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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:16:01PM -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
Me too, so that's 2 rocks. Well, 1 and 1/2 since you top-posted. :-( Runs fine on very old minimal eqpt. I have it on an AMD 5x86 (486 in a 386 socket) 100MHz, 3 3Com 3C509 (half duplex unfortunately) 32MB DRAM (remember what that is?) and junk Champ 1GB old slow drives.
Motorola WR850g + OpenWRT here :) Nice, silent, low energy requirements (11W PSU), small, and has WiFi.
My next goal for it is to find a decent source of fan-less low-power supplies. I'll never WiFi at home. I only have a few brain cells left and don't want them invaded by high freq waves. Besides Bush (our protector of constitutional liberties) might be eavesdropping on the waves that exit from my brain cells and I'd get put in Gitmo with all the bene's that accrue from that.
Well, just disable WiFi. Pretty easy to do on OpenWRT:
# wl radio off
I'm getting some Linksys WRT54GL tomorrow too.
I've been using the SMC stuff for my Gigabit. Been happy with it. But I don't need managed, so I don't know how that stuff compares. I just use the E'net cards and unmanaged switches.
This WRTish boxes are pretty near. Geral spec is 1 Wifi + 1 Ether (WAN) + 4 + 1 Ethernet Switch (LAN, 4 ports on the outside, the 5th being the router itself).
My WR850g went in to replace my CentOS based firewall box (based on K6, 128M RAM).
Yep. Don't want to waste "the big guns". My 2nd most powerful machine is an AMD-K6-2 (currently @ 380MHz, 450 on the horizon I think) on a PC- Chips M-571 main-board, 256M. Access to a good net, couple disks and discs and it makes a real decent workstation or server. I'm using that one as my server, being built via CLI one package at a time so I can really learn this stuff. I wish my memory of what I read was as good as when I was much younger. :-(
There WRTish boxes are based on MIPS processors (Little Endian, usually Broadcom chip). It is good to switch platforms once in a while :)
I'm going to try and buy folks' old machines and get them into peoples homes when they do cable. Cable co. charges them for each extra computer hookup. I make my own cat-5 cables, install and the homeowner saves $$. And cable co. charges biz customers $300 for each node install and big bucks extra for firewall monthly.... I see an opportunity to save them some money.
Using WRT boxes can save a lot of money, since they are pretty cheap. You can even get used one off e-bay for nearly nothing.
A WRT54GL is priced at $69.99 at Amazon.com and $61.99 at Newegg.
There are plenty of other models/brand you can use for that too.
And now I'm stopping, since this is getting WAY off topic :)
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