{"id":10347,"date":"2017-04-11T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:00:21","slug":"do-you-wanna-build-a-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/do-you-wanna-build-a-router\/","title":{"rendered":"do you wanna build a router?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at the Lair we’ve been proud of running – as a server, on the actual internet – a machine literally from 1995, with original motherboard CPU and everything. The plan has been to run it ’till it died, because we can<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately, we really do need to build a new proper programmable router, so we can put the terrible, terrible Comcast router into bridge mode. (Seriously: this router is terrible.) And the 1995 machine is… not fast, so we can’t use it, even though that was its original job, years ago.<\/p>\n

(It’s a P5-166. No, really. Thank you, Debian.)<\/p>\n

But I haven’t built a router in a while<\/em>. I want to run Debian Linux on it so it can also run DNS and a couple of other small services the current P166 runs, and it wouldn’t hurt for it to have three cards inside either – one for the fixed-IP side of the LAN, one for the DHCP side.<\/p>\n

SO!<\/p>\n

Anybody have recommendations? I’m thinking about gigabit network cards in particular – what has the best, most reliable, fastest drivers, what specifically to avoid, things like that. As above, we’re going to be running Debian for a a bunch of reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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