Am 06.10.2014 um 15:45 schrieb John Novack <jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org>:
> IMO, #3 is your only good choice > > #2 and many/most new cheaper routers don't have enough memory for something > like openWRT > > Even finding a good used HP thin client with wireless built in will be > difficult. > > Better to do it right and not have to worry later > Not hard at all to "justify" doing a good job of locking down the small > office system. Once it is done it should continue to work for years. > > John Novack Especially the new PC Engines APU boards or MINIX miniPC (only 2 NICs, see in the Wiki) are nice low cost AstLinux boxes. Or you could use whatever you like (without AstLinux) and use an IP-phone over OpenVPN like Snom and Yealink (and maybe other vendors) offer. > Michael Knill wrote: >> Ok I know this has been sort of discussed before but I have a bit of a >> dilemma. >> >> I have one cost conscious organisation (a not for profit) with a couple of >> single user sites that have a single phone and wireless. >> I connect these sites back to the head office over the Internet to create a >> closed telephony system. >> >> I initially used Mikrotik routers which are very feature rich, very cheap >> and do everything plus more however when my office router began to perform a >> DoS attack on the US Dept of Labor (I kid you not), I thought I would not >> continue using them. >> >> Now obviously happy to spend the money at the head office on a good Astlinux >> system, however its a little hard to justify an x86 box and a separate WAP >> at the small site when you can buy one for under $100. Now admittedly it >> doesn’t do what I want it to do e.g. SSH Tunnelling so that is where my >> dilemma is. >> >> The options I see are as follows: >> 1) Buy a cheap wireless router and put up with the limitations >> 2) Buy a cheap wireless router and roll OpenWRT onto it to give me more >> features >> 3) Run Astlinux and a separate WAP and thats that >> 4) Some other solution or product I have not looked at >> >> Thanks >> Regards >> Michael Knill Michael http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
