-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 :) - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKcespdyWzQ5b5ckRAq82AJ9jUuCpvYQ7b6xoib1jUrNctHSGKgCdEzj9 6WPpvG47G3pzvRMRJUAxcRI= =aSvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----