From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Wildgoose Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:48:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread Message-Id: <40F2B2E0.3000103@wildgooses.com> List-Id: References: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org >> Alfie, have you used the Routerboard 230 or 240 products? Anyone else? >> >> Could anyone else recommend other manufacturers of this type of >> hardware: an embedded system board with * a couple of NICs >> * PCMCIA >> * runs linux > > > This one, and its cheaper: > > http://www.soekris.com/ Actually, I am really interested in this kind of hardware. But it's=20 actually not really as cheap as it looks. (Bear in mind I am based in=20 the UK so I am looking post-shipping price) Most of these tiny embeded devices need $20-30 or powersupply, and same=20 again for a case, and a bit of RAM... It looks like around =A3300=20 sterling to me all in. However, you can often pickup a bottom of the=20 range Compaq/HP server for that price... (OK, not as small and neat!) There are some really nice and neat little boxes, which would be good=20 for a mid-priced box where you need the grunt.=20 ...But for low end hardware it seems hard to beat the Linksys WRT54GS=20 which is around =A350 GPB from ebuyer.... This gets you 32Mb and a 200Mhz = processor! (and 2 net cards, a small switch and a wireless radio!) The "S" model is only starting to arrive in the UK so mine's on=20 backorder, but I think it's easily available in the US? Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/