>I remember that router had 16 MiB RAM, and a 125 MHz MIPS CPU That was the case... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

commandar on Jan 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge

>I remember that router had 16 MiB RAM, and a 125 MHz MIPS CPU

That was the case back then, but newer routers have to be a lot beefier just to handle the throughput of faster net connections.

I've got a WRT1900ACS running OpenWRT/LEDE at home. 1.6GHz dual core and 512MB of RAM, and it's not really even top of the line by today's standards.

krylon on Jan 5, 2018 [–]

That is good to know!

But my point was that you can run OpenWrt on very small devices[1], but not pfSense. It is true, of course, that today's bandwidth requires more powerful devices.

[1] A friend of mine works in embedded systems, and to him 16 MiB of RAM would be ginormous.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact