{"id":39,"date":"2008-12-16T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danplanet.com\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-12-16T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:57:32","slug":"router-hits-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/router-hits-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Router hits two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Linux machine serving as the router for my home network rolled over the two-year mark for uptime.&nbsp; That means it has been powered up, booted, and routing my internal network to the rest of the world for 730 days without interruption:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><p>10:10:26 up 730 days, 11:25,&nbsp; 3 users,&nbsp; load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.04<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the last two years, we have had several significant power outages, but none longer than the runtime of my Matrix 5000 UPS system.&nbsp; Since the router would be the last thing to power down during an outage (without an internet connection, what is the point of anything else?), it has been able to ride out those events.&nbsp; The machine itself is nothing special:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Dell&nbsp; Dimension L566cx<\/li>\n<li>566MHz Celeron CPU with 128KB cache<\/li>\n<li>128MB RAM<\/li>\n<li>BIOS date of 8\/2\/2000<\/li>\n<li>2 Intel e100 PCI NICs<\/li>\n<li>1 3COM 3c59x PIC NIC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This machine provides NAT for my internal machines, port forwarding for service hosting, VPN access, and a special network for the temporary D-STAR repeater I have at my house.&nbsp; For a surplus machine with commodity hardware, this kind of performance and uptime is pretty awesome.&nbsp; Go Linux!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Linux machine serving as the router for my home network rolled over the two-year mark for uptime.&nbsp; That means it has been powered up, booted, and routing my internal network to the rest of the world for 730 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/router-hits-two-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Router hits two years - Right Angles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/router-hits-two-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Router hits two years - Right Angles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, the Linux machine serving as the router for my home network rolled over the two-year mark for uptime.&nbsp; 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