I’m a fan of the pfSense devices (NetGate sells a good PC Engines board combo) and it’s pretty powerful but not the most on the market. Plus it runs FreeBSD 8.2 (not for the Linux purists, I imagine). I’m installing a few hundred of these out there for a customer’s super building security network and I’m using it at home and the bar now instead of my Apple hardware. It’s $200/box, though. You can get the software for free from pfsense.org. On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list