[tech] Murasoi IP address

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sun, May 08, 2011, Harry McNally wrote:
> On 08/05/11 09:26, Nick Bannon wrote:
> 
> > Makes sense to use 130.95.13.1 now, given a little warning here.
> > 
> > I was wondering how fast a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND can do gigabit
> > routing. murasoi will do a better job, of course, but if for $75 we
> > could have a low power emergency backup router, that's a bonus. As you
> > mention it could even be a hot backup with CARP.
> 
> Thanks for the moderate voice Nick :)
> 
> Would low power devices like the TL-WR1043ND ever be fast and flexible enough
> for the main UCC router ?

Sort of[1].

Of course, that's the best case scenario. The minute someone loads it up
with traffic, or loads in too complicated an iptables ruleset, or the
iptables state tracking table fills the limited RAM available, or there's
a burst of small packets rather than large packets, the unit may fall over.

They're quite nice boxes though.

IMHO, a bit of investigation into some low spec core 2/i5 desktop board + 
RAM + CPU in a cheap case would likely yield a gigabit router suitable
for UCC, including all of the random frippery UCC tends to do on said
router, for under $800.



Adrian