On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:09 -0800, Blake Hudson wrote: <SNIP>
+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@AsusRT-N16:~# uptime 20:16:50 up 102 days, 23:37, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
root@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@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