Re: Linux AP/Router hardware recomendation

Just some experience and info about what I run, nothing too specific
to the current conversation -

I've had some experience with pfSense, a project derived from m0n0wall
(pfsense.com) It's nice, and currently very active in development.
It's also very easy to use as a wireless router, probably similar to
m0n0wall in that regard.

I've ran it fine on a 466mhz/256mb celeron box and it held up fine
with my 6mb/1mb cable connection being fully utilized.

Currently I run OpenBSD on a sun ultra10, and for wireless I just have
access points running off of a dedicated Ethernet interface on the
ultra10, which works nicely.


-Ian

On 1/9/06, Stephen Ronan <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding would be the same as Haudy's but I haven't tried
> anything quite like that. As you probably know there's an extremely
> helpful bunch of people on the monowall email list that may be able to
> provide futher input.
> My one most relevant personal experience has been with running m0n0wall
> on a Soekris net4501 with a 133 Mhz CPU (486?) , and 64 Mbyte of Ram. It
> worked fine with an 8 megabit/sec commercial cable modem line with up to
> 70 people getting dhcp leases every two hours.... until I turned captive
> portal on and the Soekris CPU/RAM got swamped within about 24 hours...
> that's with a newly released version of m0n0wall captive portal software
> (part of the Jan 1 release of 1.21) and perhaps there are aspects that
> still need tweaking. The Soekris box didn't include a wireless card, the
> users were associating with a set of Cisco APs within the wlan. The same
> m0n0wall software now works fine on a box with a Pentium processor
> running at about 500 mhz with 128 megs of ram.
>    - Steve
>
> Haudy Kazemi wrote:
>
> >>Also in researching for a new firewall I've read on MonoWall's site that
> >>for an 100mb connection I would need a Pentium III box, is this true?
> >>They also say that for gigabit I'd need a 2.8+ghz P4.  Now am I crazy or
> >>is their site overestimating it a bit?        I have a Celeron 850mhz and it
> >>was running just fine, but would like to know for sure if this is going
> >>to limit me once I start doing a bit more wireless work.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I believe those cpu recommendations are for the case where the Internet
> >connection is 100mbits/1 gigabit, and the MonoWall is supposed to
> >firewall/filter/traffic shape the whole 100mbit/1 gigabit.  If you're on a
> >home cable modem connection you should be fine as they're usually in the
> >4-8mbit downstream/384-1mbit upstream range.  (It doesn't sound like you
> >are trying to firewall a 100mbit connection between PCs sitting on your
> >home LAN.)
> >
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