[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Cory Smelosky]

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> On 17 Feb 2014, at 01:12, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
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>> On 02/17/14 01:07, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> If I was in a settling mood, it would be good enough, but still more
>> work than settling for an ARM box or an Alix running PFSense.  If I'm
>> not in a settling mood, I'd like to have 3 ports, one for WAN at 50MB
>> with an option for 105 in the future, one for GigE, and one for 300Mb
>> WiFi (over a GigE port), and I want to route from wifi to the GigE
>> side at full speed, and also posibly use the machine as a VPN end
>> point.
>>
>> Can the EdgeRouter series do all that?  It claims to be able to, but
>> after getting it, I settled for configuring it and haven't persued
>> actually doing the rest of what I want with it.
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> Since its OS is an embedded Debian Linux, I'd be pretty surprised if it
> couldn't.  I'm now actually considering the lowest-priced rack-mountable
> EdgeRouter myself.
>
> I wonder if it'll run OpenBSD...?

Hopefully! The Linux netatack is horribly suited for...well...anything.
Especially routing.

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