We were considering building a box... however, spikes in usage (like sheduled Windows <shudder> Updates) seem to swamp our current router.
I thought having having some more RAM would prevent the dying at high demand times. I'm looking at something like: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/products_data_sheet0900a ecd8028a976.html S. On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:02:39 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I use either IP Cop or a homebrew Debian install for firewall/routing > duties. I doubt that the router is the issue, but bandwidth utilization > likely is. I am a fan of squid (well proxies in general), as they > can cut bandwidth utilization as well as filter certain MIME types, > so that streaming media does not bring your internet connection to > its knees. > > For most of my clients, streaming music and sites like google video, > youtube, tsn, cnn, cbc, bbc, basically anything with audio or video > (there are a ton). > > Do you have any method of monitoring your current solution (SNMP for > example)? > > Why the RAM requirement? You should not need that kind of RAM for an > appliance. > > shane wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I wonder what the group would suggest for a router that meets the following > > specs: > > > > --up to 20 ethernet clients > > --port forwarding > > --NAT > > --Firewall > > --Easy configuration/use, http control panel > > -- VPN, QOS, Traffic Shaping, etc not required > > --128 MB ram + > > > > My current router seems to get swamped at certain times of day. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Shane > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEMpiewRXgH3rKGfMRAukkAJsG7Eak7EdwcLGAYD2WCg0lXtqpyQCfR6WJ > KQI1Jt1CxOGY7eTufh70ZFA= > =ugrd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
