So this all started because I thought my router was broken…the next post I write will detail my issues.

So after about 4 years of consistently good service I made the decision to retire my router. It was a 666MHz Dell Optiplex L series…nice little box, but a little slow for what I need it for these days. It went from running Windows 2000 Advanced Server to Windows Server 2003 to Fedora Core 1 to Gentoo to Fedora Core 5 in it’s life, and now it’s time to upgrade. I noticed that Tor was using 80 percent of the CPU, and lately my network uses the Tor circuit…*alot*.

I replaced it with a more-or-less new Dell Optiplex GX270 with a 2.8 GHz P4 HT and popped Fedora Core 7 on it. Restored all my scripts, updated my /etc/iftab and everything was up and running within the span of one night after work. I did however lose most of my old warez collection, my experimental MySQL databases and my SVN repo (though everything in there has the latest copy on either my home or work boxes) in the move because of an fsck gone wrong.

Other than that everything went smoothly…I’m still setting up the new router’s more advanced services, but everything is going good now that there’s a faster box in the closet.