[ale] homebrew routers, castoff hardware

[rajaw at c64.us (Raj Wurttemberg)]

Hey  Joey,

I had an old Core i3 motherboard, an old eMachines case, and some spare
500GB drives laying around.  The only thing I had to buy was a $40 dual
Intel NIC (I prefer the Intel NIC chipset). I loaded up pfSense on it and
it runs like a champ!  It's been running for about a year now... no issues
and rock solid.  My only issue with it is that it draws 114W (I have it on
an APC UPS that shows the load). I'll eventually buy a real pfSense
firewall, but for now, this is fine.

/Raj


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I see posts about pfSense, dd-rwt, Ubiquiti and the like. I'm not knocking
> them, but asking rather if anyone still rolls their own *nix NAT box
> running
> on dumpster hardware, like we used to to in the old days.
>
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