Re: Linux AP/Router hardware recomendation

we have had very good luck with Mikrotik.  Kind of a swiss army knife for 
metro networks.

http://www.mikrotik.com/


Tyler van Houwelingen
Founder and CEO
Azulstar Networks, Inc.
1051 Jackson, Grand Haven, MI 49417
1117 Rio Rancho Blvd 13, Rio Rancho, NM 87124
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Linux AP/Router hardware recomendation


> Stephen Ronan wrote:
>
>> ...until I turned captive portal on and the Soekris CPU/RAM got swamped 
>> within about 24 hours. ... The same m0n0wall software now works fine on a 
>> box with a Pentium processor running at about 500 mhz with 128 megs of 
>> ram.
>
>
> With what I've read about the Soekris 4501 and what I know of running 
> production firewall/VPN servers on OpenBSD over the past few years, the 
> specs of the 4501 are pretty meager for handling a lot of users/traffic 
> unless you've got simple needs or a pretty small user base like a SOHO or 
> small icafe environment. When building firewalls from x86 commodity 
> hardware, I've found comparisons to the Cisco PIX to be useful for spec 
> comparisons when considering the user base and bandwidth requirements: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX. For an office of 60-80 people and 
> a 10Mb circuit from Time Warner, a 433Mhz P3 is sufficient for a base 
> install that runs nothing more than pf and pptpd. By comparison, when I 
> first got SDSL 7-8 years ago at my home, I was using a 486 with 8MB RAM, a 
> floppy drive, and fdlinux then later upgraded to Coyote linux.
>
> -Gary
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