[olug] VPN Hardware

Cheyenne Deal deal.cheyenne at gmail.com
Tue May 10 23:04:06 UTC 2011


I have a few of the 270's if you would need them. All 2.8ghz with 1gb of RAM
On May 10, 2011 5:51 PM, <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#Asus
>
> wow, figured the WL-520GU would be beefier than the RT-N12, I was thinking
> of the RT-N16.
>
> Yeah that buffalo is a beast. but..."beefier CPUs and much much more RAM"
> considering bang for the buck we got 2 dual 3GHz / 4GB ram poweredge 2850s
> off craiglist for $100 each a few weeks ago.... One is a pfsense box now.
>
> The solution to this problem has to be in town and fast. If it were my
> problem I'd be thinking like some old recycled Optiplex gx280s.
>
> I guess electricity usage could be a factor.
>
>> Most of the BuffaloTechnology routers have dd-wrt builtin for
>> professional users and also offer an optional more consumer friendly
>> firmware. In the past, BuffaloTech products had beefier CPUs and much
>> much more RAM than other systems, but have not checked to see if that
>> still holds. The following dd-wrt system has dual radios and Gigabit
>> ports and the price just dropped $70 to $100.00.
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162047
>>
>> i found the soho routers could not handle the number of dhcp clients
>> and became the transmission bottleneck on our LANs on which there are
>> over 100 nodes. Since have moved to tinc-vpn on vyatta and find it so
>> much faster. Guus just released a new version which should fix the
>> window clients PMTU problems.
>>
>>
>> Robert Townley
>> 402-670-4326
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