[KLUG Members] question about Linux-based firewall/router/AP appliance

[Bruce Smith]

> > >What brand/make of mobo?  I'd like to find something like that!!!
> > I'll find out, if you're interested. At the time, I thought it was fairly
> > generic.
> 
> It is a crap shoot.  Some models of Tyan boards, for instance, get
> updates for seemingly ever, other models they orphan in as few as 18
> months.  I would expect other OEMs to be the same.   There is actually
> allot about this on the Asterisk list,  since bus timing issues and the
> like matter a great deal more when you want the system to process
> real-time or quasi-real-time information - a shocking number of PC
> implementations of the PCI bus have problems doing more that a handful
> of VOIP connections.

I've seen updates on old mobo's, except they normally seem to only fix
existing problems.  I've yet to see one that adds new functionality like
being able to boot from a USB flash drive.

 - BS