On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" ronald.gadget@gmail.com wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and hacking
such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
Peter
PS please keep the discussion on list
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
Interesting. An ARMv5, though, so would need a Fedora remix for it and how current a ver at that?
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
But no Fedora on MIPS.
I know I can go with OpenWRT. I would really not want to. But if things don't start coming up my way, I may well have to.
On 29/12/13 23:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
Interesting. An ARMv5, though, so would need a Fedora remix for it and how current a ver at that?
It's very thin indeed on specs, only 32MB of ram etc
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
But no Fedora on MIPS.
I know I can go with OpenWRT. I would really not want to. But if things don't start coming up my way, I may well have to.
As a router OS OpenWRT is pretty good, much less fuss than a full distro of Linux and very light indeed.
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
Well I learned something.
DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062 http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-of.h...
I am working with the ebay seller on a rma. :(
after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600.
I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done with fancy drivers to handle each separately. See http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It would be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
Well I learned something.
DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062 http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-of.h...
I am working with the ebay seller on a rma. :(
after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600.
I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done with fancy drivers to handle each separately. See http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It would be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm.
Yes, most cheap routers have a cheap 5-6 port switch chip, that in some cases can do vlans when configured via something like GPIO, but the actual router itself only has a single ethernet port.
Peter
On 18 Jan 2014, at 15:39, Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@gmail.com mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option with 4 ports.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
Well I learned something.
DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062 http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-of.h...
I am working with the ebay seller on a rma. :(
after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600.
I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done with fancy drivers to handle each separately. See http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It would be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm.
Yes, most cheap routers have a cheap 5-6 port switch chip, that in some cases can do vlans when configured via something like GPIO, but the actual router itself only has a single ethernet port.
Most of the modern routers have 2 Ethernet interfaces, normal setup is one dedicated wan/internet port and 1 internal port with a basic switch chip on it.
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