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

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Monday 07 January 2008 6:27:36 pm Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008 00:11, Randall Perry wrote:
> <snipf>
>
> > 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.

I'd recommend an embedded PC of sorts, that is designed for this kind of task.  
One well-known brand for that is Soekris (http://www.soekris.com/).  Sure, 
it'll cost more than a crappy throw-away PC, but it'll also boot from flash 
and use a heck of a lot less power.

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Derek Konigsberg
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