On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:14:52 -0400 Mike Chirico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:35:38AM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > > Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys! > > I'd recommend the following: > > net5501-70 > SanDisk 8GB CompactFlash Card (30MB/s) > Atheros Wireless Chip (www.netgate.com) > USB Numeric Display (www.delcom-eng.com) > > It's nice having a little extra memory and power, which gives you the > option of running both a web server and mail server on your router, > plus any applications you desire. In addition, kernel modules can be > compiled directly on the device as well - you may end of hacking USB > and or wireless devices. Actually, a net4801 is more than enough for this: I'm running FreeBSD 7-STABLE on it, doing ppp with mpd5 on a slow 1 Mbps DSL line, pf filtering, public webserver is lighttpd, serving mostly static content to a few private domains with moderate load, postfix + cyrus-imap and, of course BIND. There's still enough breathing room on those 128 MB and CPU to run a DHCP server. I've also ran an NFS server for a couple of diskless workstations on it, in addition the all the above for a few months just for the fun of it: while it works very well, I'd wish it had 256MB instead of 128MB, but I was able to serve up 4 simultaneous diskless machines with 128MB without a hitch and without them getting in the way of the normal routing + web + mail + DNS workload. The net4801 (and everything above its specs) is a very fine embedded system to play with. ;) Cheers, -Farid. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
