Wireless Router

[Joe Holden]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:57:16PM +0200, Iwan Aucamp wrote:
> I'm looking for a device which I intend to use as a wireless router
> - and would like to load either bsd or linux on - with at least
> following: 1xusb, 2xethernet, 2xmini-pci(e).
> 
> I found this : http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8377EWLAN
> A bit pricey for what you get - but quite reasonable - would likely
> be cheaper if it was for mass market - think they maybe sell 100 a
> year if that.
> 
> I have looked also at:
> 
>  - routerboard : mikrotik doesn't really want to help people to load
> other OS on it - and it's a mission from what i've seen to do it
>  - alix : a bit slow - and I don't really like the amd geode (seems
> like its not really made for router applications)
>  - routerstation pro : probably best option price wise - but a bit
> more power would be nice - and board layout is bit awkward.
> 
> Any other ideas ?
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I use an ALIX as headless FreeBSD CPE without a problem, can easily do 100meg and as they also have a crypto device, I offload openvpn aes processing to it which means 0 cpu impact.

Out of the solutions I evaluated, the ALIX boxes were the easiest to get going

Thanks,
J