[TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for router, dhcpd/named, firewall

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I'd be interested in playing around with their wireless boards. where
did you guys score a small case / power supply for this from? ideally,
the smaller, the better...

Recently, I ran into a slew of issues with my DD-WRT, and I'm wondering
if its time for my WRT54gs v2 to go to the big Cisco in the sky....



-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:54 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for
router,dhcpd/named, firewall

I can't say how well it works being an access point as I have only used
m0n0 as a firewall/router.  What I can say about m0n0 and Soekris is I
have NEVER had a hardware or software failure that has required human
intervention (i.e.
manual reboot).  So far, knock wood, they have all been up and running,
churning along without fail for over three years.

Greg

On 8/3/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Any idea how well m0n0wall works with a Soekris AP? We're looking at 
> putting up a wifi hotspot in a low-income subdivision with a single
> (3mb/384kb) DSL for connectivity. I've been getting recommendations to

> install a 54G (or 54L, rather) with DD-WRT. Is there a better way of 
> doing this perhaps? It may end up being an outdoor unit sitting on a 
> pole, but we haven't done the site survey yet.
>
> Kevin
>
> "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level 
> of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:13:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for 
> router, dhcpd/named, firewall
>
>
> On 8/2/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good point, a couple years go Evil Mike posted something in his blog

> > on
> a
> > conf file in OpenBSD that would essentially make the OS read-only 
> > and
> not
> > write to the CF card.  He was using the old OcuStat (from Oculan)
> hardware..
> > grrr... where is that link....
> >
> >
>
> Another vote for a Soekris.  I bought a used 4801 with 3 extra LAN 
> ports off ebay recently and have OpenBSD installed on a CF card.  I 
> followed the directions here to mount everything read only:
>
>
> http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~adamo/howto/OpenBSD/OpenBSD-3.9_Soekris-
> 4801.html
>
> As to the sis(4) throughput issues, I know the OpenBSD team has put in

> a lot of work on that driver in -CURRENT (actually 4.2 just went into 
> beta).  Per the changelog, http://openbsd.org/plus.html
>
> "Enable interrupt holdoff on DP83816 sis(4) chips. Significantly 
> improves performance of such devices under load."
>
> More discussion about the sis(4) driver for OpenBSD 4.2 are in the 
> comments to this article here:
> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070802060056&mode=flat
>
> My Soekris is only being used on my home network, so I can't speak to 
> its performance under heavy load, but I noticed a real increase in my 
> traffic speed after switching from my WRT54G.
>
> Chess
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