Asus P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi AP motherboard - Is now the time to buy one ?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:32:28AM +0000, richard mullens wrote:
> I need to make a new webserver/router to connect to my two internet 
> connections (Cable and ASDL)
> 
> It occurs to me to use an Asus P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi AP motherboard
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/13/review_asus_p5b_deluxe/
> which has two gigabit NICs built in
> plus an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300.

This should probably go to the fedora user list as its not to do with testing

> Does this make  sense ?

It's probably overkill if it's just routing, unless you are tying together
multiple 10Mbit+ feeds with BGP4 ...

> I get the impression that if one runs a 64 bit system, one may need 
> twice as much memory (if all the datastructures are twice as wide).

Some are bigger so a bit more but not twice.