[vox-tech] OT hardware router suggestions

[Chris Jenks]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Ryan wrote:

> On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:43 pm, Dylan Beaudette dylan-at-iici.no-ip.org
> |lugod| wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking to replace my computer-based router with a smaller and
>> more energy efficient hardware router.
>>[...]
>
> If you wanna roll your own, check out the offering at soekirs
> (www.soekris.com). Nice little pentium class systems that only consume about
> 10 watts.

   Dear Dylan,

   I've been using an old 486 laptop (IBM Thinkpad 701C) as a router, and 
it has worked fine, and probably consumes about 10 watts. It is running 
Debian testing with a custom 2.6.8 kernel, which was a pain to configure. 
The only problem I have is that it doesn't boot automatically after a 
power failure. What I like about it - and have been wary of regarding 
hardware routers - is that I can shell into it and configure iptables and 
such, and generally be a control monger. :-)

   Yours,

     Chris