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So you go through all that trouble and end up with a terribly slow NIC, a "grownup" OS to maintain and the shitbox MIPS architecture to boot? What a pain. These
by revelation 11y ago
So you go through all that trouble and end up with a terribly slow NIC, a "grownup" OS to maintain and the shitbox MIPS architecture to boot? What a pain. These MIPS boxes have their place, and that's squarely in the OpenWRT / system builder niche.
With the electricity prices the way they are in the US, no way I'd run something like that over a proper x86 as in the article that can saturate a 1Gbps and manage decent disk IO.
- tyingq 11y ago>>a proper x86 as in the article that can saturate a 1Gbps "x86" covers a lot of ground. Certainly, in the "about $100" range, your choices in X86 land can't saturate 1Gbps either. The x86 box in the article was $280 total. About the same cost as the logical upgrade to the EdgeRouter Lite...their ER-8, which can saturate 1Gbps, and has 8 ports.