On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:25:14AM +0000, James Harper wrote:
No it's even worse than that. The switch gets overloaded with a single browser session making multiple connections.
this is why i prefer a fairly decent(*) desktop computer or laptop instead of an openwrt style router. they have anywhere from reasonable to excellent CPU capability, lots of storage space (relative to a linksys/netgear/*wrt*/etc anyway), lots of RAM. desktop (or mini-itx) machines even have PCI or PCI-e expansion slots. i was routinely building internet gateway boxes running linux with a dns server (bind8 at the time), squid, apache, sendmail and lots more that served entire schools with hundreds of students in the mid 90s...on 486 boxes with 16-64MB of RAM. they were more than adequate for the job - it annoys the hell out of me that the openwrt boxes can't even match that. (*) by fairly decent, i mean something equivalent to or better than a mid-1990s PC. you probably couldn't find something so primitive these days, and why bother when it's easy to find early-to-mid 2000s era PCs (i.e. up to 10 years newer than that) being given away for free. even something like an old celeron CPU eeepc is pretty good for the job, except for the shortage of ethernet and expansion ports....but the ethernet shortage is easily solved by a cheap gigabit switch (and/or USB NICs) and the lack of expansion ports is no worse than (or considerably better than) most openwrt compatible devices. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #392: It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry.