On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Seth Mattinen wrote:
If there's interest I'll hack up a FreeBSD nanobsd image with ipv6 support, a routing daemon (whatever people think is good enough) and whatever other stuff is "enough" to act as a 6to4 gateway. You too can build diskless core2duo software routers for USD $1k.
What about Soekris hardware? I don't have any personal experience with it, but it looks very appealing to build load balancers/routers out of, and quite inexpensive.
Good for some things. You can get bigger things for ~ $1k in a 1ru formfactor that take single-core or dual-core CPUs depending on what you need. (I think the latest whitebox wholesaler was Supermicro who were pushing AUD $700 1ru barebones 300mm deep servers with an intel motherboard. Add RAM+CPU+flash, shake and stir.) How much traffic can a modern intel board with a core 2 duo handle with $EL_GENERIC_UNIX_OS ? Adrian