Third recommendation for the PCEngines ALIX board / pfSense combo. It really can't be beat in terms of performance, cost, stability, ease of use, and flexibility. I've been running pfSense on an ALIX 2d3 board for years (5-6?) now at home, and have deployed many of the same setup in SMB environments. I've seamlessly upgraded through several revisions of pfSense, and haven't had a single issue. pfSense will do nearly any network-related function you want it to, vlans, traffic shaping, policy routing, load balancing, BGP, Squid, OpenVPN, IPSec, etc. in addition to all of the standard routing/firewall bits that you'd expect. At work, I'm running pfSense on a Soekris board, only because I needed 4 physical interfaces and the ALIX boards top out at three interfaces. The soekris boards are very nice as well, but are more expensive, and for most home/small business use, are more hardware than is really needed. -Erik On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > So it seems that my Buffalo router running DD-WRT is starting to flake out. > It drops about 1-2% of its packets. Replacing it with an ancient > cobbled-together linux box (still around as a backup from the last time my > router device went belly-up) solved most of the packet loss (tho not all). > > So I need recommendations based on people's experiences with the latest > generation of router devices. I'm sick of building linux routers out of > desktop machines, and would rather run something on a small solid-state > device. > > I remember Soekris boxen got some attention when they were new. > http://soekris.com/products.html > These look pretty modern: > http://soekris.com/products/net6501.html > > They're spendy, but hopefully it's good-quality hardware which I won't have > to replace every few years because it dies. > > Does anyone have recommendations on hardware that: > a: runs linux > b: is likely to keep running instead of dying after a few years > c: is cheaper than the above Soekris solution > ? > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140114/1b3a2ff4/attachment.html>