Re:Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
by andreasvc on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:37AM
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3GHz and 90W is ridiculous for a router. A good NIC does not rely on the CPU, so clock speed should be irrelevant. A Mini-ITX board or a router with OpenWRT would be a much more economic alternative.
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Re:Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
by wtallis on Monday July 21, 2014 @01:13PM
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A good NIC won't require much CPU power to drive, but in order to have reasonable real-world performance with the networking equipment that actually exists, you need every packet to be handled by the QoS and AQM systems running on the CPU. Doing that at near-gigabit speeds really does require a beefy CPU, though not a full desktop-class wattage.
Re:Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
by Nanzikambe on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:05AM
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Well once I decided to go this route I figured take advantage of the opportunity to put a good CPU in it and allow it to take over a number of services that I'd previously hosted on another machine (since retired).
It host several services in VMs(dns, transparent HTTP proxy, torrent client running in X11 open via VNC). I also use VPNs quite extensively and seeing as the Intel chip-set doesn't support AES natively, I opted to up the clock speed of the CPU to the highest I could get it without exceeding my budget.