Cable Modem / Router / Wireless

[Darrin Chandler]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 05:08:47PM -0700, Sir Light wrote:
> As for me, I have a PC with two ethernet ports running IPCop(www.ipcop.org) for the last three years and it works great!!!
> 
> It has everything that I need in a firewall/router. 
> 
> As for the PC, IPCop can be run on like 64megs mem, 10 gb hd and at least a PII. In another words, no much of a PC. I got a 800MHZ PIII, 256meg mem, 18g hd. Way over kill but hey it all works!!!!

I'm using a soekris for that purpose. It's got 128M RAM and runs at a
blistering 267MHz. I've got a mini-pci wifi card in it so it's my access
point, and it has 3 ethernet ports that you can do what you please with.

It's pricey compared to a WRT54GL, but it's very cheap and power
efficient compared to a dedicated FW computer.

I'm running OpenBSD on mine, but they run Linux just peachy. I bet IPCop
would run on one as well. Not that *I* would give up OpenBSD for edge
devices... ;-)

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