[wellylug] Linux VPN Router Hardware

Nigel Roberts nigel at nobiscuit.com
Thu Aug 4 15:08:59 NZST 2005


On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 at 15:00:01 +1200, Donald Gordon wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:49:52 +0200, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1200, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> > > It is also desirable if it has low power consumption as it'll run 24*7
> > > Should be inexpensive (but not at the expense of reliability)
> > > Can handle a full 10Mb/sec traffic load (this is critical)
> > > And is plentiful (i.e. I can buy 10 of them all the same)
> > 
> > you might want to look at the wrt54gs and related machines.
> > they can be run with the openwrt linux distribution which allows you to
> > customize the machine to your liking. they are cheap and plentifull
> > (ignore the wireless, you can turn that off)
> 
> Are they fast enough to do the crypto for 10MBps of VPN traffic?

Do they need to do encryption? What network will they be running over?

Regards,
Nigel




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