From my experiance with the srw stuff it's not that the system is incapable of serving that many connections it's just that the software is absolutely shit.the srw2048 is not something you could replace with an eepc or simliar it's a layer 2 48 port switch that is fairly cheap (to be honest i would recommend the hp 1810 or cisco sr300 these days and avoid the srw switches but based on the branding this has been around for a while.)
and i guess they still have the horrendous IE only ui (btw you can actually get a serial connection that is less fail on the switches http://www.crc.id.au/real-console-on-linksys-srw2024-switch/ On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
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
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