<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, John Wells <<a href="mailto:jb@sourceillustrated.com">jb@sourceillustrated.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div></div>Yes, but that gets me back to square one....I'm trying to eliminate<br>
all my servers that simply provide infrastructure and replace them<br>
with embedded low power machines. If I can get rid of this<br>
firewall/vpn, I'm down to zero servers that have to be running all of<br>
the time...<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">__</div></div></blockquote><div><br>It really depends on how many simultaneous VPN connections you need running. If just 1, then the router can handle it. More than that and you are not going to be happy as the little cpu bogs down on decrypting packets.<br>
<br>If you must use a separate machine for the VPN decryption, just use an AMD box with the powernow! and hdparm the drive to sleep once the system is running. Use some script-fu to preload the vpn stuff and keys into RAM and make sure to use a variable-speed cpu fan (4-pin style has cpu speed control). You can also use a compact flash drive (read-only) for the boot up and then a RAM disk for / (and keys, etc) and drop the power req's down in the low 30W range. It's not as low as the wireless-off, active Internet mode of the linksys but it does have the horsepower to do the job.<br>
</div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br>
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