What about hardware? (was: The EFF launches a router project)

The HUGE thread this generated is behind the beta tester forum (you have to register on the site), but it was quite edifying and informative. http://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Beta/Testing-fq-code...

We ran into some issues with ingress shaping that I hope will be resolved when they switch to linux 3.10 (which may be in 1.6 but I don't know). Overall the edgerouter lite was turning in QoS numbers about 2x better than what cerowrt on the wndr3800 can do (with less cpu), and the pro, 7x. Adding BQL looks useful on the octeon ethernet drivers as well but some rework down there seems needed; I keep hoping someone else will get around to it.

Openwrt recently has gained the ability to boot via tftp on the edgerouter series, and I just saw that support for the flash and usb had been added to the main openwrt tree for it, a few days back, so openwrt barrier breaker 3.10 on octeon may be getting closer to being useful for ordinary mortals.

I have been trying to find a router that could do ingress shaping at 250mbit for quite some time now, and maybe that box can do it eventually, with a lot more work through the stack.

I LOVE the edgerouter pro (8 ports) - getting that routing the yurtlab really simplified and sped up my configuration there (as without qos enabled, it can generally forward at 8gbits)