[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Phil Stracchino]

On 02/17/14 01:07, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> If I was in a settling mood, it would be good enough, but still more
> work than settling for an ARM box or an Alix running PFSense.  If I'm
> not in a settling mood, I'd like to have 3 ports, one for WAN at 50MB
> with an option for 105 in the future, one for GigE, and one for 300Mb
> WiFi (over a GigE port), and I want to route from wifi to the GigE
> side at full speed, and also posibly use the machine as a VPN end
> point.
> 
> Can the EdgeRouter series do all that?  It claims to be able to, but
> after getting it, I settled for configuring it and haven't persued
> actually doing the rest of what I want with it.

Since its OS is an embedded Debian Linux, I'd be pretty surprised if it
couldn't.  I'm now actually considering the lowest-priced rack-mountable
EdgeRouter myself.

I wonder if it'll run OpenBSD...?



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