[ale] Best firewall/router disti with PPOE

Brian Schenken brian.schenken at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 12:09:47 EDT 2008


Have you checked out smoothwall?

http://www.smoothwall.org/

2008/3/29 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>:

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