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replacing router with ipcop
02-03-2014 5:58 PM
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We have fibre to the cabinet so have the bt white box and then a modem supplied by plus net. Can the mode m be replaced with a machine running ipcop and if so what are the settings?
thanks
Re: replacing router with ipcop
02-03-2014 6:14 PM
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Re: replacing router with ipcop
02-03-2014 6:16 PM
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Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 6:44 PM
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Are there any good reads out there on how to set this up?
thanks for your replies
Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 7:17 PM
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If you find it runs hot, use 2 intel cards and disable the internal nic, they should run in DMA mode.
WRT guides no idea never used an IPCop - I used the free Smoothwall version (of which I believe the IPCop is a clone)
Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 9:01 PM
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You can grab a HP Microserver for around £100 with running costs of £30-40 a year. A P3/P4 running at 150 watts will use around £150 worth of electricity a year.
My E3-1220 quad core server idles at around 30 watts and rarely breaks a sweat unless I'm doing encoding.
Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 9:17 PM
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I seem to remember managing to push around 80Mbit/s through pfSense on an Alix 2D3 (500Mhz AMD LX800 with 256Mb ram i think it was), although that was a while ago now so probably an older version of the software.
Also that would have been over straight routed IP rather than PPPoE
Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 10:13 PM
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I do believe ipcop is a spinoff of smoothwall as some of the creators didn't like the commercial non open source direction it was taking.
Would running the onboard nic to do the PPPoE add a lot of overhead?
thanks for your replies guys!
Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 10:29 PM
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Re: replacing router with ipcop
04-03-2014 10:36 PM
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http://www.ipcop.org/2.0.0/en/admin/html/network-ppp-settings.html
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04-03-2014 10:52 PM
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Re: replacing router with ipcop
05-03-2014 10:08 AM
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Agreed, IF YOU CAN AFFORD a new server then they are much cheaper to run, but I can't afford ~ £200 for anything non essential. So I run my l/t with 3 external usb HDD's off it.
I would love to have one of the micro servers here. I have an old Compaq server in the loft, not been on for years though, just too much power/noise from it.
Re: replacing router with ipcop
05-03-2014 10:36 AM
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http://www.ipcops.com/wiki/howto:dialup
Re: replacing router with ipcop
05-03-2014 11:06 AM
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Quote from: pwatson http://www.ipcop.org/2.0.0/en/admin/html/network-ppp-settings.html
From that page Item 1:
Quote Interface. This will be either a Communications port (COM1-COM5, ttyUSB0-4, noz0-1, ttyHS0-3, or usb/ttyACM0-3) used mostly for modems and ISDN cards, or PPPoE which is used mostly for DSL connections.
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05-03-2014 11:50 AM
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