I'm less concerned with getting inside these - I want to buy them as appliances and have very low maintenance. Basically setup the TE once and walk away.
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:22 -0700, Robert Lewko wrote: > I have been looking at routerboard for a while. The only thing that > makes me want to go elsewhere is that I can't find much on routeros. > My suspicion is that it is some kind of Linux that they hack together > themselves. That would mean that kernel updates may be slower than a > regular Linux distro. > > What I want is a board that runs Linux and preferably Debian. Do you > know if you can install another OS on this board without having some > JTAG or some other hardware system to assist you in doing it. So far > I am looking at Soekris for my next router. > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, John Jardine > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to setup a MPLS core network as part of my home lab. MPLS > > enabled routers are normally pretty expensive so when I saw the ad for > > Mikrotik on page 3 of the January LinuxJournal I got pretty excited. > > > > I couldn't find a link to the ad, but the corporate site is here: > > http://wiki.mikrotik.com > > > > What I'm considering is 4 or 5 of these: > > http://routerboard.com/index.php?showProduct=56 > > > > At $40 each it's a steal if I can use them as a core and then hang Cisco > > PEs off them then I can model my real work. > > > > Has anyone setup a 4 or 5 P-Router core to play with? Any comments, > > suggestions, pointers? > > > > Thanks, > > J.J. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
