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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Routers lack storage and RAM both of which are used up by using a heavier init. Most of the time you will see a very basic system start services by putting them in init.d

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Man my router has 512 Gigs and 16 gigs or RAM. R

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mine has 128mb of ram. What on earth are you running on your router than needs that much hardware. I just bought a device from Walmart

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably running OPNSense in a VM.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Rams cheap. Maybe he’s getting full ipv6 routing tables.