I vote pfSense.. don't skimp on the NIC's when you build one out (Intel ftw).
My $0.02.. Gino On 2/12/13 1:56 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > O oracle of nanog: unlike things like rogue processes eating tons of CPU, > it seems to me that network monitoring is essentially a black art for the > average schmuck home network operator (of which I count myself). That > is: if the "network is slow", it's really hard to tell why that might be > and > who of the eleventy seven devices on my wifi is sucking the life out of my > bandwidth. And then even if I get an idea of who the perp is, my > remediation > choice seems to be "find that device, smash it with sledge hammer". > > It seems that there really ought to be a better way here to manage my > home network. Like, for example, the ability to get stats from router and > tell it to shape various devices/flows to play nice. Right now, it seems to > me that the state of the art is pretty bad -- static-y kinds of setups for > static-y kinds of flows that people-y kind of users don't understand or > touch on their home routers. > > The ob-nanog is that "my intertoobs r slow" is most likely a call to your > support desks which is expensive, of course. Is anything happening on > this front? Is openwrt, for example, paying much attention to this problem? > > Mike >
