[PLUG] I need a router...

[Vram]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:25 -0800, AthlonRob wrote:
> I need to retire my old server that lives in the closet.
> 
> I need to replace it with something that will be advanced enough for me
> while I am still living here.  I need to replace it with something that
> will last forever for when I have moved elsewhere.
> 
> I need something reasonably reliable.  These crappy wireless access
> points aren't doing the trick.  I have two.  They both require reboots.
>  One after doing a few GB of data over UDP.  The other about once a
> month.  And that's just with them acting as bridges!  I haven't used
> them as routers yet.
> 
> So I'm leaning towards something OpenWRT-able.  I need it to be able to
> run a reasonably powerful DHCP daemon and a caching DNS server.  This
> leaves me looking at one of the OpenWRT-able router/wifi boxen with 8MB
> of Flash and 32MB of RAM - like the Linksys WRT54GS 3.0 or earlier.
> Unfortunately, they don't make those any more and I don't need the Wifi
> half of it.
> 
> Have y'all tackled simple linux-based routers (that don't eat up so much
> power as a full-blown box) much lately?
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated... and a used WRT54GS 3.0 would be
> even better.  :-)
> 
> Rob




I heard  Cisco has nice routers..

Vram