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Small 24/7 VPN/SSH server for home

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DirtyBeets

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I am in need of some advice. I'm wanting to build or buy a small, preferably fanless, low-power machine to stick next to my router to act as a vpn/ssh server for my home network. I'm planning on running Ubuntu server with open ssh and open vpn. I'm also curious about Amahi home server but thats another question.


So far I haven't really been able to find individual hardware to build what I'm looking for (any advice on where I could look would be appreciated). So I've been looking at buying a ultra small machine to use. here's what I've been looking at:

Acer Revo - I think this is more machine than I need, but it is pretty nifty

SheevaPlug

Stratus Plug Computer - Haven't found a retailer for this one yet but it looks interesting

Fit PC2i - Very cool but expensive. ~$400 for what I'd want.
 
Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I believe I have a linksys wrt54g2, not sure of the HW version as I'm at work at the moment.
 
Yeah I've been looking around there. I wonder if I can get a version of dd-wrt that has open VPN though. Their documentation is a bit confusing.

I'm concidering upgrading my router to something like this:
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

Apparently buffalo is in cahoots with DD-WRT and there is a version specifically for this router.
 
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Running DDWRT on a WRT54G-TM.
Yeah linux on the router is SO the way to go.
I don't even bother with a VPN because I find that SSH port forwarding meets all my needs. The system is always up, quiet, low power and cheap.
 
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