How about the stuff being discussed in
http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, David L. Parsley wrote:
> 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
> --
> David L. Parsley
> Network Administrator
> Roanoke College
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