[ale] homebrew routers, castoff hardware

[Boris Borisov]

The best I ever done is 486dx 8MB Ram. Running Linux on floppy with PPPoE
dialer and masquerading the internet to local LAN. I think also was doing
some simple QoS. No data loss everything was in RAM.

Running 100W for firewall is a stretch unless is really complicated one and
needs the CPU power.

On 21 Sep 2017 11:03 PM, "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:04:58 -0400
> Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > I see posts about pfSense, dd-rwt, Ubiquiti and the like. I'm not
> > knocking them, but asking rather if anyone still rolls their own *nix
> > NAT box running on dumpster hardware, like we used to to in the old
> > days.
> >
>
> I do.
>
> I've been saying for years, soon I'll buy  low power machine to save
> power. But til then, pfSense or just plain OpenBSD/pf on 10 year old
> former daily driver computer.
>
> SteveT
>
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