My Soekris 4801 has provided flawless service for years as a Linux bridge/QoS router/NAT/6to4 tunnel until I recently had to retire it.
It just wasn't fast enough to keep up with my U-verse service when I upgraded it recently to 3 Mb/s up, 24 Mb/s down. I had no trouble getting the 3 Mb/s up, of course. But I just couldn't get more than about 18-19 down. I temporarily swapped in a Via C3 running a very similar build. It has no trouble getting 23+ down, which is about as close as I can reasonably expect. I'd buy a 5501 if I can be *assured* that it will be fast enough. Will it? I generally track the latest Linux kernels. I don't do a lot of packet filtering as we don't run Windows and I don't generally believe in firewalls anyway. My routing table is small (8 entries) and static. I do traffic shaping with QoS, but only in the upstream (i.e., slow) direction. But it's also a NAT so it does track IP connection state, and those tables can get rather large. The box actually acts primarily as a bridge. (It's long story having to do with braindamage in the U-verse 2Wire gateway; see http://www.ka9q.net/Uverse for all the gory details). _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
