From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Ildefonso_Camargo_Tolosa?= Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:01:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread Message-Id: <40F2B5DC.9000307@unet.edu.ve> 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 Ed Wildgoose wrote: >=20 >>> 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/ >=20 >=20 >=20 > 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) >=20 > 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 No, it have RAM on board (and some of them, flash memory), the power=20 supply is unregulated AC (read the specs), so you can buy it on your=20 country. > 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!) >=20 > There are some really nice and neat little boxes, which would be good=20 > for a mid-priced box where you need the grunt. > ...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 200Mh= z=20 > processor! (and 2 net cards, a small switch and a wireless radio!) I have used linksys (what a piece of crab), and I still preffer to buy a=20 soekris card and a mini-PCI 802.11g card from netgate. I can install=20 Linux on it, an get a very powerfull router/firewall/vpn. And due that=20 I need it for outdoor mounting, I would buy a nema box. Can you Install Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD on it? >=20 > 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? >=20 > Ed W >=20 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/