Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
If the machine is going to be dedicated (linux); hen it's the cheapest way just to use the standard mobo controllers and cheap-ass expansion cards. My 2.66 ghz p4 machine handles it just fine. I can always upgrade and alter the main hardware as long as I have MDADM running, I'm good. Or any...
I've recently moved my wrt54g v2 over to tomato from dd-wrt. It seems to be a pretty good amount faster IMHO. I am still tweaking the QoS but the Qos on DD-wrt brought it it's knees.
I run a network for 6 individual machines, a media center (very little traffic), a file server (most traffic...