This will impact ALL of eskimo.com‘s services.

     If all goes well I am going to replace our router this Saturday evening.  It may take a bit to get it to work as the interface is quite different than the old and I’ve got some concerns about configuring the network side of things.  After this happens the shell server, “eskimo.com”, will become “sunos.eskimo.com”, and possibly before, this is because of the new routers lack of support for port forwarding and the need to separate shell services from web services on this IP.

     The main reason for this change is that traffic has grown to where our existing router is challenged and the occasional denial of service attack, which is just a reality of being connected to the Internet, is enough to overload the CPU and cause traffic to be dropped or significantly delayed.

     The existing router has two 500Mhz PowerPC cores, the new unit has 4 1.6 Ghz PowerPC cores or roughly six times as much CPU.  It also has a 1TB hard drive so we can put some more useful software on it than the existing machine.

     I will do my best to minimize the outage time but as I’ve stated, the new interface may take some experimentation.