[CentOS] Router for SOHO network - hardware considerations
Todd Edwards
tedwards at mcclatchyinteractive.com
Tue Nov 23 00:52:40 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:09 -0800, Blake Hudson wrote:
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> +1 for Linksys WRT54GL and tomato firmware
> +1 for pfsense (or monowall) on a small server
>
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I love my ASUS RT-N16 running DD-WRT although I have heard from friends
that tomato is superior. With a 480mhz processor, 128mb of ram, and 32mb
of flash its a beastly little residential router with the right software
running on it. I haven't touched it since I set it up other than to
upgrade to the latest DD-WRT. My wife's TV obsession combined with my
torrent traffic has made my life miserable with more than one router
running a proprietary firmware.
Unfortunately I don't have any numbers as to how much traffic this thing
can actually handle, but I can only assume that it's much higher than
the Linksys models with lower specifications. DD-WRT gives me all the
control I need over my home network, but it certainly wouldn't be enough
for all situations.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16#Specs_:
root at AsusRT-N16:~# uptime
20:16:50 up 102 days, 23:37, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
root at AsusRT-N16:/proc# cat cpuinfo
system type : Broadcom BCM4716 chip rev 1
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 74K V4.0
BogoMIPS : 239.20
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 64
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : yes
ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
shadow register sets : 1
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available
dcache hits : 2147483648
dcache misses : 3732208860
icache hits : 2147483648
icache misses : 4277960450
instructions : 2147483648
root at AsusRT-N16:/proc# cat meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 127946752 17866752 110080000 0 1900544 6295552
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 124948 kB
MemFree: 107500 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1856 kB
Cached: 6148 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 1751 kB
Inactive: 729 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 124948 kB
LowFree: 107500 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 364 kB
Slab: 178 kB
CommitLimit: 62472 kB
Committed_AS: 4344 kB
PageTables: 2001 kB
VmallocTotal: 786388 kB
VmallocUsed: 40 kB
VmallocChunk: 786332 kB
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Todd Edwards
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