, but for a box that will boot once every two years
and has a lifetime of only 5-7 years before we'd replace it for good
measure, I think it's a pretty good box.
Also, do you or anybody know of good online resources for building Linux
routers? I'm thinking about stuff like choice of hardware, kernel
tweaks, design issues and such.
regards,
David
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David L. Parsley
Network Administrator
Roanoke College
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