Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:48:45 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <phi@evilphi.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <45B19F2D.7080108@evilphi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070119231601.GE63694@over-yonder.net> References: <45B00728.5050207@gmail.com> <200701192030.l0JKUN9v059140@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070119231601.GE63694@over-yonder.net>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:30:23PM +0100 I heard the voice of > Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: >> Personally I prefer to use a FreeBSD machine as a router, because I >> dislike "black boxes". > > I second and carry the motion. Show me a consumer-grade black-box > "router" that I can run tcpdump on, then maybe I'll think about > switching... but probably not by a long shot. Well I do have a Linksys WRT54G with hacked firmware... :) These days I'd rather install a Cisco 1605R than a old computer with FreeBSD on it. No moving parts and it's getting expensive to build and support old PC hardware (the cost of DRAM is the real issue). I do still have a few FreeBSD routers: underclocked Pentium with a large heat-sink, 48 or 64 MB RAM, DC-DC PS with a wall-wart and a CF card in an IDE reader from which an md / is loaded. In my experience, there just isn't enough power in a 486 to handle being a broadband router. A 100MHz Pentium running RELENG_4, however, has more than enough to handle DSL and cable modem speeds with a pair of fxp interfaces. -- Darren Pilgrim
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