Routerboard 750G is a great little box. can be configured for just about anything. On 01/13/2014 04:08 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > So it seems that my Buffalo router running DD-WRT is starting to flake out. > It drops about 1-2% of its packets. Replacing it with an ancient > cobbled-together linux box (still around as a backup from the last time my > router device went belly-up) solved most of the packet loss (tho not all). > > So I need recommendations based on people's experiences with the latest > generation of router devices. I'm sick of building linux routers out of > desktop machines, and would rather run something on a small solid-state > device. > > I remember Soekris boxen got some attention when they were new. > http://soekris.com/products.html > These look pretty modern: > http://soekris.com/products/net6501.html > > They're spendy, but hopefully it's good-quality hardware which I won't have > to replace every few years because it dies. > > Does anyone have recommendations on hardware that: > a: runs linux > b: is likely to keep running instead of dying after a few years > c: is cheaper than the above Soekris solution > ? > -- Raymond Norton LCTN 952.955.7766 Sent from My Desktop