[Leaplist] reduced energy router (was: Model DL085 Solo T1 DSU/CSU)

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 00:11, Randall Perry wrote:
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> throw in transparent proxying and VPN.  Well, rather than upgrade to
> more expensive Cisco line of router, I switch to commodity PC
> hardware.  For $250 I have a complete new PC server running linux with
> plenty of RAM and processing speed to-boot.  I have been running these
> hombuilt routers since the late 90's and they keep going and going.
> On a couple of them, I have replace the minitower cases with those
> mini-atx desktop boxes.

Yes, I have a commodity PC box handing my routing as well.  But of late, I 
worry over the wasted power and unnecessary heat generated by the unit.

Anyone have any thoughts on reducing the power footprint of their router 
setup?  I had a WRT54G V3 once, but it crashed when I hit the CPU to 100% 
trying to do OpenVPN on it.  So, I moved back to regular PC hardware.

Thanks.

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