Have you checked out smoothwall? <br><br><a href="http://www.smoothwall.org/">http://www.smoothwall.org/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/3/29 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <<a href="mailto:dkg@fifthhorseman.net">dkg@fifthhorseman.net</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri 2008-03-28 14:58:13 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:<br>
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> I can second this approach. You can get a router that's probably as<br>
> powerful as your current PC [0] but will use only a half-dozen watts.<br>
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</div>Agreed. My home router is an Alix2c3:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://pcengines.ch/alix2c3.htm" target="_blank">http://pcengines.ch/alix2c3.htm</a><br>
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It's currently running debian, which is a nice convenience compared to<br>
the more limited openwrt. 3 built-in NICs, two USB ports, a miniPCI<br>
slot, 500MHz x86-compatible processor, 256MB of RAM, standard DB9<br>
serial console (bios over the console, too!), and a CF adapter.<br>
<br>
I've had no problems with it at all, it's totally silent, and it draws<br>
far less power than anything else i've used in the same capacity.<br>
<br>
My one change was that i added in a battery to the mainboard so that<br>
it would retain the clock across power loss (and i haven't had any<br>
power loss, so that was a Fun Adventure in Soldering instead of a<br>
critical operation).<br>
<br>
What's more, the principal behind the group making it (it could be<br>
just him, afaik) was very responsive when i wrote asking what model of<br>
battery i should get, and also immediately updated the published<br>
documentation with the info. This is not a faceless corp.<br>
<br>
it's a bit more expensive than one of the linksys or asus units, but<br>
i've been very happy with it.<br>
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--dkg<br>
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